Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 281. (Read 128741 times)

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.

If Ronaldo had scored in the open net, the outcome might have been different. Despite being gifted a penalty shootout, he couldn't lead Al-Nassr to the quarterfinals. The penalty shootout made the chances 50/50, and Ronaldo's team, Al-Nassr, was unlucky. They lost the game to Al Ain in the quarterfinals on penalties.
In my opinion, Ronaldo should have taken the first penalty to boost morale among his teammates, but unfortunately, it didn't happen. Al-Nassr players seem to struggle with penalties. It's becoming evident that Al-Nassr relies heavily on Talisca, both technically and mentally.
I guess many bets favored Al-Nassr, but in the end, they ended up favoring the bookies.

Since when al nassr ever had good goal keeper? Al nassr was rarely investing in the defensive line. It also makes the gap between the attacking and the defensive line. The goal keepers of al nassr are the worst. No doubt that if al nassr can lose easily against ain. Al Nassr is nothing right now.

I am sure Al Hilal will be winning; it has been a few times in a row since Al Hilal met Al itthad. Al ittihad had lost two times in a row and this is also making the situation even worst for the club. Al hilal will be obviously owning this game soon. Believe me or not al hilal will destroy al ittihad once agian.

all the news channels that I've been following are talking about this defeat of Al Nassr against Al Ain, I didn't watch the games but I watched the highlights of the game and honestly I was shocked by what I saw, it was a disappointment, it seemed like Al Nassr hadn't defenses on the field and the saddest thing about this is that the difference in individual squad quality was very large, with al nassr having a great superiority. but even though al nassr had this great squad superiority, what we saw in that game was the performance of a team without quality, without ideas, without defense, with a weak attack. For example, the goals that Al Ain scored were goals that could have been avoided, it seemed that Al Nassr's goalkeeper was not paying attention to the game, honestly in my opinion Al Nassr's problem lies in the coaches that the club's management has hired

I've already talked about this many times, that these Arabs are making a serious mistake by just spending a lot of money on hiring good players and are leaving coaches aside and hiring coaches with few great achievements, Ronaldo, Mane and other good players need of having a good coach to guide them properly on the field, when Ronaldo was at Manchester United, what I'm saying was visible, at that time he played well just like he does now, but they didn't have good results because Manchester United's management hired coaches from a few professional achievements and as a result Manchester United earns nothing, even though they are a team with a lot of money. Is the same thing that happens with Al Nassr

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Today we have AL Hilal's game against Al-Ittihad, this is the game of the second leg and as in the first leg I bet on Al Hilal to win, in this second leg I bet again on Al Hilal to win. In my opinion, Al-Ittihad is a team that has a good squad, but they lack a good coach, I heard that Benzema will not play, that was honestly something that the Arabs should have expected, because Benzema in the Madrid area has started Suffering from many consecutive injuries and in short periods of time, he already knew this would put him in a position of playing little at Real Madrid, which is why he left Real Madrid and the Arabs made a bad deal in signing him.

They had to stop in this round because they failed to win in the penalty shootout. Overall, they actually played well, but after everything is determined in the penalty shootout, the chances will change to 50/50 and in the penalty shootout round there is a lot of luck for a club, and in my opinion Al Nassr is just unlucky in the Champions League Asia this season.

Al Ain also played well, they were able to provide very tight resistance to AL Nassr. After they won the first leg, they wanted to continue it in the second leg and they succeeded in doing so. At first Al Ain was surprising with the 2 goals they were able to score at the start, but Al Nassr did not remain silent, they immediately responded at the end of the first half and at the start of the second half. After that they took the lead, but their lead could only take them to extra time. And in the extra round Al Ain equalized again, before finally Al Nassr was also able to score another goal. However, Al Nassr's efforts did not bear fruit because in the penalty shootout they had to admit defeat to Al Ain.

