Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 237. (Read 112069 times)

Yes, it kinda proved the SPL getting much better than the MLS, the stats from the friendly match has proved it , I once doubted but not anymore due to the 6 : 0 win against MLS. What where the MLS doing during the game conceiving such a number of goals despite the game being a friendly match.

Based on the agenda of the Saudi Pro League striving to create visibility and awareness in the European space with the major goal of ensuring an expanded sports market, the clubs find themselves in a situation where there's less utilization of local players. These players have no doubt some certain level of effects to a club but the aims of these clubs won't allow for the players to be used. It'll only make sense that a policy be put in place for the use of local players in every team but I don't think that'll be enough to take them to where they visioned the league to get to.

 SPL wants to be broadcasted and be seen worldwide and this makes for the rapid purchase and push for European stars who'd cause focus to gradually be shifted to their league. If the local players are entertained, then there'd definitely be no room for this hot caked stars in Europe and in the long run, it won't give them the focus they want to get. All things in the SPL currently occurs as a planned activity, and they are all working towards a set goal. It's only a gradual process before the impacts are seen.

After the friendly match between Al Nassr and Inter Miami, we return to the conversation between two players, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Yes, how come these two players, at their current age, still attract so much attention from us all. Not because they play on the field and meet each other, but even when they are not playing, our attention is still focused on these two players. I feel like talking about the match is no more interesting than talking about these two players. Lol
Yes, they are indeed the best players in the world and for me they deserve the title of living legends who are still actively playing to this day. Honestly, I really miss how I saw the competition when they were in the same competition, Ronaldo at Real Madrid and Messi at Barcelona. For me it is one of the best competitions I have ever seen, both from individual players, and from their respective clubs.

The influence of the Portuguese super Star is something that can't be in any way undermined because it's just too obvious how much it has impacted the Saudi league ever since his arrival as not only has his team gained popularity and attention but the league as a whole has also benefited from his presence. On the other hand the Argentina star has also brought similar effect on the major league soccer as he joined inter Miami so most definitely these two Stars are creating their impacts in the various ways they can which I think it's beyond mare comparison.

These two starts are just the best in their various capacity except if going by records we will see some little variations in their achievement but it's still doesn't place one as best over the other for me I just see them as two good players in different areas.

It must be admitted that Ronaldo's arrival has changed everyone's perception of the Saudi league and of course it has also opened the door for European players to have a career here. The Saudi League has made huge investments and the value is enormous to build a league that will attract the attention of all football fans throughout the world. Currently everything still feels safe because more and more European players are coming, but recently there have been a few problems after Henderson left Al-Ettifaq. Not to mention the rumors of Benzema leaving which are getting louder every day but I think as long as the Saudi league can keep him with other European players who are comfortable here it will keep their image good.

The rivalry between Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal is almost at an end and it seems we also agree that Al-Hilal will win the Saudi league title this season. It is very difficult for Al-Nassr even though they often win but if Al-Hilal continues to win it will be increasingly pointless. But I believe miracles will always come and at least I want to see fierce competition chasing points before this season ends.

The argument among football fans across the globe on wether Cristiano Ronaldo is the best player in the world or not can go on and on and on but I don't think there's any doubt to the fact that the Portuguese superstar is the most influencial footballer ever in the history of football and I say that because of how his presence in the Saudi Pro League have been able to help influence and promote the Saudi league to almost the whole part of the world.
Before his arrival to the Saudi Pro League, it wasn't a globally known league as it wasn't much talked about in the media but his presence have made the league to be one of the most talked about leagues in the world and that's what only Cristiano Ronaldo can do if you ask me.

Indeed, since the arrival of world star Ronaldo, there have been huge changes to the SPL, one of which is the increasing number of top European players who are starting to take an interest and come to become SPL players.
Apart from that, the SPL has become football competition that is quite popular, almost like league competition in European football. Previously it was clear that the SPL was not well-known competition, but since Ronaldo arrived we have seen for ourselves how it has developed.
Now Saudi football has become football that is loved by many people and fans are starting to come from various countries abroad just to be able to see their mainstay players competing for their team in the SPL competition.

Just imagine, if there had been no agreement and Ronaldo had arrived, the SPL or Saudi football would never have been able to develop as rapidly as it is now.
Of course, very good developments will be able to have quite significant positive impact too.

