Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 207. (Read 119379 times)

Looks like what you said is true, friend. The reason is, the results of Al Nasr's match against Damac ended with a narrow victory for Al Nasr. Al Nasr players achieved this victory with great difficulty. The reason is that in that match Al Nasr was only able to win by scoring one goal at the end of the second half. This means that throughout the 90 minutes of play the Al Nasr players really had difficulty breaking down Damac's defense.

However, another reason why Al Nasr struggled to score goals may have been because players like Ronaldo, Brozovic and Sadio Mane were introduced midway through the second half. So in the first half until the middle of the second half, Al Nasr's attack line was a little dull because the main players had not been introduced. Maybe initially coach Al Nasr was too confident and thought the match against Damac would be very easy to win without the main players (especially on the front line).

However, in reality, Al Nasr was unable to score a goal against Damac. And after Ronaldo, Brozovic and Sadio Mane were introduced into the field, Al Nasr's front line was sharp again. Then a goal was scored by Laporte in the 90+1 minute. Maybe if, for example, Al Nasr's main front line players were played from the early minutes, I'm sure Al Nasr could score 1 or 2 goals in the first half.

However, maybe the Al Nasr coach wants to give Al Nasr's main front line players a little rest. So in this match, several of Al Nasr's main forward players were on the bench.

Damac's match against Al-Nassr was very tense for me because in more than 80 minutes neither team had scored a goal and I saw that the Al-Nassr players were not able to take advantage of opportunities well and I also didn't understand Luis Castro's strategy because he didn't play Cristiano Ronaldo for long. only 24 minutes and of course I saw that in that match Al-nassr was still lucky because Laporte was able to take advantage of the opportunity well and the corner kick provided Al-nassr with luck and of course Laporte became the hero in Al-nassr's match against Damac. but luckily I bet on Al-nassr winning.

Al-Nassr in the next match will face Al-Hilal in the Saudi Super Cup and to be honest this is very tense and honestly I want to see Al-Nassr win that match but it seems like Al-Hilal's strength is too strong and of course Al-Nassr will have a big potential to lose in the match during the match in the Saudi Super Cup.

but in the semi-finals of the Saudi Super Cup it will definitely be an exciting match, of course Luis Castro will use all his strength to make Al-nassr win in the match and I also hope that Cristiano Ronaldo and Mane play fully in the It looks like Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal fans will be enthusiastic in providing full support.

There are a number of teams in the Saudi League who definitely qualify for the Europa League or Champions League. A few days ago, I heard rumors that Ronaldo and Neymar's team will soon play in the Champions League or the Europa League. There are many teams playing in the European League who have fared worse than the top teams in the Saudi League but still qualified for the Champions League with their poor performance. For the last two seasons, since the Saudi League has been renewed and every season the clubs are signing the best players from Europe with their clubs, the news may be coming from UEFA soon that the top teams of the Saudi League will qualify for the Champions League.

They can spend money, buy super star and star players from big clubs in Europe from young to old players but they won't be able to change all the rules and laws that are existing from FIFA to UEFA.

I consider these news as rumors to stimulate fans only and can be news used to manipulate stocks of those clubs on stock markets. It is my conspiracy theory only and I did not check how stocks of Al Nassr and Al Hilal perform after these news.

Both Al Nassr and Al Hilal will not be invited and allowed to join Champions League except if something really big will be changed by UEFA. It won't happen after one or two seasons and I am skeptical that Cristiano Ronaldo will still be a player when such a big change occurs.

Invite ex-legendary players to join a club or a national team, is not new. We saw many ex-legendary players and even legendary coaches from Europe to join clubs and national teams in Middle East or Asian countries. Success from them is very limited and most of them ended their journeys with failures.

Psychology of domestic players can not be improved quickly. We can see Qatar, they won Asian Cup and can play well against biggest national teams in Asia, Japan, Iran and South Korea but when they played in World Cup 2022, they were very weak. Their performances in World Cup are worse than other big Asian teams like Japan, Iran and South Korea and I believe main reason comes from psychology and experience.

