Ronaldo expressed anger at the forced executions of Al Nassr by the ref in the Champions League match.

Al Nassr had to rely on 3 goals from the 88th minute onwards to win 4-2 over Shabab Al Ahli of the UAE in the playoff match for tickets to the group stage of the AFC Champions League. Despite taking the lead after only 11 minutes, Al Nassr lost at the beginning of the second half and experienced moments of bad luck in finding an equalizer.

More than just missed opportunities, Al Nassr was prevented by another obstacle: the referee. This is not an exaggeration: In this match, there were 5 times Al Nassr could be penalized, of which Cristiano Ronaldo and Sadio Mane were each fouled twice in the penalty area. In those fouls, both players were hit at least once by an opponent during a collision without the ball.

In addition, a kick from Ronaldo hit the hand of Shabab Al Ahli’s player, the arm was very wide, but the Chinese referee Fu Ming did not give them an 11m penalty. There is no VAR to review the situation in this playoff and it looks like even the group stage won’t.

Ronaldo right in the match questioned the referee and when the game ended, the victory did not calm the Portuguese player. He went to the referee and scolded him in English with the sentence: “Wake up, m*ck!”. Ronaldo also jostled a man in a green shirt, who was a member of Shabab Ah Ali’s coaching staff and he is the one who wanted to ask for a selfie with Ronaldo.

The fury of Ronaldo and the Al Nassr players in this match is completely justified and shows that not only is the referee bad, but the absence of VAR at the level of Asia’s biggest tournament is also unacceptable. It is known that VAR will only begin to be used from the knockout round of the tournament, and Al Nassr was almost eliminated from the playoffs.