Your point is well taken. We're disappointed Ronaldo and Messi didnt start; their presence makes any game exciting. I anticipated that famous battle. Due to Ronaldo's injury and Messi's late arrival, the teams were playing it safe. Disappointing, but tactically sound. You cant risk your stars in a friendly encounter that doesnt affect a league or tournament standing. Yes, having both on the field from the start would have made the contest more exciting.

I agree about the Saudi league's quality development. Recently signed major names have raised the bar. Preparation and performance against powerful clubs highlight Al Nassr's toughness. Watching these factors change football power is intriguing. The game had its moments despite missing Messi and Ronaldo's early struggle.

It looks like it will be difficult to stop Al Hilal from becoming champions of the Saudi Pro League this season, even though there are still around 15 matches left and there are many possibilities that could happen but I am not sure that Al Hilal will experience a sharp decline so that they will fail to win the title, because they can be said that the experienced team in the Saudi Pro League can even be said to be one of the teams that is quite dominating, but last season they failed to become champions.
Al Hilal is not only the most productive team this season but their defense is extraordinarily difficult for their opponents to penetrate because they only conceded 9 goals in 19 matches so this further strengthens that Al Hilal is an extraordinary team this season and they don't need paid stars with hundreds of millions of euros a season to achieve that, so sometimes intelligence in assessing players is much more useful than just buying stars but sometimes they don't contribute as much as Neymar.

Agreed but it's saddened me to see that there were also many players are leaving from the league as well. The impact from ronaldo was big but the exodus from the players were coming from european competitions are also very big too. I think that if we must say based on the result from the current standing.
Al nassr was not as strong as al hilal in the saudi pro league. The club is also able performing even better compared to the al nassr and that's a common thing when we are seeing that if al hilal has bigger chance to win the game caused by al hilal deserved it. The consistency from the club is the right answer for that.

Im also concerning about how consistent al hilal in other competition too. Al nassr had ronaldo but remember this is a competitong for eleven players and it's not only ronaldo that is playing in al nassr right now.
Other club like al hilal was also using eleven players to participate in the saudi pro league. This means that if it doesn't even matter how good the performance from ronaldo but the eleven players of al nassr will be determining the result.

People shall not feel jealous caused by al nassr was topping the competition. The standing can change anytime as long as al hilal will be missing the points and this is the hardest to happen. it's caused by im also aware how good al hilal this season is.
There are no a lot of changes in the club too.

This match really surprised everyone, no one even thought that Al Nassr would be able to play very well in that match without Cristiano Ronaldo. In fact I also not expected that Al Nassr would embarrass Inter Miami with an extraordinary landslide score which has superstar player in it, and this is enough to prove that Al Nassr is a much better club than Inter Miami even though it has players like Lionel Messi and I can also guarantee that the Saudi league has greater strength than the American team.

Anything can still happen in football, initially many thought that the American team was much better than the Saudi league, but in reality Al Hilal and Al Nassr were able to prove that the Saudi league cannot be underestimated. The presence of Cristiano Ronaldo has certainly improved the league itself. In my opinion, Messi and Ronaldo are still the kings of football, it's just that now they are in different leagues and have different squad performances.

It could also be the case, with the victory achieved by Al Nasr in the friendly match against Inter Miami, it can show that Saudi Pro is no less good than MLS and this match really surprised me because Inter Miami was completely beaten and Al Nasr did not give the slightest chance to win. . this match.
What we know is that if Ronaldo had not been played in this match, Inter Miami would most likely have won, but on the other hand the Al Nasr players proved that they could also play well and in fact without Ronaldo Al Nasr scored many goals and won. against Inter. Miami. What an interesting and surprising match for me personally.

Are you sure about this? because I didn't see Cristiano's name on the Suspensions & Injuries list.


Actually, we can't make a comparison between these two teams, they're completely on different levels. Based on data from FDB, Inter Miami is ranked 109th on the North American continent while Al-Nassr is ranked 2nd for teams on the Asian continent. Apart from that, we can also see the class of each team in their domestic standings, it's very unequal.

That's the reason why Al-Nassr is so strong even though they're not reinforced by their key players who are currently competing in other competitions such as Sadio Mane who is currently playing for Senegal.

Of course many were disappointed because they wanted to see a meeting between the two stars who would show each other's true performance but Ronaldo was injured and Messi entered the field in the second half and only appeared for a few minutes and I think this was like it was set up from the start to avoid something that happened.
We all know the contradictions between Messi and Ronaldo, of course there are also a lot of fans of these two players and to avoid something bad happening there is drama like Ronaldo getting injured, whereas I saw in the last match of Al Nassr against Al Taawon it seemed like Ronaldo didn't have any problems but surprisingly There were rumors that Ronaldo was injured and even more strangely, Messi only came on after 80 minutes.

