Al-Shabab tied 0-0 with Al-Fayhaa and Al-Nasr tied with Al-Khaleej in the seventh round of the Saudi League

Al-Shabab continued its drought of victories in the Saudi Professional League this season, with a goalless draw with its guest, Al-Fayhaa, on Saturday, in the seventh round of the tournament.

There were no goals in the match that was held at SHG Arena, the stronghold of Al-Shabab, so each team scored a point.

This tie raised Al-Shabab’s score to 4 points in 14th place, while Al-Fayhaa has 6 points in 11th place.

Al-Fayhaa will play in the eighth round with Al-Riyadh on the eleventh of October, while Al-Shabab will play on the same day a confrontation against Al-Taawoun.

Al-Fayhaa finished last season in tenth place with 38 points, while Al-Shabab scored 35 points, placing it in thirteenth place.

Al-Nasr's Spanish defender Martinez snatched a ball that Gulf Portuguese player Miguel Crespo intended to take out due to the injury of one of his teammates. The substitute striker, Abdullah Al-Hamdan, received it and shot it powerfully into the visitors' net as a goal to tie the game 1-1, sparking a controversy on the field between the coaches of the two teams, during the match that brought them together in Dammam in the seventh round of the Saudi Professional League.

Al-Nasr failed to chase leaders Al-Hilal, which defeated its host Al-Taawoun 6/0 earlier, on Saturday, and was satisfied with its stalling point in the summit struggle.

Omar Mascarell scored Al-Khaleej's lead in the first minute of stoppage time in the first half, and Abdullah Al-Hamdan equalized for Al-Nasr in the 72nd minute.

Al-Nasr raised its score to 16 points in third place, on goal difference from Al-Qadisiyah in fourth place, noting that Al-Hilal leads the standings with 18 points, followed by Al-Ittihad with 17 points, while Al-Khaleej has 5 points in twelfth place, on goal difference from Al-Riyadh, which is in 13th place, before the round’s competitions are completed.

English Ollie Watkins, Al Hilal striker, said that they succeeded in showing a good reaction by defeating Al-Taawoun with a score of 6-0, after their previous loss to NEOM in the Saudi Professional League.

The English player added: “I feel that we are in a good position. This is what we wanted to do. The thing that differed in the Al-Taawoun match compared to the match with NEOM is that NEOM then retreated back and tried to put pressure on us. He was waiting for us to make mistakes, then launched into counterattacks. We knew that this would be the way in which Al-Taawoun might play, and all my thoughts were focused on the match itself.”