{"id":60568,"date":"2026-02-07T01:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=60568"},"modified":"2026-02-07T01:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:47:26","slug":"benzema-scores-hat-trick-on-his-debut-for-saudi-arabias-al-hilal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/benzema-scores-hat-trick-on-his-debut-for-saudi-arabias-al-hilal\/","title":{"rendered":"Benzema Scores Hat-trick on his Debut for Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al-Hilal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Karim Benzema scored a hat-trick and grabbed an assist on his debut for Saudi Pro League leaders Al-Hilal as they thrashed lowly Al-Akhdoud 6-0 on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The 38-year-old joined Al-Hilal on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The former France striker made an immediate impact for his new side as he broke the deadlock in style with a back-heel touch after seizing on a loose ball inside \u2060the area shortly after the half-hour mark.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Benzema doubled \u200cthe score with a \u200dlow, close-range drive \u200din the 60th minute and four \u200dminutes later completed his hat-trick with another close-range effort.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Frenchman set up Malcom for Al-Hilal&#8217;s fourth, shortly before being substituted in the 71st minute.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It was an important game today. So we \u2060are happy, we play well, we do a clean sheet and we score so we are happy,&#8221; Reuters quoted Benzema as saying.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Everybody is good with me they give me everything so when I am on the pitch I give everything for them,&#8221; he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Salem Al-Dawsari, the AFC Player of the Year \u200cfor 2025, completed the rout with a brace.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karim Benzema scored a hat-trick and grabbed an assist on his debut for Saudi Pro League leaders Al-Hilal as they thrashed lowly Al-Akhdoud 6-0 on Thursday. The 38-year-old joined Al-Hilal on Monday. The former France striker made an immediate impact for his new side as he broke the deadlock in style with a back-heel touch &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60568","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\/60568","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=60568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60570,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60568\/revisions\/60570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}