Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 231. (Read 112058 times)

At least Al Nassr was humiliating Inter Miami for scored 6 goals without a concede, so it's already over to say Messi is a GOAT or Messi is better than Ronaldo.

This will make Benzema has no position to play if he join Al Nassr, Ronaldo will always become a striker for Al Nassr, he won't be replaced except he's injured or tired. It's better for Benzema to join Lyon instead, he need to save his old team from relegation zone.

Benzema's relationship with the coach seems no longer healthy for the team, even if Benzeman stays and plays, his performance will certainly not be optimal. Now, with the dispute still ongoing, Benzema is receiving additional training from the coach. Gallardo asked Benzema to continue to train extra in the gym to find his physical condition before he can join the other players.

With tensions continuing to rise like this, a move might be a solution for Benzema and the team. However, so far it is not known for certain which team Benzema will go to. However, I also agree with the rumors circulating that Al Nassr is interested in Benzema because it would be very nice for me as a Real Madrid fan to see former Real Madrid players playing in the same team again.

A match like that is not just an ordinary one even though it's just a friendly match, yes because of the rivalry between both teams. These are the two strongest team in the league currently and when they meet eachother the match always tend to be very tough, I'm pretty aware Al-Hilal are the hosting team and have more opportunities in winning based on their home advantage but I didn't expect a win without any goal from Al-Nassr, they're a strong team and they showed their capacity when they faced Inter Miami so they should be capable of scoring a goal in that game.

 Well Al-Hilal has proved that they're really serious this season, this is the 2nd time they're defeating Al-Nassr after they lost a cup to them. Al-Nassr shouldn't take this defeat likely even though it's just a friendly game, it shows that their are still some loopholes in the team to be amended. Yes they might be resting some players or saying their strength for important fixtures ahead but then loosing 2-0 to their toughest rivals is still something to worry about.

It seems that Gallardo and Benzema relationship is getting worse day by day. In fact, if you look at Benzema with Real Madrid in the previous season, of course he never caused trouble at the club, but when he joined Al Ittihad his behavior was not as good as when he was with Real Madrid. I might think that the mismatch with the coach will make it difficult for him to make a big contribution to Al Ittihad this season. Yes, he has to change his attitude and apologize to the coach in order to improve their relationship, but if Benzema insists on not apologizing then we will see one of them leaving Al ittihad at the end of this competition.

I don't know what happened, of course there were a lot of problems with Benzema when he joined Al Ittihad. He must show a professional attitude as the best player playing in the Saudi Arabian league because his behavior so far has certainly tarnished his best reputation. But perhaps he has thought everything through carefully because Benzema class will certainly easily return to a European team if he no longer feels comfortable playing at Al Ittihad.

Even though it was just an ordinary match, the defeat suffered by Al Nassr had a real impact in that Al Hilal was still a stronger team than Al Nassr.
Regarding Al Hilal and Al Nassr statistics, the Al Nassr squad is superior to Al Ahli in several aspects. Starting from shot statistics, defense, duels, passes to ball possession.

The results of this match are a benchmark that Al Nassr's front line, led by Ronaldo, still has many shortcomings that need to be improved.
Al Nassr's player rating does not reach 7, on average they only get a number below 7.
Ronaldo, who got enough rest time because he didn't play when Al Nassr beat Inter Miami, also didn't get a good rating in this match.

Everyone have a different idea. Most European players have learnt a great deal from Karim Benzema circumstances in Saudi Arabia, there's a whole lot they have stood to understand, not everything becomes concrete for the team. What's the whole problem circulating Karim Benzema in his new SPL club? We're quite aware of the difficult challenges facing the Frenchman, he just have to explore more techniques to stay on the right path, no major winnings comes easy, there's immense level of sacrifice that will be triggered before witnessing these great results.

Al-Ittihad are back to winning ways and you could see that they play better than before. The whole team took this match very seriously and maintained utmost pressure in the Al Taee defense. Yes this pressure made the Al Taee players lose balance while on the pitch especially after they were 2-0 down. One noticeable absentee was Benzema and we thought that could be the coach tactics to probably bring this hunger from his young team

 Yes and that tactics has worked as we can see how demanding the Al-Ittihad players were and how they applied necessary amount of pressure to get the win and it was  deserved. This win will be a big boost for them while going forward I believe, they need it so bad to boost them in the standings.

