Cristiano Ronaldo shares Al-Nassr’s ‘good vibes’ ahead of crunch AFC Champions League tie with Al-Fahya

A clearly relaxed Ronaldo captioned his post 'good vibes' two days before Al-Nassr are due to face fellow Saudi Arabian club Al-Feiha in the last 16 of Asia's Champions League this week.

Ronaldo and Co. hold a slender 1-0 aggregate advantage from the away first leg last week and will be confident of progressing now they are at home for the second. Al-Feiha are not one of Saudi Arabia's traditional giants and finished 11th out of 16 teams in the domestic league last season, having been in the second tier as recently as 2021. But they enjoyed a remarkable run to win the 2021/22 edition of the King's Cup to qualify for the 2023/24 AFC Champions League and then made it through the group stage despite being a struggling team in the Saudi Pro League.

Al-Hilal (1991, 2000, 2019, 2021) and Al-Ittihad (2004, 2005) are the only Saudi Arabian teams to have been crowned club champions of Asia. Al-Nassr are yet to win the competition, best finishing as runners-up in 1995 when they were losing finalists to Ilhwa Chunma, now known as Seongnam FC, of South Korea.

With a 39-year-old Ronaldo spearheading the team by scoring 30 goals in 31 games across all competitions, Al-Nassr are targeting trophies on multiple fronts this season. They won't believe that a seven-point gap to Al-Hilal is too big to close in the Saudi Pro League title race when there are 14 games left, while they are also into the semi-finals of the King's Cup, as well as looking good to progress to the last eight of the Champions League.