Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 280. (Read 128705 times)

Yes, recently Al-Nassr has been losing its performance, such as in the match against Al Raed, when the Al Nassr players were unable to get 3 points to shorten the distance between Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal. yes I agree with you now Al-hilal can be said to be stronger than Al-nassr because looking at the players Al-hilal is superior because they have good midfield players, good defense and good attack and I am amazed by the technique and formation used Jorge Jesus always makes good strategies and formations.

Yes, it looks like Al-hilal's future has the potential to be very good and I also believe Al-hilal has great potential to win trophies this season. and indeed in the future I am also sure that Al-hilal will always win various trophies.

Yes, Al-hilal is very good at recruiting good players like Mitrovic and others. and last season's champion Ittihad of course has now lost to Al-Hilal in terms of performance and of course we have seen Al-Hilal's match against Ittihad today at LCA and Al-Hilal managed to win with a score of 0-2 but in the first half Ittihad always managed to keep its goal didn't concede but in the second half Al-hilal played better and in the end Alshahrani and Malcom became heroes for Al-hilal so Al-hilal certainly has a good future.

At this point Al-Nassr should start thinking about something else, this isn't really problem for the offense, offense scored so many goals and did their best and there was nothing wrong with them, they are doing all they could to score and win games.

But their defense is SOOOOO bad that, at this point I believe if you just hire four people here on this forum randomly, we wouldn't really be much worse, or at least you know give us 1 million dollars each and give us training grounds and trainers and chefs etc, and in 1 year we will be good enough physically to be at least good as them. They do not look talented at all, they look like they are just terrible, even the goalkeeper is terrible, they need a lot more better players at defense and this has been true all year long.

Improving performance is no longer useful at this time, as I said before that Al-Nassr is 12 points behind in the SPL and that's the accumulated points from 4 match wins, Al-Hilal will certainly not let Al-Nassr catch up with them, absolutely truly a chaotic season for Al-Nassr, no motivation and no mission.


Agree, they have everything in midfield and attack, but not so good on the defensive side, there's Alex Telles there but it's not enough. I think it would be better if Al-Nassr had one of their CB come from top European teams. Apart from that, the Al-Nassr goalkeeper also had the worst rating in this match, which is a shame.

This defeat meant that Al Nassr had to be eliminated from the LCA competition and of course this was defeat that made everyone feel disappointed because Al Nassr had to suffer failure in the quarter-finals.
Al Ain itself performed quite well since in the first leg match they managed to create lead by winning 1 - 0 over Al Nassr and in yesterday's second leg match they managed to match Al Nassr which made the final result draw on aggregate and ended in penalty shootout.
In penalty shootout, the player mentality and intelligence in using feeling will really be tested because they have to be able to track and guess the direction of the ball, but seeing how Al Ain finished the penalty shootout was really great.

Yes, that could happen if Al Nassr could have strong defense and be able to withstand every attack from Al Ain, but in reality they failed and this is failure that must be taken from the positive side as form of learning that Al Nassr must be able to improve the performance of the defensive line.

I was a little surprised by the defeat that Al Nassr received in the AFC Champions League match against Al Ain. Even though the only hope that Al Nassr could achieve was to win that trophy because in the domestic league Al Nassr no longer had a chance to overtake Al Hilal because they had keeping a fairly long distance. Actually I was very optimistic that Al Nassr would win and get rid of Al Ain in that match because Al Nassr had scored 4 goals but it turned out that the penalty shootout ruined everything making Al Nassr's struggle in vain. I also didn't expect Al Ain to be able to score 3 goals thanks to his penalty kick which made the aggregate bigger, I think Al Nassr really has to improve their defensive line as far as I am concerned Al Nassr has weaknesses in the defensive line. Hopefully this can be corrected next season so they can perform even better.

Meanwhile, Al Ain will face quite tough opponents in the semifinals. Later, they will face a strong club in the Saudi league, namely Al Hilal, who just beat Al Ittihad in the quarter-finals. I think Al Hilal will win the match because Al Hilal's current performance is very strong in all respects the competition will be very surprising if Al Hilal can win 2 trophies at once this season, namely the AFC Champions League and also the Saudi Professional League because Al Hilal has a big chance of winning these 2 trophies considering that its rivals have been eliminated first.

Lost by penalties is bad but penalties depend so much on player mentality and luckiness. Al-Nassr can not blame that they failed on the penalty spot because of lack of luckiness. Their players are responsible for every penalty shot at the spot and it includes their coach responsibility on training and preparing players to that tough penalty shootout in direct matches.

Al-Nassr even can beat Al-Ain without that penalty shootout if their defense players play better. It is their weakness in this season and it just costs them a painful defeat in AFC. It does not come as coincidence but it is their systematic weakness that must be improved by player transfers, training and tactics.

