Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 15. (Read 118639 times)

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?

The last match was between Al-Ettifaq & Al-Qadisiyah where Al-Qadisiyah have been trying to develop themselves as well as they defeated their opponent team Al-Ettifaq with 2-0 score. They won five matches out of nine and standing at 5th position in the qualifying table with 16 points. Apart from that, 11th position goes to Al-Ettifaq with 11 points by winning three matches out of nine and their performance continuesly getting worse as they didn't even win a single from last 5 matches they played. Although they had record to defeat Al-Qadisiyah earlier in Saudi Pro League but this time Al-Qadisiyah team was more focused on their strategy as well the performance during the match, which contributed to their success. After taking the control, Gaston Alvarez able to scored first goal at 12th minutes behalf of his team Al-Qadisiyah. After that, Al-Ettifaq took several attempt but they failed to score any single goal. And another goal scored by Julian Quinones in extra minutes of 1st half, Al-Qadisiyah made Al-Ettifaq totally silence and thus 1st half end. After the start of 2nd half, both team gave their effort as well. Al Qadsiah keep going ahead with 56% dominance and their opponent keep trying a single goal as well as did many Fouls and opponent did same thing. That's why no single goal was scored from any side, the score remain same as it was in 1st half and Al Qadsiah won.

They didn't win the match and had reasons for disappointment about themselves by leading till 77th minute. They are not too far from a first winning against Al-Hilal after several direct matches between two clubs. This performance and a draw are still better than previous results with loss and big loss for Al Nassr. This good performance gives Al Nassr more confidence that they're improving and will be able to beat Al Hilal next times.

In this match I noticed one more thing, Cristiano Ronaldo made some free kick with passes for his teammates and no longer always stay in 16m5 box for head-finish chances. I guess Cristiano Ronaldo started to admit a fact that his body no longer gives him enough powerful jumps to beat defenders and he agree to take another role in his team.

They are actually improving their performance in this match but in a long season, they have to maintain it and increase performances more to collect more points from other clubs. In this season, Al Nassr will have to compete not only with Al Hilal but also Al Ittihad.

In that match, Al-Nassr did not succeed in beating Al-Hilal. But Al-nassr managed to become the first team to stop the winning streak that Al-hilal had continued to achieve since the start of the season. And it was the first draw for Al-hilal this season. Which indicates that Al-nassr's strength is at least at the same level this time as Al-hilal. So yeah, this isn't too bad and I think it's normal for many to say this draw is a pretty good result.

In this match, Al-Nassr's defense seemed to have really improved. So Al-hilal also had difficulty scoring goals. The current Al-Nassr goalkeeper, Bento, is quite reliable. He made a lot of saves and that really helped Al-Nassr not concede many goals.

Al Nassr still can't beat Al Hilal in their many meetings but this draw can't be said as a bad result at least Al Nassr can get 1 point in this match, I don't know if this is luck for Al Nassr because Talischa scored a quick goal early in the match and that was the only goal they scored and I think it was quite surprising for Al Hilal who were probably not ready to receive the goal and Al Hilal immediately replied to the goal but this time Al Nassr really guarded the defense line well and Al Hilal was able to equalize after the match had been going on for quite a long time, precisely in the 77th minute, this was progress for Al Nassr even though he didn't win, at least he was able to draw.

Yesterday's 3 matches gave results like this,

Al Taawoun vs Al Khlood (BTTS No) Loss
Al Ettifaq vs Al Qadisiyah (Al Qadisiyah win) win
Al Fateh vs Al Fayha (BTTS) win

From 3 matches only think about 2 matches between Al Taawoun and Al Ettifaq performance.
Al Taawoun should have been able to get a win without conceding because playing at home should have a more confident performance but in fact it only ended in a draw.
And Ettifaq who should have been able to provide a stronger defense at home but also failed to score anything against a team that just entered the SPL this season.

Source: https://www.cnnindonesia.com/olahraga/20241102031628-142-1162217/hasil-liga-arab-saudi-al-nassr-vs-al-hilal-imbang-1-1/amp

We watched the match between Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal and the result was that both teams had to be able to accept the reality because the result of the match ended in a draw and I see that now Al-Nassr is making progress even though they didn't beat Al-Hilal but of course they can draw against Al -hilal is of course good progress because so far Al-nassr has always lost to Al-hilal.

Talisca was the hero in that match and he scored a goal after 1 minute had passed and of course Talisca's performance has really improved and of course this is very good for Al-Nassr. but unfortunately Cristiano Ronaldo didn't score a goal, but of course even though he didn't score, I saw him playing well and he was also very instrumental in making Al-Nassr's attack a little troublesome for Al-Hilal.

