Al Taawoun vs Al Ittihad _ Highlights _ Roshn Saudi League _ 6th February 2025(480P)

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00:00Hello everybody, welcome to King Abdullah Sports City in the Saudi Arabian city of Bereda.

00:11Live Saudi Pro League football for you.

00:13Al Thaun hosting one of the title challengers Al Itty has.

00:16But the past fortnight has proved just how much work is going to be needed for them to stay in the title race.

00:22Ahead of what is shaping up to be a truly fascinating weekend of Saudi Pro League football.

00:35This is Al Itty has a chance to apply some pressure to Al Halal.

00:39Win here and they will go three points clear of the current leaders.

00:44Don Hutchison, this is a notoriously tough place to visit.

00:46Absolutely. Three draws in the last four games.

00:49We'll tell Al Itty had, they don't know already, they can be a stubborn side.

00:53They expect the dynamic of the game to be.

00:55Al Itty had will try and control the game, play at a slower tempo.

00:59Lavinio.

01:00Benzema.

01:02Benzema.

01:03Threading it in.

01:03This is beautiful.

01:04Great save out here.

01:06It was Al Shinkiti who found himself in the promising position again.

01:11It's the same outcome, it's a missed opportunity for Al Itty has.

01:14It's just amazing football.

01:15Goal-keyed by Al Itty had tried to drop a little ball into his front man, didn't come off.

01:18Football after that was beautiful.

01:21Benzema wants to do it himself.

01:22No route to goal.

01:23Fabinho, that travels.

01:25And Al Al-Boud scores.

01:28The pressure too much for Al-Town.

01:31He is in red-hot form right now.

01:34Abd al-Rahman Al-Boud.

01:36That's four in his last five in the league.

01:38Thrashed beyond Atiyah.

01:40And to be honest, the goal was coming.

01:42It's a great strike and he might just be on side.

01:44It'll be tight, it'll be checked.

01:46But a very, very good finish.

01:49Head down, just drill it into the middle part of the goal.

01:52No need to go low, just keeps it under the crossbar.

01:55It's a very, very good finish.

01:57The goal was coming.

01:58Here's a VAR check, but that's what you have to do.

02:05See Moussa Diaby on the bench, so you have to try and perform.

02:10The instruction is, it's a lengthy instruction.

02:12And clarity that the goal will stand.

02:19And now the celebrations are rubber stamped for Al-Abboud.

02:24He really had Barra as an option.

02:30He couldn't find him.

02:31Bergwijn's got several options.

02:33He's also going to shoot.

02:34And the keeper's made a tremendous save.

02:37It's not done yet.

02:38It's Benzema and it's bounced off him.

02:40And it's into the hands of Atiyah now.

02:43Atiyah's made an unbelievable save.

02:45I thought actually when Steven Bergwijn had the poly from the slip,

02:48N'Golo Kante in, maybe he should have,

02:50but he took the shot from the distance.

02:51It's a good one.

02:52Goalkeeper just done enough.

02:54It's a better spell of possession from Al-Town,

02:56but is there an end product to come with it?

02:59Al-Nassar's going to have to really work to get to that.

03:01And he's got the corner out of Kante, though.

03:03Maybe he called it, Chris.

03:04That was probably the first time in the last half an hour

03:06they've kept the ball for more than half a dozen passes.

03:08Now they get the reward.

03:09Some smash and grab this and get back into the game at 1-1

03:12just before half-time.

03:14So is there something in this right at the end of the first half?

03:17Fires, delivery.

03:18Barrow, it's in!

03:20Danilo has inadvertently sent it beyond Raikovic

03:25and on the stroke of half-time

03:28Al-Town do have their equaliser.

03:31It's 1-1.

03:32Oh, what a crazy game.

03:33How on earth to try and write that script

03:35when you just watch the first 55 minutes of the game

03:37and Alitiad have been on top

03:39and Al-Town have been so poor for large part

03:42and a minute before half-time,

03:44own goal from Danilo.

03:45It's Barrow.

