Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 123. (Read 111756 times)

Yes, at his current age, he still looks good and can even compete with younger players, but he is still the best player among the other players at his age, but unfortunately his good performance was not able to bring Al Nassr to win the title in any competition and it is possible that he will only win individual title, even so, he will still be at Al Nassr for next season. Hopefully club can improve its performance even better especially that all the players are able to work together well so it is not only Ronaldo who has contributed the most to the Al Nassr club and has players their quality must be better than Al Hilal next season.

Seeing their performance in the last match Al Hilal still didn't want to lose to Al Nassr even though they were 1 goal behind until the full 90 minutes, but 10 minutes of extra time was able to save them from defeat because Mitrovic's penalty kick resulted in a goal so that Al Nassr and Al Hilal resulted in a draw. Al Nassr is still not able to beat Al Hilal in any competition if Al Nassr wants revenge next season Al Nassr must perform even better than this season and be able to beat Al Hilal I really hope Al Nassr can do it, because I saw Al Nassr's performance when they met Al Hilal is very sad.

I'm not sure if Ronaldo still performed with his best. But he surely still can play with a good performance so far. If he still plays in his best level, I am sure he will score more than 40 goals in SPL. Sure, scoring 33 goals at 39 years old is something impressive, but we can't deny that it is in Saudi league. So just don't compare with other strikers who play in European top leagues.

Yes, AL Nassr still can't win SPL trophy although Ronaldo scored more goals in this season. Al Nassr still has weak defense although they have great attackers. It is not enough to strengthen the attacking line only if Al Nassr wants to be more competitive. They must focus to build their defense, they must plan to buy top defenders. I really hope Al Nassr buy some good defenders from top European leagues in the next transfer windows. They need 3-4 defenders and 1-2 new midfielders.

Spending much money is no problem if it really builds a team to be stronger. But if it doesn't bring significant impact to the team, it is just wasting money. Al Nassr must be more selective to choose the next coach. They also don't focus on building the attacking only. They need to focus on building defense and midfield. Having many superstar players won't be a good idea if those won't cover the weakness of the whole squad.

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Anyway, if we look at the market value of the club, Al Nassr is still in the 3rd place.



Source: transfermarkt.com

Spending too much money is what the Saudis usually do at the end of the season to have better players and coaches for the next season and that is what Al Nassr is going to do for the next season but still, I think spending money fort the superstar players will not work every time and something the teamwork is more important.
For example, during this situation, Al Nassr had much better players and they had a good team but still, they couldn't have a better performance than Al Hilal because Al Hilal had much better teamwork than Al Nassr thanks to their coach.

Both players had a wonderful season. Mitrovic was lucky to be in the best team and if he didn’t score as many goals I would have said he is not a good striker but he pushed Ronaldo to the extreme at first and it was almost as if he would overtake Ronaldo but Ronaldo was experienced enough to keep going. I never expected Ronaldo to score 33 league goals at this age, some would say the league is a farmers league but I would disagree, Saudi league is now even more competitive than some leagues in Europe and with the quality of players they are signing they have now el

He just keep proving people wrong, after he was criticized at Manchester United he have now gone to win the highest goal scorer award in Saudi. He might not have the strength to dribble like his old days but he is quite capable of scoring goals and he doesn’t seem to be slowing down at the moment despite being this old.

Can anyone ever do what Ronaldo is doing at this age? I doubt it, being able to play actively and still out score young players is not something anyone can do at this age.

Defending champions Al Ittihad which is having worst season due to poor run and many off the field issues having no chance of ending their season into top four spots because they are having nothing improvement with last four games without win is clearly indicating how the worst things are going for them in this season, and they are having four points difference from the Al Taawon which is currently at the fourth spot with they can stay at this spot with having nothing Al ittihad is going to have last game against Al Nassr which will give them another setback and staying outside the top four but in coming season we can expect something improvement as now they are having few quality players into their radar which will give them better results and have a chance again for the top spots.

The schedule that I got for the King of Saudi Arabia cup Final match is June 1, 2024. You can see it in the picture I attached below.

(Sourch: https://www.flashscore.co.id/sepak-bola/arab-saudi/piala-raja-para-juara/jadwal-pertandingan/)

Al-Nassr will really prioritize winning this match. Because in the SPL there is no longer any hope left for Al-nassr this season. So the only hope for Al-nassr to be superior to Al-hilal is to win in the Saudi Arabian King's Cup Final. and actually Al-nassr also looks better now. Even in the last meeting against Al-hilal, we saw that Al-nassr managed to score first against Al-hilal. So Al-Nassr's hopes of winning the Saudi Arabian King's Cup final seem quite good. But Al-Hilal is still the most difficult team to face this season. In fact, they have never lost in the SPL.

