Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 232. (Read 112060 times)

The results of this match really made me happy. Al-ittihad won with a score of 0-3. But unfortunately Benzema apparently wasn't played by the coach and he was even kicked out of the training session. I think the current Al-ittihad coach is not much different from the previous Al-ittihad coach. He doesn't know how to differentiate how to interact with super star players. Now I'm starting to understand why Benzema hasn't been able to get the most out of him since he was at Al-ittihad. Because at Al-ittihad it turns out that the former and current coaches are the ones who make Benzema uncomfortable. This reminds me of Ten Heg who was also unable to manage star players like C.Ronaldo at Man United. Even at that time C.Ronaldo mostly sat on the bench. And I think Benzema will experience the same thing at Al-Ittihad.

The Al-ittihad coach, Marcelo Gallardo, apparently cannot get along with Benzema based on the news¹ I read. And Marcelo Gallardo should be grateful that he was appointed as Al-Ittihad coach to replace the previous coach. Because there were also rumors about the previous coach because he had a dispute with Benzema. And Marcelo Gallardo can come in because the coaching chair is empty. So he should be able to respect Benzema more. 

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1. https://www.goal.com/id/daftar/karim-benzema-al-ittihad-marcelo-gallardo-saudi-pro-league/blt563ad15390b66b07#csaf2f73dd8bd66065

yep, the SPL is indeed part of a league that has very big developments and I admit that we are not just talking about Al Nasar, even Al Hilal which has Mitrovic and Ittihad has Benzema.
If only Neymar and Benzema could also perform like Ronaldo and Mitrovic, I'm sure the development of the SPL would be greater and accelerate to become part of UEFA which makes the SPL even more popular and known to most people throughout the world.


btw, I want to review the first match since the long break in the end Ittihad won 3 scores and Al Ta'ee was unable to score.
Al Ta'ee performance was very bad, unable to provide any resistance, while Ittihad did not appear with Benzema, but Al Ta'ee could not withstand every attack from Ittihad and the bad things happened in the defense which was very ridiculous for me.
An impressive start for Ittihad and hopefully this team will become popular again and can compete at the top of the standings.

Since news emerged that Benzema would leave Al Ittihad, at that time I thought the news was definitely not true. Then in the end my assessment turned out to be correct. The reason is that in one of the news media, Benzema once said that all this news was just lies. So after I read the news, I became even more convinced that Benzema would definitely stay at Al Ittihad. Although from the start of the season until now Benzema's performance at Al Ittihad has not been optimal. But that doesn't mean Benzema will just give up and move to another club. Therefore, Benzema will definitely fight hard to be able to show his best performance at Al Ittihad for the remainder of this season.

So when saw that Benzema had returned to training with his teammates at Al Ittihad, all the fake news had been clearly proven to be lies. Therefore, now Al Ittihad fans and also Benzema fans are definitely more relieved by this. Even though in the Al Ittihad versus Al Tae match, Benzema has not yet played. But I'm sure that in the next match, Benzema will definitely play again. Because in the next match Al Ittihad will compete in the Asian Champions League (ACL) against Navbahor. So in this match Benzema's abilities will definitely be needed, therefore it is very likely that Benzema will return as the main starter for Al Ittihad.

It seems I'm missing the latest information regarding Benzema. honestly, I don't know Karim Benzema's future developments. however, it is very likely that he will remain with Al Ittihad. Regarding the rumors about Benzema and the Al Ittihad coach, the dispute actually occurred not with the new coach, Marcelo Gallardo. however, Benzema has disagreements with Nuno Santo who is now managing Nottingham Forest. so the previous problem between Benzema and the Al Ittihad coach should no longer be a problem. because Nuno Santo has been fired by Al Ittihad. IMO, it's very likely that Benzema doesn't feel at home with his squad at Al Ittihad. there are many factors, starting from incompatibility with the coach, players who support Benzema in terms of scoring goals. also, the squad is not as competitive as other clubs that have been acquired by PIF. By the way, Al Itihad got full points when they visited Al Tai with a score of 0-3. even though Benzema was absent in this match, at least Al Ittihad started the match with good results.

The SPL is a growing league with teams doing very well at what they do. We can mention a few of the teams as not just Al-Nassr being the only ones doing well. The various team performances are beneficial to the leagues growth and expansion, adding to the promptness to be a part of the UEFA race. It's a good push to the best that a team can portray.

Al-Nassr are still standing really out in the league and then the likes of Al-Hilal and the other teams. The combination of local and foreign players in the league promoted unity and bond with nations too, even increases fans favouritism. It's just beautiful to watch how football in the Asian side has become so beautiful, shifting down the attention of other nations to see the wonders that the SPL are doing. The league is still running and race for the trophy is on too. The final table standing is awaited.

