Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 12. (Read 86369 times)

Seems the final match King Cup between Al Hilal vs Al Nassr behind Al Nassr currently lead awhile over 3-0 against Al Khaleej until 77th minutes, Cristiano Ronaldo have scored two goals and has chance in ten minutes left to make hattrick. Actually he can scoring three goals tonight but giving the penalty kick for Sadio Mane with usually Cristiano Ronaldo take penalty kick.

Against Al Hilal in the final is very important match for Al Nassr after losing in Saudi Super Cup in semifinal match, I think is right moment revenge for Cristiano Ronaldo received red card when facing Al Hilal and he must controlling emotion on the final match. Its the last opportunity for Al Nassr winning tittle in this season and Cristiano Ronaldo has chance by winning King Cup tittle after failure in AFC Champion League and seems the same get failure for winning domestic league.

Now we are in 74th minute of the game and Al Nassr is leading by 3–0 which is clearly saying now we are heading for the another final between Al Hilal vs Al Nassr after winning Super Cup now its second Cup for the Saudi League leaders which are going to complete their treble with lost in AFC Champions League is surely going to hurt them but still they are having good for the season with record-breaking performance and possible three cups are ok for them.
Al Nassr which was in more limelight before the start of the season having problems and just because of these they are paying and having no win in this season even they signed with record-breaking contract to Cristiano Ronaldo hopefully we will have better results for them in coming season if they are able to settle their defense related problems which are hurting them in this season in all competitions.

Al-Nassr seems certain to win. So I no longer watched the Al-Nassr vs Al-khaleej match in the second half because I started to focus on watching UCL now. And I was quite surprised when I checked Al-Nassr's score, who had scored another goal in the second half. And the current score for Al-nassr vs Al-khaleej is 3-0. Cristiano Ronaldo managed to score 2 goals in this match. And this indicates that Cristiano Ronaldo is still superior and sharper at his current age.
I hope that in the final against Al-hilal this time Cristiano Ronaldo can win. Because someone has to stop Al-Hilal from continuing to win in almost all competitions in Saudi Arabia this season. The quality of Al-Hilal this season is truly extraordinary. But it's quite boring to see the same team keep winning the competition.

I am sure that they are much better with Ronaldo there is no doubt about that for sure, but they haven't made that extra step that they need to take, in order to win the league. Last year they almost won it and missed out, and this year the same, they keep being close to the winner but fail to win it.

Ronaldo can't play for forever, lets assume that he plays next season here as well, and he makes a lot of money to play here so he doesn't really care about much else, but lets assume that he plays, but if he fails again then that would be bad shame on his reputation, so he wants the team to get some great players this summer in order to have a chance to win it. A better manager and a lot more greater players is a must for them to win it next year.

Al-Nassr vs Al-Khaleej (Saudi Arabian King's Cup)

It looks like Al-Nassr will easily qualify for the final in the Saudi Arabian King's Cup. Because currently Al-Nassr is leading 2-0 in the first half. And the match has just entered the 40th minute. Which means that Al-nassr could have scored more goals against Al-khaleej. Cristiano Ronaldo and Mane managed to score 1 goal each. And Mane scored 1 goal from a very calm penalty kick.

If Al-nassr finishes this match with a win, it means Al-nassr will face Al-hilal in the final. Because yesterday Al-hilal managed to beat Al-ittihad with a score of 1-2.

Neymar was purchased for a huge amount by Al Hilal. And they would have been OK in case he couldn't play as a result of injury. But when he got injured, rather than staying with the team he chose to travel to Brazil and refused to do any promotions for Al Hilal. This soured the relation between him and the team. Anyway, Al Hilal are doing just fine. Neymar's absence is not being felt. Neymar himself have stated that 2024 will be his final season for Al Hilal and he will be moving out in 2025.

Originally, when Neymar was brought to Saudi Arabia for a significant sum of money from PSG and Saudi club Al Hilal signed Neymar, we had no doubt that Al Hilal would be one of the best teams in the Saudi Professional League. With Neymar we considered Al Hilal as a strong team but due to injury Neymar was sidelined for the entire season but apart from Neymar all the other players in the team have proved that they are all good enough players and they are all capable of giving this team a good performance against any team. Neymar was out of the field for the entire season. If Neymar had been with the team instead of being out of the field for the entire season, the performance of this team would have been worse. Next season, Neymar may be a regular for Al Hilal, in which case Al Hilal will be an unstoppable team.

Al-Nassr team’s performance has improved greatly since they completed the signing of Ronaldo last season. He’s been a big influence and has helped in the attack of the team as you can see that last season they were able to grab all 3 points and lose out on just 3 games.

 Well this season haven’t been much of a difference for the Arabian team just that they didn’t improve in much way this season, as they keep not being the best when we expect. They are not in the same position as Al-Hilal because of how greatly that team is performing and to be on that level the board need to do serious work on the team.

