Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 307. (Read 128965 times)

In the continuation of the Saudi Pro League, Al Hilal once again proved their potential to start their second season. After a long break, Al Hilal played their match against Al Raed. Referring to the comparison between these two teams, it is clear that there is a quite obvious gap. that's why, Al Hilal has very low odds. and it was proven, Mitrovic scored another goal in the 3rd minute and in the 27th minute via the penalty point, another goal was created by Koulibaly. With this result, Al Hilal's position in this competition remains in the safe zone. Even though Al Nassr also won their match against Al Riyadh, Al Hilal's position remains undisturbed at the top of the standings.

Referring to the course of the match, overall the course of this match was dominated by the home team. well, it seems the probability that Al Hilal is getting stronger on the path to winning the Saudi Pro League trophy. in fact, the competition for top scorers is quite serious. Mitrovic with his 19 goals. while Ronaldo, with 21 goals he created. so, there is only a difference of two goals. however, what is clear is that Al Hilal is much more productive in terms of scoring goals. also, the team that has conceded the fewest goals. however, this competition still has enough matches left. in football, anything can happen. If Al Hilal slips in some of its matches, Al Nassr can step on the gas to overtake Al Hilal's ranking. or what happened the other way around, Al Nassr slipped in several of the matches they played. well, let's just enjoy it

Well, I'll say something, if they have a Star like this and they don't use him, I don't know why they bothered to spend so many millions on him , plus he's an EU player or he's out of shape, I know that Benzema has had some problems recently. It's something normal, I don't know if it's because of adaptation or something like that, but it's something that he has to overcome or that I think he's overcome, but I really want to see this player shine like he did in Madrid, I don't know what It's just that he lacks it, but if he is training with the team it means that it is Already Something that is seen with a very Good omen.

The "cat Benzema" has Always been a player who has a lot to Give, for me he is the player who has the best lineup, everyone Says that the best Ferencé is Mbappé and that he is Supposedly Above everyone, but for me it is not Thus, for me, Benzema has Much more Quality than him, however I would like Benzema to be able to score the goals that we are used to, and thus be able to get out more in action.

In fact, everyone in the world talks about Benzema as that Promise who Went to Saudi Football to shine but things still haven't gone as they are, I think he needs a little more motivation, he has a good friend who is CR7, And I'm sure that any advice from that Country will Ask him...

He believed that for now he must adapt to his team that takes his confidence and that can make him different from the others, he cannot put himself in an orbit of low energy vibration again, he has to raise his spirits and I think that if he is gone then It did him good, if so, then we need to see the goals of a Gatic who is always willing to do things with all the love of the world for football and that is something that we hope for, I think it is time for him to show himself. Let's see if Deschamps puts him in for the French National team because he is a guard of experience and great skill.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have dominated football for over the last two decades so I think it's absolutely expected for the
rivalry of the two players to continue till when they'll finally quit football. Those two players were scoring many goals in their prime and despite their current age, Cristiano Ronaldo was still able to finish last year with the highest number of goals by a professional footballer in the whole world.
There are football lovers who has decided to always pick one of them ahead of the other but for me who's been able to watch them since their rise to stardom, I've always maintained my admiration to the two football superstars even when I kinda love one of them more than the other. Football I think will never experience such rivalry again.

When you look like you barely won, that is usually by people who did not watch the game. Al-Nassr missed a lot of chances, they were unlucky and that is normal that happens sometimes. I think we should probably consider the fact that they are not doing all that crazy because they mainly had unlucky results here and there. Ronaldo scored again, which is amazing for his fans and for the team as well because people watch the games mainly for him, and him scoring increases the viewership as well.

Talisca played well too but just had trouble at the last touches. All in all a great win, they have nothing else but to keep winning and expecting Al Hilal to lose games. They are doing their part, and that is what counts until the season is over.

Rakitic was very lucky on his debut to has scored a goal, he's added another record to his footballing career which is very good, Rakitic is a very skilled player with a lot of experience right from his time at Barcelona to Sevilla so adapting to his new club won't be an issue for him, that's why he was able to score on his debut and help his team secure the 3 points against Damac who are above them in the standings, Al Shabab would definitely enjoy Rakitic's presence in their team.

 Al-Nassr is one big team in the SPL that when fixed for a game, they've got some quantuble high chance of being victorious. I'd say for all teams in that league, it's kind of like Al-Hilal being the only team that may give Al-Nassr a tough time. There's still this confidence that they'd still be able to meet up and win the trophy this season. Although Al-Hilal is not a team that should be joked with, they're a good side too as Al-Nassr. Al-Nassr are still standing really out in the league and then the likes of Al-Hilal and the other teams.  The league is still running and race for the trophy is on too. The final table standing is awaited.
 