03:51And again, Moussa Barrow, Fabinho for company.

03:55Al Nasser.

03:57In the way, Danilo.

03:59Good defendant.

04:00Anything that squirms through the legs of Danilo there,

04:02there was a couple of yellow shirts just arriving at the far post

04:05with a potential tap-in,

04:06so that's excellent defending.

04:08Five ears corner for Al-Town.

04:11It's Barrow again.

04:12He found himself in the same position.

04:15Rosner's clean with the hit this time.

04:17The ball's still not away

04:18and Raikovic tips it over the bar

04:20and there was no flag

04:22and he's looking on and wondering where his back line went.

04:25I'll tell you what,

04:26couldn't quite see in real time who had the header

04:28but would have been on the side.

04:34Benzema into a position of potential potency here

04:38and the referee has given a penalty.

04:43He has spotted a handball here

04:45and at the opposite end of that emotional scale,

04:49the sheer disappointment etched all over the faces.

04:54He's doing the right thing, I think, referee,

04:55going to double-check.

04:58Yep, so over he is going to go,

05:00the Russian official to the screen.

05:05That, for me, can never be a penalty.

05:09He was almost stood side-on to that, the referee,

05:12so he perhaps...

05:13The way his arm is, though.

05:14Yeah, but if he gives that on field,

05:16I don't agree with it, I don't understand it,

05:19but when you're in the heat of the battle,

05:21if you're the referee,

05:22if you think that's a penalty and you give it,

05:25then this could be a really good use of VAR.

05:28I just think where he was stood,

05:30he couldn't work out how far away Fahir's arm was

05:33from his body.

05:34So what is the decision going to be?

05:36Penalty was the original call.

05:38No penalty.

05:40Good.

05:41And Fahir is relieved,

05:45and Benzema perhaps knows that...

05:48Oh, Auer!

05:54Oh, he's missed!

05:56He was gifted an opportunity by Altown.

05:59Oh, when you see this again, watch this.

06:02Good anticipation.

06:03Now just placed at the corner.

06:06No need to add any power.

06:08He's actually gone with the outside of the boot in the end,

06:10hasn't he, Don?

06:11Yeah, it's not a good finish in the end.

06:13He sort of slices right across it.

06:15In-step finish.

06:17Oh, he's given away again.

06:19Diaby sharp to it.

06:21Benzema.

06:22Diaby.

06:23Benzema!

06:24Brilliant block.

06:25What a piece of defending that is.

06:27It's impossible to tell in real time.

06:32And he would have been on sideless for Diaby.

06:34Is the striker hand?

06:36No.

06:36Defender's got his both hands behind his back.

06:39Actually came off the back with his head.

06:41Brilliant block.

06:42And it has got Alet he has on the move with Awe.

06:49Still got something left in the legs here.

06:50The twinkle toes feeding it for Benzema!

06:54Wins the game!

06:56They needed a splash of quality.

06:59And you can always rely on Karim Benzema for that.

07:04And he is on side.

07:05It's a brilliant run in behind.

07:06He was well found.

07:07But you rely on people like Benzema.

07:10Him and N'Golo Kante have been their best players

07:12by a million miles tonight.

07:13And that's where you want him.

07:15The wits of the 18-yard box.

07:16He nutmegs the goalkeeper.

07:21But always reliable.

07:23Always clinical.

07:28Laurent Blanc will be thinking

07:29get out of jail card.

07:32Cheat code having him in the team.

07:42They've had to do it the hard way tonight, Alet he has.

07:47And they needed one of the circuit's greatest strikers

07:51to get them out of a hole.

07:53Karim Benzema with the winner.

07:54Five minutes into stoppage time for Laurent Blanc's team.

07:57After the opener from Al-Abboud was cancelled out

08:00by that unfortunate goal that went in off Danilo

08:03from Musa Barrow.

08:05But Al Etihad go to the top of the Saudi Pro League

08:09and their message is clear on this weekend.

08:12It's over to you, Al Halal.

08:14It has finished.

08:15Al Town won.

08:17Al Etihad too.

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