Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 194. (Read 119343 times)

It's his main target. He is still very ambitious in getting world cup which is impossible to happen for portugal. Even ronaldo could not get it when he was on his prime. Im doubting it but ronaldo must also give young talent chances to play in the world cup too. Ronaldo was always failed in that competition.
It triggers him to keep try it anytime. World cup 2026 probably becomes his last world cup since ronaldo may be also retiring from football @2027. Im not seeing it as a good plan but since it's gonna be last world cup of ronaldo and it must be the easiest one to think.

It's totally wrong to call him still on his form. The quality of saudi pro league is farrrrrrrr below la liga and serie a. People were always seeing it based on his personal skill and result achieved by al nassr. People was rarely measuring how short or big the gap from saudi pro league to the la liga or serie a.
It's a common thing and it will be useless to say this when it comes to the ronaldo's believers, but there's nothing for him to participate since that's probably gonna be his last world cup. He will retire then.

yes, Al-hilal is really strong and until now Al-hilal has not been defeated in the SPL. Yes, of course Jorge Jesus' troops have great potential to win the trophy in the SPL this season. yes, Cristiano Ronaldo and his friends have not been able to beat Al-hilal so far, yes, Jorge Jesus' troops have not allowed Al-nassr to surpass Al-hilal in points and in my opinion also this season it will definitely be difficult for Al-nassr to become champions except next season if Al-Nassr can perform better than this season.

Yes, in the King's Cup, Al-Nassr certainly has hope and in the semifinals it will face Al Khaleej, but yes, it looks like Al-Hilal will be an obstacle again in the King's Cup. but I hope Luis Castro can make a good strategy so that Al-Nassr can win the trophy.

but my prediction is also the same as yours because it looks like Al-hilal will have the potential to win lots of trophies, so we'll see. and honestly, I'm also curious and want to know in the future the team that can beat Al-Hilal.

If look at the players each of the top teams have, Al Hilal is not like the others where they spend large amounts of money to bring in European star players, but they have solid performance and play really stably from every side.
Al Hilal playing style is really strong, they have strengths on each side that cannot be imitated by other teams and every Al Hilal player can really work well at what they have to do.
At first, anyone would have thought that Al Nassr would be able to win the title this season when they saw that there were players who were so dominant in scoring goals as Ronaldo and Mane, but in reality Al Nassr had defense line that was not strong.
This is weakness for Al Nassr and they must be able to fix it to be able to perform optimally next season.

Regarding Neymar, it actually doesn't have any effect because so far he has only suffered from injuries and has always been absent from various matches, losing Neymar is also not problem for Al Hilal.
I think the main key to Al Hilal success this season is because Jorge Jesus performance is so good, he can build team with truly great strength.

I think Al Ain is like a weak club in general but seeing its performance which was able to beat Al Nassr in the quarter-finals. Al Hilal deserves to be alert of this round and now Al Hilal also feels that Al Ain is also quite difficult to beat and it is Al Hilal who are the ones who experienced defeat when competing away from home this time in the first leg, the aggregate created by Al Ain was quite large, namely 4 goals while Al Hilal only had 2 goals even though it was only a difference of 2 aggregates but that was not an easy thing. Al Ain really showed Al Hilal's weakness in this match but again, this is the AFC Champions League so every club that reaches this round cannot be underestimated. Al Hilal still has the opportunity to counterattack in the second leg because the match will be played at home.

But the 3 goals scored by Al Ain were goals from penalty kicks so if Al Ain didn't get a penalty I think it would be difficult to break through Al Hilal's defense, Al Ain was lucky because they were able to score 3 goals through penalty kicks and scored goals so they could stop Al Hilal's record unbeaten so far, in the second leg I think Al Ain will play a defensive strategy because they already have 2 aggregates to lock in victory but we all know Al Hilal's strength in attack when playing as the home club

Ronaldo is a soccer player who has a stubborn character and always wants to achieve what he dreams of. Therefore, even though he is almost 40 years old, Ronaldo still has strong determination and ambition to be able to play in the 2026 World Cup. I think this is a very natural thing. The reason is, during Ronaldo's career in the world of football, at clubs and in the Portuguese national team, Ronaldo has not been able to give his country a world cup trophy. Therefore, until now Ronaldo still has strong self-confidence and motivation to fight to bring Portugal to become champions in the next world cup. Apart from that, I personally think Ronaldo is still very worthy of dreaming about this. Because even though Ronaldo is quite old, he has very high discipline in taking care of his body and training his abilities. And it has been proven that at his current age he is still able to score lots of goals and is able to become the temporary top scorer in the Saudi Arabian League.

