Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 276. (Read 128681 times)

Damac's position is utterly unimportant in this situation. The club can still do well against Al Hilal despite the big gap in term of performance from these clubs. I was not expecting al Hilal to lose this game, but the club has missed numerous opportunities, and it is able getting another good finish against damac which is still staying at the mid position. Al Hilal continues to dominate the Saudi professional league. Al Nassr has given up on catching up with Al Hilal and that's why ronaldo is not even having ambition to talk about the title anymore. .
The competition is now over, with Al Hilal leading by a large margin over Al Nassr. There is no longer any chance for al Nassr to get any closer to al Hilal. I hope someone can tell the Saudi Pro League to send the trophy to Al Hilal's home because it is obvious that Al Hilal will win it very soon.
The AFC Champions League shall also be sent to Al Hilal's home because Al Hilal is on track to win as many trophies as possible, al hilal is now very close to the AFC champion league. Mitrovic and Savic became Al Hilal's most successful transfers last season. I predicted that Al Hilal would become Bayern Munich in the Saudi Pro League.
As long as Mitrovic and Savic continue to play for Al Hilal, other clubs will have no chance of taking the trophy from them in the future. I'm sure Ronaldo's performance will slow down from now on. There will be no good club to prevent Al Hilal from dominating the Saudi Professional League.

I almost thought it would be a draw for Al-Hilal and Damac considering that 70 minutes had passed but no goals had been scored. Surely those who bet on Al-Hilal winning will also be worried if the result is a draw and lose their money. However, it seems that Al-Hilal will not accept the results that easily and they managed to break into Damac's goal in the 79th minute with a goal scored by Al Dawsari.

The visiting Damac team didn't stop there and tried to launch a counterattack and they managed to equalize in the 86th minute. However, unfortunately after that one of the Damac players received a red card which made Al-Hilal the favorite with the remaining time. The result, thanks to the second goal scored by Michael in the 90+3 minute, allowed Al-Hilal to secure 3 points at home again. It seems unstoppable for Al-Hilal to win it all this season and they are the best team in this competition.

With the current level of performance I was expecting big win for the Al Hilal against Al Damac because currently they are going down and having just 1 win from the last 5 games their performance is also badly down so mostly were feeling we will have the good number of goals but sadly at the end Al Hilal able to score just one goal after Al Damac have red card their lethal attack and aggressive approach were not enough to give them good win in this game which is indicating now they are feeling relax after having winning lead in league table.

Al Ahli vs Al Nassr was good match which is also needed a goal from the Ronaldo on penalty which give them win, and we have two goals disallow but this defeat of Al Ahli is surely positive for the Al Ittihad which is defending champions and now heading for the third spot after terrible performance in throughout season.

Yes, it is true that Saudi Arabian club owners do have strong ambitions to bring their team to achieve success in the future by buying star players and being able to improve their performance in competing in the SPL, and that is what they are doing now because over old star players in Europe are already thinking about their future because in Europe they seem to no longer be used because the level of competition is increasingly difficult, in Saudi Arabia apart from getting large salaries these players are still able to compete in the SPL because the level of competition is not as difficult as in the European League.

Benzema is more professional than Neymar but as human, he can not fight against ageing. There are signals that Benzema was gradually beaten by ageing in his last season with Real Madrid. Only one season after a magic season that helped Benzema to win Champions League and Ballon d'Or with Real Madrid, Benzema missed many match for the club.

See his statistics on Wiki.
2021 - 2022 season: 46 appearances, 44 goals with 32 matches in La Liga.
2022 - 2023 season: 43 appearances, 31 goals but in this season he has only 24 matches in La Liga.
2023 - 2024 season: 27 appearances, 15 goals.

Al-Ittihad must know about this risk and consider about it carefully before spending money to buy Benzema from Real Madrid and giving him very high salary. Now they have nothing to blame on this bad decision.

Winning trophies is every player dream with here in this league which is now having good changes and huge investments are making big changes organizers were looking for few huge benefits which they already achieve, and now they are heading for the second phase which is more competitive because now keeping players is also challengee for them in these conditions and level of play Al Nassr bring Cristiano Ronaldo was having big fan base and also good exposure of the Saudi League which is almost achieved but sadly now they are having no chance for winning any trophy, but they can go through for the improved results in coming season.

Even mostly are predicting future is bright for this league because they are having all sources which are important but still keeping things at the top level is challenge and this is never been easy, but hopefully they will be able to have their all best because vision of exploring soccer is Gulf could be one of the best.

