{"id":68815,"date":"2024-08-15T00:35:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T19:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=68815"},"modified":"2024-08-15T00:35:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T19:35:34","slug":"bounou-shootout-heroics-claim-saudi-super-cup-final-spot-for-al-hilal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/bounou-shootout-heroics-claim-saudi-super-cup-final-spot-for-al-hilal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bounou shootout heroics claim Saudi Super Cup final spot for Al-Hilal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABHA: Al-Hilal reached the final of the Diriyah Saudi Super Cup on Tuesday with 4-1 penalty shootout win over Al-Ahli after their semifinal ended 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the seventh time that the reigning Saudi Pro League champions have contested the final of the competition, having won the title twice.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Hilal were moments away from elimination, and a first defeat to Al-Ahli in four years, before Serbian forward Aleksandar Mitrovic headed a 90th minute equalizer from Salem Al-Dawsari\u2019s cross to take the match to penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Ahli had taken the lead in the 66th minute through Brazilian captain Roberto Firmino\u2019s first-time left-foot finish from a Riyad Mahrez pinpoint cross.<\/p>\n<p>The shootout saw successful Al-Hilal kicks from Ruben Neves, Al-Dawsari, Mitrovic and Sergej Milinkovic-Savic.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, only Firmino converted for Al-Ahli, with Gabri Veiga\u2019s effort brilliantly saved by Yassine Bounou, and Roger Ibanez hitting his effort over the bar.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Hilal will now contest Saturday\u2019s final against the winner of the second semifinal between Al-Nassr and Al-Taawoun on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABHA: Al-Hilal reached the final of the Diriyah Saudi Super Cup on Tuesday with 4-1 penalty shootout win over Al-Ahli after their semifinal ended 1-1. It will be the seventh time that the reigning Saudi Pro League champions have contested the final of the competition, having won the title twice. Al-Hilal were moments away from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68827,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68815\/revisions\/68827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}