Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 275. (Read 112192 times)

However, this hope has the potential to be dashed for Ronaldo fans all over the world, if in the end Ronaldo is unable to bring Al Nassr to present the Saudi Pro League trophy plus the top scorer belongs to his rival Mitrovic. in this thread, it is very likely that almost most of them are Ronaldo fans, because Ronaldo is always the best-selling theme in every discussion in the Saudi Professional League thread. to be honest, I am a neutral supporter for this competition. the point is, I only enjoy matches that are interesting and crucial for me. the rest, I don't really follow the development of the lower middle teams. currently, the Saudi Pro League has presented 19 matches and Al Hilal is perched at the top of the standings.
meanwhile, Al Nassr is in the runner up position with a difference of seven points from Al Hilal. 7 points adrift of the top of the standings, this must be a strong motivation for Ronald and his colleagues to keep Al Nassr on the right track. apart from that, if Ronaldo cares about the competition for top scorers, Ronaldo automatically has to prove his capacity as a sharp player even though he is no longer young. after all, Ronaldo has a lot of support from his teammates. there are Sadio Mane, Talisca, Brozovic, and several other players. in terms of quality, Ronaldo gets special support from his teammates who have the ability to help him break into the opposing team's goal.

Apart from that, being 7 points behind doesn't have to discourage Ronaldo fans. after all, this competition still had a lot of matches left. and what is certain, overall Al Nassr will play on the right track. however, the rivals will not let their rivals get close to their points. which means, Jorge Jesus will try to ensure his squad stays on the winning track until they get closer to winning the trophy this season. likewise with Mitrovic, the Al Hilal center forward would be honored to compete with a star of Ronaldo's caliber. whether in terms of scoring goals, or bringing his team to win the League trophy. well, let's see how far these two teams compete and play their matches until the end of the season.

In my opinion, I will not judge for now that Al Nassr will fail to become champions this season because the Saudi Arabian league still has 11 more matches left. which is very likely if Al Hilal loses its best form then there is an opportunity for Al Nassr to seize the main position from Al Hilal. However, it is true that so far Al Hilal are still able to be in their best form because they are unbeaten until their 19th match this season. Yes, the point gap between the two is 7 points, where Al Nassr still has the opportunity to reduce the gap if they are able to perform consistently until the end of the season, but with one condition, Al Hilal must suffer 3 defeats so that Al Nassr can become the leader of the standings.

Ronaldo has indeed performed well this season and he is even the top scorer in 2023. I think he just failed to bring Al Nassr to the lead in the standings because until week 19 Al Nassr was still stuck in second place in the standings. It seems like Al Hilal hasn't been careless in the slightest this season because they have been really consistent this season. Ronaldo is still under contract until the summer of 2025, so if he fails this season, Ronaldo still has one more chance in the next season.

I firmly believe that this is really a personality thing and that Kevin De Bruyne is not the kind of guy who would waste some high potential years of his career for money in Saudi Arabia. No doubt that I might be totally mistaken here and my opinion could not be further from the truth, but my hope is that he will make the right decision and make the fans around the world happy and present them with some more world class plays. It would really look strange if he soon runs around in a jersey from a club from Saudi Arabia.

Al Nassr started the season a little unluckily so wasting too many points has become a big problem for Al Nassr now which makes them 7 points behind Al Hilal, and I think this is normal because they have to adapt to a new coach at the start of the season. this season. season. Now Al Nassr's game is consistent and even Al Nassr's front line already has chemistry with each other which makes them very productive in scoring goals.

It's just that Al Hilal is also in good condition, they find it very difficult to make so many mistakes that they lose points. I predict that this season the SPL league title will be won by Al Hilal. It's true that the SPL still has a long way to go, but looking at Al Hilal's performance this season, I think it will be difficult to stop them. Al Hilal are unbeaten so far and their defense is also very strong so they have conceded minimal goals so far.

Yes, the battle for first place in the scoring race is not over - there are many weak teams in the Saudi League and one hattrick can change the situation. But now Ronaldo is still the main contender to be first again.

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By the way, have you heard that Benzema, who was subjected to fierce criticism from fans (for weak results), closed his Instagram account? It’s very sad, I think mentally he returned to those times when in Real Madrid he was booed for poor realisation of scoring chances.
Again, we can say that although the Saudi League is considered weak, in order to be “at the level” here, serious efforts must be made and not everyone can do this.