Yes, in future matches or in future competitions, Al Nasr must observe and learn from mistakes. The reason is that currently Al Nasr seems to have almost lost hope of winning trophies in all competitions. In the Asian Champions League, Al Nasr failed and only lasted until the quarter-finals. In the Domestic League (SPL), I think with Al Hilal's current toughness, Al Nasr will find it difficult to catch up. So it is very likely that Al Nasr will also fail to become the top of the Saudi Arabian Domestic League (SPL) standings. Perhaps Al Nasr's only hope of getting a trophy is in the Saudi Super Cup competition. Currently Al Nasr has entered the semifinals. However, Al Nasr's toughest challenge in the Saudi Super Cup is that the opponent Al Nasr has to face in the semifinals is Al Hilal.

So actually, if you look at their opponent (Al Hilal), the chances of Al Nasr winning are very slim. Because currently Al Nasr is in a bad condition. Therefore, it seems that this season will only be a learning experience for Al Nasr. That even though the players are great, if they are handled by an inappropriate coach, the results will not be good. Plus, the equal quality of players is very important in a club. Maybe next season Castro should be replaced as soon as possible. Because it seems like his abilities and strategies don't match the players from Al Nasr.

It is quite sad to see Al Nassr eliminated by Al Ain. I think Al Nassr deserves to qualify for the next round. Unfortunately. Al Nassr has a very bad defense, why it seems too easy to get conceded 3 goals in a single match? Al Nassr can't be called as a big team if they still have weak defenders and no quality goalkeeper. I appreciated that the attackers already scored 4 goals in that match. But it is useless because they got 3 conceded goals. Another sad thing is Al Nassr looks very poor in penalty shootout. Only Ronaldo who succeeds to score a goal. It shows that other kickers have no quality in the penalty shoot.

By the way, Al Nassr also needs to change the coach. The current coach looks not capable to handle this team. Although they have some big names on the team but the coach can't optimize the ability of the big names (top players). There is nothing special with Al Nassr performance, they look like an average team only.

Surviving is winning, every elite club will hold their ground and become promising. Bad news for Al Nassr to be knockout from the tournament they believed to reach finals, though there's new opportunities flowing in. Why is everyone surprised and also seeing Al Nassr trends on Twitter. They're elite team and that doesn't exclude them from the main race, they're been eliminated and this is huge loss for the Knights of Najd. Cristiano Ronaldo and his teammates suffered defeats, perhapes they will bounce back better in next game.

Karim Benzema has scored own goals and missed penalties this season, so Al Ittihad fans have every right to be angry with his poor contribution. The coach used to get upset with Benzema and bench him in some of their games because he refused to do training with the rest of the team, preferring to work alone and claiming that he was fit enough to play in all of their games. One of the top players in the world struggles to be in form so he can help his team. Although Benzema hasn't been able to produce much this season, the team still believes in him to score goals so they can move to the top of the league. This is a really poor performance, he needs to do something about it.


Cristiano Ronaldo has contributed to the Saudi League's promotion. The Saudi League was unknown to many football fans until Cristiano Ronaldo made the decision to sign with Al Nassr. That is an important achievement for the Saudi League, as we never thought the best players would accept an offer from the league, but they did, thanks to Cristiano Ronaldo's. I don't think any other European club would want to sign Cristiano at the age of 39, I believe he will extend his contract.

Al-Hilal is indeed a strong team. They have even been what they are now since before the transfer of European star players became more popular. Al-hilal is like Man City in the EPL. So for me seeing Al-Hilal become the most favored team this season is a normal thing. Because just look at previous seasons, Al-Hilal always won trophies in a row. It's just that last season Al-ittihad succeeded in ending Al-hilal's streak of winning titles. Because last season Al-ittihad managed to get the SPL trophy. But this season it looks like Al-hilal will lift the trophy again with full confidence.

Matched today in the second leg of the LCA quarter-finals, the score was still 0-0. Al-ittihad and Al-hilal are still having difficulty scoring goals. But Al-hilal is ahead because they have already got 2 points in the first leg. So they played more relaxed in this second leg.

Ronaldo and teammates crash out of the Asian Champions League in quaterfinals after they lost on penalties to Al-Ain despite Ronaldo pulling a come back. This can be very painful especially for Ronaldo who’s still in search of a title at Saudi Arabia. Al-Nassr went into the game trailing by a goal defeat they incured in the first leg, they came very confident in this second leg but were met with early goals again by Al-Ain thereby increasing the aggregate to 0-3. This was a big one but the motivation between the Al-Nassr players never went low as they made efforts.

 Al-Nassr pulled of one back moment just before half time to get a goal in this match as Sadio Mane’s goal helped to up the confidence of this Al-Nassr side. They came into the 2nd half and were very hard with the attack. This sure paid off for them as they aimed at the goalkeeper with wide shots and in the 51st minute they had another goal with brought the aggregate to 2-3 and they were still very much in the game. Ronaldo made a big miss but that still didn’t draw down the determination of this team.

