Benzema is injured, but Al-Ittihad still win

Unlikely champions from last season, Al-Ittihad continued with great displays in the new season as well. Three games and three wins with nine goals and three clean sheets are a great start, but Karim Benzema’s team surpassed this score and are now on top of the league with four wins after tonight’s triumph in Mecca against Al-Wehda 3-0. The good thing about this victory was the fact that Saudi champs scored all three goals without their star Karim Benzema, but the bad one is that the Frenchman was injured at the end of the first half and had to come out. The extend of the injury is not known, but Benzema watched his team win from the bench in the second half, with an ice bag on his left thigh.

Saudi champion came out in full force with Fabinho, Kanté and Benzema all on the field. Former Real Madrid striker played in all three games so far and scored one goal and had two assists, but Al-Wedha made sure that nobody had any chances in the first half. When Benzema got injured, the Portuguese Jota came in, and it was former Celtic man who scored the second on three Al-Ittihad goals on the night. Brazilian Romarinho opened the scoring in the 63rd minute, before Jota, who is reportedly being forced out of Saudi Arabia, since the fans are not seeing him as a ‘star’ player, doubled the lead four minutes later, while other Brazilian Coronado finished the job in the 73rd minute. The quick capitulation in only 10 minutes.

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In other interesting game this evening, Steven Gerrard’s Al-Ettifaq was defeated by Al-Hillal, who is now in the second place, but with one game more than Al-Ahli. Jorge Jesus men finished the job in the first half, when Malcom and Al-Dawsari scored for the final score 2-0. New striker Aleksandar Mitrović, who arrived recently from Fulham and scored on his debut last week managed one assist tonight.