Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 2. (Read 128286 times)

Despite being mid table, Al Ettifaq have only one win in seven home games so far and have the fewest points at home in the league. They have problems especially in defense and face one of the strongest teams in the league in Al Ahli. After a five week winning streak, Al Ahli suffered a defeat away to Al Kholood last week. It was a big surprise for them and this is a big opportunity for Al Ahli to bounce back from last week's defeat. I expect a high scoring win for Al Ahli because their opponents have a terrible home performance.

Because the distance between Al Ahli and Al Shabab is only three points with Al Nassr, Al Nassr is threatened to be left behind by Al Ahli and Al Shabab. I think it could be included in an impossible plan to keep Ronaldo. Not meaning to judge the Saudi Professional League can be arranged by certain parties, but if the two teams are able to shift Al Nassr from that place, maybe the Saudi Pro League could get a lot of people talking.
Al Nassr's goal productivity because Ronaldo and Ronaldo are typical players who must be able to score goals. It should not be about the number of goals, but helping the team win trophies.

If I am not mistaken, before Ronaldo came to Saudi Arabia to join Al Nassr, their striker was from CMR. Ronaldo's arrival made him sold and a statement from him was also made. If Ronaldo is still with Al Nassr and Al Nassr does not win the championship, their former striker will be very satisfied with his words.

If they are aiming for the championship next season, Al Nassr needs to transfer very big players. Because there are missing players or low quality players in many regions. The Saudi Arabia Pro League is no longer a simple league like it used to be. It is now a league with higher quality, more competition, and better players. While the championship fight continues, transferring the best players would be the only good move they can make. Al Nassr has been aiming for the championship for years but has never been able to achieve it.

Yeah, i understand what you mean. and as you said, Al Nassr is 11 points behind the team at the top of the standings. although this competition still has many matches until the end of the season, it seems that Al Nassr will have difficulty competing with Al Hilal and Al Ittihad. even if Al Nassr wins every match, Al Hilal and Al Ittihad must at least lose some of their matches. thus, Al Nassr is able to reduce the gap in points and compete again for the League trophy. unfortunately Al Hilal and Al Ittihad are in their best form, they will try not to slip in every match they play. well, back to Al Nassr, i am curious about the future of Stepano Pioli, if Al Nassr finishes in 3rd or 4th position, will he be removed from the coaching chair. because i am sure, the club management at least wants a title this season and that is why Pioli was assigned to handle the Al Nassr team squad. even so, this competition still has quite a lot of matches, maybe there will be a surprise. who knows, in football it is difficult to predict for sure.

aymeric Laporte once again came to the aid of Al-Nasr and scored for the team.
The Spanish defender of Al-Nasr football team plays the role of a hero in difficult moments; when the conditions become difficult for the great Riyadh team, he either prevents defeat or brings joy back to the yellow stands with his performance.
Laporte saved his team from defeat in Al-Nasr's last match against Al-Taawoun, in the 15th week of the Saudi Roshan League. he scored the equalizer in that game, which ended with a score of 1-1.
The Spanish defender has registered three goals in the league so far this season, he has scored against Al-Shabab, Al-Kholud and Al-Taawoun. In addition, Laporte scored his team's winning goal against Esteghlal of Iran in the Asian Elite League.

If over time Al Ahli and Al Shabab are able to be consistent with good results in every match, then of course it will be a serious threat to Al Nassr, because they only have a three-point gap. Al Nassr with 29 points and 26 points for Al Ahli and Al Shabab although indeed, Al Nassr still has better goal productivity but still, Al Nassr is still weak enough to compete in the top three. But perhaps, the trophy is no longer Al Nassr's main target, because Al Nassr has mega star players so it still provides an advantage for the club.

Team cohesion is still a problem for them, so it hinders their development to become better. If we compare it with Al Hilal or Al Ittihad for example, their chemistry on the field is not better than the 2 teams I mentioned. While in football, chemistry is one of the important factors that can make the game better. They do not have any shortcomings, I mean in terms of the composition of the players they currently have, they are good players, they also have a good coach, but they do not show that they are a team with a good composition of players and coaches. So I conclude that their chemistry has not been formed well which makes their game not as expected.

