Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 284. (Read 112221 times)

Al-Nassr continues to extend its winning streak and this time they managed to beat the team that continues to overshadow them in the standings, namely Al-Taawoun. Since the first minute, Al-Taawoun, who were the hosts, broke into Al-Nassr's goal in the 13th minute with a goal from El Mahdioui. But even though this was an away match for Al-Nassr, this did not make them afraid or worried and they played a good game so they were able to turn things around and score 4 goals against Al-Taawoun. The Al-Nassr players who scored goals in this match were Brozovic, Laporte, Otavio, and closed by Ronaldo.

With this victory, Al-Nassr continues to close the distance from Al-Hilal and even though the difference is still quite large, around 7 points, they will still try to get closer. It was not easy for Al-Nassr who started the season with bad results and they must be grateful that by the middle of the season everything started to improve.

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Anyway, with the addition of 1 goal via a header in injury time against Al-Taawoun, Ronaldo ended the year as the top scorer in 2023 with 54 goals for the club and the Portuguese national team. Still can't believe he did that and of course he is happy to be able to compete with other great players in the current generation.

Even though in that match Ronaldo was only able to score one goal at the end of the second half, his contribution was still big. The reason is that Ronaldo occasionally always provides breakthrough passes to his teammates.

However, with the win in this match, Al Nasr still has a long way to go to compete with or overtake Al Hilal from the top of the standings. Because the point difference is quite large (7 points). Even though it feels a bit heavy, it is not impossible that Al Nasr can overtake Al Hilal. However, there may be several conditions so that Al Nasr can occupy the top of the standings.

The first condition is that Al Hilal must lose at least two matches this season.

The second condition is that Al Nasr must not suffer a single defeat. Because if Al Nasr experiences one defeat, the difference in points with Al Hilal will be even greater.

In my opinion, these two conditions are the most important, because considering that currently Al Hilal has not been defeated at all, Al Nasr must be able to continue winning matches, so that Al Nasr's potential to occupy the top position is not too far away.

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And the upcoming match doesn't look like it will be too difficult for Al Nasr. The reason is that if you look at the meeting record between the two teams, Al Nasr is far superior to Al Fateh with 4 wins and one draw.

As we previously predicted, Al-Nassr will definitely continue to be motivated in every match they have to collect points from each match only in this way their chance to win the title is still available, if we look at the last 5 matches, Al-Nassr has always won by more than 3 goals  and Ronaldo is one of the scorers. Al-Nassr must continue playing like this while waiting for Al-Hilal to be beaten for the first time if this happens then Al-Nassr will be even more motivated. By the way, the competition will be stopped until 15 February I don't understand why it was paused for so long.

Even we have too much media coverage of Al Nassr just because of Cristiano Ronaldo but Al Hilal is surely doing one of the performance which is giving them serious alone contender for the title race, and they have very solid and perfect squad which is doing amazing performance with their attack and defense both are at same level and score 59 goals in 19 games and their four attackers are doing work with same level currently Metrovic is chasing Ronaldo which is currently at the top with 20 goals and Metrovic having 17 and their three other attackers are also chasing these leaders consistently, but Al Nassr needs to work on their defense and having some suitable replacements in coming transfer window if they want to have some for the title race as they are currently having seven points deficit form Al Hilal which is not easy to cover.

Even before they lost to Al Hilal in the Saudi Pro league, last month Al Nassr have been on a good run of form in the  Saudi league but but their only problem is that Al Hilal have been more consistent than them. After the completion of 19 league games in the league, Al Hilal are yet to suffer a defeat I'm the Saudi league while their rivals Al Nassr have already lost three games after playing the same number of league games.
Despite Al Nassr failure to be at the top of the league table, their star player cristiano Ronaldo hasn't failed to be at the top of the league scoring chart as he's been able to record 20 league goals.

