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Al Hilal's defenders really look strong at the back and maintain the defense very strongly so that Al Hilal's defense is difficult for any club to penetrate and so far Al Hilal has been the club that has conceded the fewest goals among other clubs, even Al Nassr itself compared to Al Hilal in terms of defense, but in terms of attack they are not much different and have the same attack line which is just as good but this is not enough to bring the club to victory because the club also needs a strong defense so that its opponents cannot create an advantage if Al Nassr wants to be like Al Hilal, they have to improve their back line and be strong like Al Hilal for next season.

Hopefully the management will recruit several players to fill the back line next season so that Al Nassr's performance can be stronger than this season and next season they will again compete with Al Hilal in the title race. Al Nasst must avenge their defeat this season which was humiliated by Al Hilal. because up to this moment Al Nassr has not been able to beat Al Hilal, therefore Al Nassr must improve their performance so that they are not defeated. It would be very painful if Al Nassr and Ronaldo failed to win the SPL title again.

Maybe this is a first for Al-hilal, namely succeeding in winning the title without experiencing defeat. But I don't know in the past whether they have also done it or not. But in the last 10 seasons in the SPL I have checked and no one has ever done it. But in 2015 there was Al-ahli who managed to finish the season without defeat. But unfortunately Al-ahli experienced a lot of draws so they didn't win the title and only finished in 2nd place at that time. So for now I think Al-hilal is the first to do it and become champion without losing. but not the first to finish the season without defeat. Because Al-ahli did it in 2015. Even though Al-ahli didn't win as champion at that time.

Another unbeaten team in their domestic league after Bayer Leverkusen in Bundesliga. Al Hilal would have not wanted to chase an unbeaten season like this but with noise from Leverkusen, I think they gradually changed their targets when the league title could be assumed belong to Al Hilal many weeks ago.

After creating very big gap against their biggest competitor in the season, Al Nassr, it would be time for Al Hilal to change their ultimate target of this season. Finally, they got it, an unbeaten season and who can check is it a first unbeaten season of Al Hilal in Saudi Professional League?

I knew Al Hilal is a most successful club in Saudi Arabia, won many Saudi Professional League titles (19titles according to Wiki), but an unbeaten season, it's magic and hard to achieve. Maybe this season is a first one like this for Al Hilal.

Al-Hilal is truly extraordinary because they managed to finish this season in the SPL without losing. And this record reminds me of Leverkusen who also did the same thing in the Bundesliga. Even Al-hilal and Al-ittihad have not been able to beat Al-hilal in all competitions this season. Which indicates that Al-hilal is indeed very consistent and very solid beyond both of them.

The match against Al-Wehda was almost a draw. But Al-hilal was still able to finish well and win.
And the fun isn't over yet. Because there is still a final match in the Saudi Arabian King's Cup between Al-nassr vs Al-hilal.

Yesterday the Saudi Professional League games ended, there were 34 rounds, and the champion was Al Hilal with 101 goals scored and only 23 goals conceded. And the most interesting thing is that in the 34 games they did not suffer any defeat. Is a case to say: Al Hilal's coach did a great job. the point difference between first place and second place was 14 points, and a big point difference. knowing that the team that finished in second place is ronaldo's team, this becomes something very sad for ronaldo who not only failed to become champions, but also had to see them stay in second position with a difference of 14 points in relation to second place team. In my opinion, I think that next season Al Nassr's management should make an effort to hire a good coach with a history of great achievements in several major leagues. I can't understand why with so many good coaches without jobs they went to hire that coach from the season that ended

Well, when the season ends comes the sad part for some teams that unfortunately didn't manage to do well, in this case the following teams:



these 3 teams were relegated, does anyone know which 3 teams were promoted next season?