Apart from that, don't really compare Ronaldo's performance at Real Madrid or at other clubs with his current performance at Al Nasr. Because Ronaldo's performance at that time was better than his performance now. But you also need to remember, at that time Ronaldo was still very young and what's more, when he was at Real Madrid, Ronaldo had teammates who already had very good chemistry with him. So that at that time Ronaldo could show his best performance. And about Ronaldo's always arrogant behavior, especially on the field. This is nothing unusual. The reason is, at Real Madrid, at Juventus and at Manchester United, Ronaldo always behaved arrogantly. But you need to know that off the field Ronaldo is a very good figure. Even Ronaldo often donates blood.

I was expecting to see a much better performance from Al Hilal in the AFC Champions League. They already won the Saudi League and there is no reason for them anymore to be worried about this tournament. They could even give some rest to the players and save some more potential for the AFC Champions League because winning this title is definitely important for Al Hilal.
But they failed, In the game against Al Ain, Al Hilal was thinking Al Ain was a weak team like some other teams they played against them in the Saudi League and I think Al Hilal was totally surprised after they saw the good performance from Al Ain because they were not expecting to see this.
However, there is still the second leg. But changing the 4-2 result cannot be easy for Al Hilal.

Al Hilal finally got a defeat, Al Ain once again surprised us by defeating top teams from SPL. Previously, they succeeded eliminating Al Nassr in quarter final, now they have a good chance to eliminate Al Hilal in the semi-final. Honestly, I'm not really familiar with Al Ain, I think it is just an average team in Asia. I never expect this team to beat top teams from SPL. However, they show people that they are better than any other teams from Saudi league. Although they have no popular players, they played very solidly.

I think it won't be a problem for Al Hilal. In domestic league, Al Hilal always defeated each team. Even Al Nassr has no chance to win against Al Hilal. It is because Al Hilal knows well the game of each team in SPL. However, in AFC Champion league, Al Hilal may not know the game style of Al Ain. So, they were surprising with 4 goals of Al Ain.

The SPL is a growing league with teams doing very well at what they do. We can mention a few of the teams as not just Al-Nassr being the only ones doing well. The various team performances are beneficial to the leagues growth and expansion, adding to the promptness to be a part of the UEFA race. It's a good push to the best that a team can portray. Al-Nassr are still standing really out in the league and then the likes of Al-Hilal and the other teams. The combination of local and foreign players in the league promoted unity and bond with nations too, even increases fans favouritism.

 It's just beautiful to watch how football in the Asian side has become so beautiful, shifting down the attention of other nations to see the wonders that the SPL are doing. Al-Nassr is one big team in the SPL that when fixed for a game, they've got some quantuble high chance of being victorious. I'd say for all teams in that league, it's kind of like Al-Hilal being the only team that may give Al-Nassr a tough time. There's still this confidence that they'd still be able to meet up and win the trophy this season. Although Al-Hilal is not a team that should be joked with, they're a good side too as Al-Nassr.

  Al-Nassr are still standing really out in the league and then the likes of Al-Hilal and the other teams.  The league is still running and race for the trophy is on too. The final table standing is awaited. For Al-Taawon and Al-Khaleej, they can only strive to stay in shape and keep being relevant in the league. It's good and also not good that so far, their battles with teams in the league have still left the Saudi league with thesame set of top teams so far. We hope that unto the next season, there'd be differences in the SPL as there have been with other European leagues too.