Benzema leaving Al Ittihad is the best option he can ever have for the net season because he does not have good performance anymore in the Saudi League and Let's say Benzema is getting far from that legendary player we knew before. When he was playing in Real Madrid he was very much effective but now Benzema is even far from the first squad of Al Ittihad and maybe it's the time for them to return to Europa.

I didn't see Benzema on the lineup both in the starting lineup and the bench. I think Benzema is still injured, he is focusing on the recovery. Benzema often struggles with injury for this season, it is a big obstacle for him to play well.

The conflict should be finished soon if Al Ittihad wants to keep focusing on winning every match. Benzema is the captain, he must have a good relationship among the players, coach, and club staffs.

I'm surprised about this rumor. How can Benzema to try moving to another team?
I doubt if he will join Al Nassr because al Nassr has enough good attackers. They have Ronaldo, Mane, and Talisca, they are not urgent for a new striker.

Al Hilal vs Al Nassr.

This match was finally held and was won by Al Hilal again, both teams played with full squads, only Mane was played as a reserve player in this match. During the match, Al Hilal took a quick lead in the 17th minute with a goal scored by Segej Millinkovic-Savic. In the 30th minute, Al Hilal increased its lead to 2-0, a goal scored by Salem Al Dawsari. until the match was over, neither team had scored a goal, either increasing their advantage or reducing their position.
in this match, Ronaldo's performance was not very good and he was not even able to score a goal. apart from that, wing defender Al Nassr underperformed.
Meanwhile for Al Hilal, only Michel had a bad performance. but overall, the Al Hilal players played as they should.

Technically, Al Nassr is superior in several aspects. Likewise in terms of opportunities. but unfortunately, of the 14 total shots, only 2 shots were on target, 3 were big opportunities. In contrast, Al Hilal only had 10 total shots, 6 shots on target, 2 big chances, and two opportunities that they converted into goals. in the end, Al Hilal won this match. plus, they continued their unbeaten streak so far. As for Al Nassr, whether this is a friendly match or not. What is certain is that in the 2024 Riyadh Season Cup, Al Nassr will lose to Al Hilal.

Precisely because he has that, he can be a mental boost for his teammates, both when playing at the club and when playing for Portugal. Perhaps we remember the time he encouraged another player to take a penalty with confidence when playing for Portugal, and in the end that player was able to successfully do his job very well.
A coach needs to have a high sense of leadership, and he was able to do that as a player which might be a precursor when he becomes a coach. That will be very useful if applied to his team later.
Yeah I wouldn't mind where he retires, if he decides to retire at Al Nassr that's great, but if he wants to retire at the club where he was first discovered that's not bad either.

I think the reason Benzema is only sitting on the bench is because he violated club rules when he was not present at training and as punishment he will be loaned to a European club and until now there has been no confirmation which European club would accept Benzema even though his performance has really declined. .
I was not surprised to see Ittihad easily beat Al-Ta'e because the club was in a very bad condition while Ittihad still had pretty good players and in terms of performance Ittihad was far superior.
With the 3-0 result, Ittihad is very confident that it can strengthen its performance again in the upcoming match.

Benzema was not allowed to train with other players in Al-Ittihad and he still had to do physical exercises with players who are in recovery process after injuries. The conflict between Benzema and his coach Gallardo still exists and has yet been resolved.

The drama continues with latest actions from both Benzema and Gallardo and will rumor that Benzema move to Al Nassr become true?

No official talk between two clubs about the transfer but rumor is already around. Benzema will feel interesting to become team mate of Cristiano Ronaldo, Mane and Brozovic. He will have to continue this season in Saudi Arabia before finding a club in Europe next season.

But men if Karim resumes the training sessions just now is very complicated to be in the next game,for that he is not playing surely, and also i support the idea Gallardo coach is gonna delay the re entry of him for being a troublemaker player, but that is another part of the history.

