Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 12. (Read 118136 times)

Well, they were quite good in the match against Al-Hilal, but i disagree when you say Pioli has changed Al-Nassr. They are still the Al-Nassr we have known for the past few seasons, no dominance & no pride there. You said Pioli will make changes after the transfer window, it is worth waiting for. By the way, tomorrow Al-Nassr will compete in the AFC Champions League Elite, they will meet Al-Ain.

Al Ittihad has only lost once, against their rival team, if they want to compete for the League title. In addition to being consistent, Al Ittihad must defeat Al Hilal at their home ground. Thus, Al Itthad can overtake the position occupied by Al Hilal. Unfortunately, it is not easy for Al Ittihad to stay on the right track and be consistent. In addition, Al Hilal is not the only tough opponent. There are several other teams that have the potential to complicate their progress, especially Al Nassr. So, as we agreed, to make it happen, it is homework for Laurent Blanc to bring his team to stay consistent and on the right track. Fortunately, Al Ittihad does not have a very busy schedule like Al Hilal and Al Nassr. Which means, Laurent Blanc can focus his team on the Saudi Pro League. One more thing, under the guidance of this coach, Al Ittihad's performance is much better than previous coaches. In addition to only being a few points away from the team at the top of the standings, Karim Benzema is now showing his sharpness again. let's just see the matches played by the top teams in this competition, can other teams shift Al Hilal who are on fire. interesting to look forward to, although this league is not as exciting as the European League.

Al Hilal football team could not win this match rather they are best team of this tournament and that club is famous all over the World and Millions of people see match of that team but they disappointed their fans . That team could do only 1 goal in this match and we expected 3 goals from that team but that was not possible on that occasion. Talisca gave good start in this match and did goal  at 1st minute after starting the match and after that we saw another goal but that was goal from another side and that goal was done by S. Milinković-Savić  and he did that at 77 minutes.Al Hilal is at the top and they deserve that position.

Al Nassr's last two matches ended in a draw, certainly not a satisfactory result for those who are behind in points from the 2 teams above them. Al Nassr must work hard to catch up on the points difference to be able to compete, although I think this season Al Hilal will be more dominant.

Al Nassr and Al Hilal have both not lost in 9 matches. but Al Nassr's performance must be improved because the competition will be very tight when Ittihad also takes its role. last season the competition for Al Hilal was very difficult, they were not caught up and this season some teams might follow them to compete. hopefully like that.

The match between Al-Riyadh and Al Nassr will be played on 8th November. This will be a good match for the Al Nassr to win and score points. Al-Riyadh is not as strong as Al Hilal and hence Al Nassr will fancy their chances in this match.

All the teams have played 9 matches each in Saudi Pro League and Al halal stands firmly on the first spot. Al-Ittihad Club is right behind the with only one point deficit with 24 points. Al Nassr is at number 3 spots with 19 points. Al-Riyadh has only 14 points and is at the number 6 position. They need to win against Al Nassr in order to move up in the competition.

On the one hand, Ronaldo also doesn't like defeat, his fanatic fans can't be blamed, although sometimes the reality is not as expected. Ronaldo is an icon of the Saudi Pro League, not just an icon of his club Al Nassr, management should be able to build a better squad depth around Ronaldo. Stefano Pioli can certainly understand Al Nassr weakness in relying too much on the mega star, in my opinion that is his main challenge right now. Actualy, Ronaldo is too old to carry the burden of the team, and he cannot be blamed entirely when Al Nassr fail to win every game.

Yes, that's why I said that Al Ittihad must play consistently if they want to stay on the winning track. Playing well at the beginning of the season or until the middle of the season is not enough, they must be consistent until the end of the season until we see who succeeds in becoming the champion. This is a job for Al Ittihad where they must work hard for it. Well, maybe they will also experience problems in the middle of the season, such as a storm of injuries and others. In a situation like that, they must also be able to continue to give their best and continue to get maximum results in every match they play.

