Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 208. (Read 119807 times)

Aye this stage of the league,  clubs are careful on the ways theor features most of their star players and I think AI Nassrr is following same step with not featuring Crhistaina Ronaldo from the very start of the game.

But then we saw how the game ended and ad a matter of fact the first position will definitely come to AI Nassr because of they current standing and how those other clubs are performing right now

Yes, they missed several opportunities because they couldn't end with a goal, but once again they were lucky enough because in the final minute they were finally able to shake Damac's goal so they could win this match.
As for the title, I see that is impossible now, they are too far from Al Hilal who can comfortably be at the top of the standings. However, this is not entirely their fault, because Al Hilal themselves have played extraordinary this season. It is very difficult for other teams to beat them and it can be seen from their record that they have never been defeated. Even when Al Nassr faced them, in fact it was Al Nassr who lost. In fact, one opportunity to get closer to Al Hilal is to beat them when AL Nassr meets Al Hilal.
Maybe next season they can try again, and I hope they can be even better, especially in defense, because their defense line also has many shortcomings this season.

It could be that Luis Castro deliberately didn't field some of his core players for the match against Al Hilal in the Super Cup, that's why almost all of Al Nassr's core players played in the second half. different from Brozovic, he was played in the 15th minute replacing one of the players due to injury. Mane came on in the 46th minute, but still no goals were scored. Ronaldo was finally sent off in the 66th minute, but his position remained unchanged. Until the time came in the 90+1 minute, Brozovic was able to provide an assist for Aymeric Laporte which led Al Nassr to victory. the only goal, making Al Nassr avoid a draw.
Meanwhile Al Hilal, achieved a big win to ensure their progress towards confirming the Saudi Pro League trophy this season.

IMO, that's why it seems like the Al Nassr coach chose not to field his main players in the main line-up for the match they will play against Al Hilal. because on April 9, Al Nassr will be reunited with Al Hilal in the semifinal match in the Super Cup. It seems that Luis Castro hopes that his team will be very ready and fit when playing the match against their rival, namely Al Hilal.

I never imagined that it would be so difficult for Al-Nassr to beat Damac, but I have to admit that sometimes Damac can be a troublesome opponent, especially when they are playing at home. Al-Nassr's attacks were less effective and even though they had many opportunities, they were always thwarted well by Damac. It may be true that the absence of several key players from the start of the match made it difficult for Al-Nassr.

On the other hand, even though several key players came on in the second half, that didn't change anything and Al-Nassr's attacks continued to be thwarted. Luckily, Aymeric Laporte's header became a goal after taking advantage of a corner kick in the final minute. At least this victory allows Al-Nassr to continue its winning trend.

Why Cristiano was not in the starter eleven yesterday?.

Al itihad and Al tawoun with this draw maintain their positions but both lose the chance to fill the gap between them and Al Hilal, a third position is very worth after we already know the two top spots are filled from the early stages of the tournament with and Al Hilal in a super form.

We cannot always compare a player's performance at his previous club, especially since we can see the differences between Al Ittihad and Real Madrid, and Benzema is also getting older, which could have an impact on his performance on the pitch. From what he said, perhaps he felt that his strategy and game did not suit him and that resulted in his performance not being as good as before. And also the problems he is facing with his club may have an impact on his performance too.

I don't think anyone can be blamed for this, because even if we look at the past, we have seen that Benzema had very difficult times with Real Madrid, he even received a lot of criticism from supporters for his performance which was far from what was expected. We saw that he missed so many opportunities at that time, but slowly his performance began to improve again and in the end he became a very reliable player for the Real Madrid squad.

Al Nassr played differently when Ronaldo was not playing full-time and it's the reason why al nassr was winning the game against damac with narrow score caused by it must be even greater than it. It should be noted that despite al Nassr's best efforts to improve the situation against Damac, it has completely failed. I must fully appreciate all of al Nassr's efforts to play without ronaldo caused by they were trying so hard in winning the game, but without Ronaldo, the club appears to be even weaker than what i though, so ronaldo played very important role in this case.
My impression if I saw different al Nassr in that game without ronaldo. It's understandable that many people are still skeptical of lassr's performance, given that it will soon face Al Hilal, the strongest team at the time.
I can't wait for the match between Al Hilal and Al Nassr. This is going to be the biggest match at the moment caused by the result from this game will determine the winner of super cup. I'm wondering what strategy al Nassr came up with to defeat al Hilal soon. This game appears to be out of reach for Al Nassr considering how strong al hilal is.
I learned a lot from the previous match about how al Hilal always dominated al Nassr in any game. It's strange if al Hilal will lose to al Nassr soon. I won't even believe it.

