Saudi star Saud Abdul Hamid shined in Roma’s match against its guest, Sporting Braga of Portugal, which was held yesterday, Thursday, and ended with the “Wolves” team winning 3-0, in the group stage of the European League competition. Roma opened the scoring in the 10th minute through Italian Lorenzo Pellegrini, and in the second half, Saud Abdul Hamid was able to score the reinforcement goal with a powerful shot with his right in the 47th minute after penetrating into the penalty area. To be the first Saudi player to score in the European League competitions, while Mario Hermoso scored the third goal in the 90+1 minute.
Saud caused the expulsion of the Brazilian Matheus Lima, the goalkeeper of the Sporting Braga team, in the 68th minute, after the Saudi player was alone and broke the offside trap, as he shot the ball over Lima. The latter was subjected to direct expulsion after touching the ball with his hand outside the penalty area.
With this result, Roma raised its score to 9 points in the fourteenth place in the group ranking table, after 6 rounds of the group stage in the European League, while Sporting Braga’s score froze at 7 points in the twenty-third place.
In the match between Roma and Sporting Braga, Saud received a rating of 8.1/10, based on data from the global “HoScore” network, which is the best rating in his team, on par with his teammates Gianluca Mancini and Lorenzo Pellegrini.
The accuracy of the Saudi right-back’s passes in the match reached 92%, and he shot twice on goal, won (2) out of 8 ground duels, and made 3 successful defensive interventions.
In total, the 25-year-old right-back played 5 matches with Roma in all competitions, scoring one goal and making another, noting that Saud has 37 international matches with the Saudi national team, during which he scored a goal and provided 3 assists, and the player’s current market value is 4 million euros. According to data from the global Transfer Market website.
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