Pioli has been very good so far and now Al-Nassr seems to be making progress under his tutelage and I am sure that Al-Nassr will have great potential, there will continue to be progress and of course there is still great hope for Al-Nassr to become champions this season. indeed, if you look at the difference in points, of course Al-nassr with Ittihad and Al-hilal is quite far and of course it will not be easy for Pioli's troops to shift their position, but I am sure that Al-nassr under Pioli has the potential to be able to shift the position of Al-hilal and Ittihad in end of season. provided that Al-nassr must continue to consistently win in every match from now on. What do you all think Al-Nassr can do to shift the position of Ittihad and Al-Hilal at the end of this season?

Al Ittihad without doubt will be very happy with the result of the Al Hilal vs Al Nassr game because it favored them the most as they closed the gap between them and league leaders Al Hilal to just one point. But considering the strength of Al Hilal, I think they can still establish  more points difference in few from now. Al Hilal is undoubtedly the favorites to win the league again this season but I don't think it's a guarantee for them so if Al Ittihad and Al Nassr thinks they have all it takes to fight for the league title this season, then they should do it with all confidence.

Not to belittle Al Nassr, but they were fortunate enough to avoid defeat. Despite the match that required the referee to issue 9 yellow cards for both teams, Al Nassr and Al Hilal still maintain their current unbeaten record. However, both are 6 points apart, which I think is still realistic to catch up in the future. It is true, the draw has indirectly benefited Al Ittihad. It seems that this season Al Hilal will get serious competition. Meanwhile, tactically Al Nassr has improved since the appointment of Stefano Pioli as manager. Ronaldo is too old to be relied on in every match, and today even though he played the full game he was unlucky to score.

The draw was the perfect results that Al Nassr could've gotten as anything that wasn't a draw would had been a loss and that would had been more sad. Al Nassr has always tried to play well against Al Hilal but they can't win them and I don't know why. Al Nassr almost lost the game as Al Hilal got a penalty at the last minute of the game but it was cancelled by VRA. Al hilal didn't play that serious in this game because when Al Hilal play Al Nassr, they always play them well and win them. Ronaldo couldn't do anything in this game and that's sad as I know, he would have wanted to score. Talisca got the goal in the first minute of the game but Al Nassr couldn't score more goals.

Sad thing for Al Nassr, this draw works for Al Ittihad more than it helps Al Nassr, or Al Hilal for that matter. This is what they are having problem with right now, the gap is too much and Al Hilal will not end up under Al Nassr in any situation possible. While they must be happy to get a draw finally and not lose, we are seeing a dominant difference in standings between two teams.

Al Ittihad on the other hand is playing differently, they are finally showing what they can do and they are just one point behind Al Hilal, which means a single game difference. If Al Hilal somehow ever loses a game, then Ittihad will be leading the league. In either case, we will see either Ittihad or Hilal win the league and Nassr will just end up being the third.

My prediction is that Al Hilal will continue to dominate the victory over Al Nassr, but after Talisca scored a quick goal and Al Hilal did not reply in the first half, my guess is that Al Nassr will finally be able to defeat Al Hilal. Unfortunately, Al Hilal was able to equalize in the 77th minute, Sergej Savic saved his team from defeat. As for the two strikers of this team, both Ronaldo and Mitrovic did not score in this match and even these two players did not play optimally. From the possession of the ball, it did not seem that one team dominated the course of the match, as well as the opportunities that both teams had. For the first time this season, Al Hilal was held to a draw, and even almost lost. Even so, they remain at the top of the standings, just one point away from Al Ittihad. In the Al Nassr camp, at least this result did not disappoint them too much rather than losing full points. However, it seems that Pioli needs time for his team to develop much more than before. Moreover, Pioli has homework to formulate a way to defeat Al Hilal in the away match later. Well, so far Al Hilal remains solid in its position.

Previously we could see how Al Hillal dominance over Al Nassr was huge, so in fact the draw they got in this match so far was a positive step for Al Nassr, in the past few seasons they have struggled get draw result especialy beat Al Hillal in the SPL and I think Pioli is starting to manage to change Al Nassr mentality this season, despite the draw againts Al hillal, but Pioli has shown that he can make a lot of changes to Al Nassr game at the moment, although logically it may be difficult to stop Al Hillal chances of winning this season, but in my opinion with better support in the transfer market later then Pioli is likely to be able to lead Al Nassr to the championship in his second season in coach later.