Since the start of the season, Karim Benzema haven't been as outstanding as he used to be when he was still at Real Madrid and it got to a point that he started having issues with his current club Al Ittihad which the reason(s) haven't been disclosed to the media but two days ago, the France international granted an interview where he said somethings i think are the reason why he's bot been at his best at the club and also the reason why he's been having some internal issues with tge club.
Karim Benzema was asked why he's not scored goals since December and he responded " I'm not the same Benzema of Real Madrid because it's not the same game, same players. I need help on the team, I need a lot of things. I can't win games alone." The statement I think tells how dissatisfied he is as an Al Ittihad player probably because of how the club have failed to bring in players of his choice who he thinks will make work easier for him at the club

As I predicted in the previous post, I am quite sure if Al Nassr can win over damac very difficult, because indeed so far damac is a strong team and continues to be able to make it difficult for other teams in the league, because I see even though damac was ranked 10th before but so far damac often gives difficult victories to Al Hillal and Al Al Ahli and even often big teams lose points when playing at their home.

The crucial victory over Damac was still able to keep the gap between Al Nassr and Al Hillal maintained with 12 points at this time, in addition to getting a victory in the last minute over Damac in the match, unfortunately Ronaldo who performed poorly in the match failed to score, even though I hope at least Ronaldo can score 1 goal to be able to continue to solidify their position at the top of the SPL top scorer this season,  But despite Ronaldo's failure today in scoring, but of course Ronaldo's position is still very safe from the pursuit of Mitrovich who is ranked second top scorer temporarily.

This was good decision taken by the coach to be able to keep his main players fit and not have any problems for the semifinal match in the Saudi Super Cup which was only played in one match.
Anyone who experiences clear defeat is immediately eliminated and the winner advances to the final, this competition is the last chance for Al Nassr to win the championship trophy so they will do their best to achieve victory over Al Hilal.
Moreover, for the SPL, Al Nassr doesn't have any chances at the moment because there are fewer and fewer matches left and the point difference from Al Hilal, who is at the top of the standings, is also quite far.
Any result in an SPL match is not considered that important and Al Nassr will still maintain second position until they actually finish the SPL as runners-up.

For the semifinals, it looks like Ittihad FC will clearly qualify for the final because their opponent is only Al Wahda and for Al Hilal against Al Nassr we have to wait to see how it will be resolved because it is match that is difficult to predict.
In the SPL it is clear that Al Hilal is stronger and always beats Al Nassr, but for the Saudi Super Cup there is possibility that differences in results could occur.

This was a good competitive match but the problem is in my opinion Al Nassr should have been able to score a lot more goals than only one. They should have been able to score at least three goals with all the chances that they had. And one time the ball came off the crossbar which should definitely have been a goal because he was right in front of the goal. And the cross from Ronaldo was also perfect. Anyway at the end of the day Al Nassr got the wind and that's what matters. I think we can expect Al Nassr to finish on the second position in this season because they are not sliding down to the third because they have a good point advantage over the team that is on the third position. And I don't believe they are also going to be able to win the league title because Al Hilal has created a big difference of points with them.

Damac gave Al Nassr significant difficulties in this match so that Al Nassr had to fight until the last minute to get a goal. I thought this would be a match that ended in a draw after no goals were scored in 90 minutes, but the long-awaited goal came in extra minutes. Al Nassr was lucky enough because they managed to win even with the late goal they scored in this match.
Al Nassr indeed controlled the game, but the defense built by Damac was strong enough that Al Nassr could not penetrate the defense in 90 minutes of the match. Maybe one of the factors why AL Nassr had difficulty attacking was because the players on the front line who were usually their main players were not deployed from the start. Cristiano Ronaldo, Sadio Mane came off the bench in the second half. This may be one of the reasons why they had difficulty penetrating Damac's defense, especially in the first half. However, they were also able to secure victory even though they had to wait until the last minute.

It was A. Laporte's extra-time goal that saved Al Nassr from going home with one point. Damac was able to withstand the power of the visitors and would have secured a point if not for that last-minute goal. We expected Ronaldo's club to compete favourably with Al-Hilal but i it is clear now that they are unstoppable, so Al Nassr should be comfortable with second position. Maybe Al Nassr struggled because of the temporal absence of Ronaldo, Sadio Mane, Marco Brozovic, and Alex Telles who were rested for the big semi-final match with Al Hilal
The Saudi government invested heavily in Al Ittihad, Al Ahli, Al Nassr, and Al Hilal and these four clubs are in the top spots. Maybe next season we might see the government extend financing to more clubs which could make the league more competitive. One will never go wrong in betting on Al-Hilal because of their consistency which has made them to draw just two games and winning others.

Several games have ended.

Al Nassr was only able to win narrowly against Damac which means al nassr performed so badly, damac was a garbage team and nassr got only 1 goal against it. Meanwhile, nassr's competitor, Al Hilal, defeated Khaleej convincingly with very big scores and it once again humiliated its opponent. There is no change in the current standing. Despite the fact that Ronaldo only played for a short time, the club continues to perform well. I think that al hilal is still far superior compared to the al nassr this tiem.

