Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 273. (Read 128642 times)

Ronaldo is indeed different from other football players. The reason is that until now Ronaldo still looks very fit and energetic even though he is almost 40 years old. Because if  look at other soccer players. When reach 40s, things change drastically for these football players. For example, when they enter their 40s, some soccer players become fat, their ability to play soccer decreases somewhat, and many soccer players retire at the age of 38-40 years. So seeing Ronaldo can still play well at almost 40 years of age, in my opinion this is a very extraordinary achievement. Plus, at his current age, Ronaldo's body is still very ideal. In fact, his body shape looks almost the same as when he was 25-30 years old (especially in terms of muscle and fat).

Apart from that, what I see is that Ronaldo's current performance can be said to be still very good. Yes, even though Ronaldo's speed is currently decreasing. However, Ronaldo still has many good skills, such as his passing which is still very accurate, his kicks which are still hard and accurate, and his dribbling skills which are still quite good. So for now the reduced speed is not an obstacle for Ronaldo to continue playing football well. And it's true, friend, currently Ronaldo is indeed suitable as a striker. This is because Ronaldo has a tall body, excellent ability to score goals and  can save more energy.

This is a good decision considering that the Saudi Pro League has invested heavily in players from European leagues. Now it is time for them to focus on developing their league and not just think about recruiting players because if the Saudi League continues to do this, it could affect their financial stability in the league, when This Saudi League already has several star players and that is enough to make the Saudi League popular among world football, as long as Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar, Karim Benzema are at the club then the Saudi League is still a club that is in demand by their fans in football. They too must take into account their total detrimental so that they can be repaired immediately this season if they continue to improve the league.

It's quite sad to see the number of spectators decreasing throughout this year, even though I thought the number of spectators would increase because the Saudi League is becoming more and more famous, but it turns out that this is even more detrimental. Yes, it would be better for the Saudi League to stop player transfers for this season, at least to repair a number of losses that have been made they invest. It's true that investment doesn't always go smoothly and there are always ups and downs, but with the league's hard work, it's possible that one day it will pay off with a good start when the Saudi League is nominated for the world cup.

Cristiano Ronaldo can plays well as left winger or central forward position and he was play with that position since playing with European teams such as become Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus player.
I disagree with your opinion about Cristiano Ronaldo loss his touched about speed, still on the top level performance and looking with his physical most perfect although over 38 years old.
But he can't more contribution by him self for helping Al Nassr win the domestic league tittle exactly for this season, seems over with him for winning trophy after eliminating from AFC Champion League and looks difficult possibility for winning SPL trophy. Just his achieved become Saudi Pro League top scorer in this season and he was two season failed to give domestic league trophy for his club.

True, and he will continue his career in professional football as a coach. The only problem is that when you are an active football player, you must have good stamina. It's amazing to see Ronaldo can still compete with young talented players. It proves that he is able to sustain himself.
It gives him additional value to him. That's the awesome thing from ronaldo unlike other players which were getting fat but he can keep his body to be always ideal to play football.

Ronaldo may be retiring after finishing his contract with Al Nassr, but he hopes Nassr will add a few years more to it. We can still see him performing in the Saudi pro league till the end of his contract with Nassr.
I'm sure Naldo has no plan to play in another club after he finishes his contract in al Nassr.

If Cristiano Ronaldo simply is able to score many goals in 2023 year because he is playing in a league with many amateur players, we can see the same for Mane, Benzema and these players would have scored many more goals than what they actually scored so far since their transfers to Saudi Professional League.

I don't try to say Benzema or Mane's performances are bad or worse in comparison with Cristiano Ronaldo's performances but I would like to use these examples to prove that Cristiano is actually good and he tries a lot to achieve those goals. If he is not too good, didn't try, he would have scored less goals than what he has gotten so far.

There is contribution of penalties to total goals he scored for Al Nassr and it is one of privileges he received from the club and head coach.

I do think that he managed to score this many goals because he is playing in a league that is barely out of their amateur status, it's a terrible league with many terrible defenders and goalkeepers as well. However, that doesn't mean that what he is achieving is not hard, he is doing something incredible. Just even the idea that he can still play at age 40 is amazing. Dude could continue to play for a few more seasons by the looks of it, depending on injury situation of course.

I think as long as he keeps doing this, then he will be fine and I do not think that he will do that badly. I believe that he is a vital part of the team but the team needs a lot better defense, their defense and goalkeeper change is a must this summer.

It would be ridiculous if the Saudi professional league was eager to spend more money on new players who have little potential to increase viewership from the league. The league would be better off focusing solely on increasing domestic transfers rather than buying players from the European continent at such outrageous costs which is also robbing the league too and this is the only best solution for this. Learned from hendo's case if player can go back to the european competition again and it shall be giving a very important lesson for saudi pro league club.
They got what they wanted, and the outcome was far from what they expected, so it must be ridiculous if the Saudi Pro League continues to spend more money in the summer.

