I remember last season when Karim Benzema was underestimated when he was at Ittihad because this player experienced a decline and was compared to Ronaldo because the two former Real Madrid players were at different clubs and competing fiercely in the title race, now it is clear that Ittihad has risen seriously and surpassed Al Nassr.
Benzema with his amazing seasons for Real Madrid before and after Cristiano Ronaldo departure, especially after that, already proved himself as a super star player at the same level of Cristiano Ronaldo.
Players like Benzema, with high professionality and great skills as well as abundant experience, can play well when their fitness is good enough. In the last season, Benzema didn't not have good fitness but it is different in this season. His magnificient performances for Al-Ittihad in this season is not surprising if we look at his last amazing seasons for Real Madrid when he carried their attacking system as a main attacking power and main scorer for them.
Cristiano Ronaldo should forget about any trophy again from the Al Nassr club, he joined the wrong Saudi pro league club. His focus as I have being saying should be to break more personal records as that's what he can use to save himself as his move to Al Nassr has been a wrong one. There are two teams now ahead of Al Nassr that Al Nassr can't defeat in winning the league trophy.
Cristiano Ronaldo is truly a goal machine even he is nearly 40-year old now. After about 2 seasons for Al-Nassr, he has scored many goals for them and can become a greatest goal scorer for Al-Nassr in their history if he wants to continue his career in several seasons. It helps him achieve many other records personally and with him, personal records are very attractive and addictive too.
Maybe Ronaldo couldn't achieve any titles with Al Nassr in the Saud Professional League so far because of the weakness in this team or lack of good teamwork while they have got enough good players there but still, Ronaldo is trying to improve his personal records there in this team and he wasn't to the best player in Al Nassr and whole Saudi Arabia however once he joined there he was hoping to achieving this tile even sooner.
Al-Nassr in the last two seasons failed to win Saudi Professional League and in this season, they have worse situation with an emerge of Al-Ittihad to make double strong competitors against Al-Nassr for the title. Al-Nassr already struggled to compete and win against Al-Hilal, so now with one more strong competitor Al-Ittihad, their job are harder in this season.
With their current low rank and many points less than two competitors, Al-Nassr don't have good chance to lift Saudi Professional League trophy in this season. It's nearly impossible for them because both Al-Ittihad and Al-Hilal are very strong and stable with their performances to dominate the league.