My problem with some people is having this mindset of any team Ronald plays shouldn’t lose form. It doesn’t work that way. Bring victory in terms of football must be a term effort not just an individual effort. When it becomes an individual effort then things can go the wrong way when the individual isn’t performing at the level expected. They every body points finger to the individual as being the reason to the team poor performance. Al Nassr should step up their games and stop depending on Ronaldo to carry them all time.

Al Nassr is surely having some problems which preventing them from having better results even now Stefano Pioli not able to bring stability even he is in his early days, but things are not going as they needed in last three games Al Nassr have 2 draws and 1 lost which is surely not acceptable.

Now in 10th round we have local derby as Al Nassr is visiting Al Riyadh which is currently at the 6th spot even things are looking favourable for the visitors to win and keep themselves at third spot, but we can expect surprise as well because its never been easy visit for them while in last game we have draw which was painful.

Here can we expect a win for the Al Nassr its surely questionable due to their performance which is not consistent with Al ittihad is creating problems for them with their performance and having stronghold on second spot.

I think it is not a big deal for Al Hilal. They are still leading SPL table although with a very narrow point gap. Al Ittihad often plays inconsistently when it is almost reaching the middle of the season. Meanwhile Al Hilal can perform consistently until the end of the season. In my opinion, Al Hilal still has the biggest chance to win the SPL trophy again this season. Al Hilal and Al Ittihad will also face one another in the second half of the season. If Al Hilal is still stronger than Al Ittihad, they can widen the point gap again in the next match.

Al Hilal got their first draw, it made them fail to get 3 points and now they rarely with Al Ittihad to be only 1 point. Al Ittihad must be able to maintain their consistency if they want to continue to stick closely to AL Hilal, and of course they must thank Al Nassr for being able to hold Al Hilal to a draw.
It seems that what I said shows that Al Hilal is indeed very strong, but that is the reality. even to hold them to a draw is very difficult, Al Nassr as one of the clubs that is their rival who can do it, at least until the last week in the Saudi Pro League. A gap of 1 point is not a big gap, it only takes 1 draw achieved by Al Hilal to shift them, with the note that Al Ittihad must win that week.

The truth is Al Nassr this season haven't been as impressive as they were last season that they finished as runners-up in the league table but I think there's still a lot to do in other to stay contentious for the league title this season. Their next league will be against Al Riyadh like you rightly said but before that game, they'll play Al Ain in the AFC Champions League before a visit to Al Riyadh. Al Nassr will need to win that game against Al Riyadh to stand a chance of remaining in strong competition for the league title this season. I think it'll be a difficult game for both sides but I predict a win for Al Nassr

Al-Nassr have been drawing very often this season, so looking at the way they are playing I would think that they can draw this time too, even though they will be playing against a rather unstable team. I am sure that they are unlikely to lose many points in this match, but I don't believe in their absolute victory, they are unstable in their wins

In as closely-fought a league as this one, the battles between Al Nassr and Al Hilal are not simply about ability, they are about much more— team mentality. The quality players of Al Nassr have the capacity to strike anytime surprises, and although they trail by six points, this spot cannot be considered as safe for Al Hilal. In case Al Nassr keeps up the pressure and does not get disappointing results for the remainder of the season, heavy pressure will be added to Al Hilal. Besides, Al Hilal themselves will surely have to face tests over the next few games both in terms of physicality and also in terms of consistency.

As often happens on the field, one match can change everything. A couple of injuries, a red card, or a surprise star performance and the entire dynamic of competition changes. So, in essence, though it looks as though Al Hilal might be the better team, Al Nassr could still come out on top of the league standings. They just need to show more consistency and hunger than their rivals for every point available in each game.

That isn't belittling Al Nassr to be fair, that is just stating a fact, statistics shows that as a reality. Al Hilal played 34 games last season and didn't lose a single one of them, won 31 games, draw 3 times, so far this season they played 9 games and won 8, draw once, still no loss. That means Al Hilal played 43 games and won 39 of them, drawing 4 times, with zero losses. That comes down to 2.81 points on average per game they are playing, literally expected to win nearly every single game, never even heard of 2.81 in any other league before.

