Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 30. (Read 118795 times)

For a team to be fully strong they need to be the best in attack, midfield and defense. Al Nassr currently has the best forwards in their team but they are missing in their team is the best midfielders and the best defenders as a result of which they are yet to emerge as the Totally powerful team in the Saudi Pro League. Al Nassr first signed Cristiano Ronaldo and then Sadio Mane to strengthen the attacking side of their squad. One of Al Nasser's main motives behind signing these two was to help them form a good attack against the opposition. As you mentioned that Kevin De Bruyne is going to sign with Al Nassr team, if that happens then Al Nassr might be much stronger in the midfield.

The competition at the bottom is actually more interesting than the top, at the top now there is a fairly large gap and it is difficult to catch up. While at the bottom their points are quite close and it can change in just one match. The teams that are on the edge of the safe zone cannot be calm because they are very threatened and if they lose in one match and another team below them can win, then the position in the standings will change. Practically only 1 point is the distance between one team and another, so it is a very close distance and can even be said to be a gapless distance. They have to work hard to be able to maintain their position in a safe place.

Al Nassr didn't really need to hire more superstar palyers from Europe they already got palyers they needed and they already have even things they should have for a good performance team. I think now all they need is to give Pioli more chances and let their new coach to use the palyers they have. However, Al Nassr is still far from teams like Al Hlal and maybe it will not be easy for Al Nassr to win the Saudi league title yet because so far in the gems we saw from Al Hilal they won all the games and nearly had no weakness in the games we saw from this team so far. Now Al Nassr is close to hiring Kevin De Bruyne from Macnshter City but I think hiring this player won't be cheap for them at all.

More than 2 goals in this match is a sure thing, even though it is only at @1,25 odds. Besides, the SPL season has just started, only 6 games have been played, we can't say that Al-Shabab is a good team. Look at what they could do last season, they were only in 8th place, far from being worthy of being called a great team.

Therefore, if Al-Shabab can win against Al-Nassr we should be surprised by the result, because Al-Nassr should not lose to a mid-table team, even if they're playing at home.

IMO, looking at the odds given by bookmakers on the asian total option, makes me sure that this match will get a score of more than 3.5.
Although a team like Al Feiha is not too strong, but a team like this can provide a surprise. I don't think Al Hilal can lose but Al Feiha can put up a fight.
So betting on over 3.5 or BTTS seems like a good choice.

In the summer transfer market that has ended, Al Nasr has not been able to bring in top players from Europe. I don't know what the main cause is, but of course this is very crucial for Al Nasr. This is because Al Nasr's rival team in the SPL is getting stronger with the new players it has recruited, while Al Nasr's performance is almost the same as the previous season. Therefore, it is clear that Al Nasr really needs other great players so that its performance can be better. De Bruyne would indeed be a very good complement to Al Nasr's midfield. Because as far as I know, currently Al Nasr's midfield can be said to be not very good. For this reason, no matter how good Al Nasr's attackers are, it will definitely be a little difficult to get a really good opportunity. Because Al Nasr's midfield was not good, so the flow of attacks launched by Al Nasr was not well organized. For this reason, if for example De Bruyne could really be brought in by Al Nasr, of course this would have a very good impact on Al Nasr. Apart from that, currently De Bruyne is suffering from a thigh muscle injury, and there is no news yet on when De Bruyne will recover from his injury. Maybe if, for example, in January De Bruyne has not yet recovered from his injury, it is likely that his move to Saudi Arabia will be delayed. So hopefully De Bruyne can recover as soon as possible, because of course it would be very interesting if, for example, De Bruyne could play on the same team as Ronaldo. And what is certain is that Al Nasr will definitely be able to compete more firmly in the SPL.

Well, initially I also thought like you there must be something that will happen why bookies favor Al Nassr even though they are playing away even though Al Shabab's current performance is not much different from Al Nassr who is now in the top 5 of the standings but as we know that the quality of Al Nassr players is better than Al Shabab, therefore bookies prefer Al Nassr to be the favorite but we also need to be careful when betting because maybe Al Shabab will give an unexpected surprise like when facing Al Taawon and Al Qadsyah they won the match even though with a narrow score.

Cristiano Ronaldo started a wave of star players from Europe to Saudi Arabia and this contributes to make Saudi Professional League more popular. Quality of the league is not improved too much because considerable financial investment is only for four biggest clubs while other clubs are falling behind in finance and player transfers. About marketing, it's good for their league but about quality, there is no big change and improvement so far.

