The bad performance of the coach with the team in the league, where he was the current champion, by adding five days without winning has condemned him
The club where stars like Karim Benzema, N’Golo Kanté and Luiz Felipe are will now look for a new coach
End of Nuno Espirito Santo’s time as coach of Al Ittihad. The Portuguese coach, who arrived at the Saudi club in the summer of 2022 and who led them to win the league, has been dismissed after the team’s bad streak in the league as well as the last KO in the Asian Champions League.
The surprising defeat against Al Quwa Al Jawiya of Iraq (2-0) It was the last straw that broke the camel’s back. despite the fact that the team is the leader of its group with 9 points, with the Iraqi team itself and the Iranian Sepahan with 7 points with two days remaining. His position was already in danger after go five consecutive days without winning in the league, with three points out of a possible 15 that have taken them a long way from the head.
Despite alternating these bad results with victories that have allowed him to advance in the King Cup, the Saudi Arabia Cup where they are already in the quarterfinals, the domestic competition has condemned Nuno. With 21 points, Al Ittihad is sixth, seven behind Al Nassr (28) and eleven behind Al-Hilal (32).
The last league setback was after losing at the King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh to Al Shabab (1-0) on a day where Karim Benzema was very unwise in front of the goal. The Belgian team Yannick Carrasco and the Argentine Eder Banega They achieved victory thanks to a goal from Brazilian Carlos Junior who, fifteen minutes into the game, headed a pass from the right from Fawaz Al Sagour into the net.
Without Nuno Espirito Santo, the team of Benzema, N’Golo Kanté and Luiz Felipand, among others, he will have to look for a new technician to solve his bad dynamics.