I'm just saying about something that I think is strange when two star players are going to face each other but on the one hand there are cons and in the end the two players are managed not to face each other because maybe either party is afraid that there will be chaos among the supporters who get emotional when they see the player or club the favorites lost so I thought Ronaldo's absence was set in motion from the start.

Yes, the match did not meet the expectations of Ronaldo and Messi fans. Because I personally also hope that in this match Ronaldo and Messi can contribute fully. However, it cannot be denied that Ronaldo is still injured and Messi is also confused. The reason is that in the first half Inter Miami was heavily beaten by Al Nasr. So according to my assumption, he chose to play it safe by playing in the final minutes. Because if Messi plays from the first half or at the start of the second half, and in the end Inter Miami still loses to Al Nasr. I'm sure this will definitely have a big impact on Messi's reputation. So it is most likely because of this that Messi was only played briefly by Inter Miami. Because he is afraid that Messi will be blasphemed by his own fans. So in essence, I personally am not satisfied with the match. Because of the expectations that I have, the match will run with exciting buying and selling of attacks between the two teams and there will also be a very exciting score chase. But none of that happened, because in that match only Al Nasr was the one who controlled the game.

But that's okay, it's also the world of football, sometimes predictions and expectations don't match reality. Because the most important thing is, now we know the condition of the players who were once great, but have now experienced a decline in performance. So hopefully, there will be another match that will bring Messi and Ronaldo together before they both retire from the world of football.

There are many news about Cristiano Ronaldo's injury and probability that he will not join the friendly match. However, I did not read any news that Lionel Messi got an injury and can not join that match as a debut player of Inter Miami.

Because of Ronaldo injury, I believe that if Al Nassr get bad result, he will not be used by Al Nassr. They actually need him for more important matches in Saudi Professional League than this friendly match.

I have different thinking as Messi played some minutes in the friendly match because Inter Miami want to satisfy their fans and it can be part of their club contract with investors and sponsors, partners. With about ten minutes of playing and when Al Nassr already led too far, Messi could not create any magic on the field.

It was totally a marketing ploy, but even without them on the field, despite Messi's appearance, those who wanted a show managed to see a lot of goals and in the end they must have been content. I particularly wanted to see both of them playing, but unfortunately that didn't happen.

However, previously the Al Nassr manager had announced that Cristiano Ronaldo had just suffered an injury so he would most likely not participate in the friendly match and the public should not have full expectations of the meeting between the two star players in the field, in fact I myself also thought that Ronaldo would be played, even if only for a short time, but Because the Al Nassr players played very impressively, Ronaldo was still not played.

Messi came out in the final minutes because his team had not scored a goal at all against Al Nassr. He hoped that after Messi was played, the player could break into Al Nassr's goal, but it turned out that Messi's entry couldn't break through the hosts' goal at all. I think this was because the Miami players didn't can help him create goal opportunities.

Cristiano Ronaldo had been injured since a week before the match was due to take place. He had a muscle injury or something like that. I forget the details. But he got injured in training or something like that.
And the other fact is that Al-Nassr weren't playing at full strength because a lot of players were out after the Asian Cup and African Cup of Nations. But it's amazing to see that Al-Nassr still managed to beat Inter Miami, which actually has some former Barcelona players who used to be very qualified and famous. It's just that the former Barcelona players are no longer young. Like Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets who are already 34 or 35. 

The result was good for al nassr but i only consider intermiami as the worst team in the MLS and so, this result is not that special for me. The match did not turn out to be as special as expected because the main attraction that would have drawn a large audience did not take place.
The reason why this match has garnered so much interest is because people are eager to see Ronaldo and Messi compete against each other, although it is disappointing that it won't occur. The main show was failed to attract a lot of people to watch this and im sure that people are also feeling disappointed caused by this too.

While some may argue that Al Nassr has scored numerous goals, it is important to note that many consider Inter Miami to be the weakest team in the MLS. Moreover, it must be acknowledged that this outcome, where a top team in the SPL faces a mediocre team from the MLS, is quite common.
It is important for everyone to acknowledge and accept the fact that InterMiami did not make significant progress in the last season, even when Messi's presence did not have a significant impact on the club's position.