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Al-Nassr 3 - 1 Al-Khaleej
So my expectations were accurate this time and indeed Al-Khaleej didn't score more than a goal and Al-Nassr scored more than two goals. Obviously Cristiano Ronaldo and Mane drove their team to the next stage where they will face Al-Hilal and try their luck again against them in order to win something this season!

Ronaldo is a respected player and have soar higher in every competition. Coming out to be the very best player and his upgraded version. Al Nassr was something without Cristiano Ronaldo, it was a cooperative team that's always fighting to lift major titles but with the presence of Ronaldo in the team, their targets was reached even before anyone could noticed. Al Nassr have turned out to become one of the competitive contender for the Saudi Pro League title and its really one of the interesting odds to engaged such good results.

You know Al Nassr was nothing without Ronaldo and before joining this team they had bad performance and they couldn't hire players at all. Maybe Al Nassr without Ronaldo couldn't even be in the second place at the table at all. Because from what I saw Ronaldo is the top scorer and other players in Al Nassr like Sadio Mane even couldn't have this good performance at all.
Ronaldo is more than a player for Al Nassr and there is even some news about this player buying a share of Al Nassr and there is some other news about Ronaldo getting retired in Al Nassr and working there as a coach. These are all rumors but I think Al Nassr is also happy to have a player like Ronaldo on their team.

AL Ittihad FC 1 - 2 AL Hilal

When I saw this game and saw that Al Hilal were playing with only 10 players, I started to get excited and said to myself: this is not enough to stop Al Hilal and to prove this I immediately bet that Al Hilal would qualify, I bet that Al Hilal would not be eliminated, because I believe that Al Hilal are the undisputed champions of the Saudi league, they have no opponent in that league, and in the Saudi Arabian cups, it's a shame that I made a multibe bet, because if I had just betting on Al Hilal would have made a good profit, although I got my bet right that Al Hilal would qualify, I ended up losing my multibet bet because I made mistakes in other games




Al-Nassr 3  - 1 Al-Khaleej

great victory for Al Nassr, they managed to dominate the game and had good control of the game, they scored goals early, even in the 1 half they managed to score 2 goals in which ronaldo scored 1 goal in the 1 half and healthy mane scored another thanks to the penalty and The 1st half ended, then in the 2nd half Ronaldo scored the 3rd goal, the opponent managed to score 1 goal towards the end of the game. well, this was not a difficult opponent and from what I see in recent years Al-Khaleej was unable to beat Al Nassr, Al Nassr's dominance over Al-Khaleej goes back a long time, that's why I'm not surprised by this result .

I can't see the date of the final game involving Al Nassr against Al Hilal  

It is a must win game for Al Nassr anyway. If there is anything they want to celebrate this season, then it is this title. Another chance for Al Nassr to take something away from Al Hilal in the final. Does anyone have an idea what the plan for Neymar is? He wasted a lot of his career I think, really too bad as he was an outstanding player when he played his best. Now a point has come where nobody is talking about him. It just came to my mind as they get along so well without him and he isn't important to the team anymore, only pretty expensive.

Seems the final match King Cup between Al Hilal vs Al Nassr behind Al Nassr currently lead awhile over 3-0 against Al Khaleej until 77th minutes, Cristiano Ronaldo have scored two goals and has chance in ten minutes left to make hattrick. Actually he can scoring three goals tonight but giving the penalty kick for Sadio Mane with usually Cristiano Ronaldo take penalty kick.

Against Al Hilal in the final is very important match for Al Nassr after losing in Saudi Super Cup in semifinal match, I think is right moment revenge for Cristiano Ronaldo received red card when facing Al Hilal and he must controlling emotion on the final match. Its the last opportunity for Al Nassr winning tittle in this season and Cristiano Ronaldo has chance by winning King Cup tittle after failure in AFC Champion League and seems the same get failure for winning domestic league.

Now we are in 74th minute of the game and Al Nassr is leading by 3–0 which is clearly saying now we are heading for the another final between Al Hilal vs Al Nassr after winning Super Cup now its second Cup for the Saudi League leaders which are going to complete their treble with lost in AFC Champions League is surely going to hurt them but still they are having good for the season with record-breaking performance and possible three cups are ok for them.
Al Nassr which was in more limelight before the start of the season having problems and just because of these they are paying and having no win in this season even they signed with record-breaking contract to Cristiano Ronaldo hopefully we will have better results for them in coming season if they are able to settle their defense related problems which are hurting them in this season in all competitions.

