Mahrez removes Ronaldo from the throne of scoring goals – New Algeria

The Algerian international player, Riyad Mahrez, removed the Portuguese star, Cristiano Ronaldo, from the throne of scoring goals in the Saudi Professional Football League.

Riyad Mahrez now tops the list of best goal scorers in the Saudi Professional Football League “Roshen”. This is after he added two new assists to his tally yesterday evening.

Mahrez scored two goals, in the match in which his team, Al-Ahly Jeddah, tied with its host Al-Ittifaq (2-2), on Friday evening, for the 25th round of the “Roshen” Football League.

Al-Ahly was the first to open the scoring, through Saudi striker Firas Al-Braikan, after a pass from Mahrez. This was before the local team equalized the score in the last moments of the first half thanks to its Ivorian player, Sekou Fofana.

In the second stage of the match, Al-Ittifaq Club added a second goal, thanks to Al-Barkan scoring against its own goal. However, two minutes before the end of the match, Al-Ahly succeeded in adjusting the balance through left-back Abdullah Al-Ammar. This was after TNew bitter From Mahrez.

With this result, Al-Ahly raised its score to 48 points, occupying third place in the “Roshanen” League standings. As for Al-Ettifaq, it raised its score to 36 points, in sixth place.

With these two decisive passes in yesterday’s match, Mahrez became the player who made the most goals in the Saudi Roshen League this season, with a total of 11 passes, which made him remove the Portuguese star, Cristiano Ronaldo, from the top of this distinguished list, which he shared with him, with 9. Passes.

Ronaldo can regain the lead if he assists at least two goals during his team’s match between Al-Nasr and Al-Taei, scheduled for Saturday.

It is worth noting that Riyad Mahrez, 33 years old, has… join For Al-Ahly Jeddah, in the Mercato last summer, coming from the English club Manchester City, in a deal worth about 39 million euros.