SPL influential men are present and making huge plans for the improvement of their league. They invested huge amounts for the upgrade of their league and its running smoothly. Saudi Arabia is the main target for this season. They came into limelight because they were able to comprehend Cristiano Ronaldo who happens to be the best influential player in the world of European football. Saudi Pro League have pick crowd, and there's definitely no better chances than watching the top moves of these SPL clubs.

I can't believe this but Karim Benzema got injured again.
It seemed like a crisis for this French superstar player when he joined Al Ittihad and the Saudi League. So far during all the games we have seen from Al Ittihad, Benzema couldn't help this team and he was mostly injured or he was out of his good form to help the team and this is obviously annoying for Al Ittihad because Al Ittihad spent lots of money for Benzema and after hiring this player they were expecting to see Benzema having much better performance to help the team getting btter result in the Saudi League just like what Ronaldo do in Al Nassr.
But this Karim Benzema is not like the Benzema we saw in Real Madrid.
It's the third time we see him getting injured. Sicne he joined Al Ittihad he played in 23 games and scored 12 goals for his team.

DAMAC is generally a mid table team. Damac did not play very well against Al-Hilal. And they didn't exactly win against Al-Hilal either, so Al-Hilal's victory was expected but maybe a one-goal difference would be a small price for many.
Elsewhere, Al-Nasr's one-goal win on penalties was the result of a team that has suffered a poor run of results of late.

Damac FC is one of the clubs that was able to hold Al Hilal to a draw in their previous meeting and in their second meeting this season both of them almost achieved a draw like before if Al Hilal did not score an additional goal in the final minutes of the match.
Michael became Al Hilal's hero in this match in continuing Al Hilal's winning trend so far. If only Damac had not lost one of his players in the 88th minute, maybe this match would have been a 1:1 draw, but Damac lost his rhythm, giving Al Hilal the opportunity to score an additional goal, so Al Hilal became stronger by continuing to collect 3 points with today's win.

Al Nassr also managed to win the match over Al Ahli so that positions 2 and 3 have a further distance of 9 points, making it difficult for Al Ahli to fight for the runner up position. Now Al Nassr has also locked in its position as second place this season. Even though it did not succeed in winning the title at least Al Nassr is still in 2nd place and close to Al Hilal.

Al-hilal and Al-Nassr managed to win this week's match according to what we expected. But in terms of scoring goals, I don't think these two teams are what I expected. I hope Al-Nassr and Al-hilal can score more goals. But both of them could only win by a narrow score. But the win only made it clear Al-hilal already had the trophy in their hands for this season. And Al-Nassr also only strengthened its position to stay in 2nd place.

But there were two matches that made me lose the bet. Namely the draw between Al-ettifaq and Al-Taawoun by their respective opponents. It seems like these two teams are increasingly experiencing decline. And their good performance at the start of the season seems to be starting to disappear.

The rich people who own football clubs in Saudi Arabia really have a strong determination to make Arabia get the full attention of world football fans, just imagine how many big names they have managed to buy and it is predicted that the purchase of star players in Europe will continue, it is very likely that Older players will continue to move to Saudi Arabian clubs, well currently clubs on the European continent prioritize young players over old star players.

Damac is a middle table team in general and they could not win against Al-Hilal just like that, so the victory of Al-Hilal was expected but maybe the one goal difference could be a small value for many people.
Otherwise Al-Nassr victory with one goal scored by a penalty was an achievement for a team that suffered from bad results lately.

Al Hilal continued its positive trend by overthrowing Damac with a score of 2-1. in this match, Jorge Jesus' squad performed quite well even though they didn't score many goals. with this result, Al Hilal is getting closer to winning the Saudi Pro League trophy. 12 points ahead of Al Nassr, giving Jorge Jesus' team more freedom to play match after match. referring to the course of the match, Al Hilal dominated 64% of ball possession, 18 total shots, 7 on target, 2 big chances and the same goes tactically.

On the other hand, Damac only had 2 shots on target, but didn't have a big chance in this match. but Damac was able to equalize the score at 1-1. but in the end, Michael was able to determine victory for his squad. In the end, Al Hilal continued its positive trend without losing in its 24 matches.
In the previous match, Al Nassr won the match against Al-Ahli. But unfortunately, the difference in points from Al Hilal is still quite far apart. well, if Al Hilal continues to progress with its positive trend in several matches. It is certain that Jurge Jesus' squad will win the Saudi Pro League trophy this season.