Ronaldo may ask the coach to play from the bench. I don't know what the real reason is, it is just my guess.  
In the previous match, Ronaldo was also changed in minute 46'. There should be something wrong with Ronaldo fitness because he must play full time if he is in a good condition. I don't think the coach want to keep a big player like Ronaldo if he doesn't have a serious reason.

Shenanigans? I think it is too much. How can put a player on the bench to be shenanigans?  
No one knows it, I think only Ronaldo and the coach know it. But it should be a serious reason, Ronaldo must play as a starter if there is no a serious reason.

I don't watch the match, so I don't know whether Ronaldo feels upset or not. If it is Ronaldo who asked to play from the bench, he shouldn't feel upset because it is what he wants.



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There was even some news about Al Nassr playing in the top European tournaments like the Champions League and there was the same news about Al Hilal because of the huge money they invested and the expensive players they bought for their teams.
Regardless of that having players like Ronaldo was really life-changing for Al Nassr because they could have many other players and many players just joined this league and this team because of Ronaldo playing there.
Now it seems Ronald is going to make Fernando Ruíz Hierro to join Al Nassr as sports director for this team. Fernando Ruíz Hierro had the experience of working in Real Madrid but currently, he is working in Mexico.

Here I have to be agreed with you about your this paragraph because sometime coaches really feel in this way, and they use their power wrongly even they know all about things they are doing wrong and still they can do better, but power is problem for the many. Ronaldo performance is impressive here in this Saudi League and things are clearly going to his favor as well with he can play more here with this is not competitive like we have in UEFA and for staying fit for the next world cup this is also better practice for him instead of staying away from the game and having things which are not suitable for him and his fitness.

Anyone knows a particular reason why the coach let Ronaldo sit on the bench? I don't get these shenanigans. They won't have a chance to win the title as Al-Hilal is playing too consistently, but Ronaldo is the best scorer of the Saudi Pro League, so why would a coach decide to not let him play as a starter? It's beyond me, but sometimes these coaches feel like they have all the power in the world and can do whatever they want because they are in the position to do so. Ronaldo must have been pretty pissed when he found out that he wouldn't play. It makes no sense to give someone like Ronaldo a break if he doesn't ask for it.

Al Hilal continues to progress with its positive trend in the match against Al Khaleej with a temporary score of 1-3. even though Motrovic appeared to be a goal-scoring machine for his squad, this did not stop them from winning the match against Al Khaleej. Al Hilal took the lead first thanks to Saleh Al-Shehri's goal in the 7th minute, but the home team was able to equalize in the 9th minute. but after that, Malcom turned things around again by scoring goals in the 42nd minute and 48th minute. Now, the match score is 1-3. There is still time left in the match, but it looks like it will be difficult for the home team to equalize. It is very clear that Al Hilal is getting closer to the Saudi Pro League trophy. they only have to win a few matches, it is certain that the League Trophy belongs to Al Hilal.

At the same time, Damac vs Al Nassr. This match has entered the 90+ minute. Al Nassr was just able to score a goal.  It's possible that Luis Castro deliberately didn't make Ronaldo the main starter in this match. considering that Al Nassr will have a crucial match against Al Nassr in the Super Cup. Luis Castro is preparing his team to go all out in the match against Al Hilal, especially since this match is a semi-final match. So, the Al Nassr coach did not field his core players to prepare for the match against Al Hilal in the Super Cup later. well, with this victory, Al Hilal is getting closer to the Saudi Pro League trophy. In just a few matches, they are entitled to the title of this competition.

It is already minute 70'+, Al Nassr still couldn't score a single goal. I think Al Nassr too underestimates Damac, they used many substituted players in the first half of the match. I don't understand why the coach must put some key players on the bench because Al Nassr won't play in another competition. They are already eliminated in AFC champions league, right? So, Al Nassr only needs to focus on SPL matches. They must use the potential of Ronaldo, Mane, and other top players. It will be a bad result if they failed to win against Damac because Damac is actually a weak team with bad current performances.

By the way, Ronaldo is competing for the top scorer. Ideally, the coach will give him the chance to score goals as many as possible. It is quite confusing to see Ronaldo sitting on the bench. 