Again, my prediction was wrong for the umpteenth time. In the last week or so, the match that I predicted 80% completely missed. It's been a long time since my predictions weren't this bad in terms of research, analysis and speculation.  lbut this is football, sometimes the results are difficult for us to predict for sure. yeah, like the Al Ain vs Al Hilal match. in this match, Al Hilal is more favorite than the home team. In the end Al Hilal's unbeaten record had to end at the hands of the Al Ain squad in the AFC Champions League competition, the first time this season that Al Hilal slipped all season with a final score of 4-2. referring to statistics, Al Hilal actually dominated the game plus was technically far superior. However, Al Ain's coach, the Argentine legend, Hernan Crespo, was able to stop Al Hilal. although in reality, Crespo uses a counterattack pattern more. In the second leg, Al Hilal must beat Al Ain by at least 3 goals without replying. Thus, the match for the final round of the AFC Champions League is wide open.

Well, let's just wait, after all the second leg match will be held again soon because the match between Al Hilal and Al-Ahli in the Saudi Pro League has been postponed. well, for the Saudi Pro League, Al Hilal is in a safe position. Even if Al Hilal experiences defeat again for the umpteenth time in a different event, Al Hilal has points that are difficult to approach. Moreover, this competition only has 7 matches remaining. So, Jorge Jesus can still focus his team in the second leg to overthrow their opponents with a large aggregate.

AL Hilal still has a chance to take revenge against Al Ain, their opportunity is quite big to catch up with a 2 goal deficit because they will act as hosts. I didn't expect Al Ain to be able to beat Al Hilal and break their unbeaten record. Previously, as we know, Al Ain advanced to the semifinals after beating Al Nassr, that was an extraordinary achievement. Al Hilal hopes of winning the Asian Champions League trophy this season are slim, but they still have hope of turning things around.

On the other hand, Al Ain played more effectively by relying on counter attacks, the 3 penalties they received came from counter attacks, the Al Hilal defender failed to make a clean tackle to prevent a goal. Apart from that, statistically we can also see that Al Hilal is quite dominant in possession of the ball, but they tend to attack and make the defense line open enough to be easily penetrated. Al Hilal must be able to correct these mistakes in the second leg if they want to turn things around and advance to the final round.

The rest of the games ended with the home team winning and only the first game that ended with a draw. Al-Shabab won Abha with 5 goals and Abha did not stand any chance to win Al Shabab, they dominated all through the game and could have scored more goals because Abha did not play well. Al Fateh won Al-Raed with 3 goals and also dominated most of the game. It was all entertaining games with alot of goals for the rest of the games for the day. Non of the games played today had any effects on the title race but the games tomorrow will have an effect as Al nassr will be playing Al-Fayha and Al Nassr will have an opportunity to go closer to the club at the top of the league. Al nassr have always won Al Fagha when they played and have a better statistics against them. If Al Nassr losses tomorrow game then it is race over for them in the title race for the Saudi pro League.

And sure enough, this match ended with a score of 1-1, and it looks like you will see a loss in your bet, no problem, you can do it and win another time.
To be honest, this draw was a fair result for both teams, because both teams played to a draw and even in possession of the ball there was no difference between them. The opportunities they create are also not much different. However, it is a bit unfortunate for Al Taawoun, because on paper they actually have an advantage over their opponents this time. They couldn't use it to become a victory that they could achieve.
This result increases their record of draws, and so far they are one of the 3 teams that have collected the most draws this season. They have recorded 9 draws. This makes them a team that is not bad but not good either, they are in the middle level in terms of performance this season.

I saw the highlights of the game and I confess that I was very shocked by the attitudes of the Al Hilal defense players, who seemed like they were committing those fouls on purpose, because it is not normal for them to have committed 3 penalties that could easily have been avoided. One of the big problems that I've been observing in the games of these Arabian teams or Arab leagues is that they seem like fixed games, because there are things that I see that are not normal. We'll see in the second leg how it goes, but I still think that these Arabs could be playing regular games to draw more attention to their leagues.



Al Hilal only needs to win the next 3 league games to become champions. Now they have an advantage of 12 points when there are still 7 games left for the league to end and knowing that within these 7 games they will play against Al Nassr, it seems to me that they still cannot afford to rotate players in the next league game, because a defeat in the next one would make them only have a 9 point lead while they still have 6 games to go and they have to play against Al Nassr within those 6 games. It would not be smart and strategic to prioritize the AFC and ignore the league. I think the most important thing for Al Hilal should be to win the league

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Today we have 3 games, one of which has already ended.