Al Nassr is doing good but sadly their defense is not competitive to give them strength which needs to be fixed in coming season with things could be more interesting because now we are having Al Hilal at the new level of highs, and they will try to keep things at this level, but Al Nassr will be surely tried to give them challenging competition with Al Ahli is also able to have good success with their strong squad and quality with this all we are going to have few changes with Al Ittihad and Al Nassr surely will work.

Cristiano Ronald and Sadio Mané holding things in front but at the back side things are not good which are needed to be fixed for having better results in coming season and having some more challenging performance for the title.

Even though Al Nassr failed to compete in the SPL championship this season, of course they should be proud to have Ronaldo in their squad, even though Ronaldo can be said to be no longer at a young age, but he is still able to show his capacity as a striker who is hungry for goals wherever he plays, bringing Ronaldo into the squad certainly guarantees that Al Nassr can have a striker who is able to score lots of goals and of course be the difference in a match , but this of course does not guarantee that Al Nassr can win the SPL if their team has many weaknesses especially in their defense like this season, next season Ronaldo contract will end, although it is reported that Ronaldo will soon extend his contract with Al Nassr, but it is important for Al Nassr to have clarity on their targets and projects for next season in order to attract Ronaldo interest in staying at Al Nassr.

 I think players like Ronaldo, who will not be satisfied with just an individual title, of course have the motivation and desire to end the season by bringing their team as champions and if Al Nassr does not have the desire to improve the performance of their squad next season, and they will be motivated to win the title,of course, it doesn't rule out the possibility that Ronaldo will leave for another team that has a better winning mentality than Al Nassr.

Saudi Pro League is not complicated with things are now having good change, and they are wide opening which is good change for them in this season we are having good performance from the few top ranked players which were doing their best in UEFA now having chance to show their best here and bring some good number of fans here in grounds for the entertainment.

Al Hilal having well organized squad which helps them for having better results but no one expecting performance like this from them with having world record and winning many titles are dream end for them Al Nassr is competitive but not able to give their best in early games which hurt their cause for the title, and now they need to improve their quality for the next season which will give them better results and chance of having trophies.

Ronaldo is still performing at his best. Who would say that this player will score 33 goals at this age? He is a player who still does not compromise on his quality at this age. Moreover, his team could not become the champion in the league, but Ronaldo received the golden shoe again. Great times for Ronaldo. He is one of the four best players in the history of football and never before has a player scored so many goals at this age.

In terms of performances, Al Nassr did put out a very impressive performance this season but despite their incredible results, they weren't able to stop Al Hilal from dominating the Saudi Pro League and that's why I agree to the opinion that they'll surely be very active in the transfer market in their bid to get players that'll help them remain competitive in the Saudi league and other competitions come next season. They already have a world class striker in Cristiano Ronaldo who is scoring goals for fun despite his old age and I'm certain he's going to continue his prolific form in front of goal come next season so the club management will likely get players that'll help the team in the perceived weak positions at the club so they can be able to match any club they meet next season including Al Hilal

We still don't know the exact day when the Kings Cup finals will be played but I assume that they will care about that game a lot more. They know that is the only game they can win to mean something and finish the season with a cup, if they lose then they will not have any cups at all.

So, I assume that they are going to try their very best to make it work one way or another, I am not expecting them to have anything other than that. I know that we are not going to have anything marginal in that regard, we are going to see both teams be very well and play quite close to each other in level. I think Al Nassr knows that winning that cup means a lot more to them, and they will try their best to make it work one way or another.

I think this Summer will be seeing Al-Nassr doing some great signings especially as they would want to be chasing the league title. This will be the club’s min target next season as they have in mind that Ronaldo’s performance could decline a little next season. So they will want to get the best from him by at lest winning the league which will be him conquering all clubs he’s played for.

 He’s so crucial and have much to offer to the club, so I think the club having this in mind will do all to at least win the trophy. Age isn’t on his side anymore though he has good fitness and he has a very great lassion for football so there are speculations he could still be available next season. I think majorly what the club needs is to empower their defense and rebuild on it while doing great adjustments to the midfield, I think this wil be pretty enough to make them be able to contest for the league title.

Well I think the club has the finance so they will be able to fight for some great signings. I as a fan of Ronaldo will love to see him lift the league which will be a great addition for him and a great feat attained. He has a lot to offer and I think this should be the club’s driving factor to making some signings to help the club attain victory.

This week Al Ittihad is scheduled to face Damac in the SPL. I hope Al Ittihad is able to win this match, because in the last 5 matches Al Ittihad has not been able to win a single match. So if, for example, in this match Al Ittihad loses to Damac, of course that will be Al Ittihad's worst record this season. This season Al Ittihad's condition is indeed worrying, because many of its main players suffered injuries at the end of this season. What I know is that if I'm not mistaken, 14 Al Ittihad players are injured, and the majority of injured players are main players such as Benzema, Fabinho. Maybe that's why Al Ittihad's performance at the end of this season is getting worse.

