Al Ittihad has really performed much better since they were handled by Laurent Blanc, their performance has improved a lot. In the last 5 matches in this competition, Al Ittihad was able to win with a clean sheet. What an extraordinary achievement, even though this season is not over yet. At least, Laurent Blanc was able to bring Al Ittihad back to being a dangerous team. They were able to compete tightly, even though they were defeated by Al Hilal. Oh yes, Al Ittihad's only major defeat was when they visited Al Hilal's headquarters, they lost with a score of 3-1. The rest, Al Ittihad only conceded 5 goals in their 11 matches in the Saudi Pro League. Initially I thought it would be difficult for any team to shift Al Hilal who were on fire, but it seems that Al Ittihad is currently worthy of consideration and perhaps they are able to maintain their ranking at the top of the standings in this competition. Based on statistics, Al Ittihad is slightly better than Al Hilal so far, maybe because Al Itiihad does not have a schedule like Al Hilal and Al Nassr who are competing in the Asian Champions League. but anyway, Al Ittihad is now at the top of the standings and they have a great chance to maintain it as far as possible. in fact, it is not impossible for Al Itihad to snatch the League title from Al Hilal this season.
Most people are too focused on Ronaldo and Al Hilal, even I myself forgot Al-Ittihad, team that has successfully performed with quite significant development and can match Al Hilal success in several matches that have taken place, they can have total of 30 goal and only 1 goal difference from Al Hilal who recorded 31 goal, but for the number of goal conceded Al-Ittihad has conceded 8.
Laurent Blanc brought real changes, he has not had much experience but has experience handling big team from the French national team to PSG and Lyon.
Yes, currently Ittihad is much better and it was unexpected that this season Ittihad could lead the standings and shift Al-Hilal's position, but of course we will not know whether Ittihad will maintain its current position until the end of the season or not because of course we remember the match schedule Of course there is still a lot of strength that Ittihad needs to improve because of course Al Hilal will definitely not remain silent and of course Jorge Jesus' troops will definitely want to become champions again. But yes, it could happen that Ittihad this season will become champions because so far Al Hilal's performance has decreased as well as Al Nassr's performance has also decreased, so now we'll see what happens next.
Yes, I also always forget about Ittihad even though it was the best performance this season, but yes, it seems more fun to talk about Al Nassr because there is a star player in it (Cristiano Ronaldo). However, maybe Al Hilal has its own charm because Al Hilal is a team that is hard to beat and always performs well, but of course it is very difficult to explain the reason, but what is clear is that Al Hilal has its own charm.
Laurent Blanc's abilities are truly impressive and of course we'll see whether Pioli's troops, Jorge Jesus' troops or Laurent Blanc's troops will become champions this season.