I've heard that some clubs are targeting big players like De Bruyne and Salah. I believe that regardless of how much money Saudi clubs spend on new players, football fans continue to view top European competitions such as the EPL or the Serie A as the top leagues to watch rather than this and yeah we are talking here caused by the hype brought by ronaldo's effect but can we sure if all of ronaldo fans continously watch SPL? This must be recorrected and saudi pro league needs to reconsider its decision to sign the players that costed hundreds million. 
It is difficult to change a habit that someone has already developed. I'd like to call the SPL the dumbest organization if it continues to spend money to acquire new players from Europe.

It has proven that it is not even working, and how can this club do more shit like this? Enough is enough. The Saudi Pro League can use the money to increase domestic transfers.
Even total attendance has been significantly decreasing. The big players' hype is only for the short term.

Saudi Pro League plans to stop spending this summer (after spending $876 mil in summer 2023 and $25 mil in winter/Jan 2004). The average attendance of 8,321 so far this year, has come down about 10% from the prior season. Since the investments haven't paid off with the live viewership, they might cut losses and let it be. With Saudi earning themselves the World Cup, which might have been their goal in the first place. They might not be that keen on investing anymore.

Ronaldo is of course a lot older, but the main reason that he may not be as passionate anymore is that he played the biggest games in football for Real Madrid, Juventus Turin and Manchester United and now he is somewhere in Saudi Arabia. I doubt that a player of his level and with a marvelous career can still find the motivation to play his absolute best. I think everyone would be the same. He played the one and only classicos on a regular basis and now the best game he gets to play is maybe against Al-Hilal. Can't really blame him as he took the check and does his job, nothing more and nothing less than that.

Football is on different phase. Every single player have their promising moment in football and the specified ones that portrayed the facts that they're absolutely out of good shape. Perhaps Cristiano Ronaldo remained the big name that comprehend football and his style is awesome. Ronaldo is no longer active as before because he's aged and we know how everyone can't cheat nature. We missed him in the European football because the available players failed to do incredibly up to the match of Messi and Ronaldo. Since both of the greatest GOATs left Europe football, it has not been the same.

We have players that will not relent in football, they're always the best players and doing great amusing piece of work in the system. Without the presence of these players, alot of things more like crucial football records won't be created or broken. Cristiano Ronaldo is my favorite player, always dominating his territory and doing the impossible tasks in football. GOAT in the world of football, there are countless times he's having busy moments in football, essentially not what we should be doing. Moreover, injuries hindered most outstanding players from having a resounding record but most of them decides to fight and conquered.

People from all over the world watch the Saudi League games while they didn't watch these games before and that's because of some players like Rakitic and other superstar players in this league. In fact, Rakitic is a famous and well-known player who even had perfect performances when he started playing for Rakitic. In the first game, Rakitic had for Al Shabab if I'm not mistaken he scored a goal by the first shot he had in this team.
But I don't think even if Rakitic or the other players can make Al Hilal stop because even in Nassr they players like Ronaldo couldn't do anything against Al Hilal and they lost the game.
That's why I don't think if Al Shabab can cause any problems for Al Hilal in this match.

Ronaldo doesn't have the speed he had 3 or 4 years ago, but his technical capacity and football knowledge are still the same. Even if his speed and performance decline, his technical skills will never disappear.

Before his unfortunate injury he was a wing forward. After the injury he turned into a striker. Now, by playing as a target striker, he can have the luxury of spending less effort. In this way, I think he can play football for a few more years with his technical capacity and football knowledge.

Al-Hilal are still leading the standings in the league and it’s surprising how after more than half of the season they still remain unbeaten together with Bayern Leverkusen of Germany. This goes to show the kind of feat the Saudi Club has achieved this season.They’ve been on top form and not just in the league but they’re also on fire in the Asian Champions League and they are already looking like possible winners of that league. Yes this is because at the moment they seem unstoppable by most teams.

 Al-Nassr who could have been the only team to stop this Al-Hilal team haven’t been able to do so and by that it’s seeming like no other team will be able to stop this Al-Hilal team with about 12 games to go. Al Shabab will be their next challenge and they too are neither looking like they can be any sort of threat to this Al-Nassr side in any way.Well football is a great game and yes predictable but sometimes goes south as the unexpected team can turn to give a great shocker to the big dog.

 Al-Hilal will be playing away from home and I don’t think that’s causing any sort of worry at all as they can still perform optimally. I’m seeing Al-Hilal winning with over 3 goals and yes that’s what will happen. Yes they’ll drop points but I don’t think that will happen in this fixture. Al-Nassr needs to gear up for the match with Al Hilal as it could be a redeeming match for Ronaldo and Al Nassr’s followers and lovers.