Al-Nassr seems certain to win. So I no longer watched the Al-Nassr vs Al-khaleej match in the second half because I started to focus on watching UCL now. And I was quite surprised when I checked Al-Nassr's score, who had scored another goal in the second half. And the current score for Al-nassr vs Al-khaleej is 3-0. Cristiano Ronaldo managed to score 2 goals in this match. And this indicates that Cristiano Ronaldo is still superior and sharper at his current age.
I hope that in the final against Al-hilal this time Cristiano Ronaldo can win. Because someone has to stop Al-Hilal from continuing to win in almost all competitions in Saudi Arabia this season. The quality of Al-Hilal this season is truly extraordinary. But it's quite boring to see the same team keep winning the competition.

I am sure that they are much better with Ronaldo there is no doubt about that for sure, but they haven't made that extra step that they need to take, in order to win the league. Last year they almost won it and missed out, and this year the same, they keep being close to the winner but fail to win it.

Ronaldo can't play for forever, lets assume that he plays next season here as well, and he makes a lot of money to play here so he doesn't really care about much else, but lets assume that he plays, but if he fails again then that would be bad shame on his reputation, so he wants the team to get some great players this summer in order to have a chance to win it. A better manager and a lot more greater players is a must for them to win it next year.

Al-Nassr vs Al-Khaleej (Saudi Arabian King's Cup)

It looks like Al-Nassr will easily qualify for the final in the Saudi Arabian King's Cup. Because currently Al-Nassr is leading 2-0 in the first half. And the match has just entered the 40th minute. Which means that Al-nassr could have scored more goals against Al-khaleej. Cristiano Ronaldo and Mane managed to score 1 goal each. And Mane scored 1 goal from a very calm penalty kick.

If Al-nassr finishes this match with a win, it means Al-nassr will face Al-hilal in the final. Because yesterday Al-hilal managed to beat Al-ittihad with a score of 1-2.

Neymar was purchased for a huge amount by Al Hilal. And they would have been OK in case he couldn't play as a result of injury. But when he got injured, rather than staying with the team he chose to travel to Brazil and refused to do any promotions for Al Hilal. This soured the relation between him and the team. Anyway, Al Hilal are doing just fine. Neymar's absence is not being felt. Neymar himself have stated that 2024 will be his final season for Al Hilal and he will be moving out in 2025.

Originally, when Neymar was brought to Saudi Arabia for a significant sum of money from PSG and Saudi club Al Hilal signed Neymar, we had no doubt that Al Hilal would be one of the best teams in the Saudi Professional League. With Neymar we considered Al Hilal as a strong team but due to injury Neymar was sidelined for the entire season but apart from Neymar all the other players in the team have proved that they are all good enough players and they are all capable of giving this team a good performance against any team. Neymar was out of the field for the entire season. If Neymar had been with the team instead of being out of the field for the entire season, the performance of this team would have been worse. Next season, Neymar may be a regular for Al Hilal, in which case Al Hilal will be an unstoppable team.

Al-Nassr team’s performance has improved greatly since they completed the signing of Ronaldo last season. He’s been a big influence and has helped in the attack of the team as you can see that last season they were able to grab all 3 points and lose out on just 3 games.

 Well this season haven’t been much of a difference for the Arabian team just that they didn’t improve in much way this season, as they keep not being the best when we expect. They are not in the same position as Al-Hilal because of how greatly that team is performing and to be on that level the board need to do serious work on the team.

 ⁠The attack of the team is pretty great as they have been able to score great amount of goals for the team but the problem of the team is in the backline. The board needs to bring a good goal keeper especially to be able to stop shots from coming in. ⁠A team that’s successful has all of it’s positions working pretty well and that’s why it’s a team work not an effort of a  single player. They must not sign a big goal keeper from Europe rather they can scout among the local clubs qnd get a good goal keeper as this will help the pressure not to be under pressure to maintain fame.

Al-Nassr victory in today's game against Al-Khaleej is obvious in my opinion regardless of the players that will start the match. Their rival is a middle table team that is losing more than winning and taking goals more than scoring..
I doubt Al-Khaleej could score more than a goal in this match and I expect Al-Nassr to score at least two goals.

In the previous semifinal match held between Al-Hilal and Al-Ittihad, the final result was expected by most people thought but what's astonishing is the failure of Al-Ittihad to at least get a draw against ten players! Milinkovic-Savic received a red card since the first half when the result was a draw..
Al-Ittihad is out of its form this season, at the opposite of Al-Hilal.

That was his behavior during a match and I forget where, what is clear is that it was very funny.

