{"id":25310,"date":"2026-01-03T23:41:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/al-ittihad-defeats-al-taawoun-and-escalates-the-roshn-league-battle-for-first-place\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T23:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:41:34","slug":"al-ittihad-defeats-al-taawoun-and-escalates-the-roshn-league-battle-for-first-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/al-ittihad-defeats-al-taawoun-and-escalates-the-roshn-league-battle-for-first-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Ittihad defeats Al-Taawoun and escalates the &#8220;Roshn League&#8221; battle for first place"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_09b758ae7e3f02e0\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"polite\" aria-busy=\"false\">\n<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">Al-Ittihad defeats Al-Taawoun 1-0 in the 13th round of the Roshn League<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">Al-Ittihad defeated its counterpart Al-Taawoun 1-0 on Saturday evening at Al-Inma Stadium in King Abdullah Sports City, as part of the 13th round of the Saudi Professional League &#8220;Roshn League.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Al-Ittihad&#8217;s only goal of the match was scored by player Muhannad Al-Shanqeeti in the 49th minute.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">With this result, Al-Ittihad occupies fifth place in the Saudi League standings with 23 points, while Al-Taawoun sits in third place with 28 points.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">Al-Nassr leads the table with 31 points, followed by Al-Hilal with 29 points, but with one match less (11 matches).<\/p>\n<p>United News Network \u2013 UNN Arabic<\/p>\n<p>An independent media platform providing reliable news and objective analysis, seeking to promote peace and cultural dialogue around the world to convey the truth and build bridges of understanding between peoples.<\/p>\n<p>For more news, you can visit our homepage:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"AsXhN3LVyo\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/\">Home<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Home&#8221; &#8212; \u0634\u0628\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062a\u062d\u062f\u0629 \u2013 UNN \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629\" src=\"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/embed\/#?secret=9rWeN6nd4c#?secret=AsXhN3LVyo\" data-secret=\"AsXhN3LVyo\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Ittihad defeats Al-Taawoun 1-0 in the 13th round of the Roshn League Al-Ittihad defeated its counterpart Al-Taawoun 1-0 on Saturday evening at Al-Inma Stadium in King Abdullah Sports City, as part of the 13th round of the Saudi Professional League &#8220;Roshn League.&#8221; Al-Ittihad&#8217;s only goal of the match was scored by player Muhannad Al-Shanqeeti in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}