Yassine Bono, the man with the great nominations (video)
Moroccan goalkeeper Yassine Bounou shone during his team’s match, Al Hilal, against Al Ahly, on Tuesday evening, August 13, in the semi-final of the Saudi Super Cup in Diriyah.
Al Hilal goalkeeper blocked many dangerous balls during the regular time of the match, which ended in a positive draw of 1-1, and in the penalty shootout, Bono continued his excellence and contributed to his team’s victory with a score of (4-1).
Yassine Bounou brilliantly blocked a shot from Spaniard Gabriel Vega in Al-Raqi’s second penalty, after which Al-Ahly missed another kick taken by Roger Ibañez, which went wide of the goal.
Al Hilal reaches the Super Final for the seventh time in its history 🔵
Full penalty shootout ⤵ #Al-Diriyah_Saudi_Super_Cup #Al-Hilal_Ahly | #SSC pic.twitter.com/o95ZVPGktA
– SSC (@ssc_sports) August 13, 2024
With this result, Al-Hilal Club qualified for the final match on August 17, awaiting the winner of the match between Al-Nasr and Al-Taawoun teams, which will take place on Wednesday evening, August 14.
Against Al-Ahly, the Moroccan international goalkeeper repeated what he did at the end of last season 2023-24, when he contributed to Al-Hilal’s victory against its traditional rival, Al-Nasr, on penalties (5-4), after the end of regulation time and extra time, with a goal to equalize; Al-Zaeem won the Two Holy Mosques Guardian Cup title.
Yassine Bounou managed to stop 3 penalty kicks in the derby match against Al-Nasr. Giving “Al-Zaeem” the local treble, after already winning two Roshan League titles and the Saudi Super Cup during the last season.
Looking at his international career, we see that the Al Hilal goalkeeper’s brilliance in stopping penalty kicks is not new. The 33-year-old proved that he possesses this skill at the 2022 World Cup, which saw the Moroccan national team achieve a historic feat at the World Cup, finishing fourth.
Since his arrival at the “Blue of the Capital” in the summer transfer window of 2023, Bono has always been on time and has shown his importance in solving many important meetings with the Al-Hilal battalion, proving the saying that the goalkeeper is half the team.
