Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 212. (Read 112030 times)

If only Al-Ittihad had not scored the second goal in the minute of injury time then the match against Al-Wehda would have definitely ended in a draw. The reason is that as hosts, Al-Ittihad was not very optimal and they should have won more convincingly from the start of the match. But indeed the opponent is Al-Wehda, which is known as a quite strong team, so with Al-Ittihad's current performance, the two can be said to be quite evenly matched.

Trailing by one goal since the first half made Al-Ittihad confused about breaking into the opponent's goal and fortunately they still had a chance in the 84th minute through a goal scored by Hamdallah. However, a few minutes after the goal, there was a detrimental incident for Al-Ittihad where one of the players received a red card which brought their morale down again. But it didn't seem to have a big effect and instead Al-Ittihad scored Hamdallah's second goal again and with this he recorded a brace. It was a relief for Al-Ittihad because they won 3 points before the end of the match and Karim Benzema played a role in the second goal because it started from his assist.

He decided to leave Manchester City and enjoyed money in Saudi Arabia. With lower level of Saudi Professional League, it's not big problem for Riyad Mahrez to show his ability there. He has better body and fitness than Neymar, less sensitive with injuries so his contributions for his clubs are bigger than what Neymar did for Al Hilal.

9 goals is an amazing stats but I don't know are there any goal from 9 goals from penalties?

Because Al Hilal and Al Nassr are too strong and dominating the Saudi Professional League. To win a league title, a club need more than a single star player and Riyad Mahrez is only an attacking player, not a striker, a goal machine to decide a title race.

Al-Ahli's opponents are considered a weak team this season and are in the relegation zone so Al-Ahli's victory looks normal, in fact it would be a surprise if they only drew or even lose.
What Riyad Mahrez has given to his club is not enough to make Al-Ahli a club that competes for the title because they are already quite far behind the current leaders, even from the second-placed team they are already 9 points behind and because Al Ahli has more points than Al Taawon, who is in fourth position, will make Al Ahli comfortable in third position and that is better than the defending champions Ittihad FC who had stumbled but managed to win several matches so far, but it is true that what Riyad Mahrez did made his purchase profitable for the club because it could make this team better.

Ittihad FC won again in the Saudi Pro League continued to match and this is their winning streak, Karim Benzema has not scored a goal for this club after the break but fortunately, Abderrazak Hamdallah can be relied on again and he is the Ittihad FC player who has always scored goals in his team's last three matches, a total of five goals in three Saudi Pro League matches and one in the Asian Champions League, and facing Al Hilal he will again be expected to score goals.

Yes, that's right, currently Gerrard is under pressure from the Al Ettifaq club because as a coach he has not been able to show his prowess to bring the Al Ettifaq club forward and develop.
I think as coach of the Al Ettifaq Saudi League club, Gerrard is still unable to establish good communication cooperation between all the Al Ettifaq club players.
And this could also be one of the factors why the Al Ettifaq club has not been able to develop under the tutelage of coach Gerrad. We know that previously Gerrard was the coach of the Aston Villa club and with his hard work he was able to bring Aston Villa into one of the biggest and best clubs in the world.
Does Gerrard have another reason to join the Al Étifaq club in Saudi Arabia? Because his quality continues to decline as a coach at a football club, I consider that his salary or management behavior is not in line with Gerrard's wishes, so he has not shown his prowess as a well-known coach.

And this must really be taken into account, that if Gerrard cannot show himself as the best coach then he must be prepared to take the risk of being immediately removed from his position as coach of Al Ettifaq and he must be willing to lose his job.
Not only that, the decline in quality as a world football coach also greatly affects his future performance.
It is unlikely that anyone will accept or contract Gerrard again as coach of a football club, and of course other clubs think that Gerrard should just retire if he can no longer work optimally.
And wouldn't this be a very bad thing for Gerrard if one day that happened to him, because of the lack of trust from other teams not to work together again by signing Steven Gerrard to become a big coach.

As far as I know Luka Modric refused an offer from this league in the last transfer window and he wants to end up as a legend at Real Madrid so no need to expect his arrival to this league. Regarding Neymar, I'm not sure whether Al-Hilal still needs this player as we know Al-Hilal is very strong with the current squad whereas Neymar only burdens the club's finances without contributing and it would be better if Al-Hilal released Neymar. Do you think Al-Hilal still needs new players to strengthen their squad? while they are still holding an unbeaten record.

Al Hilal still continues on its way in the league without any defeat. They created a truly amazing team this year. They are also strong enough to beat many European teams. Players from Europe's leading teams may be transferred to Al Hilal next year, and the most attractive option that comes to my mind is Modric. Neymar has not joined the team yet. If he gets a little better and recovers from his injury, they will become even stronger with Neymar.

