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Ronaldo credit review: SPL commentary lists an own goal

Updated SPL commentary credits Girotto at Al Faisaly. We revise Ronaldo’s ledger and disclose the league page’s conflicting header.

Our take: The reviewed ledger leaves Ronaldo on 984 and Messi on 937, a gap of 47 goals. Ronaldo now needs 16 more to reach 1,000; our live race tracker applies the same eligible-goal scope to both players. Follow the revised Race to 1,000 → Read the correction log →Analysis uses records reviewed .

By Daniel R · Published

Official event record reviewed · conflicting header disclosed

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The Saudi Pro League’s detailed commentary for Al Faisaly against Al Nassr now records the disputed goal as an Andrei Girotto own goal. We observed the changed event credit on 9 November and have removed it from Ronaldo’s shared career ledger. The match was played on 23 October; the page supplies no publication time for this change.

There is still an inconsistency within the league site: its match header and older video name Ronaldo. Our earlier count followed that attribution. The updated commentary explicitly labels the incident an own goal and describes Ronaldo’s header as missing the target. We now follow that detailed event record and preserve the older reporting with its original dates.

This credit review does not change the match result or add a new appearance. The separate Ronaldo attempt overturned by VAR remains excluded. His later goals retain their match dates and immutable record IDs; only the career numbering after the removed credit changes. The correction log explains the adjustment, and the live trackers use the revised ledger rather than the figures in older reports.

Sources & checks

Saudi Pro League · detailed match commentary ↗
Current commentary read in full. It records the disputed incident as a Girotto own goal and separately excludes the later VAR-overturned Ronaldo attempt. The match header and older league video still credit Ronaldo; no credit-decision timestamp is supplied. The updated detailed event record is the stated basis for this correction. · Checked 9 Nov 2026, 12:05 GMT

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