Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 185. (Read 119308 times)

Al-Hilal has already demonstrated that it will drag everything it can, both regionally and globally. They have everything it takes to be the best in everything they compete in and I haven't seen something like that in a long time.

Early defeats at the season beginning cost them a lot and they tried to come back with a long impressive streak but two direct defeats under Al-Hilal knock them down finally. Recent bad results are only consequences when they already official lost the Saudi Professional League title competition to Al-Hilal and no longer have clear motivation to continue their fight.

Generally Al-Nassr have very good attacking system and their biggest weakness is from their defense system. Ronaldo, Mane, Talisca, Ótavio, Brozovic can contribute so good for their attacking system but their defense system is weak. It causes them many conceded goals and we can in many matches when Al-Nassr wins, they still get many conceded goals.

To compete with Al-Hilal next season, Al-Nassr must improve their defense system in a next transfer season. It is most important task for them to complete before return to competition with Al-Hilal.

Al-Nassr weren't successful in the beginning of the season and they suffered four defeats after all costing them the title. Al-Hilal in the other hand were very successful and strong at a point that no Saudi Arabia team were able to defeat them and best thing they can do is getting a draw with them, this happened only twice by the way.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Sadio Mane in a lesser degree were the firepower of the team but let's not forget also Talisca who scored 16 goals so far, more than Mane but way behind Cristiano Ronaldo who has the unbeaten record.

This SPL becomes very interesting because there are certain teams that wouldn't give up so easily. Al Nassr have the best players when it comes to winning matches but they do actually face tough times with Al Hilal that doesn't give them breathing room for lifting major titles this season. Al Nassr was fortunate enough to win the Saudi Pro League title this season but based on the incredible performance of Al Hilal, they back down. Cristiano Ronaldo and Sadio Mané are the pillars behind the successful run of Al Nassr this season. They've beaten every challenging team although they've also recorded defeats on their end this season.

In theory, Al Hilal should win against Al Ittihad. But we don't know if there is a surprise, it is not impossible if Al Hilal is defeated because Al Hilal has no main striker now. Mitrovic is injured for a long time, Al Hilal has no main machine goal now. It is also the reason why they are eliminated in AFC champion league. So, the current condition of Al Hilal isn't very good, their performance is decreasing due to the injury of Mitrovic.

Even Al Hilal will play against Al Nassr in the final round, I think Al Nassr has a bettet chance to win now. Al Nassr can use their main lineup, there is 1 key player only who will be unavailable (Talisca). Other main players will be ready to play against Al Nassr. I think it is the right time for Ronaldo to beat Al Hilal and won the title.

The number of offsides that have happened in this match was absolutely incredible. It looked like both of the teams were actually playing the offside trap in the defense. It was good to see that Cristiano Ronaldo played in this match. But it was also sad to say that Cristiano Ronaldo was unable to score. Because he had a lot of chances. But was actually caught offside. However, I think he played really well and also made some very important runs. we all know that him being in the team alone creates a lot of pressure for the other team. And the goal that has happened also because of that. The other players were actually marking Cristiano Ronaldo very tightly. Meanwhile, Laporte was able to meet the ball without too much problem. Good match to see and also good attacking football from both of the teams. Now the difference between Al Nassr and Al Hilal is 9 points and Al Nassr has played one match more compared to Al Hilal.

In domestic competition this season, Al Hilal is a scary club, because they have not been touched by a single defeat. Unfortunately their performance was not the same as in the Asian Champions League, Al Hilal was the last Saudi Pro League club to be eliminated in Asia most elite competition. For the remaining number of matches ahead at domestic level, we realize that Al Hilal has a big chance of sweeping all matches with a win, so that they can win trophies in the remaining competitions in which they participate. The competition for the Saudi Pro League trophy is over, and Al Hilal is comfortable shifting its focus to the Saudi Arabian King Cup. Facing Al Ittihad in the semifinals is an easy matter, because this season Benzema and his colleagues have never managed to win over Al Hilal. Al Hilal versus Al Nassr would be the ideal final, and it looks like the final match is quite difficult to predict, although on paper we have to say that Al Hilal has a bigger chance of winning the match and adding to its trophy collection.

Al Hilal will definitely want to win the double, they will try their best to win against Ittihad and will go to finals and win that too, that is what they want, they are amazing and been great during the season and they will want that regular season success to hit the cup as well, so it is not going to be all that complicated. I believe that we are going to see them do pretty well and we will see them fight until the very end as well.

What I think will happen is that Al Hilal will beat Ittihad, and AL Nassr will be at finals as well beating their opponent during the semi finals as well. So a Al Hilal versus Al Nassr finals will happen and no matter how much Ronaldo tries, the finals will be won by Al Hilal as well, that's what I believe will happen for sure.

Im not even doubting al hilal to win the game.

The odds is not that bad for al hilal but i was hoping to get more.