Lately I read complains and warning from Roberto Mancini that Saudi Professional League with many star players from Europe, is destroying opportunities for Saudi Arabian players. It gradually affects quality of their national team Saudi Arabia and policy makers of the league need to change.

There are old and young players from Europe who are ready to join Saudi Professional League and they are playing well. It's not like they are playing in Saudi Arabia because they are no longer good enough to play in Europe.

I never thought that the Saudi League could become so popular until the Cristiano Ronaldo thing came up. Since the fact that Saudi Arabia wants to host the 2034 World Cup, there has been a lot of talk about Saudi Arabia in football, and their biggest decision was to bring Cristiano Ronaldo to their league at a high price. The arrival of this player in Saudi Arabia has created opportunities for many players to spend their careers at the end of their careers. Earlier, at the end of their careers, players did not have the opportunity to move to another club from Europe, forcing them to retire from football. But now if they don't perform well in Europe, they are moving to the Saudi League, thus the popularity of the Saudi League is increasing a lot.
A few more years will see the teams of this league challenging the European league teams.

Yeah so far there is no doubt on Al Hilal especially against a team like Al Feiha sure Al-Hilal will win, it's just that we don't know how many goals will be scored, generally Al-Hilal always wins with a difference of 2-3 goals but sometimes only one goal difference so I'm not sure to choose a decent handicap. If you want to take a little risk, it might not be bad to place a bet on Al-Hilal in the first half because usually Al-Hilal has a good percentage in scoring goals in the first half.

In addition, Aleksandar Mitrović will certainly use this match for a collection of goals because he is competing with 2 other players to win golden boots, Ronaldo and Karim Benzema continued to approach him behind with only 2 goals adrift and Ronaldo can take over at any time, we know how he plays.

Al Hilal is still at the top of the standings with 6 match which overall became win and gave 18 points, for the next match Al Hilal plays against Al Feiha in the KINGDOM ARENA which is also the home ground for Al Hilal, it will be very possible for them to be able to win again in row.
Al Feiha itself has so far performed very badly and only got 1 win 2 draws and 3 losses, last season Al Feiha also performed badly and was only able to end the season in 9th place, for some not so strong team like Al Feiha and others will never be expected with good results for each season.


Some team below Al Hilal who look quite worrying like Al Ittihad who will play against Al Qadsiah and Al Nassr against Al Shabab, this will provide quite pressing condition for Al Ittihad and Al Nassr because so far their opponents have performed quite well and cannot be underestimated.

I don't expect Al Nassr to have an easy game at Al Shabab when they face each other on Saturday. Al Nassr for a fact have been a better team in the Saudi Pro League than their hosts this weekend but they're just two points better than Al Shabab in the league table so playing away will definitely be a very difficult game for Al Nassr. I expect a tough game from both teams and I'll be backing Al Nassr to get all three points but should they get beaten by Al Shabab, I won't be too surprised. So if I'm to advise anyone who's trying to gamble on that game, then I'll tell him to go for a 2+ goals because I think there'll be plenty of goals in that game.

This looks like a dream for Al Ahli to have a player like Osimhen on this team and I can't believe this until I really see Osimhen playing for Al Ahli otherwise I can't believe the people saying Osimhen is going to play for Saudi teams. I remember in the last season Osimhen was even about to leave Serie A and start playing for teams like PSG and Chelsea even he was linked to Juventus and Real Madrid which can show this player was talented enough but since he couldn't have good relationships with Napoli they decided to give him for loan and now Napoli is trig to make money from this player and maybe selling Osimhen to Saudis can be a good option.

While this is true for other leagues and we got used to losses everywhere, Al Hilal isn't losing, and they didn't lose a single game last year, won 31 out of 34 games and had only 3 draws and had 14 points difference to second team Al Nassr, so they were quite dominant. And this year they started with six out of six as well and looking like they may do the same thing this season and have a dominant season as well. So while defeats are normal for any team, they are not getting it, whereas Al Nassr may not have lost any games this season yet, they did lose four times last season, and I am expecting them to have a similar season to their last season as well.

This is why it will be very hard for them to get the title. At this point the whole league agrees on the fact that Al Hilal is too good for them and they are going to win, betting on them to win is easy and automatic at this point, they will fail to win only a few times, and rest of the wins will cover that loss.