I mean it is not "unfounded" rumours, how many players have you seen that left the club right in the middle of the season, and did not come back for a long time and then stayed and be happy at that club? I have seen plenty that did that, but then they left, so it is usually an indication that the player will leave. Doesn't mean that Benzema will, if he is returned then he is returned and nothing else is needed about that, but that isn't really regards to any bad journalism about the issue, I think it was alright to expect something like that.

Let's see if he can do fine, we have seen him not do that great so far, which means expecting him to do well after he returns would be at least what he can provide for the fans and the team that pays so much for him.

Its fantastic to see him commit to the squad again after all the whispers about him leaving for Europe. I never believed such rumors. Al Ittihad always felt Benzema had more to offer, and his return to training confirms that. What player hasnt had ups and downs, right? Bouncing back is key.

We must support him as fans throughout this time. He's proven himself before, and Im sure he will again. This might be the turning point for Benzema and Al Ittihad. Lets help him regain his form.

I dont buy anything about that shit of Benzemas hollidays, i think he really have a problem with the coach or with directives and now he is back because they solve or tried to solve that problems.
And he is abck on training because he doesnt want to lose his phisical condition, nothing more.

After a long pause and this is the first match after the break will be very difficult to predict because there are so many changes that we do not know when passing through the break.
I also bet in this match but if only speculating I predict that the total match produces a score of less than 3 and will end up to win with 2 scores and Al-Ta'ee will not score.

But I'm not sure whether in that match Benzema will be present to make a contribution because he previously had problems with Ittihad but if he is present in this match it will be an opportunity to make a good contribution scoring a lot of scores to prove to the world that he can have a change after being assessed as a player who no longer has productivity while Al-Ta'ee is a weak club and Benzema should have been present at the match.
Al-Ta'ee I'm not sure has a chance to survive in the Saudi pro league because the condition of this club seems to be declining and there is no hope of leaving the red zone soon.

I think that if the problems published by so many news were fake. From what i can see that if there was no problem between benzema and the club, im guessing that is just a miss communication between players with the coach. It's a common thing in the football. We do know that so well how good or bad the relationship between him and ittihad.
I can only predict that if this is also confirming that if there was issue between him and the club. I think media and journalist was only wrongly predicting what happened between him and ittihad. Im feeling so happy to see him back again to the club.

Al ittihad was always performing so badly since he was disappearing and deactivated his social media accounts. I think that this is now as simple as people said caused by that's the only benzema who know so well about how good or bad his relationship with ittihad.
This is also confirming if all of speculations regarding him to go to the other club was totally fake. This thing makes everything clear about the situation that happened around him. Finally, benzema has been appearing himself. What a good moment to apper and confirms the rumor about him.

He gets back to training and will soon play for Al Ittihad but hoping him to contribute something like magic for Al Ittihad is unrealistic. Because he did not create magic in more than half of the season and Al Ittihad already drop too deep on the table of Saudi Professional League. They have no chance to defend their title and they can aim at a third position that can help them to make this failed season less serious.

He was given his favorite position in Al-Ittihad and he was just unable to play at his highest level and best ability. Now his mind would be clear that he will not move to any club in this season and perhaps he will focus on contribution for the club in next months. About his future, maybe he will request again in the summer but now it is not time for it, still some months till the summer.

With lack of training because of the drama, Benzema is not too ready for the match but hopefully with his experience, he can score goals in the match for Al-Ittihad.

After week 19 of the Saudi Arabian League, Al Taee and Al Ittihad were finally reunited after being absent for the past month and this time the duel between the two teams was something that fans of their respective teams had been waiting for.
Al Ittihad has the best player from Europe, namely Karim Banzema, of course this is very beneficial for Al Ittihad because Karim Benzema is a mainstay player who is predicted to bring 3 points for Al Ittihad against Al Taee. Even though previously Al Ittihad played very badly because they suffered 3 consecutive defeats in the Saudi Arabian League and this is what made Al Ittihad appear more enthusiastic and full of strong self-confidence until they were able to stay in 7th place in the standings. the current standings, while Al Taee is still far behind Al Ittihad by occupying 16th position out of 17 standings or it could be said to be in the bottom 2 of the standings.

In today's match Al-Tai is the host and maybe this will also make them more motivated to fight harder and could make things difficult for Al-ittihad. But before the break yesterday, Al-tai actually had a really bad performance which made them even enter the relegation zone now. Meanwhile, Al-ittihad also had a poor level of consistency in the first half of this season. But I believe that in the second half of this season Al-ittihad will improve and will collect full points in today's match. And this will immediately bring Al-ittihad up from 7th place to 5th place.

With this news development, it looks like we can still see Benzema strengthening Al-Ittihad and also the previous problems in the dressing room have been completely resolved. Now Benzema can focus more on defending Al-Ittihad for the remainder of the season and hopes he can find his best performance. We know that since leaving Real Madrid he is actually still quite productive but perhaps in the Saudi league he still needs to adjust to his colleagues who are clearly different from those at Real Madrid.