So many things are wrong with the team and there is no single player that can fix them except both team work and lots of technical input from the managerial angle. Their problem seems to have started from them focusing so much on Ronaldo and not on the entire team. This is the reason they score many goals are are not able to defend those goals and get the results. If they can put the kind of effort they put at scoring goals into defending the goals and maintaining their leading, they will achieve far greater results than we are seeing presently. Let the coach start with a total overhaul of the defense and the midfield, if need be, they can get new players to join them.

We can say that Cristiano Ronaldo have not been too lucky this season and with the way things are not, they might be ending this season without any trophy. There were huge expectations from supporters and the world at large that they will be able to either win the league or the AFC championship this season. Seems none of that will be happening.

A player usually has no hand in getting injured, and when a club buys a player they don't care much about the fact that the player might get injured. Injuries come unexpectedly in a player's career and the player who has an injury in his career has a very bad impact on that player's career. Al Itwehad bought Karim Benzema to strengthen their attacking division but last season the player was plagued with injury for a long time due to which he did not perform well for the team but if he is fit he will surely give his best in the new season.

I see a complicated problem where Al-Nassr's chances are uncertain, especially after conceding 2 goals first, making them much more under pressure and making the aggregate difference to 0-3 from Al-Ain. But fortunately, before the first half was over, Ghareeb scored a goal which made the position 1-2 and again cut the aggregate to 1-3. Here it is clear that Al-Nassr are still 2 goals short of equalizing the aggregate position and what happened surprised me where they were able to make a comeback and managed to win within 90 minutes with a score of 3-2 which made the aggregate equal to 3-3 so it had to be continued to extra time.

It didn't stop there, the two teams scored another goal in extra time which made the aggregate score end at 4-4 and here Ronaldo scored the deciding goal to take the match to a penalty shootout. But unfortunately Al-Nassr's efforts from the first half to the penalty shootout felt in vain because they had to be eliminated from the penalty shootout against Al-Ain after 3 of their players, namely Brozovic, Telles and Otavio, failed to execute the penalty and only Ronaldo succeeded in taking the kick.

Al-Ain assured progress to the next round of the Asian Champions League after going through the drama of the match against Al-Nassr and it must be admitted that they are a difficult opponent for Al-Nassr in this competition. I can't believe that there are so many miracles that the drama that occurred in Al-Nassr failed to progress to the next stage.

Cristiano Ronaldo performance and influence is having big impact on this Saudi League even his team is not able to perform as requirements but still things are manageable because now in next season we can expect improvement which will bring better results and things will be also good for the Ronaldo which is going to end his season without any trophy as his team Al Nassr eliminated by Al Ain of the UAE but still there is good chance he will stay here and complete his contract because now he is also brand ambassador of the soccer world cup 2034 which is going to play in Saudi Arab, and they are paying him good salary for this all.

In this season, we have Al Hilal at his best which surely hurt the Al Nassr which also spend good amount but fail to keep their momentum and lost few matches which hurt them for the title race but as things are going most chances they will improve their defense, and we will have better results from them in coming matches which will give him better success and trophies as well.

regardless of the argument, penalty shootout is a 50/50 scenario and you can't be too experienced not to have missed a penalty shootout. It's always  the moment when the outcome of the game is 70% luck and 30% experience.

Ronaldo has always been an incredible penalty taker and regardless of the social media banters against him, he has always delivered in major penalty shootout and it's just unfortunate that the other players missed out in their own kicks.

Moving to MLS is possible if there is a club there that is willing to pay a fantastic salary, even moving to the Portuguese league is also possible for him to end his career at his childhood club because several players do that.
But for some reason I think he will remain in the Saudi Pro League until he finally announces his retirement from his football career, indeed at Al-Nassr it seems difficult for him to get a title but this season is not finished yet, it is certain that Al-Nassr will fail to become the Saudi Pro League champion but there are several other tournaments that still provide opportunities for them to become champions, such as the Saudi Super Cup and the Asian Champions League, but it is not easy, especially since they will face their toughest opponent, namely the Al-Hilal team, which they cannot beat this season and early in April. competing in the semi-finals of the Saudi Super Cup, If Al-Nassr is able to get past Al-Hilal, there is a big chance of becoming champion in the Saudi Super Cup.