Al-Nassr are 7 points behind as we head to the 2nd half of the season and it’ll only take some funny match scores from Al-Hilal so that Al-Nassr can go top. Consistency will be required from  Al-Nassr if they want to go up the ladder, well  their hope for the title is not yet over, since it takes just 2 defeats for their Arch rival Hilal to drop points and close the gap. Would Al-Hilal be able to win all their remaining matches?

 They’ll have to concede less and score very much to keep mounting the pressure on Al-Hilal though I don’t see Al-Hilal shaking too much. But they both have a match in the future and that match can be positive towards Al-Nassr victory to surpassing the current league leaders. Well Al-Nassr needs to try to mantain winning streaks and they could possibly overthrow  Al-Hilal because I think that’s the only way possible.

I am not sure if I brought this up before but in many leagues I would not say that the season is over when one team leads by 7 points after half of the season has been played, but in this case I am deviating from my usual point of view here because I think these 7 points mean a lot with respect to the rest of the season. The goal difference of Al-Hilal is telling the whole story more precisely. They are quite unstoppable so far. I am saying "quite" unstoppable because they have 2 draws until now, but that is it. Al-Nassr can only counter them by consistently winning and then they have to close the gap in the second game against them.

Steven Gerrard the coach of Al Ettifaq got a warning from the team.
In Al Ettifaq they spent lots of money for players and coaches to have better results and they Al Ettifaq was hoping to see many better results after investing too much money for this team.
But even after all the money they spent, there is a huge gap between Al Ettifaq and the top of the table and that's why they said Gerrard wants them to improve the team during winter and buy more players but we also asked Gerrard to get them together and to improve the team faster.

No matter how many goals Cristiano scores and becomes top scorer, it won't change anything except the individual title for him.
To be able to win the Arab League trophy, of course, requires team collectiveness. That's what Al Hilal has done.
To be honest, Al Nassr should prioritize team cohesion and chemistry, rather than just relying on the individual Cristiano.
I hope Cristiano is able to make his teammates have the same vision because he is the captain.

In this case we cannot see only Cristiano Ronaldo, because they play as a team not as individuals, and it must be admitted that at this time Al Hilal is better than Al Nassr. Indeed, in all competitions we know what Ronaldo's ambition is, yes he always has a very high desire to get a title, both individually and as a team. Al Nassr had to slip a few times so they fell behind Al Hilal, and we cannot blame Ronaldo in this case.
Now their gap with Al Hilal is 7 points, with Al Hilal's form being very difficult to beat it is not an easy job for Al Nassr to catch up with Al Hilal. One way for them to get closer is to beat Al Hilal in their meeting later. Al Nassr's first meeting had to recognize Al Hilal's superiority, it must not be repeated. Their own meeting is scheduled for quite a long time, Al Nassr can only hope that their competitors slip in the matches they play.

As long as Al Hilal continues to maintain its position in being in first place in the points table and does not make repeated mistakes, Al Hilal is guaranteed to win the title in the Saudi Pro league and Al Nassr must accept this situation even though they have Ronaldo and other attacking players. other things, but on the defensive line it cannot be as strong as Al Hilal and it would not be possible if Al Nassr would make a mistake, whereas in the last few matches Al Hilal is still quite strong and has consistently achieved 5 consecutive wins and in these 19 matches has never been defeated.
I agree with your last words that Al Nassr chances will be greater if they continue to consistently get consecutive wins and we will never know what surprises will come, pushing Al Hilal to make mistakes and Al Nassr will have the opportunity to try to get closer to the points that Al Hilal has.

Without even pressuring him, Cristiano Ronaldo is one footballer that loves winning as many titles as possible and that's why his biggest aim this season as Al Nassr player is to win the Saudi Pro League title. He finished last year as the highest goalscorer in world football and is currently topping the chart for the top scorer of the Saudi Pro League with 20 goals and that's why I don't think personal accolades isn't his priority at the moment.

His club Al Nassr are currently trailing league leaders Al Hilal by seven points making it difficult for them to catch with the league leaders but if they can continue with their current performance and Al Hilal drops points, the there's every possiblity of seeing Al Nassr win the Saudi Pro League title this season.

Al Nassr won't win the trophy and I think hardly anyone would bet against that. They are 7 points behind Al-Hilal, but the bigger problem is that Al-Hilal is in excellent shape and they are leaving no doubt that they will most likely continue with their performances until the end of the season. There are no good reasons to believe that this would soon drastically change. Al-Nassr will have one last chance and this is if they win 90% of their games from now on and then win the game against Al-Hilal during the second half of the season. Maybe then they have a chance.

