Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 204. (Read 112015 times)

It seems everything is not over for Al Nassr and they can't have any hope anymore because there is a huge gap between them and Al Hilal and regardless of the gap between these two teams, Al Nassr lost their player, Talisca.
In the games, they didn't have Ronaldo because getting injured or not in good form they used Talisca and he could have a perfect performance in this team.
Talisca was one of the best players in the Saudi League but before the game they had with Al Ain, Talisca and he was removed from the list. Now it seems he is going to be away for one month.
 

I'm acquainted with other SPL clubs but more concern with the winning teams. Al Hilal made everything simple and welcoming the necessary odds to ginger their stellar team's performance. These SPL clubs faces crucial challenges but they keep everything high and surpassing them doesn't seem disturbing. Al Hilal have become promising in all rounds of the current campaign. They're no stopping but continue to grab the significance of prominence. They have the squad and giving up is never an option for them. They went through the smooth run and having bolstering energy in upcoming matches.

The struggle of Al-Ittihad continue from the Saudi Pro League to AFC Champions League with a new defeat against Al-Hilal again, this time with two goals, in addition to a red card for Kante.
Al-Ittihad bad results everywhere are pissing their fans and Karim Benzema absence makes things more complicated.
The other team, Al-Nassr lost their AFC CL game vs Al Ain with one goal although having Cristiano Ronaldo in the field with them, that will make things harder in the second leg but not impossible in my opinion.

Yeah, the result of Saudi league is clear, Al Hilal is the champion. This team won't lose a single point, they keep winning every single match. Agree, the match between Al Hilal vs Al Nassr is the key of the matches in SPL this season. When Al Hilal defeated Al Nassr, I also think Al Hilal will be the champion in this season.

Yes, nothing changes, Al Hilal is in the top of the table and Al Nassr is in 2nd place. Al Ahli is always in the 3rd place. I also think this won't change until the end of the season. Only Al Ittihad is struggling to return to 4th place in the table. It is quite funny why Al Taawoun can get more points and they are in the 4th place now. But I think Al Ittihad will overtake them.

I don't understand what you mean by the hard SPL system because so far we have heard that the SPL is no different from other leagues, besides that we can categorize the SPL is not a league that is as competitive as the English and Spanish leagues, so when there are players who have played in the English League and Spanish League, of course they will not complain because indeed the SPL will be easier for them unless it is the players brought in by the Arab club Not competent at all, so far I haven't seen any European SPL players go to clubs outside the SPL unless they are not renewed or sold, whereas in Neymar previous case of course it was a different case when he was no longer the current team choice.

But if you say the system in Saudi Arabia is harsh of course I agree with you a little bit, because indeed Saudi Arabia has very binding rules in terms of freedom of women, alcohol and even dress which is far from Western traditions, but a footballer of course they should obey to respect the culture and religion where he plays, talking about why Ronaldo stayed in Saudi Arabia, of course we know that Ronaldo is not a player who has a weak mentality In addition, Ronaldo is also not the type of player who likes to drink alcohol so he does not have too much trouble with all the system in Arabia.

Saudi Arabia's finances and budgets are balanced, and they have a robust structure in place to execute complex deals. They are currently focusing on recruiting European players because they have a mission in consideration: to elevate their league's prominence so that it can compete with European leagues. Checking in with Saudi Arabia, they are doing everything they can to seize the golden chances.
The Saudi Arabian league is just for professional players. Simply looking at it reveals the Saudi Arabian style. Following the competitive race that these SPL elite teams have run, it will not be easy.

These players are promising but they don't usually last after moving to SPL. Something have even started complaining about the unfavorable system of SPL. Let's specified on Cristiano Ronaldo, he's the world best player alive and moving to SPL brings the submission to grow the popularity of the league. Ronaldo is the only european player that's surviving the hardened system.

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. The others, yes, may be good in one little way or the other but Al-Nassr just seems better off. Even though they've played and gained an extra 3points in their last game, they've still got a difference in the table standings with just a few points. 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 shouldn't trade their chances and loose again as their toughest counterpart will seize such flaw as a tool to stay solid in the toppest position and it'll be difficult to correct the errors when it's late. 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. The league is still running and race for the trophy is on too. The final table standing is awaited with barely 12 weeks to the end of the season for them. It's safe to say that these two teams will unendingly be tough opponents and hard counterparts for other teams in the league that'd want to take them up on an encounter.