Anyone who predicted that al Nassr and Hilal would win the game will receive EZ money. It doesn't take much effort to determine the winner from the previous matches. Al Ittihad received a poor result against Taawoun which shows club has not yet recovered from its problem, but I believe that the outcome is unimportant to Al Ittihad this time.

AL Hilal consistently destroys its opponents. Castro saves Ronaldo for the crucial match against Hilal. The match that will decide whether Al Nassr will go trophyless this season. Ronaldo has a very big ambition to win the game against al hilal soon since it's the biggest obstacle owned by nassr in all of competitions.

yes, this season pinheiro succeeded in making al hilal an undefeated team in the saudi arabian league. when facing al khaleed last time, mitrovic was not brought in, i don't know why he was not brought in but if he continues to be played then there is a big possibility that he will be replaced cristiano's position is at the top of the goals, mitrovic is a very active striker.  Al Nassr is already 12 points behind Al Hilal, it is very difficult to catch up, there are only 7 matches left, the championship trophy is already in front of Al Hilal.

Al Hilal must become the main concern here since Ronaldo was always losing against Mitrovic. I meant Ronaldo's team. Al Hilal is a very strong club, and Castro did it right by saving him. It's also proving how bad the performance from Al Nassr was without Ronaldo.
The club seems very underperformant at this moment, considering that if Ronaldo was benched, Damac would also be an easy team. Nassr without Ronaldo was nothing, as it was only able to win against Damac with a narrow score.
I thought that Nassr would be very productive against Damac, considering it's only a weak team. It proves that if al nassr can't score a lot without ronaldo.

Since Al Hilal was completely dominating other competitions, the Super Cup was al Nassr's only chance to win the last trophy this season and it will be very shameful. This is why Castro tries to ensure that his team is fully prepared to face the strongest team on the Asian continent this time like al hilal which was fully dominating in everything this time.
To be honest, there was no club that could reach the same level as al hilal. Al Hilal will undoubtedly win both the SPL and the AFC Champions League. The Super Cup will most likely be Al Hilal's third trophy this season and this is why castro tries to prevent al nassr to become trophyless and he needs to beat al hilal to get super cup.
This is Ronaldo's last chance to win a trophy this season. Being trophyless will be extremely detrimental to Ronaldo, given his strong desire to win a trophy.

Al Hilal made a very good history, getting the first position leading the Saudi pro league with players who performed very consistently and a great coach who was able to set the best strategy to bring this club to great achievements this season, getting the title without being defeated.
The attack line was perfect when Mitrovic joined Al Hilal and was supported very strongly by native players such as Al-Dawsari and the Brazilian player Malcom who has been successful as a midfielder who has scored more than 10 goals.
Strengthened by a very perfect and very solid defense line, it doesn't just rely on a few players but the midfielders are willing to help the defense when the situation is urgent.
For Al Nassr, even though they have a star player like Ronaldo, it is not enough to just rely on him as a scorer if the defense is weak.
So Al Nassr's failure has been visible since the start of the season.

Last match against Damac, Al Nassr manager Luis Castro save Cristiano Ronaldo in the bench and only playing him around 20 minutes save him for next important match against Al Hilal on Saudi Super Cup with format one leg only. Its important match for Al Nassr exactly get chance to win one trophy in this season after Al Hilal dominating in domestic league and keep unbeaten until games week 27 and currently lead 12 points left from Al Nassr.
Al Hilal requirement four winning matches later to secure domestic league trophy, in other side they won't loss opportunity for treble winner if loss in Saudi Super Cup from Al Nassr because currently Al Hilal still existing in AFC Champion League and lead the top standings in domestic league.

After two matches they managed to win by a landslide, even in the match against Abha they scored eight goals without conceding, this time against Damac they could only score one goal but that was enough to bring Al-Nassr three points, it seems that's understandable because Al-Nassr looked better concentrating on the Saudi Super Cup semi-final match against Al-Hilal, and this match is much more difficult considering that the opponent is a team that has not been defeated this season, especially since in several meetings A-Nassr has always failed to beat the opponent.
I am more curious to see Ronaldo's performance in the semifinal match, if many people admire him for being able to score hat tricks twice in a row in SPL matches then how will he help his team to qualify, clearly this is not an easy thing because Al-Hilal has a better defense than the two opponents they destroyed

Al Hilal's performance is always amazing. There is no doubt that the club will be able to win various trophies this season because of its consistency. I have nothing to say regarding the performance of all Hilal, and it always gives me a match to bet on. This reminds me of what Napoli and Arsenal did last season.
I'm talking about betting with very high chances of winning. Al Nassr was facing difficulty winning the game against Damac, which was unbelievable considering it had received perfect results in the previous game.
There will be no clubs that can prevent al hilal from winning the competition soon. It looks like that al hilal will always win the game till the end of season. The performance from the club is getting even better than before.
I do appreciate it.