When a team is that great, saying that getting a draw is a good job would be correct, because they win almost all their games, so getting a draw would mean you got away from another loss. The gap between Al Hilal and Al Nassr is still six points, and that would require Al Hilal to either draw bunch of times, or at least lose a few times for Al Nassr to catch up, and I do not see any way that is ever possible, league is basically over.

On paper, Al Nassr has a higher chance of securing full points in the match against Al Riyadh. Since the arrival of Stefano Pioli, Al Nassr has started to perform better. With the performance they showed recently when holding back Al Hilal, it seems that Al Nassr will be able to perform according to expectations. But before facing Al Riyadh, Ronaldo and his colleagues must first play in the Asian Champions League against Al Ain, who are none other than the defending champions in the competition. I don't think Al Nassr will run out of energy when facing Al Riyadh later after undergoing two tough matches.

Talisca looked a bit scary when he got injured last season and with his age, I wasn't sure if he would be getting back healthy enough to matter but turns out he was still great and even with Ronaldo and Mane on the same team, Talisca kept his great position within the club and didn't became some has been that was once there.

This benefits Al Nassr more than anyone else, because they have more star players that can come up anytime they want to, one day Ronaldo plays great, another day Talisca, some other time Mane, it all changes and they win games that way, I believe it's definitely a good method without a doubt. We should consider how to get better results whenever we want to, it ends up getting good results eventually for Al Nassr, they should get at least a second place.

But it is also necessary to see who Al Nassr's opponent is in this match, because this is not an easy match for them, especially when looking at the actual meeting record, they also do not have a good enough record when facing Al Hilal. But it is not wrong if you are a little disappointed with the results achieved by Al Nassr, I think it depends on where we look at it.
Maybe this will be the first step for them, because they will also meet Al Hilal in the second round. And it is also necessary to remember that Al Hilal failed to get full points for the first time and Al Nassr became the team that managed to do it.

I was a bit disappointed with the final score of 1-1 in the match between Al Nassr and Al Hilal. Al Nassr got the lead in the 1st miunte of the match when Talisca scored the first goal. In the whole match, Al Nassr had only four shots on target. With 52% of the possession, i thought they were in good form.  Al Hilal who was a much better team could only level the game at the 77th minute of the game. In the mid of the 2nd half, i thought that Al Hilal may lose this match but in the end they would be happy to draw it and get a point.

It's true that up to now Al-Nassr still hasn't been able to beat Al-Hilal and what I remember is that Al-Nassr hasn't won against Al-Hilal for a long time, maybe it's been years, of course it's been a long time. It's true that even though Al-Nassr drew against Al-Hilal, of course this is a good thing for Al-Nassr and this is a sign that Al-Nassr is making progress after being coached by Pioli. Of course Al-Nassr can win against other teams, of course that's something. normal and if you play Al-Hilal with a draw, of course this is a good thing, even if you don't win against Al-Hilal which only results in a draw, this indicates that Al-Nassr's performance is getting better.

Yes, the goal that Talisca scored was very surprising and it was seen that several Al-Hilal players were surprised and did not expect that in such a short time Al-Nassr could attack quickly and score a goal. but fortunately the Al-Hilla players who had a strong mentality were able to immediately reply to Talisca's goal through Savic.

Indeed, in that match we saw Al-Nassr's defense which was usually always easy for Al-Hilal to break through, now Al-Hilal was a little overwhelmed when facing Al-Nassr's back line and of course in this case Pioli was successful in improving Al-Nassr's defense because since the season Then Al-Nassr's defense was not performing well, but now Pioli has been able to make Al-Nassr's defense strong, which will definitely make Al-Nassr fans proud to have a coach like Pioli.

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Al-nassr's next SPL match is against Al-Riyadh and I am sure that in this match Al-nassr will have great potential for victory because now Al-nassr's performance is increasing and in the last match Al-nassr against Al Riyadh at that time the result was a draw 2- 2 so I'm sure in the next match Al-nassr will win, what do you think?