Al Hilal is the one who wins the title and I’m very happy for them but there’s a player that I’m very happy for and he is the greatest player of all time (GOAT), Cristiano Ronaldo, He keeps breaking records any where he goes, in have the highest goals scorer in the league which is Laliga, premier league, Serie A league and Saudi league, he is at age of 39 and he keeps scoring goals like a young player, although he doesn’t turn up in some games like against Al Hilal but I don’t blame him for those games because he can’t do it only him and Al Hilal have a better squad than Al Nassr, and no matter Al Nassr tried to win Al Hilal will not give up.

Saudi pro league is not a small league and I believe that if Al Nassr has good players that can help Ronaldo he will make sure the team wins a trophy, anyone who watches Al Nassr matches will know that Al Nassr's defensive position is not strong, I think the team needs to go to like laliga league, premier league or series A league to get some quality defensive players that are very strong when a team has good defensive players it will be very difficult defeat them.

He is an ambitious man and player and he has scored 759 goals so far in his career. If nothing happens seriously with his body, he will try to play as long as possible to hit 1000 goals. Assuming he can continue to score 40 to 50 goals in one season, it will need him to play 5 to 6 more seasons and this requirement is very challenging for Cristiano Ronaldo.

https://www.transfermarkt.com/cristiano-ronaldo/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/8198

Money is key to convince Ronaldo to join Saudi Arabia and less competitiveness can be another important key. This league helps Ronaldo to achieve both, less competitiveness so that he can prolong his career by avoid injuries and score more goals.

To get 1000 goals, with possible 5 to 6 more seasons, it is still a very challenging target for him. 6 more years, he will be at 45 years old and it's unbelievable that from 39 years old to 45 years old, he can stably score 40 to 50 goals every season.

although soudi professional league isn't all that popular for the majority of people, since Christian Ronaldo joined the club, we've seen a large tune of followers and active platforms that are now streaming there matches and it's always very satisfying to see the GOAT always scoring and pissing lots of threats in almost all there matches. Let's understand that the two goals he scored in this match is just small compaired to his overall attack he showed. Scored two other goals and it was all offside and if at least one of them stood, it would have been an atrick.

Obviously his age is telling on him somehow and he's not as strong as he use to be to running and fighting for the balls with the agile young players so you just see him doing what he knows how to do best and that's always scoring and scoring and then scoring more goals.there can only be one GOAT that continues to break records in all the teams, league and tournament he's ever participated in and it's just amazing to do it once again ever as he's moving closer to the end of his career.

Well, al nassr was intensively attacking al ittihad since the game was started. From what i have seen in that game if al ittihad has terrible defensive lines. Al nassr's attackers were always able leaving from ittihad's defenders. Ittihad needs to overhaul its defensive line in order to keep up with some higher clubs like al nassr and hilal.
So far so good for al nassr after it was able beating ittihad with good statistic at this moment. Things have been going very well for nassr at the end of season.Although it was not winning the trophy this season but it's all good for them.

Al nassr needs also to strengthen its defensive line considering that how it could still concedes two goals. It has proven that how bad al nassr's defensive line at this moment. They need to buy some good defensivers.
The current defenders are not so consistent in defending. Al ittihad was not in a good form but nassr still concedes two goals. It should be cleansheet.

That because before there is Ronaldo, Al Nassr was one of the strong team in the SPL that was able to compete for the title and could make several other strong team feel pressure that made it difficult to beat them.
But look, after Ronaldo arrived, there were several other teams that also started hunting for top European players to strengthen their team and as much as possible match them with the teams that always appear competitive in the SPL.
If there are no other team that also start to bring in top European players then I believe that in two season Al Nassr will also become SPL champions, all will follow and now the SPL has become competition which competitive.

Ronaldo has contract that will not last long with Al Nassr because next season will be the last season Ronaldo will be able to defend Al Nassr, it is possible that Ronaldo and his colleagues can optimize their strengths to win the SPL title.
If there is no extension then we can still see Ronaldo here, but if there is an extension it will probably be done before the start of next season.

