They played a tight match, Alex Telles managed to keep them alive until ET, then in ET also Al-Nassr managed to survive the defeat after Cristiano scored a goal in the final minutes, but everything they did was in vain after they couldn't use the chances in penalty round. 12 points behind Al-Hilal in the SPL and knocked out of the AFC, I think there's nothing more that Al-Nassr can achieve this season, hope they can do better in the next season.
Surviving is winning, every elite club will hold their ground and become promising. Bad news for Al Nassr to be knockout from the tournament they believed to reach finals, though there's new opportunities flowing in. Why is everyone surprised and also seeing Al Nassr trends on Twitter. They're elite team and that doesn't exclude them from the main race, they're been eliminated and this is huge loss for the Knights of Najd. Cristiano Ronaldo and his teammates suffered defeats, perhapes they will bounce back better in next game.
I was a little surprised by the defeat that Al Nassr received in the AFC Champions League match against Al Ain. Even though the only hope that Al Nassr could achieve was to win that trophy because in the domestic league Al Nassr no longer had a chance to overtake Al Hilal because they had keeping a fairly long distance. Actually I was very optimistic that Al Nassr would win and get rid of Al Ain in that match because Al Nassr had scored 4 goals but it turned out that the penalty shootout ruined everything making Al Nassr's struggle in vain. I also didn't expect Al Ain to be able to score 3 goals thanks to his penalty kick which made the aggregate bigger, I think Al Nassr really has to improve their defensive line as far as I am concerned Al Nassr has weaknesses in the defensive line. Hopefully this can be corrected next season so they can perform even better.
Meanwhile, Al Ain will face quite tough opponents in the semifinals. Later, they will face a strong club in the Saudi league, namely Al Hilal, who just beat Al Ittihad in the quarter-finals. I think Al Hilal will win the match because Al Hilal's current performance is very strong in all respects the competition will be very surprising if Al Hilal can win 2 trophies at once this season, namely the AFC Champions League and also the Saudi Professional League because Al Hilal has a big chance of winning these 2 trophies considering that its rivals have been eliminated first.