Benzema is more often the finisher in front of the opponent's goal and perhaps that is something he cannot let go of when the team wants his important role more than just a finisher at Al-Ittihad. Today's match against Al-Tae will be a turning point and we hope Benzema can score again because we will definitely miss his brilliant performance.

The rumors circulating regarding Benzema have actually received confirmation that he was only on holiday and had important business in the country he was traveling to at that time. So the issue about him leaving the club is just an issue. Because actually there is no reason for Benzema to immediately leave Al-ittihad. And the appearance of Benzema in training sessions is also the answer to all the doubts that everyone has about Benzema at the club. There are even rumors that Benzema will join Al-Nassr. And yeah, it seems like that's just an issue. But I'm happy that Benzema is finally back in the picture.

Today Al-ittihad will face Al-taee. And this is a postponed match that Al-ittihad must make good use of.

Al Nassr will have difficulty in this match and will even find it difficult to catch up with the point difference because 7 points is not an easy task for Al Nassr because Al Hilal has never made any mistakes while Al Nassr has lost 3 times since the start of the season so it will be difficult to catch up with the point difference and in on the one hand, Al Nassr seems to have a very busy match schedule and Ronaldo absence seems to worry the fans because without Ronaldo, Al Nassr will find it increasingly difficult to win the title from Al Hilal, while Mitrovic as Al Hilal mainstay player is still in a very strong condition to continue to be consistent help get 3 points in every match.
of course Al Hilal doesn't need Neymar because from the start Mitrovic was reliable and ready enough to compete with Ronaldo.

currently, Ronaldo has a definite goal to get a title in the SPL helping the team he is currently playing for is not an easy job om the one hand, Al Hilal is one of the very strong teams in the SPL so Ronaldo will continue to try in the remaining time and still be able to have a career try your best give your best contribution.

It's hard to imagine that caused by al hilal has the balanced squad in the saudi pro league. Al hilal was also rarely conceded goals against its opponent too. It has become a very strong point to say that if al hilal will not be losing till the end of season if it can keep with the current performacne. I think that the only possible club to bet al hilal was al nassr.
This caused by it was the strongest team after al hilal and i think that al nassr was quite capable to bet it at the second leg. Al hilal was destroying al nassr inthe first league and it has intention to do revenge against al hilal. Im also concerning how consistent mitrovic and savic.

These guys were always able pushing the club to perform better and win the game. I can't even really understand how a player like savic can be solved by fulham to the al hilal. I think that savic can go back to the EPL again and i remember that when savic saves totenham from being relegted.
That moment was so bautiful to be remembered. I think that al nassr was the only team that can be equal to the al hilal at this time. Ittihad and ahli are still struggling with their own problems while al hilal is always going up even higher and leave his competitors behind.

It seems to be a calm before a storm as an ambitious player like Benzema will find other opportunities to return to Europe. If he can not get chance to do it sooner that the contract expiration date, he will do it after its expiration. Earning massive salary from Al Ittihad in two seasons will be enough for Benzema to say goodbye. If he still wants to enjoy Champions League, he will leave Saudi Arabia because he knows time left for his career is not too much.

They began this season to defend their title in Saudi Professional League but they are now at middle of table. This certainly is a very disappointed ranking for Al Ittihad after spending big money not only for Benzema but some other star players. It seems they did not spend their money wisely like Al Nassr or Al Hilal and their squad is not balancing between attacking and defensive areas.

It seems that all the issues have been resolved for the time being, and with him returning to the Ittihad FC training camp answers rumors about the possibility of him moving, although something like that could happen at the start of next season.
And I agree that he at Ittihad did not show anything impressive and that was quite surprising because his presence was expected to help Ittihad to defend the title but that didn't happen even now they are out of title contenders.
Today Ittihad will compete against Al Ta'ee, and they should be able to handle this opponent well even though Ittihad is not in good form because after a long rest it will provide new energy for players except those who compete for their country in the Asian Cup, moreover, the three consecutive defeats they got should be broken because continuing to experience bad results will further worsen the mental state of their players.

He is getting older one age each year and he has worse fitness year by year so his total appearances each season will drop with time. It is natural trend for all old players and Benzema will not be able to avoid this natural effects on his body.

The return to training is a not strange because the winter transfer window in Europe was closed and no transfer was completed to satisfy Benzema. He has to return to Saudi Arabia, get back to work for Al Ittihad if he does not want to appear in a court against Al Ittihad. In this situation, he is breaking the contract term, not Al Itithad.

He looks to be less ready for matches in Al Ittihad, not only matches he missed by his injuries but when he was in their squad, he played worse than what he should perform with his level and quality. Anyway it's not the end of his career and chance to return to Europe, if he completes his 2 year contract with Al Ittihad. Finishing the contract will help him getting about $200M which is like a fortune.