Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 114. (Read 111726 times)

Saudi Pro League having good impact in soccer world after end of the first season which is having good landmarks for them with Cristiano Ronaldo done historic job even he fails to win any trophy but his performance and records speaks all about his future here in this league and Al Hilal which is having amazing end of their season while they were undefeated into this league with also having Super Cup and facing Al Nassr into Kings Cup which will complete their treble in this season.

Few more clubs make good performance with things are looking interesting because now after having good end of this season many clubs are going to have foreign players which will do good and create good atmosphere in this league for the long time with things are going to be competitive in this league as they are serious about increasing quality of clubs.

Everyone's focus is on the big-4 (Al-Hilal, Al-Nassr, Al-Ahli and Al-Ittihad). These are teams with deep pockets, as they are funded by the Saudi    Public Investment Fund. But I would say that Al-Taawoun was the surprise package of this season. They finished 4th, ahead of Al-Ittihad, and then qualified for the AFC Champions League Two group stage. All credit to the coach (Péricles Chamusca) and the owners. And they performed well because their defense is strong. The keeper (Mailson) was also exceptional this time. 

The fundamental issue is that things have not gone well for the Saudi Pro League as the league gets less attendaces to watch SPL. I assure you that if the Saudi Pro League's expectations are too high through bring so many superstars to the league, it was wasting billions of dollars recruiting new players but the impact is not even happening for a yaer. Take a look at their attendance numbers. they weren't even as high as before Ronaldo joined the league. Saudi must be changing its mind.
The Saudi professional league must have adjusted its approach. I meant wasting money on new players that aren't even working anymore. The club must have different ideas in order to entice more foreign investors to join the Saudi Pro League.

The choice to spend a lot of money to sign a lot of good players from European leagues was the worst thing. Ronaldo was making a significant influence, but this was not sustainable.
Take a look at the current statistics for the Saudi Pro League. It has declined significantly after Nassr introduced Ronaldo to the club.

It is the market value of the clubs, check the link. The stats describe the strength of Saudi clubs based on their market value. The market value of a club is based on the value of the all players on the club. If you check the club profile on transfermarkt, you can easily understand it.

Market value of Al Nassr



Market value of Al Ahli



I think it is clear that the market value of Al Ahli is higher than Al Nassr. We must understand that Al Ahli also has some top European players. The ages of European players in Al Ahli are younger. It makes their market value can be higher.  

Again, the stats isn't based on the position of the teams in SPL standings this season. It is based on the market value of the teams.

Maybe both Al Nassr coach and Al Hilal coach are popular coaches. But Al Nassr coach failed in Al Nassr, he can't prove his ability in leading Al Nassr to be the winner. So, it makes sense if Al Nassr management may have a plan to change the coach. It is normal if the club management fires the coach if he fails to get the target (SPL trophy).

It is very possible. Al Nassr has the money, they can hire any top coach they want. As long as the coach is interested to join Al Nassr, Al Nassr can pay with good salary. So, it won't be so difficult for Al Nassr to sign a new coach when they fire the current coach. I support the club management if they want to change the coach since the coach has a very crucial role.

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Sources:
- https://www.transfermarkt.com/al-nasr-riad/kader/verein/18544/saison_id/2023
- https://www.transfermarkt.com/al-ahli-dschidda/kader/verein/18487/saison_id/2023

Al Hilal has decide to extended Jorge Jesus contract for next 1 year and i think this is good decision for Al Hilal because Jorge Jesus has done well in this team and we all know Al Hilal achievement under him was very fantastic because they were very dominate Saudi Pro League even Al Hilal can being an the champion with unbeated status besides that Jorge Jesus also successfully to bringing Al Hilal to advances to the semifinal of Asian Champion League and they also have won Arabian Super Cup and Al Hilal matches statistics this season also amazed me because in Saudi Pro League Al Hilal can scores 101 goals and only conceded 23 goals so total Al Hilal can gets 2 trophies with Jorge Jesus this season so certainly he deserved to gets new contract and Al Hilal today has good chances to win more trophies because they will fight against Al Nassr at King Cup final match and in this match Al Hilal status is the favourite

It is not surprising at all to see that Al-Taawon can get a better ranking than Ittihad FC at the end of the season, even though that is not a ranking that gives them the opportunity to be able to play in competitions other than local, such as European clubs playing in European competitions, because as far as I know there are only two clubs that play in the Asian Champions League.
Since the start of the season, Al-Taawon performed better than Ittihad, although there were times when they failed to score points so that in the end they could not continue to be contenders for the title.
Statistically, the number of wins for Al-Taawon and Ittihad is the same, but Ittihad has experienced more defeats and their biggest problem this season is defending, because they are the number two team that has conceded the most among the teams in the top ten, and I think Ittihad FC knows that for sure that weakness and that should be their focus next season by buying reliable defenders.

