Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 17. (Read 122864 times)

I don't think Al Nassr will compete for the Saudi Pro League trophy this season. You have said that their performance is not good enough to compete with Al Hilal and Ittihad.
Maybe the situation of the last few seasons will only repeat itself where Al Nassr will only occupy the top 2 or top 3 of the standings. Their situation is not easy to catch up on the points difference with the teams above them if you look at the performance of those teams. Al Nassr must plan and play better next season.

Overall you are right, he is still quite happy because he can still play until now, but of course that happiness will be perfect when he can help his current club win the title. But the problem is that as a team they still can't do that, because there are still clubs that can play better than them. I don't rule out their chances of becoming champions this season, it can still happen, but when I see their game which still has many weaknesses I doubt they will be able to win the title this season. Unless they can improve their game even better and at the same time the other clubs that are now above them get negative results.

Al Qadisiyah and Al Khaleej are currently having very good performance, namely by consistently proving that they are able to win the last few matches very well. Apart from that, what makes this team even more extraordinary is that it was able to beat the great teams in the Saudi Arabian League. So with this note I am also a little confused about which team to choose this time. Because if you look at the ranking of these teams in the Saudi Arabian League standings, they are not much different. The reason is that currently Al Qadisiyah is in 5th place and Al Khaleej is in 6th place in the Saudi Arabian League. So this gives us a fairly clear picture, that the performance of these two teams can be said to be almost equal. But even so, in this match I will just bet on Al Qadisiyah. Because I see from the squad that Al Qadisiyah currently has, which can be said to be better than Al Khalej. Because we can see that there are several top European players owned by Al Qadisiyah. Therefore, I personally will just bet on Al Qadisiyah.

Ronaldo could still be very happy, sometimes winning a title isn't everything you need in life, he already won enough and he might be feeling like he doesn't need more. I mean it would be lovely to win more of course, otherwise why is he even playing, I am not saying he doesn't "want to", of course he wants to, who wouldn't want to win the title, I am just saying when he loses, it must hurt a bit less.

Like for example when he was with Real Madrid, and when they lost the title to Barcelona, that must have hurt a lot more than when they lose to Al Hilal now, not the same thing. He is now 40 years old and that's why I feel like the best thing to do would be just making sure that we are dealing with someone who is old enough to not care.

Ronaldo has been seen struggling alone to be able to bring Al Nassr to the title, although it is undeniable that he plays with many star players in his squad but the performance and mentality they show is not like Ronaldo who has a very high fighting power, that's why they have been struggling to win when playing in crucial matches so far.


Speaking of the possibility of him returning to Europe I don't think it has a strong reason at all at the moment, indeed Ronaldo still has the ability and experience to contribute in the leagues that are in Europe, but I think club clubs like Madrid or Manchester United will no longer consider signing him, because they are currently more inclined to sign talented young players who can be an asset in the future, in addition, I think,  Ronaldo is currently only trying to maintain his chances of playing in the World Cup 2026 before he retires later.

The problem why Ronaldo haven't lift a trophy because he played with mediocre teammates.

This is hard for him to carrying his team alone, it's better for Ronaldo to play in top leagues where the teammates are in top tier like him. He can back to Real Madrid because Real Madrid currently lack of players and Mbappe not able to perform.

Another choice is Manchester United.

You should know that Al Ittihad Club is one of the top local clubs in Saudi League. Al Ittihad has been consistently dominating the opposition this season in the Saudi Pro League, winning most of their matches, They even topped the points table among all the teams in the Saudi Premier League. Al Ittihad team has world class best footballers in Karim Benzema and Kante which makes this team known as one of the strongest team. Al Ettifaq on the other hand, does not have any world-class footballers due to which they lose more matches than they win.

In tomorrow's match between Al Ittihad and Al Ittefaq Al Al Ittihad has more chances to win. Al Ittihad has won most of the matches these two teams have played against each other so far.