The interesting thing about Al Ittihad and Benzema in this season is about the performance of Al Ittihad during the time when Benzema was absent in the team.
In the ten recent games when Al Al Ittihad was playing without Benzema, they had better performance than before and god better results than before.
However, Karim Benzema has returned to the team and he is training with Al Al Ittihad but I think this won't be spring if they don't use him in the next games.

He's back but with the different form. I saw that in the latest clip shows if he is getting fat. he was not able controlling his fitness properly. neymar needs more time to get back his fitness again. I think that this is the main mistake made by him. He has been changed a lot.
He was lucky enough caused by al hilal was still willing to accept him back as the player and received a lot of money as his salary. It's not even a year but there are many things changed from neymar.

I hope he can put more respect on his team coz this team was helping him to have a job rather than being a jobless guy after he left from PSG. Neymar can at least show some respects and he can also make reconsiliation to the other players to build the chemistry again.
Neymar is good but i must admit that sometimes he has no respect toward his club. He needs to be even wiser than before.f Neymar is still useful for the club.

It will another disgrace for him if he repeats the same mistake that makes him excluded from the squad. Neymar needs to regarin his true form again. A few months have passed for him and many changes happened to him.

Neymar has been given a lot of time and given many of the facilities he wants, even with a large salary given by Al Hilal as a form of respect for star players, but the fact that Neymar taking it for granted, or in other words, Neymar neglecting his team too much at the moment, even though he has been given a lot of what he wants he wants and this time Neymar opportunity to prove to Al Hilal that he can also value his team in every way to make a contribution on the pitch.
regarding weight gain, I think it could happen and before he returns to the field he will definitely do training and with this training, Neymar will lose weight so he can be physically stronger.

but the question, has the injury really healed?
I'm just worried that in the near future Neymar will return to the field to make a contribution to Al Hilal, he will experience injury problems again and if that really happens, I'm sure Neymar chance will have run out and Hilal will do the same thing as Ittihad, who loaned his star players to other teams.

The match of Al-Hilal vs Al-Raed team is now half-time. Now Al-Hilal team is leading by 2 goals. Al-Hilal team player A. Mitrović has started a great performance. A.  Mitrović scored two goals. Al-Raed team has not scored any goals yet. I don't think Al-Raed team can score any goals in today's match because Al-Raed team started the bad performance from the beginning of the game. Al-Hilal team is in the 1st position of the points table. 

They can end this match with a victory that is quite difficult, because Al Fateh can provide meaningful resistance to them. But Al Nassr's efforts throughout the match produced something good for them by being able to get full points in this match. Cristiano Ronaldo was the first goal scorer for Al Nassr, before AL Fateh finally equalized in the 29th minute. The match was tight and Al Fateh was able to successfully resist every attack made by Al Nassr in the last 15 of the first half.
Entering the second half, Al Nassr again tried to try to regain the lead and that they could get in the 72nd minute. Yes, this match was quite tiring for Al Nassr because they got quite an interesting resistance shown by their guests, Al Fateh.
This win allows them to keep their distance from Al Hilal, but still the distance between them is quite difficult to catch up.

Well, finally Ronaldo was able to beat Messi's number of goals even though the difference was only 1 goal. It seems like these two players are still experiencing hot competition even though they are no longer in Europe. Both Ronaldo and Messi will continue to add to their goal collections in the respective teams they currently play for and perhaps Ronaldo is still ahead with Al-Nassr because he can always score goals.

This is healthy competition and I hope both of them can still set an example for the next generation. Despite all that, Ronaldo still proves that he is not finished and as long as he can play football at a young age, he will not stop scoring goals. Even if this season he still fails to bring a title to Al-Nassr, he will still be chasing the Saudi League golden boot before this season ends.

There is an interesting thing about the game between Al Fateh and Al Nassr which was about the goal Ronaldo scored in this match.
Ronaldo is still in the race with Messi and regardless of the result Al Nassr got against Inter Miami which made Ronaldo very happy but the goal he scored against Al Fateh was the 714th of Ronaldo and now he scored one goal then Messi if we don't count the penalties.

Al Fateh is a pretty good team so after a long break Al Nassr was able to immediately win, which is a good thing, meaning the long break did not affect the cooperation of the players who had not competed and trained together for quite a long time.

Al Hilal are very favored in the match against Al Read later, Al Hilal's odds are around @1.18 and the away team is around @10.00, it could be that this will be a one-sided match and Al Hilal will win the match again by scoring more than 2 goals, although surprises are still wide open for this happened because after a long break they needed to make adjustments so that Al Nassr had a big chance of becoming Al Hilal's competitor for the title because the point difference decreases.
However, I predict this will still be an easy win for Al Hilal and Mitrovic is very likely to score goals again for his team, especially in H2H Al Read has never won once against Al Hilal and their best result is just a draw every time they face the best team of this season in the Saudi Pro League.

He will have to start with his diet together with many physical exercises to reduce his weight as it's clearly that he is overweight after months of injury and without control on his eating habit.