Will Al-Nassr change coaches? because if the coach plays a crucial role, that should be the step taken by the club, even though they may still believe that Castro next season can bring change to this club and become champion of the Saudi pro league, although that is not an easy thing because Al-Hilal in this league is almost the same as Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga and PSG in Ligue 1 are dominating.

Why is Al Ahli's level above Al Nassr and in second place after Al Hilal? even though in fact if we trace the levels in the Saudi League it is very clear that Al Hilal and Al Nassr are the best clubs in the Saudi League at the moment and they are ranked 1st and 2nd in the Saudi Pro League standings and Al Ahli is ranked 3rd below Al Nassr with a difference There are a lot of points and if you look at the quality of the club, it is clear that Al Nassr is superior to Al Ahli and I believe that the table favors Al Hilal and Al Ahli because for me the best club in the Saudi Pro League is currently occupied by Al Hilal and secondly Al Nassr.

It is true that the coach has a very big role in improving the quality of the club's performance and it is true that Al Nassr is a club filled with the best European players, but unfortunately the coach does not have the abilities like the Al Hilal coach who has made a big contribution in training the club to be invincible in the Saudi League and the Al Nassr coach also have to learn a lot like the Al Hilal coach did in playing defensive strategies, for me Al Nassr's attack is strong enough, they just need to hone their back line so that they remain strong and compete with Al Hilal next season and become title contenders again.

It is true that the effect of C.Ronaldo has made Saudi pro increasingly famous and many people are interested in watching the Saudi league, but I have been following this league before Ronaldo's arrival at Saudi Professional, at that time Ighalo played for Al Hilal and he was quite impressive at Al-Hilal and I were quite interested in him after seeing him at Manchester United.

Now Saudi Professionals really wants to build their league into the best by recruiting great players in Europe and making the Saudi Professional league even more developed, and all of that is thanks to Ronaldo's arrival.

All competitions have been completed and there is only one final competition remaining for the Saudi Arabian King Cup which will bring together the SPL champions and runners-up this season and will be quite dramatic final match in the 2023/24 season.
Al Hilal and Al Nassr will compete in the final of the King of Saudi Arabia Cup which will take place tomorrow and take place in King Abdullah Sports City, I think it will be full of excitement and the match can be quite fierce.
This is the last chance for Al Nassr to be able to win the title this season, Ronaldo looks very enthusiastic and enthusiastic about this match and hopefully he will be able to score goals and win the match like before.
In the semifinal match Saudi Arabian King Cup and also SPL match, Ronaldo was figure who contributed greatly to the victoryvictory, I really want to see Ronaldo able to do the same thing in the final against Al Hilal.

Saudi King's Cup final Al Hilal vs Al Nassr

Tomorrow its time to see both top teams of Saudi Pro League between Al Hilal and Al Nassr will face each other on Saudi King's Cup match, could be revenge for Al Nassr after defeating on Saudi Super Cup and moment for winning one trophy opportunity left before this season over.
Both teams on over confidence perform, after winning domestic league Al Hilal want to make their achievement this season by winning Saudi King's Cup and completed with treble winner in this season after winning domestic league, Saudi Super Cup and opportunity with Saudi King's Cup trophies.

In other side, Cristiano Ronaldo has motivation for winning this one opportunity trophy left this season after success becoming Saudi Pro League top scorer and break out the new record as top scorer by scoring 35 goals in one season. He wants win another trophy in his career exactly help Al Nassr close this season with one trophy.

Jorge Jesus the successful coach of Al Hilal officlay extended his contract with Al Hilal. I was the news I was waiting for it every minute and it;'s not supering to see this coach expecting his contract because the result he got during this season was amazing and they got the title of the Saudi league while the other teams like Al Nassr got players like Mane and Ronaldo in their teams and the superstar of Al Hilal, Neymar, was mostly injured during this season.
Thanks to their coach Jorge Jesus,  they had good teamwork. Now they hope to earn more achievements in the next season.

Man, which team do you refer to? Please mention the team first before explaining anything.  
Sure, Al Hilal and Al Nassr are 2 top teams in Saudi league. If other teams want to compete with these teams, they must improve their squads. Al Ittihad and Al Ahli are 2 other teams that have closest level with Al Hilal and Al Nassr. But surprisingly we have Al Taawoun that can finish the season in the 4th place, it is above the position of Al Ittihad.

Here the stats that may explain the level of each team in SPL



Source: statista.com

I agree that the the coaches have crucial roles. Even if Al Nassr has many star players, they can't win the trophy of SPL because the quality of Al Nassr coach is still in lower level of Al Hilal coach. Al Hilal has a great coach, he can make the team to play solidly. Having many top players will be useless if they can't play as a solid team.