In theory, the small change seems hard to stop Al Hilal but we don't know how they perform in the field. I am optimistic that Al Ittihad and Al-Nassr will have the chance to beat Al Hilal in the next match. Al Hilal may be superior but it doesn't mean they are impossible to defeat. This will be more interesting that we will have the match Al Nassr vs Al Hilal in matchday 9. TBH, I expect Al Nassr to beat Al Hilal in the match. If Al Hilal can be defeated, the race of the title will be more interesting to see.

By the way, I don't think Al Hilal is in another level, they aren't one step ahead. The quality of Al Hilal, Al Nassr, and Al Ittihad are the same. But Al Hilal could play a more solid and their players want to work harder. Also, the coach of Al Hilal knows well how to choose the right tactics for Al Hilal players. This is what other teams don't have.

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While I do agree Pioli isn't a bad coach, I feel like the best thing to consider here would be the standings and when you look at the standings you are seeing how Al Nassr is third right now. They had 4 wins and 2 draws all season, while they haven't lost yet in the six games they played, the two teams above them did better and fans are expecting Al Nassr to win the title, so they need to be able to beat everyone.

Al Hilal got six out of six wins, why not do the same thing? Would be ideal situation and would definitely help everyone. But Al Nassr isn't even doing as good as Al Ittihad, which had 5 wins and 1 draw, and still getting better results than Al Nassr.

So, we need to see what the situation is for what it is, Pioli got a team which could have done six out of six and be at the top but he made them not so great.

I believe we are going to see this team not do greatly, and we are going to see results not be great for them. We will see this team finish either third or maybe second if they are lucky but they will not win the league. As long as they do not win the league, what they do doesn't matter, they can finish with just one less points than the first, and that would still be a loss for them.

It is clear that if the comparison is the Asian and European Leagues, then we will see very unequal statistics. but I do not understand your post above, the purpose and which post it is directed at. or, you are trying to compare it because many are reviewing Al Nassr and Al Hilal


The Al Nassr vs Al Hilal match will be held in week 9, we do not know which team will win the match. although Al Hilal tends to dominate the victory from this meeting, the match has not been held yet. so, we do not know which team will win the match. it could be that this match ends in a draw, or for the first time Al Hilal slips this season. there are many possibilities in football, Al Hilal will not always maintain or be able to finish their match with a victory. if so, it means that Al Nassr has not been able to break Al Hilal's dominance in several meetings between the two teams. if the match ends in a draw, Al Nassr has improved under Pioli's tutelage. especially if they are able to beat them, the potential for competition will be even more exciting. just enjoy it, especially for those of us who like to bet.

It is surprising to see the odds that Al-Nassr have, considering that both teams are in the SPL title race (Al-Nassr are in 3rd place while Al-Shabab are in 4th place), and the upcoming match will be Al-Shabab's home game. Something must have happened there that made the bookies favor Al-Nassr over Al-Shabab. I don't understand why Al-Nassr is favored, but it looks suspicious, with my suspicion, I think Al-Nassr will win this match.

Before the Saudi Professional League became as famous as it is now, Al Hilal was already a strong team, in other words, it can be said that before Ronaldo came to Al Nassr they were always under Al Hilal. Bringing in Ronaldo actually wanted to end Al Hilal's dominance but in reality Al Nasrr still did not get the LPS trophy.

This season it also seems that Al Hilal will still dominate, because Al Hilal has a compact and solid squad in all lines. This is different from Al Nassr, they only focus on bringing in front line players but they are quite weak in the back line, especially the goalkeeper. So I also think like you, if Al Nassr wants to compete with Al Hilal they have to bring in some new players especially in the back line and midfield to control the rhythm of the game or attack. Regarding De Bruyne, I doubt this news that Kevin De Bruyne will join Al Nassr, although later after his contract expires at Man City I will not be sure he wants to join Al Nassr, he definitely still wants to play in an elite European team.

At least they have the same source of wealth, so it is not surprising that they are able to bring in top European players, even though the reality is that Al Hilal is still the best team in the last two seasons. Unfortunately, for Al Nassr, even though it was the first Saudi Pro League team to bring in mega star Ronaldo, but after several seasons Al Nassr still has not managed to get the Saudi Pro League trophy with Ronaldo.

Thus, I think having mega star players is only to improve their business but not for good achievements in the  league. Although indeed, Al Nassr is a team that is always consistent in being a team that is in the title race with Al Hilal,but Al Nassr so far canbe said to have failed and is different from Al Hilal who also has good and consistent performance throughout the season . Thus , Al Hilal still has the opportunity to get the Saudi Pro League trophy for the second time in a row even though maybe, Al Nassr also has a good  chance this season  to get the trophy.