Hilal @ 1.43
Taawoun @ 5.60

As you can see from the odds gap between hilal and taawoun. Hilal leads the game to be the favorite team to win the upcoming game against taawoun. It's more than enough to explain if al hilal may be winning this away game. There's no need to feel worry about the performance from al hilal.
Al hilal shall have locked saudi pro league trophy as soon as possible. Winning this game is a must for the club considering the fact that al hilal will able to keep the momentum.

Things are going very well for al hilal till now. I expect them to get another win soon.

Are you indirectly telling me if al hilal has lower chance to win against taawoun? It doesn't even make sense al al hilal is still defending its record to be unbeatable club in the saudi pro league.I think that i have a very strong reason to say that if al hilal has greater chance to win the game against taawoun.
Taawoun is strong but it's not as strong as al hilal, which is still unbeatable till this time.

This is a match that is quite difficult to predict and although Al-Hilal are unbeaten there are times when they could suffer their first defeat of the season. Apart from that, Al-Hilal also doesn't need to aim for any more points because it will definitely win the Saudi league title and I think it would be quite risky to bet on Al-Hilal in this match.

Instead of that, maybe even if I bet, I will take another option, such as a result of over 3 goals, which will definitely result in a lot of goals being scored. Apart from that, Al-Taawoun certainly wants to give victory in front of his fans and they don't want to disappoint him. What is clear is that Al-Taawoun is not an opponent to be taken lightly and I think Al-Hilal must be careful if they want to maintain their unbeaten record in the Saudi league.

Against al khaleej is certainly not an easy match actually for Al Nassr, although indeed in that match al nassr are favourites to win, previously al nassr had faced al khaleej in the league and al nassr who were previously predicted to win easily had to struggle against al khaleej and they only narrowly won 0-1 in that the match even then they had to wait 68 minutes to score,  the league match of course is no longer meaningful for Al Khaleej because indeed their position in the table is no longer possible to reach the top 5 with only 5 games left, so I think they may no longer play fully against Al Nassr in the league, but in the semi-finals, I think it is difficult to say if Al Nassr can win because after all Al Khaleej will play all out to be able to reach the final round.

The Al Hillal match against Al Ittihad will of course be very fierce, because indeed both teams have a pretty good performance at the moment, but I think in the next match Al Hillal will be able to beat Al Ittihad because so far the mentality possessed by Al Hillal is very extraordinary, especially maybe the defeat to Al Ain in the AFC champions league will trigger them to be able to take revenge for get the Saudi Arabian King trophy this season.

The semi-finals in the Saudi Arabian King's Cup will probably be quite easy to predict, namely Al-Nassr will probably be the favorite. Because Al-nassr is lucky to only face Al-khaleej in the semi-finals. In contrast to Al-ittihad who seem unlucky because they will face Al-hilal in the semi-finals. And maybe Al-hilal will beat AL-ittihad again. So it looks like we can predict the final match, namely that it will probably be between Al-Hilal vs Al-Nassr. I hope Talisca can also play again. But until now I have not read the news that Talisca has recovered. But hopefully when the time comes this player can return to the field and play with Cristiano Ronaldo and Mane on the front lines.

After defeating Al Khaleej in the Saudi Pro League, Al Nassr will be reunited with the same opponent, namely Al Khaleej, in the King's Cup in the semifinal match. referring to this meeting in the Saudi Pro League, Al Nassr was only able to win narrowly 0-1 and even then the goal was scored by defender Aymeric Laporte. however, it seems that Luis Carstro deliberately did not play Sadio Mane in this match. As a result, Al Nassr's performance was not very good, they were only able to score 1 goal for their team to win. but it doesn't matter, it's still 3 points and it looks like it will be difficult to overtake Al Hilal in this competition.

So, it seems that Luis Castro's goal and focus is on the King's Cup trophy. in the King's Cup, Al Nassr has the opportunity to advance to the next phase, namely the King's Cup Final. against Al Khaleej, it should not be a serious challenge for Ronaldo and his teammates, especially since it is very likely that Sadio Mane will be Luis Castro's main starter. after all, Al Khaleej is a promoted team in the Saudi Pro League and they are in the middle of the Saudi Pro League table. With Ronaldo, Sadio Mane and maybe other players except Talisca, Al Khaleej is not a balanced opponent based on the depth of the players and the statistics of their respective teams.

If Al Nassr is able to easily beat their opponents in the semifinal match, the next team they will face will not be an easy team to beat in the final match. because the opponents are probably Al Itthad and Al Hilal. If it's Al Ittihad, Al Nassr's chances are big enough to become champions. however, if the opponent is Al Hilal, the match will be quite tough for Luis Castro's squad. Well, let's just wait for the semifinal match to be held.