 Talisca got a freekick amd scored the goal in 72nd minute that got them all leveled up and have completed a comeback . The final whistle came and they went straight into extra time. In the extra time, their player got a red card and that was a huge loss as they were dropped to 10 men which is a player short Al-Ain squad and trust  Ain to take advantage of this and get a goal from open play in about 15 minutes lett to play. It seemed all lost for Al-Nassr till Ronaldo was brought down in the box and he was able to convert within the last 3 minutes. Al-Nassr had 3 players lose out on the penalty shootouts and this was real bad as Al-Ain had a good shootout and were able to go through.

They played a tight match, Alex Telles managed to keep them alive until ET, then in ET also Al-Nassr managed to survive the defeat after Cristiano scored a goal in the final minutes, but everything they did was in vain after they couldn't use the chances in penalty round. 12 points behind Al-Hilal in the SPL and knocked out of the AFC, I think there's nothing more that Al-Nassr can achieve this season, hope they can do better in the next season.

The hopes of al nassr fans to get the Asian champions trophy were actually very open when the match ended in 4x4 aggregate, but unfortunately disaster had to come for al nassr when all three of their players failed to take penalties well while destroying al nassr only hope of winning the championship trophy this season, Al nassr has officially been eliminated from all competitions they participated in this season without a single trophy they won.

The failure of all that certainly made Ronaldo disappointed with the performance of his team but I think nevertheless Ronaldo can still be proud because as far as he still has a chance to win the individual award as the top scorer of the Arab League, so far we cannot doubt the capacity of the attackers possessed by Al Nassr with Ronaldo and Mane up front,  But as you said, it is time for Al Nassr to evaluate their defence which this season has been very fragile and it shows when they are the number 8 team that has conceded quite a lot of goals at 33, in contrast to Al Hilal who have only Conceded 12 goals so far.

Btw I just found out that Hernan Crespo coaching the Al Nain club, isn't he Hernan Crespo who used to be a Serie A star of the parma club?

I dont know what to really think, maybe he can be happy because he is very stric and in Saudi Arabia you can have less temptation than in the west, but come on a man like Cristiano in his second year not winning anything.... he surely is not gonna be in a good mental mood this days.

I was also aware of this result. Ronaldo missed the golden chance, and he should be disappointed with his performance in that game. AL Nassr was able to score a few goals, but the performance of AL Nassr's defensive line is not that good now.
Club was losing a chance to get the trophy this season. This probably the last chance can be gotten by ronaldo and his club. Al nassr performed so badly as the defenders let ains scored some goals. Again and again, many people warned that how weak the defensive line of al nassr.
Hernan crespo once again kicked him out form the competition.

The main problem owned by Al Nassr has never changed. The club consistently attacks its opponent, but it doesn't even pay attention to the performance of the defenders, which makes the situation even more difficult when Ain scores a few goals to equalize the score against Al Nassr.

Perhaps Cristiano Ronaldo has made a fulfilled career in his football history right from Manchester united to Real Madrid and Juventus, now Al Nassr. Regardless of the fact that they are out of the Asian champions league, Cristiano Ronaldo made a very great impact in the competition and even being the only player to score for Al Nassr in the penalty shootout between them and Al Ain even rings a bell what an important player he is.

Since Cristiano Ronaldo's time at Al Nassr, he has made football in Saudi Arabia gain recognition as some of his die hard fans moved along with him to Saudi Arabia just to watch him play and his presence in Saudi league has also aided in boosting Saudi Arabia's economy as well so if he ends his football career at Al Nassr, it's all good for the Portuguese professional footballer.

The result from al nassr makes me sure that about how far the superiority owned by al hilal this season compared to the al nassr. It seems like that hilal will be going through this ways for several seasons. It means that hilal will have bigger chances in winning multiple trophies in a row in the upcoming seasons.
Things have changed a lot since Mitrovic and Savic joined the club. Al Hilal played more structuredly than before, proving that al Nassr is not even good compared to Al Hilal, which was fully able to maintain its performance consistently. It's time for al hilal to show to the all of SPL fans the real boss.
Al nassr was lucky enough to win a good trophy last seaso but this season is very different. AL hilal will be owning al ittihad in the next game that will begin soon. Al ittihad may not able to perform use its best squad and this will also make the club to perform better.
I have predicted that if al ittihad probably lose with big scores against al ittihad. Al ittihad is not performing quite well this season. Many people are still questioning the performance from al ittihad and al nassr. Their transfers were not solving the main problems owned by those clubs.

He knows that chance to receive very good salary offer like from Al-Nassr will nearly never happen again so he will complete the current contract to maximize his pocket.

He also knows that returning to Europe is risky and he will receive very little offers from big clubs or no offer at all. He himself does not want to reduce his value and is not ready to play as a substitution so it's harder for him to find a new club in Europe.

By these difficulties, continue playing in Saudi Arabia is his best option and he has one more year contract so it's perfect to finish it first. Next year, no Euro, no World Cup so he will have less concern about those big tournaments.

From what I read on the internet, his wife said that he will play for a maximum of 1 more year, perhaps ending his career in 2025 at the latest.

Now with All-Nassr's elimination in the Asian Champions League, and ending his chances of competing in the Club World Cup, 2025 could be his last year as a professional footballer.