Yes, this Saudi league is worth discussing, yes, I agree with you. It’s really really really worth discussing because one of the most famous football player in the world is  Saudi league, but I enjoy Ronaldo, more playing in Manchester than Saudi league, the few times I have Watch follow the trend of Saudi league, I feel like I enjoy more of Ronaldo, playing in Manchester, well, it really be interesting to talk about this league How is my mentor Neymar doing in the Saudi pro league.

I don't know what De Jesus did, so that Al Hilal could be as strong as it is now, even Al Ittihad, who scored the goal first, had to suffer a 3-1 (in the local league) defeat at the end of the match. In a few minutes the LCA between Al Hilal vs Al Ittihad will take place, looking at the results of the previous match, it seems that Al Hilal will win again. 

I agree that Al Hilal will not end up losing that many points, the league is already over. To be fair, I have said the same thing when it was their game as well, when Al Hilal managed to beat Al Nassr, I said that the league was over and there was nothing that Al Nassr can do.

Looking at the league right now, literally nothing has changed and that is why I believe that I was right and nothing will change. It happens, I know that people want to see Ronaldo win a cup there at least, and he did win something, not the league but I forget what it was but he won something there. I believe that he will play another year, so he should have another chance, if they make good transfers this summer, then everything could end up being a lot better.

It doesn't really matter which club that will win the game and the result is still the same. Al hilal is far above compared even to the strongest competitor in the saudi pro league and there will be no club that able to beat al hilal in the title race for the SPL. The club is always leaving its opponents behind. Im very heppy with the result achieved by al hilal as it was showing the competitiveness between all of top players. Some clubs are still struggling to win the game and it's time for al hilal to win a few trophies this season. These trophies are SPL and saudi pro league. Ittihad has performed so poorly and it's a toothless club.

So, it seems like the "powerful club" isn't so powerful anymore, mostly because their main player, Benzema, keeps getting injured and he's hardly playing against top clubs.

Al Hilal and Ittihad are going to play against each other again in the AFC Champions League, and if Ittihad loses, it will be a huge setback for them. Al Hilal didn't even play Mitrovic in their last game, but when he comes back, they should easily beat Al Ittihad because they're playing way better than last season.

Most people think Al Hilal is going to take over this season, and they've been playing really great lately. Al hilal is always consistently improving from time to the another time.

Yes, these four big clubs are now proven to dominate Saudi Arabia's domestic league. Because it is natural that the four of them could become shining clubs in Saudi Arabia. The reason is, these four clubs have finances that can be said to be the most normal when compared to other Saudi Arabian League football clubs. Because PIF certainly has funds that can be said to be fantastic. So with PIF funding these four clubs (Al Hilal, Al Nasr, Al Ahli, Al Ittihad), it is certain that these four clubs will be very advanced, especially in terms of the quality of their players and also the quality of their coaches.

Then if we compare the success of the four clubs, it is clear that Al Hilal is the most prominent and successful. The reason is that this season Al Hilal managed to become top of the Saudi Arabian League (SPL) standings for a while, with a record without defeat. In the Asian Champions League too, Al Hilal does have great potential to achieve very good results. This is different from the other 3 clubs (Al Ahli, Al Nasr, Al Ittihad), which are currently in less than optimal performance. For example, Al Nasr suffered defeat to Al Ain in the quarter-finals of the first leg of the Asian Champions League.

But even so, when talking about the Asian Champions League, the final result cannot actually be predicted with certainty.
But if we talk about the domestic league in Saudi Arabia (SPL), perhaps the picture is clear, that Al Hilal is the one who has a very big chance of winning the Saudi Arabian league this season.

