Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 226. (Read 128235 times)

I am sure that Al-Nassr is super happy about being in the finals, but they should realize that they are going to be playing against the best team in the nation for that cup, which will not be easy.

Al Hilal will want to do the double, they already won the league, and they will want to win the cup as well, which is why it feels like we are really not looking into anything that is going to be easy for Ronaldo and his teammates. I am not saying it is impossible, but the fact that we will see them at the final game means that all they have to do is win one more game, just one game and they are going to end the season with at least one cup. Will they be able to do it? I really don't think that they will be able to pull it off.

The difference between Ronaldo and other players is that Ronaldo himself has that urge of never ending will to win and that's what has been keeping him going all this while and I doubt that he is going to stop anytime soon because am well sure he is yet ready to stop and I know for sure that he is going to do extremely well and unlike the rest he actually doesn't play because of the money as he left Manchester united because of the lack of playing time the coach awarded to him and now he is doing exceedingly well.

Talking about Ronaldo we really don't know whether he prioritizes money or just wants to continue playing, Ronaldo is completely different from other old players we can see his ambition in every game even he still able to compete with other young players compare with other old players like Benzema, Neymar or Messi of course we can see that Ronaldo is still above average. Apart from that, Ronaldo wants to continue to achieve new records which no player has ever achieved.

Today Al-Nassr played its 30th match and Ronaldo scored 2 of the 4 goals in the first half while also confirming Ronaldo as the top scorer, so far he has scored 31 goals and left behind his main competitor Aleksandar Mitrovic who scored 23 goals, I don't see Mitrovic being able to catch Ronaldo. By the way I bet on Al-Nassr in the first half Handicap -1

Yes, actually the SPL will probably be the last league which will be the last memory in football because he is getting older and it will not be possible to force him to continue his career in football when he is old which could have a bad impact on Ronaldo's health if he is forced to continue chasing money. .
I think now is the right time for him to have a retirement plan because he already has a large salary from the SPL and this is enough to enjoy the results of his career as a football star.
On the other hand, currently his son has also started a career in football which will continue Ronaldo good name in the future and after becoming a former football player I am sure Ronaldo will have the goal of becoming a coach at one of the SPL clubs.

Again and again, Cristiano Ronaldo and the Al Nassr team received bitter pills ahead of the match against Al Wehda tonight because Al Nassr and captain Cristiano Ronaldo had to accept the bad luck of being eliminated from the Saudi Super Cup in the Asian Champions League and Saudi Arabian League this season.
Now Cristiano Ronaldo and his friends have lost the opportunity to become champions in the Asian Champions League and Cristiano Ronaldo and the Al Nassr team have to accept that they are quite far behind the Al Hilal squad in the Saudi Arabian league standings this season.
And if Al Nassr in their next match also loses again then it is clear and certain that the Al Hilal squad and their team will win and become champions in the Saudi Arabian league this season.

In the 2024 King Cup Final, Al Nassr and Al Hilal will be reunited and of course in the match there will be a heated duel and very fierce games played by both teams because both teams are both chasing victory and want to win the title as champions in King Cup 2024.
Meanwhile, in another match, Al Nassr will be reunited with Al Fayha, who is predicted to play very tough and the two teams will show a lot of struggle.
Because Al Nassr and Al Fayha are the same strong and best teams throughout this season and both teams also have many reliable and best players who will show a very good and perfect way of playing, of course.
And this is whether Al Nassr will be able to win this match and be able to catch up on points against the Al Hilal squad and of course the fans of Al Nassr and Cristiano Ronaldo are very enthusiastic in supporting their favorite team to be able to win and become champions.

Cristiano Ronaldo was fortunate to find himself on a good side which had enough players that supported him to achieve success in Al Nassr. Al Hilal have also been able to maximize the money they were given to maintain their dominance in the league. Al-Ittihad is currently in fifth position and I think it's not a bad position. Al-Ittifaq is not also performing badly in the seventh position. Karim Benzema has suffered constant injuries which has sidelined him for many games and Ngolo Kante is not in his best form. Steven Gerrard has not spent so much time in the league and might consolidate his squad next season. These clubs might also have to depend on the government for another funding because I don't think they have started making a profit.


Neymar has never played any significant to the success of the club so I don't think the club is missing his absence. I am assuming that Al Hilal has some of the best Saudi players. For them to consolidate their hold on the league if they can get more players and also improve the earnings of their current players. They need to motivate their current players so that they can get the best from them next season.


We should also expect that more clubs should receive financial support from PIF so that the league will become competitive. Some clubs are struggling to because they don't have access to funds that can help them hire the right players and coach.

The investment made by Al Ittihad and Al Ettifaq to strengthen their team this season has not produced any results, they have to recruit quality coaches to be able to unleash the potential of each player, especially former top European players. Benzema and Kante alone are not enough to support Al Ittihad consistent performance, the same goes for Al Ettifaq who have Steven Gerrard as manager and Wijnaldum in their main squad.

Overall, all Saudi Pro League contestants have a lot to learn from Al Hilal, they lost their main star Neymar, but have been able to remain undefeated so far. They have to make good use of the transfer window next season, apart from being an opportunity to recruit quality players to add depth to the squad, I think they also have to recruit a quality coach too. So that the Saudi Pro League can develop to be more competitive, and we don't just see one dominant team.