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Riyad Mahrez has reasons to be happy on the professional front, ever since he moved to Al Ahli in Saudi Professional League. But at the same time it has taken a toll on his personal life. According to media reports, he and his wife (Taylor Ward) have almost finalized their divorce as Ward doesn't want to move from Cheshire to Jeddah. This is not an isolated incident. If you remember, sometime back Lionel Messi chose Major League Soccer over Saudi Professional League, as his wife (Antonela Roccuzzo) was opposed to moving to Saudi Arabia.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/riyad-mahrez-wife-ward-relationship-32202440

Riyad Mahrez, the favorite player of Pep Guardiola who had a key performance when he was playing for this coach has had an amazing performance in Saudi Arabia since he joined there and he proved he was worth all the money he spent on this player.
He played in the game between Al Tai and Al Ahli and he scored one goal for his team. So far in this season, he has scored nine goals for his team and eight assists which is amazing for this player who left Manchester City after five years of playing there.

Yes, again Al Hilal won the match, they always got a perfect result.
In this match, Al-Ettifaq actually could play quite well, they can keep up with the game of Al Hilal. Unfortunately, Al-Ettifaq failed to score a single goal, they have bad accuracy in shooting. Meanwhile Al Hilal, they showed that they have quality players in their squad, they could score 2 goals from 5 shots on target. I think it is about the quality of skills and the mentality of the players.

In this match, Milinković-Savić scored the first goal and Al-Dawsari scored the second goal. All the goals were made in the first half of the match. In the second half of the match, there was no more goals. Al Hilal played more carefully, they seemed not really trying to score many goals. Well, 2 goals was enough to get 3 points from the match.

By the way, Al Hilal already won 19 matches, 2 draws, and 0 lose. It is a very amazing performance. 

The SPL is competitive and only the elite teams that have strong stats can survived in the long race. I missed out on the tough game between Al-Ettifaq vs Al-Hilal. However I've settled for the highlights, Al-Hilal thrashed the home team 2 nil with dominance. This is a club we should trust because they continue to prove themselves. Al Nassr was believed to the only team to stop Al Hila this season but they couldn't meet up the important criteria to win when they meet. We should understand how competitive and formidable Al Hilal have grown to become.

I do agree with that, the gap is too wide and the league is basically over at this point if you ask me. I think it is not going to happen and we are going to end up seeing it be normal for sure. I think it is quite clear that we are going to see things change one way or another, but that doesn't mean that we are going to end up with a much better result just that easily.

Al-Nassr could still give it a try and they could try to do a lot more, I agree that Al Hilal is better but that doesn't mean that we are going to end up with an easy solution. We should try to consider them to do a lot better one way or another. I believe that we are not going to see them change positions, but we will see both teams trying hard all season long.

Al Hilal was able to continue its positive trend without defeat at the Prince Mohamed Bin Fahd Stadium, Al-Ettifaq's headquarters. regardless of playing away, Jorge Jesus' squad is progressing with its positive trend. referring to the course of the match, in the 39th minute Milinković-Savić was able to take advantage of a corner kick kicked by Ruben Neves.nMilinković-Savić, drove free and headed it into the goal against Al-Ettifaq. in the last minute of the first half, a mistake by Steven Gerrard's squad was exploited by Salem Al-Dawsari, he dribbled past several players and scored a goal for his team. as a result, Al Hilal won full points at its headquarters, Al-Ettifaq. statistically, Al Hilal has more control over ball possession. however, based on technical matters, the two teams are almost equal even though Al Hilal is slightly better.nLikewise with the team coached by Jorge Jesus, overall their team played very well. in this way, Al Hilal added to their coffers of points to launch their mission to win the Saudi Pro League trophy this season.

On the other hand, Steven Gerrard's team did not play very well, even though according to the statistics the chances they got were not much different from Al Hilal. the difference is, Al-Ettifaq was unable to score a single goal in this match plus, almost all of Al-Ettifaq's players underperformed. well, in the end Steven Gerrard had to be satisfied that his team was in 8th place. unfortunately, in this match Mitrovic was unable to score a goal to increase his coffers in the competition for top scorer. however, there are still enough matches and Mitrovic has the opportunity to add goal after goal in each match with Al Hilal in the next match.

What a close call for Al nassr yesterday man, it was a very clsoe one, and they cant dorp points anymore, because Al Hilal seems like they are not gonna lose a single point until the end.

About Gerard team.... i dont know what to think how he remain in charge of the team is ridiculous, he have one of the best teams in the league but in term of results they are shit.

