Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 179. (Read 111886 times)

And that is why I would always advise that older players should not play full matches or be overused in virtually all games in the future. It doesn’t benefit the club or the manager to use older players in full matches. Instead, senior players should be reserved for matches that are particularly challenging for the team and be brought on when the team needs their support. Their appearances should focus more on providing support and building confidence for the team rather than being constantly utilized in every competition or match the club participates in. Overusing them will only wear them out, and when they become fatigued, they won’t be able to produce the maximum results needed for the team or club to progress. Players like Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo, who are in the SPL, need to be managed wisely by their clubs otherwise, it will hinder their performance optimization.

All the players are not the same.
Benzema is a talented player and we saw that when he was playing for Real Madrid and during the time when he had good performances for his national team. But we should accept Benzema is getting old and he can't have a good performance like he had before. In fact, that's the reason for him to join the Saudi League, Otherwise, he could keep shining in Real Madrid for a year and Real Madrid would not let him leave easily.
Like other players when they got older, Benzema decided to join the Saudi League and earn money there, I think there was not any other goal for this player.
If you want to make sure you can see his performance in Al Ittihad sicne he joined this team and you can understand he was not performing as they were expected to see from him.

It should not be surprising that some of the older players in this league are prone to injury and the reason is clear the main factor is age as experienced by Benzema and Neymar  but Ronaldo is excluded because he can manage his fitness therefore there is no reason to compare Ronaldo and Benzema in the competition for top scorers because Ronaldo can only be compared with by young players. Regarding Benzema move, he will move if he wants, not because of the club's wishes because Benzema is still needed in the Saudi Vision 2030 project.

It is real (fact) that Benzema is experiencing a problem with his fitness and physical. Everyone must know that Benzema already got injury several times when he joined Al Ittihad. It can be caused by the ages but it also can be caused by other factors. I don't really know the healthcare team from Al Ittihad. But as far as I know, he rarely got a severe injury when he was in Real Madrid.

Sure, the severe injury will influence the mentality of the player. Benzema got difficulty to play with his best if he more often got injury. I'm sure he dreams to compete with Ronaldo as the top scorer in Saudi league. With the injury problems, Benzema couldn't make his dream to be true. We even heard a rumor that Benzema may leave Al Ittihad in the near future. However, I am trying to believe that Benzema will struggle to stay in SPL.



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Going back to Europe should be the ultimate target for the Frenchman, he will do anything within his reach to enter qualifying phase for the European football. SPL is quite different from the rest and have become a top hurdle for the new players who are finding it hard to suit themselves. Karim Benzema is not receiving the best treatment and expectations in Saudi Pro League, instead he's been tied to the challenges he's facing and have failed to comprehend, rather he's trying his best to fit in and he will definitely succeed because there's more to accomplish other winning titles.

Yes, maybe this is a quick way for football in Saudi Arabia to be known throughout the world by doing an instant method, namely recruiting lots of famous European players like Cristiano Ronaldo and friends, as you said just now, and it's not easy, it's really needed. It has been a long struggle so that football competitions in that country will develop and become popular throughout the world, even though it is done in an instant way and requires quite a lot of money, of course this is within the considerations and decisions of that country. Yes, I agree with you, friend, the young Saudi Arabian players should still be paid attention to because if they are left alone, the young Saudi Arabian players in the future will not experience good enough development and it is impossible if they bring in the best European players, this plan will certainly be successful. Saudi also needs its players, not just players from Europe.

The SPL is about to end yes and we already know who’ll be winning the league this season and yes we aren’t surprised because we know how much strength they’ve put this season again. They’re familiar winners of the league and as such We’re not really surprised especially after they made very right recruitments from europe that have been helping them out.

 They’re about to set a new record of being invincibles too if they can hold on for the period of the 10 final matches. Well this is for the top of the league, at the bottom we’ve got another team that’ve been struggling to get themselves well placed in the league for a while now. ⁠They’re currently in the relegation zone and I don’t think there’ll be anybchance sooner for them to get themselves off that zone especially as their next match is against Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr team. Al-Nassr are a better team between the 2 and they’ve also secured their 2nd spot for this season.

 In the SPL we’ll majorly be seein Al-Ahli al-Ittihad fight for 3rd and 4th place because Al-Ittihad improved the way thy play and are now looking like a better team that can put up a challenge though Al-Ahli are trying to maintain their good records. Yes we’ll also be seeing some interesting games for clubs fighting to survive relegations, these matches always holds lots of goals and excitements and as such we can’t wait to see the weekend matches.

Benzema didn't find what he expected in the Arab league. I think he has physical and psychological problems now. Because of his age, his physical qualities like speed and stamina will decline. This is very normal for a player of his age. Also, I think the level of football of his new team is affecting his motivation. So, Benzema is struggling with physical problems because of his age, but also with psychological problems because of his team. When all these things come together, it naturally affects Benzema's performance. I'm sure he wants to go back to Europe, but I think he should try to be happy in smaller leagues.

