Benzema grabs hat-trick to help seal crucial win for Al-Ittihad
JEDDAH: Karim Benzema scored his first hat-trick for Al-Ittihad on Friday as the reigning Roshn Saudi League champions defeated Abha 4-2 and made a much-needed return to winning ways.
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Al-Ittihad boss Santo in ‘dressing room spat’ with Benzema before club sacking
RIYADH: Reports have emerged of a dressing room bust up between sacked Al-Ittihad boss Nuno Santo and star striker Karim Benzema during the club’s 2-0 AFC Champions League defeat to Air Force Club of Iraq on Monday.
Nuno's sacking felt inevitable as rot set in at Al Ittihad
Just over 16 months since he landed in Jeddah, Nuno Espirito Santo’s time as Al Ittihad head coach is officially up. The 49-year-old Portuguese was relieved of his duties in the early hours of Wednesday morning following a run of poor results.
Impossible balancing act? Blinken's Middle East tour concludes in Turkey
The trip that began with Blinken's fourth trip to Israel in as many weeks included a slow ratcheting up of Washington's calls for humanitarian pauses to spare civilian lives, but as Israeli troops surround Gaza City, protesters – like those outside Turkey's Incirlik NATO military base Sunday – clearly do not see results.
Pressure grows on Espirito Santo as Al-Ittihad slip up in Asian Champions League
Al-Ittihad head coach Nuno Espirito Santo's hopes of keeping his job suffered a blow as the Saudi Pro League side slumped to a 2-0 loss at Iraq's Air Force Club in the Asian Champions League on Monday.
Al-Ittihad’s struggles continue in Asia while Al-Hilal win again
JEDDAH: Al-Ittihad’s poor run of form continued on Monday with a 2-0 loss at Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya in the Asian Champions League, a defeat that will pile more pressure on coach Nuno Santo.
Karim Benzema's Misfiring Al Ittihad Beaten In Asian Champions League
Karim Benzema's Al Ittihad suffered their first defeat in this season's Asian Champions League when they were beaten 2-0 by Air Force Club in Iraq on Monday to pile the pressure on manager Nuno Espirito Santo. The current Saudi Arabian champions, struggling in the Saudi Pro League, went into the match in Erbil boasting a 100 percent record in Group C after defeating Air Force Club 1-0 in Jeddah last month. However, goals at the Franso Hariri Stadium from Ali Jasim and Mohannad Abdulraheem pulled the hosts to within two points of the group leaders after four matches. Back-to-back Asian champions in 2004 and 2005, Ittihad fell behind to the dominant home side one minute before half-time, when Jasim fired home Abdulraheem's cut-back.
Enes Kanter Freedom questions Palestinian supporters amid Israeli conflict: 'Your hypocrisy is killing me'
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