They started the last season and this season badly, but in the last season, they recovered strongly and there was only Al Hilal as a strong competitor for Al Nassr. In this season, there are two big different things than the last season: First, Al Nassr played worse than the last season; second, there is another strong competitor Al Ittihad in this season. This causes a surprising drop of Al Nassr to a third position, but it does not stop here. With recent bad results, Al Nassr lost their third position to Al Qadasiya with 2 points less.

Their nightmare seems to continue as now they have only 3 points more than Al Ahli and Al Shabab and it contains risk that if Al Nassr lose one match, they can drop down 2 more ranks in Saudi Professional League.

Al Nassr is now in 4th place and of course up to now Al Nassr's performance has still not progressed and as we have seen in their last match Al Nassr was held to a draw by Al Taawon 1-1 and of course this is not very good for Al Nassr if indeed I want to become champion in the SPL this season, although there is still hope, but it feels like if, for example, in the next match Al Nassr still makes no progress in terms of performance, it seems like it will be more difficult for Al Nassr to catch up with the points, especially Al hilal and ittihad. but honestly I want to see this season Al Nassr can become champions and want to see Cristiano Ronaldo lift the trophy but yes it seems hope for
Becoming champions this season is very difficult because of course Al Nassr will to have watch Al Hilal and Ittihad lose when competing in the upcoming match if Al Nassr wants to catch up with Ittihad and Al Hilal's points tally.

However, if you look at the matches of Ittihad, Al Hilal and Al Qadisiyah, they appeared impressive in their matches, especially Al Hilal, they played better from time to time and as we know, Al Hilal was successful against Al Fateh with a fantastic score, namely 9-0. Of course, this indicates that Al Hilal is really great. How is it possible that Al Nassr will be able to win a trophy this season? Because of course it will not be an easy thing to win a trophy for Al Nassr with the large difference in points between Al Nassr and Al Hilal and Ittihad.

It seems that this season is a difficult season for Al Nassr even though they have star players and experienced coaches, but all of that does not guarantee anything. On the one hand, Al Nassr still has many players who can help the team to get a stable performance. As we see in every appearance of Al Nassr which is still very weak when compared to the team at the top of the standings. So this season, Al Nassr most likely will not be able to get the chance to compete to reach the top of the standings or even in the runner-up position. But in the coming season I believe, Pioli is able to turn Al Nassr into a strong competitor for Al Hilal.

Even though Al Nasr has a squad that is considered expensive among other teams in the Saudi Arabian League, this cannot make Al Nasr a great team. The reason is that Al Nasr forgot several things that were very important for the progress of his team so that they could perform well. Something that Al Nasr forgot was the suitability and evenness of the players. Because currently there is no even distribution of players. The proof alone is that Al Nasr's front line is quite sharp at the moment, because there are great players like Ronaldo, Mane and Talisca. But in the middle and back positions, Al Nasr does not have players who can be relied on well. So because of this, Al Nasr was unable to rise from his downturn. Because Al Nasr's is too focused on the front line and doesn't think too much about the midfield and back line.

Al Nasr should buy players who play as defenders and midfielders who have above average skills. That way, Al Nasr will definitely have a strong defense and a good attack flow. So if Al Nasr can do this, I am sure they can definitely compete better in the Saudi Arabian league. Apart from that, the Al Nasr players are also too dependent on Ronaldo, so that when Ronaldo cannot play, such as being injured, Al Nasr's performance immediately experiences a drastic decline. So how can Al Nasr want to progress if, for example, the squad is still like this? Therefore, this season Al Nasr's performance has not increased, but has actually decreased. So I also assume that this season Al Nasr will likely have difficulty again becoming champions.

No, I mean when I compare them with other teams like Al Hilal and Al Ittihad, that's what makes me say they are not strong enough to keep winning.
While talking about the course of the match that made them feel this draw, of course they played better actually. But that alone is not enough, because they have to create more goals from their opponents which they can't do.
Al Nassr are running out of ways to make them win, now they have a difference of 11 points from the top of the standings. The number of points that will be very difficult to catch up, especially with their performance which is still inconsistent.

Al-Nassr got 7 points from 15 in the last five games and these results made them fourth. Ironically, they got the highest number of draws just after Al Feiha which is in the relegation zone by the way.. Al Feiha also made Al-Ittihad lose their first place in addition to the huge number of goals scored by Al-Hilal against Al Fateh, 9 - 0

Al Taawon, who previously performed quite impressively when facing Al Qadasiayah which ended with a score of 3-0, Al Taawon's victory seemed to make them appear more confident when facing Al Nassr, especially as they played as hosts.

