The match between Al-Ittihad and Al-Fayha witnessed a very rare situation, after Karim Benzema and Houssem Aouar wasted two penalties for the Dean in the match that was held at King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Buraidah.
The beginning was with Benzema, who shone and toured against Al-Hilal in the quarter-finals of the King’s Cup a few days ago by scoring two goals, but luck was against him in the match against Al-Fayha.
The French star shot a weak ball to the right of goalkeeper Orlando Mosquera, and the Panamanian goalkeeper, in turn, succeeded in dealing with it successfully and stopping it in the 57th minute.
بنزيما يهدر ركلة الجزاء.. ❌🤯#دوري_روشن_السعودي
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Benzema’s waste is an extension of his series of failures in taking penalty kicks with Al-Ittihad, as he wasted the last 5 kicks he took, and only scored 2 kicks out of 7.
In the 88th minute, another penalty kick came for Al-Ittihad, and Benzema stepped aside to take it in favor of Aouar, but the Algerian international also shot it to the right of Mosquera and the goalkeeper successfully stopped it.
موسكيرا يتصدى لجزائية أخرى للاتحاد.. 🤯🔥🧤#دوري_روشن_السعودي
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Al-Ittihad almost lost after Fashion Sakala scored the winning goal for Al-Fayha in the 90th minute, but Fawaz Al-Saqr was able to equalize for Laurent Blanc’s battalion in the 93rd minute and come out with a disappointing but valuable point.
With Al-Ittihad’s draw and Al-Hilal’s 5-0 victory over Al-Arabi, the two teams share the lead in the Roshen League standings with 37 points each, with the “Blue Wave” having the advantage in goal difference.