In the match of Al-Ettifaq vs Al-Hilal team, Al-Hilal team scored 2 goals. Al-Ettifaq team did not score any goal. Al-Ettifaq team performed poorly from the beginning to the end of the game. However, Al-Hilal team is in the 1st position of the points table.  Al-Hilal team did a great performance in today's match.S.  Milinković-Savić scored the 1st goal at 39 minutes and S. Al-Dawsari scored the 2nd goal at 45+5 minutes. These two goals were scored before halftime and Al-Hilal team could not score any more goals after halftime.

That squad was not good enough to beat al nassr. Tallisca is performing even better and i think that this guy trains so hard to be as good as ronaldo. He was consistently scoring and tallisca was slowly climbing up. This guy can be as good as ronaldo for sure. Im surely that if tallisca will able to enter as one of top player in the saudi pro leagu.
Shabab gives a hard game for al nassr but it keeps lose. The bad thing is shabab will be missing one of its important player after radif got a red card during the injury time. Al nassr is still staying very strong at the second place. Al hilal is the only strongest competitor for al nassr.

Ronaldo and nassr can only consistently winning the game and waiting for al hilal to miss the points.

HT, Al Ettifaq 0 vs 2 Al Hilal

Seems still not any teams can defeat Al Hilal for the first time in this season after leading two goals in the first half match and if the scored not change until the end match has good position for Al Hilal get remaining 7 points from Al Nassr. Al Hilal started very well in the first minutes and controlling ball possession until many shots on target then the host team Al Ettifaq. Sergej Milinković-Savić scored the first goal for Al Hilal on 39th mintes and another one goals scoring by Salem Aldawsari on the the first half additional time.
Second half I don't sure Al Ettifaq can make come back and scoring the goals for make the match draw or get winning result exactly playing on home has extra motivation.

In this match, Al Hilal will certainly be in the spotlight to win the match against Al Ettifaq. Because if you look at the footsteps of Al Hilal players this season, it is clear that Al Hilal is indeed superior to Al Etiffaq. And I just watched Al Hilal's match against Al Ettifaq, and Al Hilal was able to score a goal against Al Etiffaq through Milincovic. So temporarily in the first half, Al Hilal was one goal ahead of Al Etiffaq. Maybe in the second half it is likely that Al Hilal can add additional goals. Because if you look at ball control, Al Hilal is far superior to Al Etiffaq. Therefore, the possibility of Al Hilal getting additional goals will be very large.

And talking about Gerrard who received a contract extension from Al Ettifaq. I think this action is quite appropriate. Although currently Al Etiffaq's performance is not good. However, we must remember that for a coach to be able to apply his football playing philosophy to the players on his team, it takes a long time. Therefore, if Gerard is contracted longer by Al Ettifaq, perhaps there will be positive changes in the next few seasons. And in my opinion that is the main aim of Al Ettifaq to extend Gerard's contract in the coaching chair.

Ronaldo scored a penalty to put Al-Nassr ahead 1-0. Despite two quick counterattacks by Al-Shabab, Talisca scored twice to secure the win. A late goal from Talisca sealed the victory against a strong Al Shabab. Although Al-Shabab were almost came close to victory, yet so far. They'll likely gain more confidence and strength in the upcoming matches.
Al-Nassr secured an important away win, but they need more clean sheets as they chase the league leaders and aim to compete with Al Hilal for the top spot.

In Saudi Professional League, they will not lose hope if they keep winning because when they complete their task, winning their matches, they simply wait for bad results from Al Hilal. Their hope only will become smaller if they have a draw or defeat and know that they will not be able to reduce gap with Al Hilal and even will face risk of having bigger gap if Al Hilal wins.

In AFC Champions League, they are going to a quarter final round and are continuing their fight to go to a final match and win it. Cristiano Ronaldo will be very happy if he wins AFC Champions League after winning some UEFA Champions League with Manchester United and Real Madrid. He will be a first player can do that in history and it suits with his motivation, chasing records.

Their 18–20 season record is exceptional. Against Al Ettifaq, their steadiness makes them the team to bet on. Despite the owner's faith in extending his contract, Al Ettifaq's difficulties under Gerrard's guidance make them a little threat. To my eye, Al Hilal's Mitrovic and Savic are in excellent shape and produce unrivaled on the field. I'm expecting Al Hilal to win again easily and continue their great record
Although Al Hilal's chances of 1.41 seem low, they reflect their dominance and anticipation of victory. Al Hilal strikes bettors as the obvious choice. These results versus Al Ettifaq speak for themselves. Wins aren't enough; they've had to convincingly beat teams this season. I think betting on Al Hilal to win big today is wise, not optimistic