Benzema being a talented player is not the important part, I understand that he has achieved a lot in his life but when you look at the situation he is in right now, it's either because he doesn't want to play or he is just too old I do not know the real reason but he is not what he used to be. Just because he had a good year doesn't mean that he will keep on playing like that, look at his "achievements" for this season and you will see that they are actually quite bad, he has done nothing.

This is why I believe that they shouldn't really consider him as good anymore. He is the type of player I would fire if I can, mutual termination so that you wouldn't have to pay his salary, he is just not that good at all.

Yes, maybe I won't be surprised if Al Hilal will succeed in getting the title this season without Neymar because they still have players who have very great talent and are even unbeatable to date even though there are other competitors like Ronaldo who is currently at Al Nassr but still Al Hilal really dominates the Saudi pro league.
Of course Ronaldo will fail to win the title again this season when Al Nassr only has a very strong attacker but does not have a strong defense line, so it is not equivalent to the performance of the attack line.
It seems that Luis Castro as Al Nassr's coach must be able to see Al Nassr's current weaknesses and must improve them next season in order to win the Saudi Pro League title in the coming season.
Maybe I won't talk about how bad Al Nassr's defense was but conceding 33 scores is not a good result.

The last time Al Nassr won the Saudi Pro League trophy was in the 18/19 season, after which Al Hilal again dominated the competition by winning the title for three seasons. unfortunately, in the 22/23 season, Al Hilal's consistency was disrupted by a busy schedule which meant they were not at their best. In the end, Al Ittihad was able to break Al Hilal's dominance and win the Saudi Pro League last season. This season, Al Hilal was again successful by becoming the top of the standings and winning by 12 points. Meanwhile, the Saudi Pro League only has 10 matches remaining. So to ensure that Al Hilal wins the title this season, the squad coached by Jerge Jesus only needs to win 5 matches. thus, Al Hilal will win the Saudi Pro League trophy without any obstacles. Meanwhile, Al Nassr had to settle for being runner up. because the team coached by Luis Casto is also 9 points ahead of the team in the same ranking.

Anway, this is just my scenario, what is certain is that we will see the remaining 10 matches until the competition ends. although, Al Hilal is very close to the trophy this season. Likewise with the goals scored by the two strikers Al Nassr and Al Hilal, Ronaldo has scored 23 goals, while Mitrovic is only 3 goals behind. There are still 10 matches remaining in the competition, these two stars will maximize their efforts to score as many goals as they can. anyway, Al Hilal was one of the elite teams in this competition before they were acquired by PIF. In every season, Al Hilal always consistently maintains its performance. At least Al Hilal finished in 3rd place, yeah like last season. So I will not doubt Jorge Jesus' squad next season, they will remain a strong team and difficult to beat. It could be that Al Hilal will also strengthen several of its players next season. or, Al Hilal will only make small changes to strengthen the competition next season.

It is a fact that we cannot deny that the SPL is starting to get attention because they brought in many players with European labels, and that has indeed boosted their popularity in the eyes of the world of football. The step they took could be said to be an instant step and it was supported by their very good financial capabilities. Not only do they bring in players with European labels, but they also recruit players with big names, for example Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and so on.

In my opinion, they should also pay attention to developing their young players, because this is an opportunity for them to show the quality of the players they have and it can be a promotional event so that the young players they have can be noticed by top clubs. Isn't it a good thing when their players play a lot in Europe too, I mean playing at big European clubs? this is what I haven't seen from their movements. I mean don't let them have instant thoughts while they don't pay attention to their players.

Honestly, even Benzema did not have a good impact on the performance of al Ittihad. There have been too many problems that have ruined the chemistry owned by the club. Al ittihad has performed perfecly at the early season but i don't know why it's happening if ittihad got a trouble at the middle of season.
If we are also talking about the next match of Ittihad, I will definitely bet on Ittihad compared to Fateh. Do you know why? Fateh has recorded very bad results in the last five matches, and it makes sense to send our money to Ittihad for the upcoming game.
Al Ittihad's chance to win the game is even bigger. I strongly believe Al Ittihad will be able to beat Al Fateh with a good score. I'm not putting my hope on the Benzema, who is still undoubtfully to play against fate.As long as ittihad will win the game and that's enough.

At the top we have two teams are settled for their spots with Al Hilal is going to be winner and Al Nassr is going to stay at the second spot but for the third spot we are going to have competition between Al Ahli and Al Ittihad even Al Ahli is doing good and have chance, but recent improvement is helping Al Ittihad for having some chance to take this spot which is interesting, and we have 10 matches remaining which can bring good changes.

At the bottom, we have Al Hazam is already settled for the drop, and now we have two interesting games on Saturday which will give some better shape who is going to have chance for to survive with Al Riyadh going to host Abha and Al Akhdoud going to host Al Raad which are surely interesting games which will give how things will be gone for the teams which are fighting hard for survive with Al Taee going to stay here for few more days as they are going to visit Al Nassr which is not easy visit for them at this stage.