I feel like Benzema is getting paid good enough amount of money to demand something like that. If he was back at Real Madrid or any other big club then he wouldn't have that chance because they would simply fire him, or sell him because he wouldn't have that leverage. Now that he is there, and he is getting a gratzillion dollars per year, that feels like he could ask for anything he wants since he has the leverage against the club.

If Ittihad doesn't want these type of issues then they shouldn't give this much to a single player to give him this much credit. Don't get me wrong, not every player is like that, but you are taking a risk of player being a snub, or even injured, and just get that money without deserving it.

Even Neymar's presence or absence never been having any impact on this team because he was here just for some fans base in South America after Messi refuse to join Saudi League, and they were looking for the top player from this region so Al Hilal already done good work and their performance is surely impressive which helps them for having top spot in this season Metrovic is doing amazing stuff after joining this club which is impressive with most chances we will have them into final of the AFC Champions League and their Saudi League title is also confirmed things can go for the double which will be amazing.

Now most chances we will have some good changes in coming season and surely Al Hilal will be also gone for the another big player now who is going to join them it's not clear but still they will be tried their best for having any top tier player from the UEFA which will increase their fan base as well which is currently most important for them.

It's never ever happened. How can we expect him to degrade his level by going to the MLS league? how can it possible to happen?
The chance is so small. If you are aware about how al nassr is only having a chance to win AFC champion league. Yeah it gets a weak opponent but it's lost at the first leg. The second leg is gonna happen at home for al hilal and im sure that if the club will able to perform even better for the upcoming season.
Al hilal is the biggest problem for al nassr to win the trophy this season. it's caused by al hilal was always having very good record this season against al nassr.

Few Saudi League clubs done mistakes during the signing of big players like Neymar and Karim Benzema which hurt their cause badly but still things are not bad with Neymar is already settled, and now we are looking for the Karim Benzema which is also going to lose his contract because this creates too many issues which have big impact on Al Ittihad performance, and currently they are at the fourth spot with no chance for having spot into top three even we have good work from the Al Ittihad management which change former coach which hurt their club's performance but still things were not as they were expecting so it's also going to hurt badly Karim Benzema which is now near the end of his career.

Hopefully now they will learn from their mistakes and will do better things which will help them for having players which will give them better performance and services which will not create any concerns about this league which is having bright future in the long run in this region.

Maybe right now the Al Nassr team is experiencing extraordinary sadness because they were confident from the start and would advance to the final but there was an unexpected problem with the penalty shootout which was not executed properly and perfectly by the Al Nassr players themselves, only Cristiano Ronaldo was the one who was able to score the goal in the penalty shootout.
Indeed, in a football match, the luck factor also has a strong meaning because we can see for ourselves that the Al Nassr squad team, which is predicted to enter the final and will probably meet Al Hilal, will suffer defeat in the quarter-finals of the match against Saudi Arabia this season.
And what you say is true, that currently Al Hilal is still very comfortable and relaxed. Al Hilal certainly sees that this match is a golden opportunity for him to advance to the final and Al Hilal will become a favorite for Saudi Arabian football fans in the future.

It is indeed very unfortunate to see Al-Nassr fail at the quarter-finals of the AFC Champions League. I also didn't expect that Al-Nassr would lose in the penalty shootout. Even though Al-Nassr players should have better qualities that can make them successful even in a penalty shootout. But when it comes to Penalty Shootouts, there is always a luck factor in it. So it is not surprising that strong teams can also lose in a penalty shootout. The only thing I regret is that Al-Nassr failed in this competition and they will also fail in the SPL. Because Al-hilal looks comfortable being at the top of the rankings. In fact, I feel that Al-Hilal could also become the favorite team in the AFC Champions League.