Even without dazzling, Al Hilal recorded their eighth consecutive victory in the Saudi League by beating Al Kholood (3-1) at the end of the 12th round, capitalizing on Al Nassr's slip-up, the day before, against Al Ettifaq. Without the Portuguese on the field - João Cancelo is not registered in the Saudi League and Rúben Neves was left out of Simone Inzaghi's squad - Al Hilal were uninspired in the first half and not even the expulsion of Al Dawsari (37m), for a foul from behind on Marcos Leonardo, changed the scenario. This despite Milinkovic-Savic even putting the Riyadh team in front of the scoreboard, just after the 45th minute. However, the Serbian international ended up committing a penalty, for handballing the ball in his area, shortly afterwards, allowing Ramiro Enrique to restore equality. In the last play of the first half, Al Kholood's goalkeeper, Juan Cozzani, shone by preventing a goal that seemed certain from Kanno, a scenario that was repeated in the 60th minute, now with a shot by Darwin Núñez. Al Kholood's resistance fell soon after, when Théo Hernández made it 2-1, he would end up scoring twice close to the 90th minute, from a dead ball. As for Al Qadisiyah, coached by Brendan Rodgers, who hadn't won in the championship for two rounds, won at Al Shabab's ground by 3-2. At half-time, the away team's lead was already 3-0, with Mateo Retegui (12m), Julián Quiñones (31m, from a penalty) and Nahitan Nández (41m) scoring after a ball shot at the post by Christopher Baah. In the second half, Al Shabab managed to reduce the margin to the minimum, through Josh Brownhill with a good shot inside the opponent's area (61m) and Yannick Ferreira-Carrasco, with a penalty (90+2m). With this Tuesday's results, Al Hilal reaches the 29 point mark and is just two points behind leader Al Nassr. Al Qadisiya now overtakes Al Ittihad in fifth place, who hours before had defeated NEOM 3-1.