Al Feiha can't really be blamed for their approach during games against opponents that are so much stronger. I think we know that from every league where the weakest teams really focus on defending and hope that they can keep a clean sheet for as long as possible during the game to then maybe get lucky towards the end of the game and get this one lucky header after a corner or maybe even a free kick goal, but most of the time it doesn't work out if they play defense only. In addition to that, Al-Hilal is in great shape and they use their chances and keep pressuring until the last minute of the game. That's too hard to defend.

Al Nassr lost the last game against A-Hilal, if that hadnt happened, the battle for the championship would be wide open. Now they have to chase it and I dont think they be able to do that. There are 15 games left and 7 points to catch up, it is possible but i dont think they made it. Ronaldo will want to playing, the European Championship in 2024 is coming up in a few months and then a WorldCup 2 years later... maybe he play there too. So Ronaldo and Al-Nassr will probably have one/two more season to win it.

Al Nassr has been playing well ever since they lost to Al Hilal, they don’t seem to be slowing down even though they are points away from Al Hilal they still don’t want to give up just yet. Ronaldo didn’t fail to add up to his goal tally as expected even though it came late, this shows how reliable they can be. Al Nassr has little hope of winning the title because Al Hilal’s form is even better than Al Nassr and they don’t seem like a team that will drop points soon and if they keep winning Al Nassr will have no chance of winning the title.

Al Hilal should have been crowned champions by now, because they are not even willing to give up points. Fatigue and injuries have little effect on them because they have a depth squad, and even if one or two of their players are sidelined, the team continues to perform well and score more goals in almost all of their games. Mitrovic is one of their greatest signings this season because he has already contributed numerous goals that have helped the team advance in the Saudi Pro League.

Yep. Al Nassr won the match against Al Taawoun with 4 goals. It showed that Al Nassr still has a big intention to compete for the title. The point gap dropped 7 points now, it is still possible for Al Nassr to catch Al Hilal. Although it is small chance for now but it is not impossible. Well, Ronaldo scored again in this match, it makes Ronaldo to have 20 goals in SPL. He leads the top scorer of Saudi league this season.

Anyway, the chance to be the champion is for both Al Hilal and Al Nassr. Al Hilal surely has a higher chance to win it, but they can't rule out Al Nassr. Which one to be the champion will depend on which team to play more consistently until the end of the season.

So far, it is hard to pass Al-Hilal which not only rarely drop points but they beat the other teams with many goals. The other advantage that Al-Hilal have and make them solid is the fact that many of its players score goals. This characteristic is hardly found in the other Saudi Pro League teams.
Al-Nassr 55 goals were mainly scored by Cristiano Ronaldo (20 goals) and Talisca (11 goals). Ronaldo is being chased by Al-Hilal forward Mitrovic with 17 goals out of the 59 goals scored in 19 matches.

Karim Benzema on difficult position right now because expected will be success with Al Ittihad in this season his team has underperform and loss expected for defending domestic league tittle in this season. Apart from Karim Benzema being the ambassador for Saudi Arabia for the 2034 FIFA World Cup, Benzema's performance in his first season in the Saudi Pro League was far below fans' expectations with a salary of up to 100 million euros per season.

Looking form Karim Benzema statistic in the first season with Al Ittihad not really bad scoring 9 goals and 5 assist of 15 matches is more expected by fans but have problem with Al Ittihad performance dropped from top standings position with 25 points left from Al Hilal on top position standings awhile.

So far Al Hilal has been impressive in almost every match, and they have won 17 of the 19 matches, 2 of which ended in a draw. if I'm not mistaken, Al Hilal has won its last 12 matches. isn't this a very impressive result, for a team that doesn't have big names like Ronaldo, Benzema, Mane, Firmino. however, Al Hilal was able to progress with its positive trend and was able to overthrow several of its rivals in the first meeting.
IMO, Al Hilal's potential to progress with its positive trend is quite large and they have a chance to do so. however, that doesn't mean that the Saudi Pro League trophy is within the grasp of Jorge Jesus' squad, after all, this competition still has many matches remaining until the end of the season. this means that the Al Hilal coach's task will be increasingly difficult to maintain the fitness of his players and avoid players getting injured in future matches. in this way, Al Hilal can consistently maintain its positive trend.