If I'm not mistaken, in 2023 Ronaldo closed with 54 goals in all competitions including his goals with the Portuguese national team and surpassed the number of goals from other great players such as Mbappe and Haaland. However, this can still be a little proud considering its old age, but if we talk about the competitive level of the league, here the Saudi league is clearly very far from the top European leagues.

I think Ronaldo's focus at his age is no longer young, all that is needed is to keep his body fit and even though his running skills are no longer as fast as when he was young, it is clear that his finishing must still be good. We think that's all Ronaldo can rely on and in the Saudi league it shouldn't be a difficult thing for him to implement. We can see that he is still quite consistent even though there are times when he cannot win for Al-Nassr.

Injury is the thing that is most avoided and not only Ronaldo because all players will always be careful. As I said before, taking care of your body and strengthening your muscle mass is one way to avoid injury and that's why we see Ronaldo still has a strong body to this day and it works. In the Euro 2024 competition, we can still see Ronaldo competing and we also hope that the 2026 World Cup will be the last edition before he finally retires from football.

It's hard to believe, but that's the reality that Al-Hilal is unbeaten this season. And as you said, it is possible that Al-hilal's first defeat will come from a mediocre club. because quite a lot of superior teams' matches end up losing to ordinary teams. And this is possible because weak teams are often underestimated. Meanwhile, weak teams never underestimate their opponents. But it seems that Al-hilal is not a team that always underestimates their opponents. Whatever club it is, whether it is an ordinary club or a strong club, it is always faced with full strength by Al-Hilal. But as you said, if Al-Shabab succeeds in defeating Al-Hilal then all sports news media will definitely highlight Al-Shabab and the name of Al-Shabab will probably start to rise to the surface and start not being underestimated. Or many would consider it a coincidence or luck. 

At his age, Rooney can not play and Wayne even retired his player career many years ago. Cristiano is still able to play and can score many goals and being a most  goal productive player in 2023 year is at his age, 39 years old is very impressive achievement from Cristiano Ronaldo individually.

He is no longer fast and good like three or four years ago but at his age, still playing and scoring goals, a lot, like him, is amazing and it's very hard to find another player who can do the same.

At his national team, he has a team mate Pepe who is playing at his 41 years old and together they will join Euro 2024 if none of them will get an injury and miss the tournament. If Pepe can play for Portugal at his 41 years old, next two years, in World Cup 2026, Cristiano Ronaldo will be able to play in that tournament, his sixth World Cup tournament.

Al Shabab has indeed recruited a number of European players, one of which is Rakitic. However, for now Rakitic is certainly still in the process of adapting and is also still in the process of getting to know his teammates at Al Shabab. The reason is that Rakitic has just joined Al Shabab. So I am sure that in the match against Al Hilal, Rakitic will most likely not put significant pressure on Al Hilal's defense. For this reason, I am very optimistic that Al Hilal will definitely be able to beat Al Shabab in the next match. Apart from that, it actually wouldn't be a big problem for Al Hilal, if for example Rakitic already had good chemistry with his teammates at Al Shabab. The reason is that a team that already has good chemistry like Al Nasr can still be beaten by Al Hilal. So in my opinion Al Hilal is guaranteed to win the match against Al Shabab.

And of course Al Hilal will continue to record its winning streak. Although last season Al Shabab was able to hold Al Hilal to a draw. However, in the last meeting between Al Hilal and Al Shabab, the result was that Al Hilal was able to win. Apart from that, in the Arab Club Champions Cup, Al Hilal was able to beat Al Shabab with a score of 3-1. So basically the Head to Head at the last meeting between Al Hilal and Al Shabab was the most influential. And the result is that Al Hilal is superior.

He is a machine. I don't know anyone who can perform like this despite his age. He continues to be at the top of the scoring list with 23 goals in the Saudi Arabian league. Moreover, he makes this statistic just before he turns 40. A great football player and a great person. It's like he was born for football. I hope it leaves us great memories at Euro 2024 in the summer.

Betting on Al-Hilal this season is quite profitable but unfortunately their odds are very small and even not attractive at all, for example against Damac FC team whose position is better than Al-Shabab the odds for Al-Hilal are below @ 1.20 although it seems like a certainty of profit but the risk is still great betting at such odds because maybe Al-Hilal will not lose this season but a draw is enough to make us lose and Al-Hilal has had two draws so far, so sometimes it is not interesting to only bet on the money line on Al-Hilal, while betting on other types is not a certainty of getting profit because the opponent may appear very disappointing, for example we bet yes on BTTS but the opponent turns out to be unable to penetrate the Al-Hilal defense, and against Al-Shabab Al-Hilal's odds are probably only @1.10..
Against Al-Shabab, it will be an easy match for Al-Hilal and more than two goals will be scored by Al-Hilal if you see the opponent's defense is quite weak and Al-Shabab will have enough difficulty scoring goals.