We hope that next season the 4 teams that receive financial support from PIF can provide tougher competition at the top of the standings, unlike this season which fell short of expectations. In fact, I think if they really do it, we will see Saudi Pro League representatives win the Asian Champions League trophy in the future.

Yes the results I saw yesterday was really disappointing especially for the big boys in the league such as Al-Ittihad al Al-Ettifaq. These teams are the big teams in the league and as such you expect them to play football in one very sweet way pleasing to the fans but their performance yesterday was below normal.
 
 ⁠Like these teams have gotten European players and as such, you’ll expect them to be very good and apt with the way they play football but the reverse seems to be the case. The most disappointing happens to be Al-Ittihad who were champions last season, they still had to strengthen the squad with the signing of Benzema and others but yet still, poor results.

 ⁠You’ll sure expect them to win yesterday because they had very easy opponents but the reverse was the case. Who else is to blame than the average mentality coach who doesn’t have the proper tactics to be able to help the team, I think this is the problem of this Al Ittihad side.

 ⁠If this continues then I’m afraid, Karim might be ready to force a move out of the club because this performance makes him look mid and I know after the good name he’s built for himself while in Europe, he wouldn’t want it ending all on this note. These teams need to build up for next season else they’ll lose some players and also some new players might not want to join.

Another matchday, another set of disappointing results for the major teams in the Saudi Pro League. Al ittihad and Abha delivered a shameful performance. These teams are terrible. I meant they'd bought a lot of European players, and their performances were even worse than before. It's really disappointing to see how ittihad and ettifaq played football.
These teams keep doing shit. I don't know what to say about how disappointed I am with the results delivered by al ittihad and ettifaq, but it's a terrible performance. It is better for these clubs to overhaul their squads.

Al Ittihad has horrible squads and a garbage coach. The team will experience an even deeper decline than before. Benzema will leave before it is too late. AL Ittihad was a problematic team. It doesn't matter how hard Benzema tries to stay; it will be disastrous for him. Benzema can return to the European competition.
Abha and failha were ez teams, but the big clubs lost them again. There is nothing more important than it.

Of course the opportunity for Al-Nassr to win a trophy in the Saudi Arabian King's Cup is wide open, but it looks like Cristiano Ronaldo and his friends will have to fight hard to make Al-Hilal lose because of course Al-Hilal is an opponent who cannot be underestimated because they have strong strength. and in the SPL it certainly seems like there is no hope for Al-nassr because they have a big difference in points with Al-hilal. and indeed the king's cup is an opportunity for Al-nassr to win a trophy, but it's a shame, in my opinion, Talisca's injury has made Al-nassr's attack less sharp and in my opinion, with Talisca, Al-nassr's game will be better. So of course, when it comes to the final against Al-Hilal, I think Al-Nassr will definitely be overwhelmed, but I personally also hope that Al-Nassr can win a trophy in the Saudi Arabian King's Cup and I also hope that Talisca recovers quickly from her injury and I'm sure that it will be good in the match. If Talisca recovers in the Saudi Arabian King's Cup final, I'm sure Al-Nassr will be braver against Al-Hilal, but if Talisca isn't there, of course Al-Nassr will have difficulty facing Al-Hilal.

Yes, we'll see what Al-Nassr will do in the King of Saudi Arabia Cup match against Al-Hilal. Yes, of course Ronaldo fans definitely want to see Al-Nassr win the trophy.

Cristiano Ronaldo has always shown mastery, in the art of football as a player since the start of his career up till today. Like it is known every player has their prime time to shine as a star including Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, but for these two Guys, they've worked hard through out their career to keep the tempo on the highway throughout their career as players.

It seems like Cristiano Ronaldo is going to hang his boot in the SPL, likewise Messi, Benzema and a host of other star players that accepted the deals to play for these clubs, however, Cristiano Ronaldo will keep making histories anywhere he finds himself. I dont think they have much time left before they retired.

Not sure what makes Ittihad FC far from consistent this season, they have often been disappointing, after improving after the Asian Cup break but now they have shown their decline again, and losing to Abha 1-3 was one of the worst, because of their opponent is a weak team whose initial predictions would not even give Ittihad FC much resistance, but the opposite happened.
Even though they controlled the game, Ittihad experienced many failures to penetrate Abha's defense, which tended to play defensively, but the bad thing was for Ittihad because Abha was actually very effective when controlling the ball and managed to score three goals and one from a penalty kick, showing how Ittihad failed to maintain their defense while attacking, two Abha's goal came in just four minutes, making Ittihad unable to turn things around.

Al-Nassr manager Luis Castro should have devised a strategy on how to defeat their arch-rival Al Hilal. Both teams have met eight times this year and the champions won six matches while Al Nassr won one and one game ended in a draw. Al Nassr should win this because it is the only way they could win a trophy this season. The coach should consider using counter-attacks and the players should avoid picking red cards. In these eight games, Al Nassr players got red cards in three of them.


