{"id":48683,"date":"2025-05-17T02:27:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T23:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=48683"},"modified":"2025-05-17T02:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T23:27:59","slug":"al-ittihad-seal-10th-saudi-pro-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/al-ittihad-seal-10th-saudi-pro-league-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Ittihad Seal 10th Saudi Pro League Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Ittihad, captained by Karim Benzema, clinched the Saudi Pro League title with two matches to spare as they came from a goal down to beat Al-Raed 3-1 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The win at King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Buraydah moved Al-Ittihad to 77 points from 32 matches, nine points ahead of second-placed Al-Hilal.<\/p>\n<p>A victory was all Al-Ittihad, coached by Laurent Blanc, needed to earn their 10th league title, and the first since 2023, but the already-relegated Al-Raed drew first blood as Omar Gonzalez gave the bottom team the lead from close range after nine minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Ittihad, however, fought back with Steven Bergwijn equalizing 12 minutes later. A Danilo Pereira header gave them the lead shortly before halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Two minutes into the second half, Abdulrahman Al-Oboud put the game out of Al-Raed\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n<p>The Jeddah-based club still have a chance to win another trophy this season as they take on Al-Qadsiah in the King\u2019s Cup final on May 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Ittihad, captained by Karim Benzema, clinched the Saudi Pro League title with two matches to spare as they came from a goal down to beat Al-Raed 3-1 on Thursday. The win at King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Buraydah moved Al-Ittihad to 77 points from 32 matches, nine points ahead of second-placed Al-Hilal. A victory &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48684,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48683\/revisions\/48684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}