However, in this match, even though Al Ittihad only played with minimal players, they should still be able to produce very good results (victory). Because if you look at the head to head record between Al Ittihad and Damac, the result is that Al Ittihad is superior with 2 wins, 2 draws and only experienced 1 defeat.

It's only for al hilal who would be getting beneficial from the draw against al nassr. Al hilal can still keep its unbeatable record until the end of season. Al nassr gets no beneficial caused by it was trying to break al hilal's invicible running this season but it's failed.

It's a shame for al nassr never able to beat al hilal this season. It likes all of efforts being made by bringing so many world class players like ronaldo and many were not paying off. I meant the club was always performing so poorly even though ronaldo was able becoming the top scorer but this is only applicable to him.

His club is still trophyless at this moment. Given that if al nassr must be overhauling its club once again in order to compete with al hilal. The competition is just getting even harder for the clubs.

Al hilal has perfect run this season. It may also continue for the upcoming season too. im hoping that hilal to have same run like this time. That's amazing if al hilal can be invicible in saudi pro league for two times in a row.

Yes, maybe that could happen because Al Nassr needs defenders to keep their defense stronger next season, for the attack line I don't think there will be any changes because currently Al Nassr has a very good front line and is almost the same as Al Hilal in terms of productivity their goals are even currently one of the Al Nassr players is the top scorer in the Saudi League so there is no doubt that Al Nassr's front line is part of it and they only need to spend money to recruit the players the coach needs, we don't know when Ronaldo's retirement will be for the season. In the future, Ronaldo will be 40 years old and that is the right age to retire, but if his performance is still good, why retire? he can further enrich himself before enjoying his hard work in old age.

I am sure that if Al Nassr has made changes next season they will compete fiercely in the hunt for the Saudi League title. Al Hilal will play competitively like this season but Al Nassr will take revenge this season which has been beaten many times by Al Hilal, to be honest I want to see Ronaldo won the title for the last time and he could only decide to retire with a feeling of pride.

Lack of motivation might be present since Al-Nassr know very well that the result will not change big things. Besides, Al-Hilal doesn't have anything to add even before that game.. So don't expect much from these teams. Nevertheless a draw between them is beneficial for both.

If you take a look and check the performance of Al-Nassr and compare it with the last game they had with Al Hilal, you can maybe understand Al-Nassr had some improvements and they are not playing like a few months ago however this team has many players during the summer they had to have some improvements time after time but it seems that's too late for Al-Nassr to have better performance.
However, I think Al Hilal didn't put enough energy into that game otherwise they could win this easily.

Al Nassr management must evaluate their squad. It is impossible if they will keep playing like this season. Al Nassr has the money to buy new players, they must try to strengthen their squad. If we look at the stats, Al Nassr already have strong attackers but they have no strong midfielders and defenders. In the next transfer windows, no doubt Al Nassr must try to sign few players to improve the quality of their defense and midfield line. Sure, it will be always not easy to compete for the title although Al Nassr has improved their squad. But the chance should be higher if Al Nassr improves their weakness.

Besides the quality of the coach, the ages of star players in the team can have a big influence. If we look at the squad quality, Al Hilal actually has better players if we consider the ages. Al Hilal star players are in their prime ages (all of them are below 30 years old), but Al Nassr star players look quite old. This can be one of the reasons why it looks quite difficult for Al Nassr to compete with Al Hilal. The physical of younger players must be stronger than older players.

Just take a look the average ages of Al Hilal star players: Rúben Neves (27), Milinković-Savić (29), Michael (28), Malcom (27), and Mitrovic (29). Meanwhile AL Nassr star players: Ronaldo (39), Mane (32), Talisca (30), Telles (31), Laporte (29), and Ospina (35).

Besides hiring a better coach, I expect Al Nassr will sign younger European players in the next transfer windows.

References:
1. https://www.transfermarkt.com/al-hilal-riad/startseite/verein/1114
2. https://www.transfermarkt.co.id/al-nasr-riad/startseite/verein/18544

Sometimes teams can have bad days, even if they are good, I remember a game when one of the teams shot 32 times, 11 on goal, and scored none, and the other team had one shot, one goal and won the game. This isn't really that unlikely and happened quite commonly in the world of football.

People are trying to blame Ronaldo for missing a few shots last game, and that's right he did and they were all quite easy goal chances for him that he always scores normally but that day he couldn't, he was unlucky, looking at the top goalscorer numbers, dude is still tearing up the league. I feel like their attack line do not need any help at all, they are great there, next season should be all about defense, this summer they need to get as good of defenders as they can.