Al Nassr vs Al Diriyah: Confirmed line ups and teams

Al-Nassr and Al-Diriyah have named their starting teams for their Saudi Pro League meeting at Al-Awwal Park on Friday.

The reigning Saudi Pro League champions won one of their four matches in all competitions immediately prior to the international to break

Captain Cristiano Ronaldo starts after a tumultuous spell with Portugal in the League of Nationsleaving the field after starting his country’s home win over Wales but remaining on the bench for their win in Norway.

In their first season under Portuguese head coach Bruno Lage, eighth-placed Al-Diriyah have collected 11 points from their first seven league games and will move up one place if they avoid defeat.

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Confirmed team Al Nassr vs Al Diriyah

Al-Nassr made three changes from their 4-0 defeat at Al-Ain in the Champions League on September 15, bringing in goalkeeper Bento, defender Awad Aman and striker Kingsley Coman.

Rakan Al-Ghamdi (knee) and Sultan Al-Ghanam are out with knee injuries and Saad Al-Nasser is on the bench after a hamstring problem.

Al-Nassr starting XI: Bento, Nawaf Boushal, Mohamed Simakan, Inigo Martinez, Awad Aman, Abdullah Al-Khaibari, Samu Costa, Kingsley Coman, Sadio Mane, Joao Felix, Cristiano Ronaldo

Substitutes for Al-Nassr: Abdulrahman Al-Otaibi, Nader Al-Sharari, Majed Qasheesh, Saad Al-Nasser, Sami Al-Naji, Sufiany, Ayman Yahya, Saad Haqawi, Abdullah Al-Hamdan

Full lineup Al Diriyah vs Al Nassr

Waleed Abdullah replaces injured goalkeeper Nikola Vasilj in one of three changes for Al-Diriyah following their 0-0 draw at home to Abha on 13 September.

Defenders Hussain Al Sibyani and Qasem Lajami also enter.

Al-Diriyah Starting XI: Waleed Abdullah, Abdulaziz Al-Faraj, Berat Djimsiti, Chancel Mbemba, Hussain Al Sibyani, Idrissa Gueye, Qasem Lajami, Enzo Millot, Oscar Rodriguez, Adil Boulbina, Darwin Nunez

Al-Diriyah substitutes: Mansour Al-Subiani, Saeed Al-Rabiei, Khalid Al-Asiri, Taher Wadi, Mohammed Dhiban, Sultan Al-Farhan, Hussain Al-Qahtani, Lovro Chelfi, Meshari Al-Nemer

Where to watch Al Nassr vs Al Diriyah: TV Channel, Live Streams Online

Kick-off on Friday is 19:00 BST (14:00 ET / 11:00 PT). In the UK, live coverage is at Saudi Pro League website.

Al-Nassr v Al Diriyah recent forms and stats

• Al-Nasr have a perfect record at home this season (W3), with Ronaldo scoring once in each of the last two of those games
• Since a 4-0 win at Al-Riyadh in the division on August 21, Al-Nassr have gone six games in all competitions without keeping a clean sheet.
• Starting with Oscar’s second-minute opener for Al-Diriyah against them, Al-Nassr have gone behind in six of their last eight games in all competitions.
• Before the final round of matches, only second-placed Al-Ahli could match Al-Diriyah’s defensive record of five goals conceded in the top flight this season, with two of four teams having conceded fewer than Al-Nassr (7).
• Since losing 4-1 at home to Al-Nassr in the Copa del Rey on August 18, Al-Diriyah’s only defeat has come at home to leaders Al-Qadsiah (W3 D2)
• Those two defeats are the only occasions in eight games in all competitions that Al-Diriyah have conceded more than once this season, including three clean sheets in their last six games.
• Their only previous meeting with Al-Nassr had been a Copa del Rey round-of-16 tie in January 2016, losing 7-0 as Adrian Mierzejewski scored a hat-trick.
• Despite conceding the most goals of any team in the second tier last season (39 in 34 games), Al-Diriyah finished third before coming from behind in the play-off final to beat Al-Ula after extra time.
• Only Abha’s Sylla Sow and Al-Orobah’s Simy (27 each) surpassed Al-Diriyah striker Gaetan Laborde’s total of 26 goals during that campaign.
• Al-Raed’s Zinho Gano (3) was the only player to score more hat-tricks in the second phase last season than France’s Laborde (2), netting hat-tricks against Al-Adalah and Jeddah.

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