Winning trophy still becomes the main mission of him as a player. So, did you think club unwilling to get the trophy? Recruiting ronaldo gave many benefits for saudi pro league and the most important benefit to improving the performance from al nassr to compete with another club in saudi pro league.
Trophy will always become the main target no matter how hard it is. Winning a trophy gives you pride as a winner and this is what ronaldo's aiming to get it. I think that trophy will aways become the main target for the club to get it from its opponent.

Other players are also getting pumped. They should have worked even harder since ronaldo is also having better skill than them all. The nassr players must have done imrpveoemtns by themselves. So, it can also motivate them to play even better than before.
Tallisca has learned a lot from ronaldo and he is still willing to ply as a winger for the club. He has developed himself even further and i give him all of respects. It's caused by tallisca is improving a lot compared to the last season.

No doubt that if imssing him gave nassr very big impact to the its performance.

Yeah we are not surprised if Saudi Pro League clubs continue to hunt for European top players at least until 2030 in accordance with their vision Saudi Vision 2030 and they have prepared the budget. Currently almost all leagues will head to the end of the season well usually the clubs in this league will hunt for new players and I think Moh Salah will come next season, he has a reason to leave Liverpool because Klopp will also leave/retire it's just that we don't know which club will bring it.

This indication can be seen when the Saudi Pro League applies new rules about non Saudi players, this season only 8 non -Saudi players can play in the match but the next season will add 2 players so a total of 10 non -Suadi players can play in a match this means that at least one local player must be in the match, imagine from 11 players only one local player.

For the past three transfer windows, Saudi Arabian clubs have been trying to sign as many European based players as possible and there reason of doing that is actually very simple. They know that most of the superstars in Europe are known globally which means that signing them to the Saudi league is surely going to draw the attention of people across the world to develop interest about the Saudi league.
They've been able to succeed with their motives to an extent because a lot of people who doesn't know about the Saudi Arabian League years few years ago now talk about the league because of the presence of former European based players including former Balon D'or winners like Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema.
Raphinha is signed to the Saudi Pro League will definitely bring quality to the league because of how good he is as a player. Barcelona is having financial crises and would be okay to let him go if a good offer comes for him

They managed to get a win by thin margin, but it wasn't an easy win at all, it was very confusing game with all that many disallowed goals. In any case, we have seen Ronaldo score two goals, one didn't count by like a small difference, the other was a penalty as always.

I think it is going to eb pretty special when he retires finally, but at this moment it looks like Al Nassr depends on him way too much, and sometimes he does save them, but sometimes he can't, dude is 80 years old, let him fail at times, the team should have others that can save the team. Talisca was decent, but now that he is not available, Ronaldo carries the whole load, and that makes the team a lot worse, they need other stars on that team for sure.

Al Nassr's poor performance this season certainly forces them to be better next season,  And even now they have also approached several European player targets that they might be able to get in the transfer market later such as Rapinha, the inconsistency of Rapinha's performances at Barcelona certainly makes Barcelona will consider every offer that comes in for Rapinha at this time.

In addition to al nassr, reportedly the future champion of this season Al Hillal have also expressed their interest in bringing Rapinha next season from Barcelona, the existence of serious interest from Arab teams will of course make Barcelona a little naughty to raise Rapinha's price later to be higher than the current price deserves, I think Barcelona will set a high price for Rapinha because they currently need money to stabilize their balance sheet,  In addition, Barcelona's poor performance this season certainly makes Barcelona have to try to be active in shopping for players in the summer transfer window and right now reportedly when Barcelona set a price of 80 million euros for teams who want to buy Rapinha, isn't it a price that is beyond logic when players who are often injured and also have an inconsistent performance are valued at more than 80 million euros?

It seems Saudis target another player and that's Raphinha the player of Barcelona.
Since Barcelona doesn't have a good financial situation, they can be a good source of players for Saudis. Because Barcelona obviously can't give a high amount of money to the players like some teams in the Saudi League can give them and this can encourage any player to move. However, Barcelona will be damaged like that.
Raphinha in Barcelona had the good performance they were expecting him to see and he was injured and had an unstable situation which made Barcelona earn money from selling this player.
Saudis are ready to pay 80 million euros for Raphinha and this is a lot, considering the current situation in Barcelona they can use this money for hiring other players if their team if they sells Raphinha to the Saudis.