Al-Hilal is the team that Al-Nassr least expects to be their opponent in the final, if Al-Nassr is able to beat Al-Khaleej, but is it possible that Ittihad FC can help Al-Nassr to beat Al-Hilal? I think it's much more difficult, this season no team has been able to beat Al-Hilal in the local competition, in fact they only got 2 draws, so for the final the most likely thing to happen is Al-Hilal vs Al-Nassr or Al-Hilal vs Al -Khaleej, because it can be said that Ittihad FC will lose in the semifinals even though Al-Hilal will still not be supported by their main striker Aleksandar Mitrović due to a hamstring injury and it is not certain when he will return to train with their club, let alone whether they will play.
Al-Hilal is very likely to retain this title and this will be the 11th King's Cup title for the club and they are only behind Al-Ahli as the team with the most King's Cup titles.

In fact, if only to maintain second place, Al Nassr doesn't need to worry much because their difference from Al Ahli who is in third place is 19 points and this is number that is impossible for Al Ahli to catch with only few remaining matches.
Only chance is the Saudi Arabian King Cup and if they manage to win in the semifinals and qualify for the final then that is very good opportunity, but if the final comes against Al Hilal then everything will be different.
Al Nassr must have been under the same pressure because several times they met with Al Hilal they really looked very stressed and had difficulty keeping up with the game.
Ronaldo himself was only absent for two matches but for Talisca he was injured and there is no clear certainty when he will be able to return to playing because what he experienced was not light injury.

If Al Nassr three core players can all play then it will be perfect squad but without Talisca they also seem to be missing one of their strengths, but relying on Ronaldo and Mane I think that can be more than enough to win and qualify for the final.

Al Nassr despite their impressive performances this season wasn't able to win a major trophy but are very likely to end the season with the King Cup of Champions but for them to achieve that, they must be ruthless against Al Khaleej when they meet each other in the tomorrow. Like you rightly said, Sadio Mane and Cristiano Ronaldo are fully back to the squads and considering the performances of Al Nassr when compared to their opponents, it's obvious that Al Nassr is the better team. I don't think there's no doubt that when Al Nassr plays at their best, they're almost unstoppable by any Saudi club so I expect them to be at their best against Al-Khaleej even when the King Cup of Champions isn't a major threat

There are more contending opponents in the Saudi Pro League, they don't easily give up and bring their best to win matches. We have special findings about Al Nassr due to their competent actions of reaching top goals this season. Al Nasser struggle to win matches in the absence of their top players. Talisca presence matters alot because he's one of the top machinery when it comes to hitting goals for Al Nassr this season. We have Cristiano Ronaldo and Sadio Mané that have been one of the best signings for the Knights of Najd, they bring in their best to enchance the stats and performance of the club.

With all players back, they could probably do fine, with both Mane and Ronaldo back. I just wish that Talisca was still around and not injured because he was such a crucial part of the team and ever since he got injured they haven't been that great.

I think it is clear that we are not going to get anything major here, it feels like we can't really make it work some other way. I believe that we are going to do well enough and we should see them go to finals, the semi finals should be easy and we have seen them beat the same opponent anyway, so finals will be the most important one and I feel like they could probably win that one too. At this point it's all about which team will play with 100% because if Al-Nassr ends up playing with their 100% then they should be able to get the cup.

Actually Al-Nassr couldn't do anything in the Saudi Pro League they have no chance of taking the title from Al-Hilal so there is no need to force it in the match, the Saudi Pro League only has 5 matches remaining and even though Al-Nassr won all their matches there is no guarantee they can catch Al-Hilal because Al-Hilal is still consistent with points from every match. I'm sure Al-Nassr will prioritize matches in the King Cup only here they have a chance to win the trophy and unfortunately Al-Hilal is also in this competition  as we know Al-Nassr has never won against Al-Hilal throughout this season, at least both teams still have 2 scheduled matches in the Saudi Pro League and in the King Cup, imo.

Al Khaleej 0 - 1 Al Nassr

Al Nassr's opponent in this game was not a strong opponent and I expected that Al Nassr would be able to score a lot of goals in this game mainly because Ronaldo was playing, but even though Al Nassr was playing against a very weak team that in the last 5 games they didn't have good results, yet Al Nassr didn't manage to come out of that game with many goals scored, it seems to me that Al Nassr are probably looking at the league games as unimportant games given the fact that they are way behind the top team . It's funny that Al Khaleej will be Al Nassr's opponent in the next cup game

Looking at Al Khaleej's performance:



I see that Al Nassr will win the game again, but if they have all their best players, because if they played like they did yesterday, then they will have a chance of losing, knowing that Ronaldo has already been in this Saudi league for two seasons and has not managed to win the league, so winning the cups becomes a good alternative, it would serve as a consolation prize. The question will be how Al Nassr's management will face next season, if they keep the same coach next season. so once again we will see Al Nassr failing to win the league again




source: https://www.fctables.com/h2h/al-hilal/al-ittihad1/

 

It seems to me that Al Ittihad is not a great opponent for Al Hilal historically