The reason why the Saudi Pro is attracting the interest of so many people across the globe is because of the fact that the top clubs in the league are making significant signings especially the ones that involves former European based superstars and that's why a lot of people today talk about the top clubs in the league instead of extending their interests to the bottom clubs in the Saudi Pro League table.
Despite the sudden global recognition of the Saudi Pro League, the management of the league still have a lot to do in other to bring them to same level with top European leagues that most people talk about almost every club in those leagues. For now, majority of the people only know about the top five or six teams in the league but if the league continues to improve, many people will still get to know about the lower clubs and talk about them in time to come

What you are saying is true man, when we all talk about everything that happens in the Arab league it seems that we are indeed too focused to talk about Al Nassr, Al Hillal, Al Ittihad and also Al Ahli, even I think if at the moment it feels unfair for us not to discuss the bottom teams, but despite all that of course the big teams will always be in the spotlight especially we are currently talking about the team that is indeed Containing players who have been the best players in the world, to be honest, it seems that there is nothing interesting for us to discuss about the SPL team that is at the bottom of the table at the moment.

The glory of Al Hillal deserves our thumbs up because they are able to compete with a other team containing big names in their current squad, and I think their performance so far certainly cannot be separated from the unity of the team and also the expertise of Jorge Jesus in implementing their game strategy so far, btw so far Al Nassr has hunted many European star players to fill their squad but continue to fail to win the SPL,  is it possible if the coach is a problem they have to fix next season ?

I think the arrival of Marcelo Gallardo hasn't make any significant progress to Al Ittihad this because since he was train this team on November last year Al Ittihad has been through an 11 matches in Saudi Pro League but they only can collect 5 wins from those matches and even at Asian Champion League Al Ittihad have to eliminate by Al Hilal on quarterfinal stages with final aggregate 4-0 and i don't know what happend to Al Ittihad because this season it's very hard for them to beat Al Hillal because within 2 weeks Al Ittihad have to lost 3 times from Al Hilal

But last week Al Ittihad performance is really impressive because they can able to beat Al Fateh with final scores 4-2 and their main striker Abderrazak Hamdallah was scores 2 goals at that time and this weekend Al Ittihad will gets tough opponent Al Feiha and although Al Ittihad is the favourite but they shouldn't be underestimate Al Feiha because in the last 4 matches on Saudi Pro League Al Feiha was unbeatable and they can collect 3 wins from those matches but indeed the bookmakers only provide low odds for Al Ittihad @1.39 but this time hopefully Benzema will be into Al Ittihad squad after last week absense

The Saudi League competition only attracts everyone's interest when talking about big teams and of course with European players we can often discuss this. I think it will take a long time if you want to talk about the bottom teams because there are no achievements or accomplishments that can be used as a reference. However, if there is a team that is able to advance to the top 4 then that team will start to attract everyone's attention.

It must be admitted that Al-Hilal cannot be stopped this season and it is clear that they will win the Saudi league title even without Neymar since the start of the season. Cristiano Ronaldo seems to have to be willing because in his two seasons with Al-Nassr he was unable to provide anything to the team apart from the Arab Club Champions trophy some time ago. As for the rest, we can see that Cristiano Ronaldo is still very productive in scoring goals, even though this league is not that difficult for him.

In recent seasons, Al Nassr has continued to provide competition in the race for the championship, but unfortunately they continue to fail until now even though they contain quite good players, Al Hillal's ability to win the championship cannot be separated from their consistency and performance this season which is very stable even when they have a more dominant squad containing local players,  Even better, Al Hillal triumphed when they didn't need Neymar in the squad.

To repeat the glory of this season next season is certainly not an easy thing for Al Hillal, because it is certain that other Arab teams will try to strengthen their squad next season, and I think even though Al Hillal is a strong team but still they have to try to bring in some new players next season to defend the title,  Currently Al Hillal is like Leverkusen who continue to be able to keep their path in winning the championship without getting a single defeat in the league, especially now they only need at least two more wins and of course hope Al Nassr can also drop points in one game then they will automatically lock the trophy this season.

Al-Hilal is actually a club that dominates the Saudi Pro League because they have won more league trophies than other big clubs in this league, becoming champions 18 times and runners-up 15 times, even before Ittihad FC became champions last season Al-Hilal scored a hat trick, so actually nothing was surprising because Al-Hilal just went back to doing what they usually do. Source
What is surprising about this club is that they can be the best even though their star players are not optimal and that does not affect their performance at all because they are not only the most productive team but also the strongest in defense.
It could even be that next season we will still dominate the Saudi Pro League unless the other teams experience very good developments in competing so that the competition here becomes more interesting and the title will be known when there is only one or two remaining matches, unlike now as you said that this is only about Al-Hilal.