Talking about Ronaldo, his contract will end in 2025 and it could be said that next season will be his last season wearing the Al-Nassr uniform. I don't know for sure whether Al-Nassr will want to extend his contract or not, but I agree that currently his performance is starting to run out. It cannot be denied, the Ronaldo we know is always dangerous when carrying the ball, but now when he sees him carrying the ball at that moment he can lose the ball at any time. Especially when he tries to dribble and he is no longer as agile as he used to be, marking his skills and the age factor really does exist for a football player.

Perhaps the achievement Ronaldo can be proud of is at the end of last year when he scored more than 50 goals in all competitions, including with the Portuguese national team. But if we talk about next season, I think he's finished and can't do it again. Now it's just a matter of how Al-Nassr defends it and if it's just for marketing purposes, I don't think it will work because the fans will always be waiting for him to play on the field.

I found such a funny meme about Ronaldo, I dare you to check it yourself, you'll have a lot of fun: https://www.tiktok.com/@_lobanov/video/7341327321988680961

Guys what do you think about Ronaldo's contract with Al Nassr? I watched some of Cristiano's games and I am afraid he is not a good player anymore, he frequently falls down and tries to get a penalty, he is not as elastic and agile as he was years ago. I don't want to upset anyone but I think he is a washed player today. I don't think Al Nassr will continue his contract and pay him hundreds of millions because he did his job for marketing and he is not beneficial for the club anymore. Do you guys agree with me?

Yes, Talisca's injury has really affected Al Nasr's attack line. The reason is, when Talisca plays with Al Nasr, the result is that Talisca always scores goals against the opponent.

Apart from that, last season Al Nasr played quite well and only lost 3 times. However, this season, Al Nasr's performance is actually not much different from last season. Because if you look at Al Nasr's winning record this season it is better than last season. Last season Al Nasr was only able to achieve 20 wins from 30 matches. Meanwhile, this season Al Nasr has won 23 times in 29 matches. So it is clear that Al Nasr's performance this season is not much different from last season. However, what is different this season is that Al Nasr has to compete with Al Hilal, who have an unbeaten record. So this season Al Nasr's situation is much more difficult than last season. This is because competition in the Saudi Arabian League has increased drastically this season. Plus, as you said, Al Nasr's defense is still weak. That's why Al Nasr is having a really hard time topping the Saudi Arabian League standings.

And in my personal opinion, currently Al Nasr does not need to bring in a famous defender or goalkeeper. The reason is that currently Al Nasr already has big names in its defense ranks. Like David Ospina, Alex Teles, Laporte and Brozovic. However, as a result, Al Nasr's defense was still not strong enough. So in my opinion, next season Al Nasr does not need to bring in a famous defender or goalkeeper. However, Al Nasr just has to be able to bring in quality defenders and goalkeepers. Because it's useless if you bring in famous players, but the results are less than satisfactory.

Facing a team that only played with 10 people, Ittihad FC was only able to make the score equal but failed to protect their goal from conceding the second goal from Al-Hilal which was quite disappointing because they had a big chance to beat Al-Hilal after the red card and Al-Hilal proved it as the best local team this season by making it to the final of the Saudi King's Cup and this is in accordance with many people's predictions that Al-Hilal will win, not only that, but Al-Hilal will become the King's Cup champions this year to defend their title.
Ittihad's problem is that they rely heavily on Hamdallah to score goals, so this often means they fail to win, especially as their defense has been very disappointing this season.

It's quite easy to predict because the two teams have slightly different qualities, and also in H2H Al-Khaleej only beat Al-Nassr once so we can see which of the two teams is superior and has a chance of getting to the final.

wait a minute, it seems you have misunderstood the SPL purpose in transferring players in large numbers even though I rarely visit this thread but I often read the current rumors.
did you miss the information that the SPL has rumors of stopping large purchases of European players?
SPL has recently been spending large amounts on European players and if this is done in several seasons it will create huge losses if there is no development because expenditure and income are not equal and this is the main reason why these rumors have emerged here.
and it seems you are also wrong in terms of understanding why billionaires invest money in the SPL to buy players and it is not for fun or satisfaction but with the aim of long term investment to make a profit after the SPL gets promotion to a higher competition.
at this point I think you will understand why @Volgastallion said that Ittihad would be better off waiting until Salah contract ends to redeem the player for a not too large amount.

We have qualifying matches of Al Hilal and they've totally thrashed their preeminent rival in all angles and meetings this season. Al Hilal doesn't have any competitor and making the winning so easy for them this season. Al Hilal pattern of game is different from the rest SPL clubs this season. They're after their main objective and it's winning the Saudi Pro League title which they've actually achieved this season, they have more promising results to shoots in for and hoping for them to maintain this incredible form next season.