Based on the odds Al-Qadsiah is indeed very favored, but there needs to be consideration based on their last match, i see that Al-Khaleej is still superior based on 5 head to head matches against Al Qadsiah. I think there are so many considerations to choose which tem will win in this upcoming match, because if we look based on the last 5 matches of each team between each other still looks balanced, namely Al-khaleej got 4 wins and one defeat, while Al-Qadsiah got 5 wins.

So i think that there will be an interesting match here, and i think there will most likely be a draw for this match.

Cristiano Ronaldo, even though he is almost 40 years old, I am amazed at the stamina he has at that age. Because usually players at that age are rarely able to play fully. But Cristiano Ronaldo is always able to do it. In fact, he always looks the most enthusiastic from start to finish. I rarely see Cristiano Ronaldo limp when his team almost loses. But he always fought with enthusiasm until the end. That is the greater value of Cristiano Ronaldo.
If I have to be honest, in fact, even in the Portuguese national team, I still don't see anyone who can replace Cristiano Ronaldo. Let's just look at Portugal's game when Cristiano Ronaldo was absent. Are the results good? I don't think it's that good. With the presence of Cristiano Ronaldo in the Portugal national team, I see all the players united and working together well. But when Cristiano Ronaldo is absent there is a little competition between the players which actually makes cooperation decrease a little. And actually, in terms of individual quality, there are many quality players in the Portuguese national team, but very few are able to unite a team like Cristiano Ronaldo

And something similar happened in Al-Nassr. When Cristiano Ronaldo is absent, we can see for ourselves and judge for ourselves what happens. And I'm sure everyone realizes the difference..

Even Cristiano does not know how long he will be able to play, so no clubs are ready to give him a long term contract. It can be like 2-year contract but not longer than that. At his age, most of players retire and if any player can play, they can not have very good performances like Cristiano, from total minutes he can play in a match and how he is able to run, score goals, make assists.

Saudi Professional League has lower quality than big leagues in Europe but goals, assists he scored there, surely mean something, and not like valueless contributions. His quality is clearly shown in his matches for Portuguese national team and it proves that he did not get goals and assists in Saudi Professional League like airdrops without his efforts and quality contributions.

With his current age, a long-term contract is no longer possible, I assume he can probably stay for another season. The latest news is that he is being sought after by Al Hilal, but the news seems to have quickly disappeared because I myself have not found a news source that can be very reliable for the rumor. He must be ambitious to be able to win a title in the Saudi Pro League, because that would complete his journey during his career at club level. But whether he will succeed or not, we don't know what the results will be like. Other than that, it seems he will stay until the next World Cup, and it is possible that he will decide to retire before the World Cup takes place although there is no news about that yet.

You are right, he is indeed great and is able to win individual titles but has not yet felt the experience of lifting SPL trophy, but the competition here is different from the era in Ronaldo youth when he was of from England, Spain and Italy.
If Ronaldo can have longer contract with Al Nassr maybe he can win title someday.

Let see how Ronaldo plays in all future match, after all he often contributes 2 goal and creates hat-trick and of course that will make it easier to collect more goal this season if he continues to perform optimally without any problems related to injuries.
It is natural that some observers or football critics have doubts about him, but I believe in Ronaldo abilities.

There will be an interesting match today, namely Al Qadsiah vs Al Khaleej, both teams have just defeated the strongest clubs in the Saudi league last weekend, namely Al Nassr and Al Hilal and in this meeting it is quite difficult to determine who will win, Al Qadsiah is more favored by bookies in this match but we don't forget how Al Khaleej beat defending champions Al Hilal and he is the only SPL club that can break Al Hilal's defeat for the first time since last season so this might be a fierce match between the two sides.
Here are the odds for their match:

Absolutely right. Al-Ittihad Club is top club of this tournament and players of that team are playing excellent in all matches because they are giving all effort to win any match against any team and they lie on the top of table. Al-Ittihad Club played 11 matches and and has 30 points  on the table and Al-Ettifaq   football team has only 12 points on the table and that team has -6 GD which is not good for that team and which shows that team is not performing well. Al-Ettifaq  team position is at 12 rank . That match will be one sided match and Al-Ittihad Club will win this match without any hurdle but Al-Ettifaq  team should try their best to win this match.If we will go to the stats then Al-Ittihad Club  is also favorite and in last 5 matches Al-Ittihad Club won 2 matches and Al-Ettifaq  won 1 match and 2 matches were draw.

