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.
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.
Yes, this season, Al Ittihad will most likely not be able to rise again to 4th place. The reason is that currently Al Ittihad has a 4 point difference with Al Taawon who is in 4th place in the Saudi Arabian League. Even though the difference is not too big, if for example Al Taawon can win this week's match against Al Feiha, then Al Ittihad will no longer be able to catch Al Taawon in terms of points. Although in the remainder of this season Al Ittihad was able to wipe out all matches with a win. Apart from that, I don't think Al Ittihad will be able to wipe out all the remaining matches with a win. The reason is that in Al Ittihad's last match this season they will face Al Nasr which will most likely make it difficult for Al Ittihad to win the match.
So, if for example this prediction is correct, then Al Ittihad will certainly only finish in 5th place in the Saudi Arabian League. Apart from that, initially I personally thought that Al Ittihad would not experience a setback like now, because in the transfer market last season, Al Ittihad was able to bring in quite good players, such as Benzema. Then last season, Al Ittihad was able to become champions of the Saudi Arabian League. However, it turns out that Al Ittihad is much worse than last season. In essence, what I see is that the players and coaches at Al Ittihad don't have good chemistry. Because of the big example, we already know that Benzema always has problems with the Al Ittihad coach. And this is clear evidence that the chemistry between Al Ittihad players and their coach is not good. So for that reason, I am not surprised that Al Ittihad's performance is poor this season.
And maybe it's true, next season Al Ittihad must be able to fix all these problems, because if it continues like this, Al Ittihad will definitely continue to be left behind by its rival teams, Al Nasr and Al Hilal.