The victory achieved by Al Ittihad was an extraordinary victory, why not? because Al Taee was defeated at home by the Al Ittihad Team with a landslide victory of 3-0 without any reply. In my opinion, Al Ittihad played very well and neatly because in the first half alone they were able to score 2 goals without reply and with this victory of course the Al Ittihad players took advantage of their more aggressive attitude and put pressure on the Al Taee squad. defense. However, unlike the Al Taee players, Al Ittihad scored 2 goals in the first half, making the Al Taee players' performance decline and they lacked confidence so they were unable to score a goal back for Al Ittihad in the first half.

Yes, I also thought about why Karim Banzema was not used or was on the bench, whether he was training specifically to support Al Ittihad in the next match. It could be that this is coach Gallardo's plan or strategy not to play Karim Benzema.

Al Ittihad have opening good start for the first Saudi Pro League match after break out more than one month, Al Ittihad won over 0-3 against Al Tai and success stopping with bad result last several matches before AFC Asian Cup break out. Three points make Al Ittihad moving up few standings position although seems pessimistic with their opportunity for defending the domestic league tittle or get AFC Champion League spot standings.
Last match, Al Ittihad starting line up still not has Karim Benzema in the list name and seems still get problem with Al Ittihad manager and hope upcoming match in AFC Champion League he will return and get in the starting eleven name. Karim Benzema has much experienced and he will help Al Ittihad get good achieving in AFC Champion League against Nnavbahor on the first leg match.

And now Al-ittihad has managed to climb to 5th place after defeating Al-Taee. But I am not satisfied with the match. Because I'm really looking forward to seeing Benzema in this match. But it turns out he wasn't allowed to play in that match and I couldn't even see Benzema on the bench. I don't understand whether Benzema is out of shape or what. But reportedly there was a dispute between Benzema and the Al-ittihad coach. I think if Benzema becomes increasingly uncomfortable at this club then it could be that at the end of the season Benzema will leave and this will be a heavy blow for this club. Because of the attraction of Al-ittihad I think because of Benzema. Although Al-ittihad's quality is still good even without Benzema. But with Benzema's presence, I think the SPL will get more attention. Cristiano Ronaldo is indeed the main highlight, but the list of many other European players who are also taking part in the SPL is what makes the SPL even more watched.

Al-Ittihad finally won their first win in the remainder of this season and as we know they are very down after failing to win in the last 3 matches. This was quite a landslide victory for Al-Itthad and Al-Tae was not enough to stop them at home. Apart from that, there was something strange in this match because Karim Benzema was not in the starting line up and even his name was not available on the bench.

It seems that Karim Benzema is focusing on individual training and because of that he was not brought by coach Gallardo in the opening match of the remainder of the season last night. However, I hope that in the next match Karim Benzema can appear and strengthen Al-Ittihad while dispelling all the rumors that doubt him. Well, Al-Ittihad must focus everything on continuing this positive trend and at the same time being able to return to the top flight because it is quite strange to see the defending champions experiencing a drastic decline this season.

The switch to any club in some situations is a decision to be made by the player. Benzema has had quite an eventful time with Real Madrid. He impacted the team in his own special level of performance. Definitely he's got to get for himself widespread experience. And I believe a move away from the Saudi side by summer is still very possible, maybe to a club in the EPL or other European leagues.

 In this case, he's got to consider a number of factors and they are technically a determinant of how effective their new move decision would be for them. An EPL club move won't be a bad option for Benzema to pick even though the league is very much competitive, adding that he's advancing gradually in age and so he's got a few impacts that he can make before retirement. But his experience would add alot to any club he decides next.

Al Ta'ee struggled to match the resistance from Ittihad but they faced opponents who had better player material so their game strategy was better and they had difficulty withstand every attack from Ittihad, and had to accept this quite crushing defeat, namely 0- 3.
Even though he had returned to training at Ittihad, Karim Benzema did not play in the first match after this long holiday, perhaps in the Asian Champions League match he would strengthen his club, but Ittihad had no difficulty in achieving victory, and Hamdallah scored one goal for his team and, before Benzema's arrival, Hamdallah had always been the focus of his team on scoring goals, and this victory brought Itthad rose to fifth place.