 ⁠The attack of the team is pretty great as they have been able to score great amount of goals for the team but the problem of the team is in the backline. The board needs to bring a good goal keeper especially to be able to stop shots from coming in. ⁠A team that’s successful has all of it’s positions working pretty well and that’s why it’s a team work not an effort of a  single player. They must not sign a big goal keeper from Europe rather they can scout among the local clubs qnd get a good goal keeper as this will help the pressure not to be under pressure to maintain fame.

Al-Nassr victory in today's game against Al-Khaleej is obvious in my opinion regardless of the players that will start the match. Their rival is a middle table team that is losing more than winning and taking goals more than scoring..
I doubt Al-Khaleej could score more than a goal in this match and I expect Al-Nassr to score at least two goals.

In the previous semifinal match held between Al-Hilal and Al-Ittihad, the final result was expected by most people thought but what's astonishing is the failure of Al-Ittihad to at least get a draw against ten players! Milinkovic-Savic received a red card since the first half when the result was a draw..
Al-Ittihad is out of its form this season, at the opposite of Al-Hilal.

That was his behavior during a match and I forget where, what is clear is that it was very funny.

Talking about Ronaldo, his contract will end in 2025 and it could be said that next season will be his last season wearing the Al-Nassr uniform. I don't know for sure whether Al-Nassr will want to extend his contract or not, but I agree that currently his performance is starting to run out. It cannot be denied, the Ronaldo we know is always dangerous when carrying the ball, but now when he sees him carrying the ball at that moment he can lose the ball at any time. Especially when he tries to dribble and he is no longer as agile as he used to be, marking his skills and the age factor really does exist for a football player.

Perhaps the achievement Ronaldo can be proud of is at the end of last year when he scored more than 50 goals in all competitions, including with the Portuguese national team. But if we talk about next season, I think he's finished and can't do it again. Now it's just a matter of how Al-Nassr defends it and if it's just for marketing purposes, I don't think it will work because the fans will always be waiting for him to play on the field.

I found such a funny meme about Ronaldo, I dare you to check it yourself, you'll have a lot of fun: https://www.tiktok.com/@_lobanov/video/7341327321988680961

Guys what do you think about Ronaldo's contract with Al Nassr? I watched some of Cristiano's games and I am afraid he is not a good player anymore, he frequently falls down and tries to get a penalty, he is not as elastic and agile as he was years ago. I don't want to upset anyone but I think he is a washed player today. I don't think Al Nassr will continue his contract and pay him hundreds of millions because he did his job for marketing and he is not beneficial for the club anymore. Do you guys agree with me?

Yes, Talisca's injury has really affected Al Nasr's attack line. The reason is, when Talisca plays with Al Nasr, the result is that Talisca always scores goals against the opponent.

Apart from that, last season Al Nasr played quite well and only lost 3 times. However, this season, Al Nasr's performance is actually not much different from last season. Because if you look at Al Nasr's winning record this season it is better than last season. Last season Al Nasr was only able to achieve 20 wins from 30 matches. Meanwhile, this season Al Nasr has won 23 times in 29 matches. So it is clear that Al Nasr's performance this season is not much different from last season. However, what is different this season is that Al Nasr has to compete with Al Hilal, who have an unbeaten record. So this season Al Nasr's situation is much more difficult than last season. This is because competition in the Saudi Arabian League has increased drastically this season. Plus, as you said, Al Nasr's defense is still weak. That's why Al Nasr is having a really hard time topping the Saudi Arabian League standings.

And in my personal opinion, currently Al Nasr does not need to bring in a famous defender or goalkeeper. The reason is that currently Al Nasr already has big names in its defense ranks. Like David Ospina, Alex Teles, Laporte and Brozovic. However, as a result, Al Nasr's defense was still not strong enough. So in my opinion, next season Al Nasr does not need to bring in a famous defender or goalkeeper. However, Al Nasr just has to be able to bring in quality defenders and goalkeepers. Because it's useless if you bring in famous players, but the results are less than satisfactory.

Facing a team that only played with 10 people, Ittihad FC was only able to make the score equal but failed to protect their goal from conceding the second goal from Al-Hilal which was quite disappointing because they had a big chance to beat Al-Hilal after the red card and Al-Hilal proved it as the best local team this season by making it to the final of the Saudi King's Cup and this is in accordance with many people's predictions that Al-Hilal will win, not only that, but Al-Hilal will become the King's Cup champions this year to defend their title.
Ittihad's problem is that they rely heavily on Hamdallah to score goals, so this often means they fail to win, especially as their defense has been very disappointing this season.