However, this does not mean that Al Nassr has lost hope in competing for the trophy this season. like I said, there's still a lot of fight left. if Al Hilal slips in the next few matches, it will open up opportunities for Ronaldo and his colleagues. but with the condition, Al Nassr cannot miss every match with a win. the goal is to maintain a point gap from the top of the Saudi Pro League standings. currently, Al Nassr has just defeated Al Taaewon with a score of 1-4. with this result, now Al Nassr is only 7 points different from Al Hilal.

The game finished, and Al Nassr comfortably won the game with 1-4 against their host team Al Taawoun and further reduced the point gap they have between them and their league leaders Al Hilal down to 7 points. It was really an entertaining first half and second period of games. There is still hope for them to likely catch up points with Al Hilal if they continue to win their games and if Al Hilal happens to drop points, more games ahead to play and anything can happen.

I don't think Benzema will ever leave Saudi Arabia as a football player anymore. Even if he doesn't sign with the club, he stays in the team and continues to receive his money. He's considered too old for football now. He's not sure if he's ready for another European adventure or not. I think Benzema should stay in Saudi Arabia and focus on doing his best.

It was a huge win for Al Nassr tonight as they continued their good away performance. Their hit man, Cristiano Ronaldo did not fail to join the goal scorers as he closed the scoring at the 92nd minutes to end the match at one goal to four in their favour. Despite this win , Al Nasrr is still lagging behind the top team Al Hilal by seven points. It is not clear if this season is settled for Al Hilal because external matches have a way of making big teams lose focus and Al Hilal is famous for that. Al Nassr just need to continue winning their matches and hope their greatest rival flops to reduce the gap between them.

That is a big trouble for him if true. I mean we are talking about a situation that should not be acceptable in any club in the world, but when we are talking about a nation with such strict rules, it's really not that easy for him to get away with these things. First stop will be making sure that he is not getting paid, if you are willing to not go to work, then you should be willing to not get paid as well which is why I doubt that he is caring about that.

Another thing would be that he should be punished with code of conduct as well, you need to let the team know. We are going to see who is bigger, Benzema or the team, because team should let him go with a rightful cause without paying him if this is true, the more they don't do it, the more power they are giving to Benzema as well. f he is allowed, next stop would be other players starting to do the same thing, because they would say Benzema did it and nothing happened, so I could potentially do it as well.

There is no doubt that Al Nassr has already win the match because it will not be easy for Al Taawoun to comeback and take the lead within the added minutes. Al Nassr will have added more goal to make it four before the final minute of the game without Ronaldo in the team, this show that the team is good without Ronaldo.

I thought Al Nassr would win, they scored 3 goals and are leading the match. However, the interesting thing is that Ronaldo had no influence on these 3 goals. Ronaldo neither scored a goal nor made an assist. The goals came from midfielders and defenders. In fact, this situation reveals what quality feet Al Nassr has. They get 3 points with 3 goals from an important away game. They can win even if Ronaldo doesn't affect the score. Of course, without Ronaldo, the viewing rates of the matches may be different (lower).

I think Benzema had many other problems besides club, there are many negative talks and memes about him on social media. Btw Saudi Arabian fans are very aggressive and expect to win only from one great player because they pay jackpot. Karim Benzema's salary is 100 million euros per season. He gets millions of Euros per week. Saudi also wants Benzema as ambassador for FIFA 2030 world cup because they are bidding to host. I don't know how long they plan to pay jackpot to each star football player because they should get a return on their investment but it seems that they are super serious and will do whatever it takes to transfer the football world from Europe to Saudi.