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• At a time when some sports fans were resigned to the collapse of Al-Ittihad and accepted it after the Al-Hilal match, I was saying that Al-Ittihad chooses to respond to all questions through the hardest answer, and indeed, the response carried the pride of Al-Ittihad.

• Al-Nasr, heavily favored before the match, fell victim to psychological manipulation, while the Tigers came to heal their wounds.

• Beware of the tiger when it is wounded; I said it loudly before the match, but it seems that the Al-Nasr fans did not understand the message and did not grasp it until it was too late.

• The Al-Nasr fans and their coach, Jesus, exaggerated in their disrespect for Al-Ittihad, and they paid the price for this exaggeration with a bitter exit that left Al-Nasr's fans in a state of shock.

• I say shock because the reaction was harsh, and its harshness affected everyone, including Ronaldo.

• Why did Al-Ittihad win? This is a question we will not hang on the peg of "it could have been" or "it should have been," but we will say they won because they paid the price of victory with performance, spirit, and goals.

• Al-Ittihad's coach, Konnissao, contained Jesus even when he played a man down early in the second half, and I say contained Jesus based on what we saw on the field, where the imprint of each coach was evident.

• Why did Al-Nasr lose? They lost the league leader because they slept on the pillow of media hype, in addition to Jesus failing in his first difficult task, which was to decode Konnissao, who defended, attacked, scored, and maintained.

• Why did Konnissao take Benzema out, while Jesus did not dare to take Ronaldo out, who was a burden on the team?

• Here, the personality of the coach emerges and his ability to make a decision at a time when the team needs a decision, whatever it may be.

• A flash:

If you feel pain, you are alive; if you feel the pain of others, you are human.. (Leo Tolstoy).