During 5 finals… Al-Nasr and Al-Hilal… numbers and paradoxes – Al-Bilad newspaper

Riyadh – Turki Al-Harbi

Hours separate us from the Al-Nasr and Al-Hilal derby in the final of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup – may God protect him.
How do you know what victory and crescent are? A state of attraction and repulsion with many similarities and contradictions. A strange situation similar to the sun and the moon, night and day. They are in an eternal, never-ending succession and race. No one can determine which of them is in the lead, and which of them is trying to catch up with the other!!
All this and more… is the derby when it is in its normal state, which does not go beyond victory in a regular match, so what if we add to the above flavor, color, importance and excitement of the finals!!
Then he talked about the most famous derby; Gulf and Asian, and there is nothing wrong.
Below we provide you with a glimpse of the cup finals that brought together the two teams, and the strange paradoxes and observed numbers that occurred in them. Of course, there are some that you have never known about, so welcome to a reading of the King’s Cup finals, which brought together Al-Nasr and Al-Hilal from a different angle.
• The two teams met in 5 finals for the King’s Cup (Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup).
• Al Hilal won on three occasions: 1989 – 2015 – 2021.
• Al-Nasr won two, 1981-1987.
• The 1987 final was the first final to be called the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup, after the cup was called “His Majesty the King” before its cancellation.
• Al Hilal does not lose the finals held in Jeddah; The two teams met in two finals out of five in the city of Jeddah (1989 – 2015), and Al Hilal won them both.
• Al-Nasr does not lose at Al-Malaz Stadium; The two teams met in two finals out of five at Al-Malaz Stadium in Riyadh (1981 – 1987), and Al-Nasr won the title in both.
• The two teams met in May in two finals, in which they shared the victory. Al-Nasr won the 1981 final, while Al-Hilal won the 1989 final.
• The 2015 final is the only final that was decided by penalty kicks.
• Al-Nasr scored 6 goals in the finals.
• Al Hilal scored 7 goals in the finals.
• The fastest Nasrawi goal was scored by (Majid Abdullah) 1407 AH, in the second minute.
• The fastest Hilal goal was scored by (Hussein Al-Habashi) in 1409 AH, in the 21st minute.
• The most late goal in the finals between the two teams was the goal of (Mohamed Jahfali 2015) in the 119th minute.
• Ayman Yahya is the youngest player to score in the King’s Cup finals between the two teams, in the 2020 final, where he scored his goal, when he was (19 years, 6 months and 14 days old).
• Roberto Rivelino is the oldest player to score in the Copa del Rey finals between the two teams. Where he scored a goal in the 1981 final, at the age of (35 years, 4 months and 13 days).
• Majed Abdullah is the top scorer in the finals with two goals, and his number still stands.
• The left foot scored the most in Al-Nasr, with 4 goals out of 6 scored in the finals.
• The right foot scored the most for Al Hilal, with 3 goals out of 7 goals scored in the finals.
• After five finals between the two teams, each of them scored only two headed goals; He scored for Al-Nasr (Majid 1987 – and Al-Sahlawi 2015), while he scored for Al-Hilal (Jahfali 2015 – and Jang Hyun-soo 2020).
• During the 5 finals between the two teams, one penalty kick was awarded, which was in favor of Al Hilal in the 2020 final, in which Bafetimbi Gomez scored the second goal for his team in the 41st minute.
• The 1409 AH final, which ended with Hilal’s victory over the three, witnessed a strange irony, which is that all the goals were scored by the defensive line players (Al-Bishi, Al-Habashi and Al-Takhifi).
• Al-Nasr completed 37 years without achieving any victory over Al-Hilal in the King’s Cup finals, despite competing in three of them during this period.
• Al-Hilal needed 42 years since the first final between the two teams to score a goal through one of its attackers. All his goals were scored by defenders and midfielders.
• It took Al-Nasr 28 years to score again against Al-Hilal in the King’s Cup finals; He scored in the 1987 final through Majed Abdullah, then returned to score through Muhammad Al-Sahlawi in 2015.
• During the five finals that brought together the two teams, Al-Nasr did not score any goal through one of its foreign professionals, and all its goals were for the local team, while Al-Hilal scored (3) goals out of (7) through its foreign professionals.
• The two most famous goals from the fans in the five finals, which brought together the two teams, are…
1- Majid Abdullah’s goal 1407 AH, known as the “Ras Majid” goal.
2- Mohamed Jahfali’s goal in 2015, known as the (Jahlfa) goal.