The age gap is the real trouble, there are MANY players who are better than him and under 30 years old, a few that are better than him that are over 30 years old as well, but there is NOBODY at his age and can play as well as he can, first of all there aren't even that many players who are at his age that still plays today, which goes to show you that he is keeping his fitness as the most important thing.

When he talked about coca cola, and not letting his kids have any etc etc, people mocked him, like it was some sort of endorsement deal that went wrong. That's not the case, I feel like the most important thing we could do right now, we could consider the situation to be changing with his body, he takes care of it like no one I have ever seen, except maybe Lebron James.

Game weeks 27, Al Nassr will face with 8th standings team awhile Damac and currently had poor performance after getting two loss in last four matches. Its not good way for Damac capital for facing Al Nassr had three consecutives winning matches and try to defend Al Hillal not winning early with domestic league trophy. Its excited to see how potential for Cristiano Ronaldo scoring the most beautiful goal from free kick after last match make hattrick and against Damac as opportunity to score as many goals possibility in this season.

Al Hilal seems has chance continue the winning trend behind not strong yet with the opponent team next match, Al Khaleej current standings on 9th place and seems not problem for getting three points and make close become the winner this season.

Now that it is obvious who will win the trophy, is it not safe to just enjoy the odds that Al Nassr Riyald and Al Hilaal have been offering? Both have been scoring at least three goals for a while now and a combination of both matches will usually give 2.1 odds. There is a little risk in this bet if you check their recent history and any business minded gambler can seize this opportunity to make some decent winnings. Although it is important to know that nothing is sure so caution should be applied to avoid over leveraging. As both teams have their respective matches tonight, I am exploring this option.

We can say "friday is better than sunday" in this league  we have so big games today, Al itihad against Altawoun, Damac against Alnassr, the leader Al Hilal against the Al-Khaleej and the last podium position team Al Ahli against Alwehda.

Only Al wehda is outside the top ten in all this teams mentioned above. AMAZING

Both matches will be week 27 matches for them and of course the two matches will no longer affect Al Hillal's position which Is currently at the top of the table, but still the match will be quite interesting to watch, especially Al Nassr in my opinion, although so far Al Hillal Is an unbeaten club in the SPL but still the Ronaldo factor makes many of us here who actually prefer to watch Al Nassr rather than Al Hillal, looking at Damac's current position which is in the 8th position of the SPL, I think it seems that they will not be an easy opponent for Al Nassr because after all Damac often gives difficulties to big teams such as Al Hillal and Al Ahli so far.

Damac has not been able to beat all three teams this season but with the narrow score created in their match of course Damac looks quite strong at the moment, and that's why I think if Ronaldo might not be able to repeat his hat trick in the game, but I think still Ronaldo will be able to score for Al Nassr's victory in the game.
For the match between Al Hillal and Al Khaleej, of course Al Hillal will get a strong resistance from Al Khaleej because so far Al Khaleej is unbeaten in their last 6 matches.

It must be admitted that scoring goals in the English Premier League will be more difficult than in the Saudi Pro League, because the differences in league levels cannot be compared. However, what we can see here is how Cristiano Ronaldo, at his current age, is still giving extraordinary performances and helping his team a lot to win, that is something extraordinary and we rarely see players almost 40 years old who are still very fit. , although it decreases in several aspects, such as speed for example.

If we compare who is the best, I think everyone has their own version. For example, in the Ballon d'Or award, there is still a lot of controversy, not everyone agrees that the player was the best player during one season. So if we compare one player with another, then it will not come to a point where we will all have the same opinion. So I think this is probably each of us's versions, with our own judgment.

As a result of committing a violation, Abha finally suffered a loss because the free kick was awarded to Al-Nassr and I was amazed at the accuracy of Cristiano Ronaldo's kick when taking the free kick, even though Cristiano Ronaldo is no longer young, his accuracy in kicking the ball is really very good. in the match against Abha, Cristiano Ronaldo opened the first goal and Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat trick in the match against Abha. and the score of 8-0 for Al-nassr's victory was certainly a fantastic score and the match was an enjoyable match for me.

and then Al-nassr will play Damac and it looks like many people will watch this match and I'm sure Al-nassr will be the favorite team. but I remember when Damac fought Al-Hilal and at that time Damac lost with a score of 2-1, but I saw that the score was thin like that, it indicated that Damac could not be taken lightly, so also when fighting Al-Nassr, I think Al-Nassr will have to use their strength. maximally.