Yes, you're right. Ronaldo has scored 7 goals. I may need to evaluate my statement, Ronaldo looks possible to compete for the top scorer. I'm sorry, Yesterday I wasn't checking the updated scores of SPL.  

If we consider the number of goals made by few players in Saudi league teams, we can say Saudi league becomes more competitive now. We have Mitrovic, Benzema, Ronaldo, and Abdulla Al Salem in the race of the top scorer. Everything is still possible because there are still many matches left. It is actually still quite difficult to know who will be the top scorer is.

First of all, thank you for correcting my mistake on the remaining number of matches and then I also fully support your opinion about the support that Ronaldo should get.
As I said last season, Al Nassr will not be able to fully bring Al Nassr to the top of the standings even though he is a star player with a lot of scores, but the contribution of other players is very much needed to support Ronaldo to reach the top of the standings with his teammates.
And now Ronaldo needs a player who can support him continuously or more precisely a perfect partner when together on the field.

Benzema is performing much better than last season and maybe during the last season, Benzema was not in good form because he needed to have some time to get in a better form and adapt. Benzema was a good player when he was playing in Real Madrid but since he joined the Saudi league he has not been in good form.
Now he is adopted and he is one the top scorers in the Saudi League. I think Benzema can even have a better performance during this season time after time with Al Ittihad.

Ok I am not aware of the current speculations about his next step. I don't think Türkiye is among his possible goals. There would be no club that he could be interested in and no club that has the slightest chance to achieve something in the Champions League. I think if he comes back he would agree to play for a sold Champions League participant or maybe there will be some fully unexpected transfer that nobody had on their radar.

But I doubt all of this. You said he is a rational person. Yes he is because every rational person (unless morals mean more to someone) would have accepted a deal like the one he was offered to play in Saudi Arabia. If they add another year with the same financial conditions, he will go for it and not return to Europe.

Yes he could be completing his 1000 goal challenge in Saudi Arabia and that is all good. He has been a goal machine ever since.

But to be honest, I have a little doubt that Ronaldo can score as many goals as the previous season in the SPL and become the top scorer again. Because up to week 11, Ronaldo has only been able to score 7 goals. Apart from that, the Al Hilal player, Mitrovic, has been able to score 12 goals up to week 11. So with this, it is clear that Mitrovic is far superior to Ronaldo. That's why I personally have a little doubt that this season Ronaldo will succeed again in becoming the top scorer in the Saudi Arabian league. Because his goal productivity has decreased slightly this season. But even so, this season is still long, so Ronaldo could be able to catch up with the goals scored by Mitrovic.

And talking about Al Nasr, you are right friend, this season it seems like Al Nasr is having more difficulty becoming champions in the SPL than in the previous season. Because the problem is that this season Al Nasr is not only competing with Al Hilal, but this season Al Nasr also has to compete with Al Ittihad, whose performance is currently improving. So with this, it is natural to say that this season Al Nasr will have more difficulty becoming champions in the SPL.

The competition in the European League is tighter than the Saudi League but Ronaldo could not conquer the Saudi League after almost 3 seasons, even though Al Nassr is also an elite club in the SPL and also has good players in it, only they are less able to utilize their performance seriously and lost to Al Hilal where they were not strengthened by star player Neymar, but this club looks very strong, if Al Nassr players can contribute to each other like Al Hilal, this club can definitely achieve success.