Ronaldo is having a good time in the Saudi Professional League. They might not have won many trophies but they are the best-performing team besides league leaders Al Hilal. The Portuguese international has been able to succeed in almost all the leagues he has played football. There were debates concerning his intended transfer to the Gulf nation with a side saying that he would not succeed in the league. But from what we have seen the striker has made his mark on the league scoring about 60 goals in 65 matches since he joined the club.

We should see if finally, Al Nassr can beat Al Hilal to win the trophy in this season or not. We have known Al Hilal the games against Al Nassr many times and this team even made Al Nassr to lose the Saudi League title while Al Nassr played with full power and used players like Ronaldo but they couldn't beat Al Hilal. I think this time Al Nassr is going to take revenge and since they played against Al Hilal they learned many lessons about the tactics and strategy of this team which is enough for them to beat Al Hilal.
That's very important for Ronaldo and I think he will try to do his best in this match to win the three points.

sooner or later, cronaldo will definitely retire, and the person who will replace his reputation in al nassr will definitely be sadio mane, previously the owner of al nassr had said, he would continue to bring in star players from european leagues and it all started with bringing cronaldo to al nassr, Then other teams followed suit and succeeded in buying other star players, this is what made people pay attention to the Arab League.

Teams in the Arabian league spend a lot of money to buy star players from clubs in the European league and their efforts don't seem to be in vain.

This might seem like good news for Al Nassr but remembering that Al Hilaal is still in that competition is something that should make one not to celebrate yet. With what Al Hilaal is playing, I do not think there is anything that will make them lose the King's cup to Al Nassr. They have been so spectacular this season with a record that seems like a new standard in Saudi football. They won Al Nassr like children in their league match encounter so I do not see anything being different in this cup tournament. The next encounter will not really be different from that of their ast cup meeting that Al Hilaal won by two goals to one. 

Al Taawon 0 - 3 Al Hilal

excellent victory for Al Hilal, in this game that on paper was a complicated game for Al Hilal, on the field it became a very easy game for Al Hilal especially with Aleksandar Mitrović on the field, he scored 1 goal. as expected from the great player he has been this season at Al Hilal. In that game, Al Hilal managed to score 3 goals and did not concede any goals and with this victory, Al Hilal is 2 games away from becoming champions. Looking at Al Hilal's next 2 games we have the following scenario:

Al Ahli Saudi - Al Hilal

well, looking at Al's last 5 games - Ahli Saudi won in 2 games, drew in 2 games and lost in 1 game



In my opinion, this will be a game in which Al Hilal will come out victorious

Al Hilal - Al Hazm

Al Hazm is the worst team in the league, they are currently at the bottom of the table, in the last 5 games they have only had 1 victory. they had 2 draws and 2 defeats.



In my opinion, it will be in this game against Al Hazm that Al Hilal will celebrate winning the title. they had an excellent campaign this season. They played very well even without having a squad made up of very famous players, they played against teams that have a squad made up of very famous players and even so they managed to win and become champions in that game against Al Hazm.

Neymar has only played five matches for the team in one season, it would have been a huge regret for the team if Al Hilal had performed badly this season without Neymar. l The main purpose of signing Neymar was to win the Arab League title this season, which they managed to do without Neymar, and the fact that Neymar did not play with them for the entire season may not be a cause for much regret. Since Neymar was brought in by Al Hilal with high expectations, Neymar should at least try to stay injury free this season and live up to the team's expectations with his best performance for the team. Since there is a good chance of Neymar staying in the 2026 World Cup, I hope he will perform for Al Hilal for at least these two seasons and try to keep himself completely injury free.

This is a normal thing in football, when a player can give something good but he can't get anything, because here what matters is the whole team, not individuals. We can see Harry Kane at Tottenham. When he was with Tottenham he always gave his best, he could even become top scorer, but that didn't mean he could win any titles while in the Tottenham uniform. In fact, if you look at his appearance, he really deserves a title, but unfortunately it's not that easy.
This also happened to Ronaldo with Al Nassr, even though his performance was very good, he was not able to get anything big. It's not easy, especially since Al Nassr, who is his current team, is not the only big team, in fact there is a team that is better than them, namely now. It's quite sad because I also see that he really deserves a title this season. But everything can't always go according to desire.

Well in the SPL there was a rule which would be limiting the signing of Players from Europe because the government felt the price tag of these players is slowly going to crumble the league they’re trying to build. Well it’s quite understandable as the price to an extent is pretty hight but I think stopping the signing of European players is not the right way to go.
 
 ⁠Rather I think a better solution would have been on putting a limit on either the price for signing an European or the number of European players to be signed by the club. These clubs need European players to be signed in order to be able to go through about their league as these players come into the club with wonderful experiences.

 ⁠It’s evident in the team’s performance this season as you can see Al Ittihad whom used to be one the main teams now turning to a shadow of themselves because they didn’t recruit amy European player. You can see how teams that got European players how they’re now fairing in the league.

 Judging from all these cases, I think a perfect solution will be to mix up with the European players but to still keep the league pure, there should be proper restriction on the amount of European players a club can aquire. This will help still maintain the league standard and  create a level playing ground for all the teams in the league.