Al Nassr, Al Ittihad, Al Ahli and Al Hilal are under the auspices of Public Investment Funds (PIF), of these four clubs Al Hilal is the one most likely to achieve success this season. In the Saudi Pro Legue, Al Hilal is one step closer to locking in the domestic title thanks to its unbeatable consistency, collecting more points than other contestants, especially from the three clubs that are both shaded by PIF. In the Asian Champions League, Al Hilal is predicted to be one of the teams that will reach the final. Al Hilal steps to reach the final were challenged by compatriot rivals, namely Al Ittihad, where it is predicted that Al Hilal can complete it by winning and advancing to the semifinals.

We need to consider that how big the difference is, it is 9 points, and with only 12 remaining match days in Saudi Professional League, it's not easy for Al-Nasrr to catch up with Al-Hilal. You can look at the total conceded goals of Al-Hilal, only 11 conceded goals after 22 matches. With that strong defense power, it is hard to score a goal against Al-Hilal and this difficulty limits chances for their opponents to beat Al-Hilal.

This is another reason to make Al-Nassr more difficult to catch up with Al-Hilal. They are not in a good form with two matches without winning, one draw and one defeat. If Al-Nassr gets like one more draw or one more defeat in Saudi Professional League, chances will be out of their reach soon.

The remaining 12 matches should indeed open up opportunities for Al-nassr to catch up with Al-hilal. But expecting Al-hilal to lose points in the few remaining matches this season would be very difficult for us to believe. Because we can see that all the top teams in the SPL have not managed to beat Al-Hilal this season. So we cannot hope that teams at lower levels can make Al-hilal lose points.

Al-Nassr also did not appear to be in good condition. Like in the round of 16, first leg of the AFC Champions League, we can see that Al-Nassr has just lost to Al Ain. But I hope Al-Nassr in the SPL remains consistent and can continue to collect points perfectly.

It is quite simple. Al-Nassr does not win about 25% of their games, which means depending on the opponent of course, there is still a realistic chance that a bet goes wrong. I am not sure why he can't believe he didn't win this bet, but it would have made more sense if he was disappointed about Al-Hilal not winning the game.

As you said, the unexpected events are the big pay-offs, but that's why it doesn't work out all too often that you hit the right pick at the right time.

Yeah, that sucks when you actually are absolutely sure something will happen and then suddenly the unexpected occurs.

Having said that, the unexpected is where the money is, so in theory you could from time to time go against what your gut tells you and you might get lucky.

I missed betting on that match. I forgot there was an Al-ain vs Al-nassr match yesterday. But if I knew there would be this match then I would probably bet on Al-Nassr in that match. And will experience defeat just like you. And yes, I'm also sure that many people bet on Al-Nassr in that match and lost.

I watched the replay of the match. And I saw that Al-Nassr was a little bad at making passes and taking advantage of passes. But don't worry, this is only the first leg. And maybe Al-Nassr will respond with lots of goals in the second leg. Because I believe Al-Nassr should be able to win this match easily.

You are not alone here. That's how the game is sometimes, because I did help one of my friends with the prediction that Al Nassr wins, but only  to be shocked they actually lost by a lone goal.
Christiano Ronaldo did play 90' even with Sadio Mane, the goals just couldn't come. Ronaldo was recently fined for a response in one of their past matches, and had to also miss a match, maybe that affected his moral.
I really don't know why they lost, but am glad my friend didn't take my prediction too personal because the bet was lost for sure.
Al Hilal gets to play Al Ittihad tonight and am sure Al Hilal will get the best of the former. Am going for a straight win, incase I am found worthy to be asked for my predictions again. hehehr...

The problem is not only that because support for Ronaldo is reduced in this match. It appears that only Otavio and Mane are in the formation to help attack and Brozovic and Talisca are not visible on the squad list. I think that alone is enough proof that without a complete main squad it makes it much more difficult for Al-Nassr and it is proven that the flow of the ball is often not very smooth going forward.

On the other hand, I briefly watched this match and Al-Ain was always trying to stop the attacks built by A;-Nassr and often they also committed hard offenses so that Al-Nassr couldn't easily break into their goal. Ronaldo also had several opportunities with his hard kicks, but the Al-Ain goalkeeper's performance was very good in this match and managed to make several important saves. Al-Nassr has a responsibility to complete this mission in the second leg and at home they should be able to beat Al-Ain decisively and surpass this thin aggregate.