Saudi League has been around for a long time and this league has been played for a long time but we have known about the Saudi League for the last three seasons. Ronaldo alone introduced the Saudi League to the world court. Cristiano Ronaldo single-handedly went against the grain of European football when he arrived in Saudi Arabia and created a stir in the transfer market. Ronaldo came to Saudi Arabia and after seeing him we saw many star players coming to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia invests a lot of money behind players, which is why players decide to come to Saudi Arabia in the middle of their careers.

Tomorrow is the big day, we are going to see the two big clubs of the league finally go head to head, I do not think that it will be that simple, but we are definitely going to end up seeing them do fine. This game should be fun, not as fun as UCL of course, I am still waiting on that, not even as fun as FA cup, but at the very least we are going to see if Ronaldo will finish the season with a cup or not, if he loses then he will have a cupless season, and if he wins then it's yet another one.

Al Hilal played so wonderful all season long and they will probably have another chance to win this one too. Plus whenever they played against Al Nassr, their midfield overpowered them, so I assume that they would still be very good at that.

SPL clubs have momentum and rounding through for excellence in matches. Al Nassr is playing good style of football this season, always on the edge of winning but denial after the long run. Cristiano Ronaldo will have to make another trial next season because he's hunger to win the major titles for the club. Al Nassr have seal the motion of the day, bringing up incredible abilities to seal the winning standards but they have Al Hilal to compete with which have become one of the top challenges for them this season.

Betting to choose 1x2 is too risky even though the odds are big, but if you dare to take this risk the results will definitely be very profitable because Al Hilal's chances of winning are also greater considering the history of meetings between these two clubs. Al Hilal can always beat Al Nassr, even with a very close score difference.
Betting on Handicap has very pretty good odds but I just think and speculate if it will end in a draw or maybe 2:1 and that means the risk is bigger or prefer to bet on both clubs scoring.
From my predictions, it is possible that this match has 2 possibilities with almost the same chance of Al Hilal winning or ending in a draw and I don't mean to underestimate Al Nassr, but in fact Al Hilal is currently still in very good condition and wants to make history without being defeated.

From this prediction, I say there is a draw and this is one of the resistances that will be given by Al Nassr who failed to win the SPL title and want to get the king cup title and of course at least they will still score.

Al-Nassr is on fire! They tied Al-Hilal last time, which is big. It demonstrates their guts, skill, and determination to win. Luis Castro wins. He's shaped them, especially defensively. The team is now tough to beat. Al Hilal did well this season. The SPL was won. They're not invincible. And Al-Nassr? Hungery. They're inspired. They desire this win most. This King's Cup final will be tough. Going to be spectacular. Im betting on Al-Nassr. They have momentum. They're talented. They'll win. Believe me.

However, it is also necessary to look at Al Hilal's motivation in this match, because they have already locked in the title, so maybe they will not be that determined to win this match. On the other hand, Al Nassr is trying hard to achieve positive results when facing Al Hilal this season, because in several meetings they have had bad results. So the draw they achieved in the last meeting in the Saudi Pro League, I'm not too sure about their results.

Maybe we will see the real match when they face each other in the final. I'm sure Al Hilal will get more motivation to beat Al Nassr. However, I also cannot deny that what Al Nassr got in their match when they held Al Hilal to a draw will be good capital for them in the final match. At least they will get encouragement that they can also defeat Al Hilal in the next match. So we'll see what Al Nassr can show in the final match against Al Hilal, whether they are better or not.

The current squad is not even competitive enough to compete against Al Nasr and Al Hilal. Clubs need to change coaches as soon as possible. A club's coach, if talented, plays an important role for the club. There are some teams that do not play well for good coaches. Al Hilal is a good team, but it is incomplete without a good coach. So it should be resolved very quickly.

The SPL this season had 2 big teams whom their matches held lots of excitements and wishes, Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal. Whenever any these teAms meet this season, you can tell how tensed the prematch and during the match is because of how high the expectations are from the fans. Yes Al-Hilal keeps proving to be superior whenever they faceoff and I think that was able to resound their name on the title, the SPL winners.

 Well they still have one last dance which is the finals of the Kings Cup and you can already imagine how tough this competition will go. Al-Nassr would want to rewrite the narratives of them been behind Al-Hilal in terms of everything and trust Ronaldo to give his all to lift his first trophy. Al-Hilal who wouldn’t mind adding another trophy to their cabinet will of course come carefully into this match, wary of the attacking threats of Al-Nassr.
 
 Al-Nassr, coach and players know how important this match is to them and I think their recent draw against Al-Hilal can be a good start to spur them up into the match. They need to devise a great strategy to attack but while attacking, they ought not to forget their defense as they could be hurt with a leaking defense line. ⁠I stand on Al-Nassr to get the win from this match but that will be done if they can maintain their high intensity in recent matches and take this match into their hands, then of course they can be able to get the Kings Cup.