In that match, it was very unfortunate that Al Nassr had to lose their consistency when the first half was almost over and they were just waiting for the referee's long whistle to sound. Al Nassr had to concede a goal right in the 45+5 minute, the goal was scored by a player who had a similar name to the club that was his opponent, Al Nasser was able to score a goal that made Al Taawon able to take the lead over Al Nassr. But fortunately through a goal scored in the 64th minute by Laporte, Al Nassr managed to equalize.

The formation applied by Al Taawon's coach in this match was indeed quite troublesome, because they used a 5-3-2 formation, by installing 5 players to strengthen the back line, this made it quite difficult for Al Nassr's attackers to find space to be able to shoot directly towards the goal and score a goal.

In the end, Al Nassr had to be willing to share points with Al Taawon, and so did their position in the standings which had to be shifted again by Al Qadisiyah.

In terms of strength, Al Nassr is much better than their opponent team, Al Taawoun. In terms of statistics, Al Nassr is much more dominant in the course of the match. Likewise in terms of total shots, shots on target, but only two dangerous opportunities. Al Nassr should have been able to finish this match with a win, but in fact their front line struggled to convert opportunities into goals. Only half a season under Stefano Pioli, Al Nassr has experienced 5 draws and 2 defeats. Clearly this result is not as expected by Al Nassr supporters, especially Ronaldo supporters. By the way, if Pioli is unable to bring Al Nassr much better, I am sure Al Nassr will not use his services as Al Nassr's head coach again.

Over time, the performance and strength of the other teams in the Saudi Premier League gradually increased, but Al Nassr's performance gradually weakened. Many football fans were hopeful that Al Nassr would be much stronger in this year's Saudi Premier League and that they would be close to winning the title but they have already dropped to fourth place. Al Nassr draw against Al Taawoun recently was really unexpected because I bet on this match and predicted Al Nassr to win but they didn't. An Al Nassr player scored after half-time but they could not mount a strong attack after that. Maybe this team will perform much stronger in the next matches and they will win those matches.

First target is achieved by Saudi authorities now they are still looking for him to stay another 2 years which are already settled because in new contract he is going to have €550k per day and I don't think he will reject this deal because they are now also giving him stake in Al Nassr as well.

Now main target is revival of Al Nassr because they also want to win trophies under Ronaldo presence which does not happen in last 2 years Stefano Pioli is also well-organized coach and now what changes they will be made in future these are also important while having trophy surely Ronaldo dream as well.

The 5th draw was achieved by Al Nassr this season and that made them have to move away from other clubs in first and second place. Sometimes I wonder about them, many times they always get unsatisfactory results, even though in terms of squad they are a capable club, but they can't use it well. Problems in the defense, midfield and front line that sometimes look selfish. They can't continue like this, because they will be even further away from the title fight. And if this is not too soon, then I would say they will fail again this season.

Personally, it surprises me, but not everything is because of CR7, or help or anything like that. I've seen that AL Nassr's forwards are sometimes very selfish with the bug, they don't pass him the ball but want personal glory, and they don't have the quality of a CR7, so as long as there is that division that doesn't make sense, things will never work out for him. This team has a lot of potential, but I'm already thinking that the problem is not even the coach, the problem is the rest of the players, where he clearly removed Mane and CR7 from that group.

The Saudis may be rich but they don't have infinite money, that's why I've been saying that bringing in very expensive and old players and then giving them big money contracts for 3 years is not the best way to turn a poor quality football league into a good quality football league. Let's take yesterday's games as an example:

Al Taawon 1 - 1 Al Nassr

Ronaldo's team drew and are 11 points behind the leader of the table and have no chance of becoming champions. Since Ronaldo arrived in the League, Al Nassr have not managed to win the league and have changed many coaches. In my opinion, the problem is very simple:

- They are spending a lot of money on Ronaldo and are not signing any other good players for the team. They have a weak squad.

That's why, in my opinion, teams should focus on bringing in good coaches and talented young players. Of course, they will lose media attention, but they will gain quality in the league in the long term and will have a strong national team in the long term. Then the media will start paying attention to the league again. In the current scenario when Ronaldo leaves and Neymar too, then the league will also lose attention