Al-Taawoun 1 - 1 Al-Khaleej

Both teams in the last 5 games had a mixed performance in my opinion, there are draws and wins, so there are not 2 consistent teams, that's why I'm not surprised by this result, for me it was something expected. With this result, the situation of the two teams in the table does not change much, but it will change as soon as the remaining games of the round involving other teams take place. If Al Hittihad wins in Saturday's game against the worst team in the league, then Al Hittihad will move to number 4

It was a draw, Al-Khaleej sought an equalizer literally at the end of the match. I didn't bet but seeing that they looked for the result in the last moments of the game was very disappointing for Al-Taawoun.

Al-Taawoun vs Al-Khaleej two team match has already started in Saudi Professional League. So far both teams are equal with 1-1 goals. In this match I have bet in support of Al-Taawoun team but seeing the performance of Al-Taawoun team players.  I am very worried because this match is more likely to be a draw. But still if Al-Taawoun team can score then Al-Taawoun team will win this match I will win the bet.

Every record is meant to be broken; nothing lasts forever. It's pretty certain that their unbeaten streak will end sooner or later. Al-Hilal's impressive 43-game unbeaten streak has finally been broken, along with their 34-game winning streak, which was the longest in football history. To be fair, Al-Hilal is facing tough competition today. They used to dominate others, but now they're experiencing the same treatment.
There's still the second leg to come, and hopefully, Al-Hilal will bounce back and win the game. Football is indeed an unpredictable sport!

We all know how motivated Ronaldo has always been and winning the world cup is his dream so since it will be his last world cup giving it his best shot is all he can do now, so if he says he wants to play the world cup let’s just support him and wish him well. Even at this age you will know that Ronaldo’s professionalism is outstanding and that has kept him relevant in football at this age, scoring so many goals at this age is not easy and leading the chart of the Saudi league highest goal scorer is an impressive achievement which shows that Ronaldo cannot be written off regardless of his age.

How do you mean? His behavior in the pitch performance wise or what, his performance his good for a player his age but if you mean how he reacts to criticism from fans then i would say u don’t know Ronaldo much, he has always been like this and always loves to react to criticism and according to him he says critics is what keeps him motivated to work even harder to prove doubters wrong. I know at this age he should stop reacting to criticism but i guess that’s just who he is.

Currently the main focus of a player who plays in the Arab league is of course very big money, and of course we cannot deny if this is one of the goals of Ronaldo, in my opinion it is quite reasonable because indeed footballers have a productive age to make as much money as possible before they retire, for now Ronaldo has a large enough fee at Al Nassr so it may be countless how much wealth he has By Ronaldo at this time, besides that as far as I know at this time Ronaldo is also starting to have income from outside football with a hotel business near the Arabian Red Sea at this time so I think Ronaldo has prepared well for his retirement.

In addition to money, of course, we cannot separate football in Ronaldo's life so far, since he was a child Ronaldo has made football a passion so that in addition to money, of course playing football is his life, and reportedly the reason Ronaldo continues to play football at Al Nassr is to maintain his performance in order to continue playing with Portugal in the Euro and World Cup later.

I think he is just trying to maximize his ability to make money in the last part of his career.

I don't think he's doing it just for fun, it's probably in just for the money, and the current team probably was the only one happy to pay that much for him.

Few years back we have good intention about soccer in this region with Qatar and UAE spend huge funds, but sadly they were not smart like these Saudis and have no intention like them but Saudi League organizers done good job, and they spend nearly $1 Billion and having good fan base and intention from the soccer world which make things good for them, and now they are already having hosting rights of Soccer World Cup 2034 which is giving them good advantage for develop good structure for this game in this country.

They bring few top quality players from around the world which are giving them good exploration and their league quality is also better which is the best thing if they are able to keep things at this level then surely we will have good development in near future which will help this game in this region, and they will be able to have more attraction from the world about this all with now good thing happening many countries are broadcasting this league into their sports channels which will create good atmosphere about them specially Cristiano Ronaldo who is ambassador for the league as well doing good work for this league.