It's quite easy to predict because the two teams have slightly different qualities, and also in H2H Al-Khaleej only beat Al-Nassr once so we can see which of the two teams is superior and has a chance of getting to the final.

wait a minute, it seems you have misunderstood the SPL purpose in transferring players in large numbers even though I rarely visit this thread but I often read the current rumors.
did you miss the information that the SPL has rumors of stopping large purchases of European players?
SPL has recently been spending large amounts on European players and if this is done in several seasons it will create huge losses if there is no development because expenditure and income are not equal and this is the main reason why these rumors have emerged here.
and it seems you are also wrong in terms of understanding why billionaires invest money in the SPL to buy players and it is not for fun or satisfaction but with the aim of long term investment to make a profit after the SPL gets promotion to a higher competition.
at this point I think you will understand why @Volgastallion said that Ittihad would be better off waiting until Salah contract ends to redeem the player for a not too large amount.

We have qualifying matches of Al Hilal and they've totally thrashed their preeminent rival in all angles and meetings this season. Al Hilal doesn't have any competitor and making the winning so easy for them this season. Al Hilal pattern of game is different from the rest SPL clubs this season. They're after their main objective and it's winning the Saudi Pro League title which they've actually achieved this season, they have more promising results to shoots in for and hoping for them to maintain this incredible form next season.

Do you know who is behind them?
Saudi football is full of rich people or billionaires who invest their money for fun and satisfaction, they will do anything with their money and never mind.
Moreover, Salah is not an easy player to get, he was given an offer to play in the SPL since last season but he rejected it and preferred to stay with Liverpool so getting Salah was not an easy thing.
If we only talk about money then it is clear that Saudi will be able to provide large amounts of money compared to staying with Liverpool but this is not just about money but about how Salah can get the title.
Remaining contract will always be extended and if he waits for the contract to expire, he will not necessarily be willing to accept an offer from the Saudi team, Salah is not the type of player who is easily interested by money or large salaries.

Congratulation for al hilal winning the game against al ittihad. It's predictable since it has been so many times al hilal was always beating al ittihad. Al hilal should play with 10 players after savic got a red card. Al hilal was able scoring the second goal at the late game. This makes al hilal is also going to the final.
It's gonna face the team from other match. Al nassr is gonna face al khaaleej. Im predicting al hilal will be able to beat al khaleej soon. It's obvious caused by al nassr is still having more advantages in term of club quality.
There's no doubt that if al nassr is going to the final against al hilal.

It's a shame that Al Nassr lost the opportunity to win the title because of this defeat, even though Al Nassr didn't suffer any more defeats it stopped Al Nassr's progress in the title race. Because Al Hilal did not provide an opening for Al Nassr to overtake Al Hilal by continuing to achieve victory after victory and Al Hilal's only bad result was a draw, so Al Nassr's title race this season cannot run smoothly because of Al Hilal's impressive performance. Even last season's Saudi Pro League champions Al Ittihad were also unable to maintain their good record like last season and actually experienced a decline and even worse than Al Ahli and Al Taawon which are ranked 3rd and 4th.

So whatever the final result, we have to accept that at least Al Nassr has also fought as hard as they can to achieve success in the Saudi Pro League, but at the moment they are not lucky and have to try again next season, who knows, Al Nassr will win the next Saudi Pro League title.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Sadio Mane and Talischa are players who have contributed greatly to Al Nassr's performance this season, even though they have not been able to give the club a trophy they have fought for, but with their performance it cannot be denied that they are the best players in the Saudi Pro League with goals scored that they created.

I didn't watch the match because I'm on the way after travelling from my village. But when I checked the stats of the match, I'm surprised to see Al Ittihad more dominated the match over Al Hilal. This never happened if Al Hilal played with 11 players, so it is clear that the lost of Milinković-Savić really bring a big impact on the match. But it is surprising that Al Ittihad can't take the advantage from the red card, they still got a lose on the match. I can't believe that Al Hilal could score a goal in minute 81' when they only played with 10 players. This showed us that Al Ittihad level is below Al Hilal. 

Anyway, Mitrovic has returned to the lineup. Al Hilal must play with their full power again in the next match. If they meet Al Nassr in the final round, it will be a great match because Al Hilal will play with their machine goal again.

Ask yourself why these Saudi Arabian team owners don't focus on hiring good coaches too? What's the point of spending a lot of money hiring a lot of good players and not hiring good coaches? probably the answer is: because these owners of these Saudi Arabian teams are only interested in money, when they are hiring good players, they are looking at the marketing side, they have probably already made calculations of when each player will give them profits as well and how much of attention these players will bring to their league and with that they make money.

If these owners of big teams in Saudi Arabia had any real interest in seeing good quality in their league, then they would be very focused on bringing in good coaches, but they know that good coaches are zero marketing benefits that they will gain. To answer your question: it's not like the owners of these clubs are stupid when they want salah now. They know that Salah is popular, so they want Salah's popularity in their league. but I highly doubt that salah will agree to leave liverpool to go and play in saudi arabia while his contract has not yet ended and that he still has a chance of renewing his contract because he is a very important player for liverpool, his behavior in the last Liverpool game was not good