There was some tensions between Benzema and his former coach and with his unilaterally withdrawal from training camp abroad, that was extended to the Al-Ittihad staff. That explains itself his absence regardless of being injured or not.

Cristiano Ronaldo chose a league that fit him in terms of performance and budget. We saw how he was desperate with Manchester United and Juventus in the previous years. Since joining Al-Nassr, he found his stability and form.

Al-Nassr's match against Ittihad has now finished and the winner is Al-Nassr with a score of 4-2, but unfortunately Benzema did not play for some reason and the match was exciting because of course Ittihad as champions last season was certainly difficult to and even in the minute 40 no valid goals scored by either team.

but even though in the last match Al-nassr drew against Al Riyadh and Ittihad won against Damac with a score of 4-1, in today's match Al-nassr appeared with a good performance and Cristiano Ronaldo also successfully scored 2 goals against Ittihad 2 goals again, namely Ghareeb and Al-Nemer, yes now Ittihad failed to get 3 points from Al-nassr and Al-nassr successfully finished their last match of the season beautifully, namely a victory against last season's champions (Ittihad) and what I remember is that Ronaldo has now succeeded in becoming top scorer this season.

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Yes, now the SPL matches have finished and today there have been lots of matches, of course, that have been played by the SPL teams and of course the one that is most in the spotlight is Al-nassr.

Al Hilal completed this season without defeat after defeating Al Wehda in matchday 34, thereby breaking their record this season without defeat. Of the 34 matches played, 31 were won, 3 ended in a draw and scored 96 points. Apart from that, Al Hilal conceded the fewest goals throughout the match, but was also very productive in scoring goals with 101. Meanwhile, Al Nassr was only 1 goal behind. This season, apart from the Al Hilal players who are performing very well, the role of coach Jorge Jesus has really contributed to managing his team's squad. in the match against Al Wehda, Al Hilal dominated the match. Apart from that, from a tactical perspective, Al Wehda is far below its opposing team. It's natural, after all, these two teams have gaps based on various aspects.

However, it was actually quite difficult for Al Hilal to win this match. Moreover, when Al Wehda equalized the score at 1-1. but in the 90+ minute, Mitrovic was finally able to score a goal and it was a win for his team. but it's only natural, because Jorge Jesus didn't play with his core players as the main starting line-up. It is possible that Jorge Jesus deliberately rested several of his main players so that their performance would be optimal when competing against Al Nassr in the King's Cup Final. So, it seems there is still something quite exciting about being involved in betting on the meeting of these two Saudi Pro League giant teams. well, let's just wait.

The match has now ended with a pretty good score, namely 4-2. What I really regret about this match is that Benzema didn't play. I don't know why but Benzema is always absent when Al-ittihad will face Al-nassr. But not without reason because currently Benzema is still not recovering from his injury. He has often been injured since he was at Real Madrid and his injuries often recur. And currently it is reported that Benzema is also being assisted by his former club in terms of facilities for healing his injury. because the health facilities at Real Madrid are indeed more complete and better.

Cristiano Ronaldo always sets new records and this season he also set a new record again thanks to the many goals he managed to score throughout this season. Maybe he is almost 40 years old, but this player still has very high enthusiasm and might even beat some of the young players there.

From what i observed in the game Al Nassr were only punished for the chances they missed, they missed a lot of goal scoring chances that could have led to massive win if the goals were scored. Cristiano Ronaldo did everything possible to score but ended up missing the chances he had and got frustrated iin the game, he knew he should’ve scored at least twice in the match but failed, same happened to Mane as well but they were lucky other players came to their rescue.

I wouldn’t say they were lucky to draw i would say they were unlucky not to have won the game because they dominated the game and had more goal scoring opportunities but were unlucky not to have scored them. Despite being a man down the still controlled the game and pushed for the win but unfortunately they had to settle for a loss.

