Last Saturday, the five-time Ballon D’Or winner scored three goals in his sides' 5-1 victory over Al-Tai in the Saudi Pro League. However, he couldn’t just leave it there. In last night’s 0-8 win over Abha, Ronaldo scored another hat-trick inside 42 first-half minutes – before being taken off for the second half along with former Liverpool winger Sadio Mane, who was also on the scoresheet.

Since leaving Manchester United for Al-Nassr in the winter of 2022, Ronaldo has taken the Saudi Pro League in his stride, scoring 47 goals in 53 games. Ronaldo has made the league a mainstream competition as a wholesale of world-class players has joined him in Saudi Arabia such as Karim Benzema, N’Golo Kante, Ruben Neves, Sergei Milinkovic-Savic, Neymar, Sadio Mane, Aymeric Laporte and Roberto Firmino.

Ronaldo and his Al-Nassr side are back in action on Friday as they take on Damac in the Saudi Pro League. Al-Hilal are top of the league in Saudi Arabia, they are 12 points ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr, who are second with eight games remaining.

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