In the next match, it seems like it will be a shame if you don't see Damac's match against Al-Nassr. Of course, Cristiano Ronaldo's game always attracts the attention of many people and is of course always exciting. but I'm sure that in the next match Al-nassr against Damac will be even more exciting, but I don't think Al-nassr will be able to score many goals because Damac's strength is very strong because against Abha it can be said that it is natural that Al-nassr was able to score 8 goals against Abha.

in the Damac match against Al-nassr, I want to bet on Al-nassr winning, what do you think?

Some games to come soon

Al nassr vs Damac
Al hilal vs Khaleej

I think anyone here will easily pick hilal and nassr to win the next games. It's quite obvious if nassr and hilal leads the game and it has been favored by bookies to win the game soon. Im not even thinking a lot to pick which clubs that will be winning in the next matchday.

Al nassr and al hilal will be destroying their opponents. I'm only questioning myself whether Ronaldo will make another hat trick against Damac, which is performing so pathetic this time. Im sure thousands of people will praise ronaldo if CR7 will score another hatrick again.

It sounds amazing to see a player to make hatrick three times in a row.

Al Hilal only needs a maximum of 5 matches with a win, it doesn't matter that Al Nassr will win all their matches until the end, Al Hilal has locked up the Saudi Pro League trophy for this season. especially if Al Nassr loses points in several of their matches. this makes the squad coached by Jorge Jesus even more secure in ensuring the League trophy. apart from that, Al Hilal has the potential to win titles in several other competitions. although, Mitrovic, the mainstay who is the goal-scoring machine in Jorge Jesus' squad, had to be absent for quite a long time. This competition only has 8 matches remaining, Al Hilal is 12 points ahead of the teams below their ranking. without having to sweep all the matches with a win, just 4-5 matches are enough for Al Hilal to confirm being League champions, breaking the trophy that was previously taken over by Al Ittihad. in fact, without Neymar Al Hilal have become a very solid and competitive team. The presence of Malcom, Mitovic and several other European players has made this team quite tough. plus, local Al Hilal players who also made a big contribution, especially Salem Al-Dawsari. apart from that, Al Hilal only conceded the fewest goals compared to other teams. However, Mitrovic's absence means Jorge Jesus has to rearrange the strategy and tactics for his squad. Fortunately, apart from Al Hilal having a local striker who could be an option for Jorge Jesus' tactics, one of the other players can be rotated into a central striker, namely Malcom. Talking about the Asian Champions League, Al Hilal has the potential to become the champion. plus, Saudi Super Cup. also, King's Cup. So, will Jorge Jesus and his squad be able to win trophies in various other competitions, it will be interesting for us to follow.

The Victory Al-Nassr over Abha was a revenge for dropping points against them at the start of the season. In the first leg we saw a draw between both teams and we understand how much effect the draw has on the Al-Nassr team currently in their title chase. Ronaldo who stood out keeps being the main man of this team.

 He keeps proving on why he’s worth every penny that was used to sign him but the main issue still remains the team’s balace. Yes if the team isn’t balanced then they might no be able to challenge for the league title as they’ll always be shortcoming in a part. Currently they’re about 12 points away and their chances look real slim, so the best they can do is to maintain stability and then try to build from there, knowing which positions to invest in when the summer window opens.

 Al-Hilal are on the verge of creating history by going undefeated and this is because of the balance in their squad, yes they might not have the big names in their squad but yet they’re able to create a balance in the team and for such the team is flourishing. The attack of Al-Nassr is really great but they need to seriously work on the defense which makes them concede unnecessary goals.

 ⁠The players of Al-Hilal will now be feeling a bit relaxed after the wide point gap and this is why football is really interesting. I just wish the owners of Al-Nassr can learn from this and try to help Ronaldo get the balance in the team do that he just doesn’t end up working and not get the proper reward which is to win the league