As much as Cristiano Ronaldo wants to lift the Saudi Pro League title, as much or maybe more he wants to be the best scorer there! He even picks penalties to increase his record and to get an advantage over Mitrovic, especially when both players had 15 goals each. Right now Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 20 goals vs 17 for Mitrovic but what makes Ronaldo even more special is the number of assists he made also there. He is the first with 9 assists!
When it comes to his team, the situation is more complicated, especially at the beginning when Al-Nassr lost some points while Al-Hilal doesn't seem to let any team gets closer from them.

The main problem Cristiano is having is the problem of not becoming champion in the arab league, so he need to win the trophy to become more important in that land.

And this year dont seem to be the one in wich he can be champion, at least until now with this Al hilal team in such good shape.

We don't know who will be the top scorer. Ronaldo is leading the top scorer now, but we don't know whether he will consistently in scoring goals until the end of the season. We don't forget that Mitrovic also compete for the top scorer status. Mitrovic already scored 17 goals, it is only 3 goals difference from Ronaldo's goals. I think Mitrovic is also the biggest candidate to win the top scorer status.

People will always care about anything Ronaldo does. If he becomes the top scorer and leads Al Nassr to win the trophy, people will be very enthusiastic about the achievement got by Ronaldo. Ronaldo has many fans around the world, the fans will always care with Ronaldo's achievement in any competition of football. He may score more than 30 goals this season.

I will say Mohamed Salah has a higher possibility of moving to the Saudi Arabia league than Kevin De Bruyne. Salah might be able to adapt to the Saudi environment more than the Belgian midfielder. But it will not be a bad decision for Kevin De Bruyne to move to the SPL because it is becoming clearer that he is becoming injury-prone. He has played only one Premier League game this season and I think City might let him leave because of his numerous injuries. The  Saudi league doesn't really care about the health of these top players because they are targeting both the performance of the player and the popularity of the star. De Bruyne will give more publicity to the Saudi league and they will be willing to pay any fee to attract this uncommon player.


We should know that football is now controlled more by money and not just passion like we had in the past. Nobody anticipated that Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo would move to the Saudi professional league but money moved them to this developing league. Kevin De Bruyne has won almost everything in football, so he could decide to make more money before he retires.

I don't think De Bruyne will be interested this season. And Man City still needs his services today. De Bruyne has spent 8.5 seasons at Man City so De Bruyne's presence has not been replaced there. Even when De Bruyne was injured, we knew that Man City was having difficulties and was unstable in the attacking midfield. So Man City will definitely retain this player. Moreover, currently De Bruyne has just recovered from injury and is expected to be able to bring positive things back to the Man City squad.

In the transfer market yesterday, Man City released several of their players to Arab clubs, such as Riyad Mahrez to Al-Ahli and Aymeric Laporte to join Al-Nassr. And it doesn't rule out the possibility that Man City will also do this to De Bruyne. But I don't think so this season.

In my opinion, a difference of 7 points is a very large number, but of course Al-Nassr has the opportunity to catch up with Al-Hilal's points, but of course it's only a chance and we won't know what will happen with Al-Hilal and Al-Nassr's match in the future. but what is clear is that Luis Castro must be able to make a good strategy so that Al-Nassr performs well and always consistently wins and I think Luis Castro also needs to pay attention to Al-Nassr's back line if he wants to consistently win and in terms of attack, of course Al-Nassr has I think the strong attacker and midfield are also good. Yes, Al-Nassr will definitely be excited about the next match and surely Al-Nassr fans and Cristiano Ronaldo fans will also want to see Al-Nassr become champions this season.

yes, it looks like Al-hilal will be difficult to beat because Al-hilal has good players and of course Al-nassr's hopes are very difficult to come true because Jorge Jesus will also definitely make Al-hilal even stronger and of course Al-hilal will also definitely will be alert because they know that Al-nassr hopes Al-hilal to lose to take over Al-hilal's position, which is now at the top of the standings. However, sometimes match results are always full of surprises and difficult to predict.

Well football like I usually say is a game of 90 minutes and till the end of that 90 minutes, we can only analyze based on how excellent or poorly they play. Yes, it’s a game and can go either ways so we must take that into consideration too. Al-Nassr are really behind on their run for the title and with the way Al-Hilal plays we can already crown them champions, the question is can  Al-Nassr meet up with them?

 But anything can make this Al-Hilal team go south at any point and injury is one factor that can’t be overlooked. If Al-Hilal have some losses then I think that’ll open up the gap for Al-Nassr. This is what football has thought us that no space is safe till after 90 minutes. Well the development of football is also another creative addition that has made football grow and we must applaud the football body.