Neymar is smart and has great skills so it's not problems for him to return to training and playing at not top-notch level. His main barrier is lack of self-control on his eating habit and over party participation that cause some issues on hit fitness. It will affect his performances on field and potentially cause him injuries. Neymar knows that he is not allowed to stay in Brazil, enjoy parties while Al Hilal are paying him very high salary. They need Neymar on field, in matches, not in parties and if things won't improve, they will terminate the contract and find another star player.

I saw on some social media that Neymar was back with Al Hilal. He seemed to have joined the team and participated in the training session. He seems to have adapted well and is making adjustments to regrow mentally and de-traumatize. I'm waiting for the come-back moment and this day looks like Al Hilal vs Al Raed. I didn't get any official news on whether he was able to play. But I think playing the match later is too risky, I think he will appear once he is fit and ready.

Source: https://www.telecomasia.net/news/football/neymar-returns-to-al-hilal-after-injury/

Good debut for Ivan Rakitic with Al Shabab when he scored one goal and give his team three points against Damac, seems Ivan Rakitic can adapt well with Saudi Pro League competition and first appearance give contribution with one goals. Currently, Damac has better higher standings position on 6th placed than Al Shabab on 10th position standing but its not problem with Al Shabat secured three points.
Actually Ivan Rakitic have much experienced by playing with many top European team, he had higher level performed and not difficult for adapting well with his new club, I don't think he get problem with weather, culture and atmosphere games play with Al Shabab by giving good contribution on his first match.

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Other Saudi Pro League matches result, Al Nassr success got three points and Cristiano Ronaldo scored one goal, its good started after breaking out almost one month and Al Nassr opening their first match with three points keep make close with Al Hilal on the top standings behind 4 points left. Next match, Al Hilal vs Al Raed and its their opportunity to make seven points left from Al Nassr and keep close their position become the SPL winner for this season.

Al-Nassr is one big team in the SPL that when fixed for a game, they've got some quantuble high chance of being victorious. I'd say for all teams in that league, it's kind of like Al‐Hilal being the only team that may give Al-Nassr a tough time. The others, yes, may be good in one little way or the other but Al-Nassr just seems better off. Even though they've played and gained an extra 3points in their last game, they've still got a difference in the table standings with just a few points.

 There's still this confidence that they'd still be able to meet up and win the trophy this season. Although Al-Hilal is not a team that should be joked with, they're a good side too as Al-Nassr. Al-Nassr shouldn't trade their chances and loose again as their toughest counterpart will seize such flaw as a tool to stay solid in the toppest position and it'll be difficult to correct the errors when it's late.

Overcoming the quite large points gap is not an easy task because Al Hilal has been trying hard to widen the gap with Al Nassr all this time and they are doing it well and continue to try to win the match so that the gap with Al Nassr becomes wider. Indeed, as you said, Al Hilal will not let them experience defeat unless a draw can still happen and they only get 1 point so Al Nassr must continue to win in the future if they want to continues to get closer to Al Hilal.

This could happen if Al Hilal loses focus in the Saudi League match. Expecting Al Hilal to lose so that Al Nassr can wins the title is not a good hope because as football fans we must be able to enjoying match after match which is full of surprises. Al Nassr has to fight hard if they want something big that they want to achieve, but Al Hilal definitely doesn't want to give space to their arch rival Al Nassr.

Of course, if Damac doesn't make mistakes, he can definitely get 3 points in the match and it was very clear that in the second half, Damac performance became less focused mentally, he became less confident in trying to catch up with the score, but actually it all depends on the coach because I think Damac can do it got draw by means of defenders remaining in each line and central midfielders providing assistance to the defense line and the attack line trying to continue to put pressure on Al Shabab and would definitely find a gap to score but Damac was actually ambitious to try to attack but ignored the problem is that the defense not strong enough and maybe the coach did not provide the right strategy in the match.

Damac defeat will not be a big problem and after this Damac hopes to be able to fix this problem and I understand that mistake after the time lag like having to adapt again on the field.

Ivan Rakitić is a very talented and experienced player with so many matches at highest level with Barcelona, Sevilla and Croatia. He is surely a helpful midfielder for Al Shabab even now he is old and can not run too much.

Early successful debut of Ivan Rakitić in Saudi Professional League might play important role to attract Luka Modric to join this league. That player is from a same generation of Ivan Rakitić and it's amazing if they reunite in Saudi Arabia.

If they give up, the title will belong to Al Hilal from now and the league will become almost completed and boring even months before a final season match day.

However, Al Nassr don't give up and are trying their best, first to win their matches, and second with hope that they will have opportunities to catch Al Hilal. They don't sit down and wait for opportunities but they are working hard to create chances by themselves.

Their efforts also help to make Saudi Professional League more exciting and worth to watch. The league is continuing to be exciting because ambitious and laborious fighting from Al Nassr.