The score is 4-2 currently as the game is about to end, Ronaldo scored 2 goals to break the record of most goals scored in a single season in the Saudi league. Previous record was 34 goals in a single season now Ronaldo equaled the record and went on to set a new record of 35 goals in a season. What an achievement by CR7 he doesn’t seem to be slowing down even at this age.

But being able to equalize when playing with only 10 players feels like a very good thing. Because normally that would be difficult to do. I also hope Al-Nassr wins this match. But they didn't play as well as usual. Too many opportunities were failed to be taken advantage of in this match.

Now Al-nassr is competing against AL-ittihad. And Al-Nassr was ahead by 1 goal scored by Cristiani Ronaldo at the end of the first half.

But didn't Ederson have quite some competition from Stefan Ortega or was that only due to injury time?

Because I saw that Ortega made almost 20 full games, but I can't recall that Ederson was injured so much. He made about double the number of games, so pretty close to 1/3 vs. 2/3 of playing time. I wouldn't be shocked if Guardiola gives Ortega quite some games and that would probably not what Ederson is looking for.

I stopped calling any Saudi Arabia deals impossible because these guys are willing to pay sums of money that can't even be grasped. Imagine they offer Ortega 30 million, he says no, and they say ok we double the money. For how long could a guy like Ederson resist?

See what Mbappe has done and why he stayed at PSG. The reason was that he got this insane salary of 70 million per year or so and that he got lump sums or signing bonuses on top of that. Money can change everything.

But I would be a bit confused why a club from Saudi Arabia would pay so much for a goalkeeper. Not that it is not an important position, but still it would be a bit surprising.

Okay the game is now known. 31st of May will be the final game of the kings cup and I think that is going to be one of the most important ones without a doubt, it is going to end up with everything that we need, and it will definitely benefit everyone. I will bet on Nassr just in case, I know that it is not going to be all that easy, but I think that it is going to be a lot more likely than people think.

Ronaldo will want to finish the league with a cup at least, and while I do know that we are going to end up with something nice, it is not going to be all that easy, we should just assume that it is going to take a while, so we shouldn't really end up with anything that is going to be simple for Hilal to get this win, not like other games.

On paper, Al Nassr is indeed the favorite to secure full points, because based on statistics, Al Nassr has been more consistent this season, apart from that they will act as hosts. Indeed, for Al Nassr, this match will not have any impact on their position in the standings, but they are ambitious to gain confidence capital ahead of the Saudi Arabian King Cup Final against Al Hilal.

Meanwhile, Al Ittihad has experienced very significant ups and downs in performance this season, where they have failed to defend the trophy this season. However, they are ambitious not to lose the opportunity to play in the AFC Champions League Two, where they can only get tickets if they succeed in beating Al Nassr. With this background, this match is not just entertainment for the two teams, because they carry big ambitions in it.

It is possible that this match will be win by Al Ittihad, even though Al Nassr is the favorite. However, Al Ittihad opportunity to play in the AFC Champions League Two is not enough to just beat Al Nassr, where Al Tawoon is the team that decides the ticket. Al Ittihad must pray that Al Tawoon loses in the match against Al Ettifaq, so that this ticket can be achieved.

Just like you, I also think al nassr will be able to win the game because the opponent they face iS not a strong team in the SPL, but in fact al nassr almost lost if they didn't score at the end of the game, the game actually no longer has a big influence on al nassr position in the league, losing a draw or winning no longer has an effect on them because indeed for now they have locked the runner up position this season,  I don't know what Luis Castro had in mind who still fielded their main squad for the match, but fortunately after the match was over not a single Al Nassr player was injured in a match that was no longer important.


Al Nassr still have a match that is indeed quite crucial and gives hope for them to end the season with a trophy, the final match of the King of Saudi Arabia should indeed be the main focus for Luis Castro now rather than having the remaining matches by fielding their main squad, Al Nassr will face the final match against Al Hillal in the final of the King of Saudi Arabia next week,  So Luis Castro should have rested their main players to stay fit and in the best condition to face a difficult match against Al Hillal in the final.