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The GOAT was the main reason why people are actively considering SPL as one of good league in asia. European league has been always become the daily consumption by the public. Having unfamiliar league became popular in a short time was also attracting many people to watch it. I was also regularly watching SPL this time caused by it has become even more interesting with so many european star players playing there. I hope that we will able to see more to come soon.

If saudi will able to attract more players that have same capability like the GOAT and im sure SPL will be even more popular. I have heard saudi has planned to recruit as many star players as possible soon.
The competition will be much more interesting to watch. People will be so obvious watching this league as well.

SPL is going to be as big as european league in upcoming years. FOMO is real. SPL will be one of biggest league in asia.

At the age not young anymore, it's natural that in terms of speed, it has decreased, but at his age, he is no longer as young as before he still has good performance and quality that exceeds today's young players for example like ordinary football players but he is still young and he is also always scores great goals and I really like when he dribbles the ball he is always good and when he gives a pass he is always accurate so I wouldn't be surprised if he is currently the top scorer in this Arab league which I remember he has scored 15 goals, in second place is Aleksandar Mitrovic scored 11 goals and third was Malcom who scored 9 goals. and what I like most is that he looks youthful and from his appearance he is very good and of course he is very influential and because he plays in the Saudi Arabian league the name of the Saudi Arabian league has now become famous I think it will be difficult to find a player like him.

The difference in player quality will be clearly visible in this match and Al-Ittihad should secure full points in the home match. They also just won the Asian Champions League competition and that will also increase their confidence. So far Al-Ittihad is still shackled in the Saudi league because from 5 matches they have only been able to get 1 win so they have wasted a lot of points.

Al-Ittihad should have been able to get close to Al-Nassr's points if they succeeded in wiping out the points in the previous few matches, but they failed to do so. Against Al-Khaleej, they have to convince the public that they are still the defending champions of the Saudi league and their job will be more difficult every week because the gap with Al-Taawoun, Al-Fateh and Al-Ettifaq is not too much different.

Age can't be denied to a player, although his goal-scoring ability is still very good, then we can see his decline in other ways, so I agree that in terms of speed he has declined a lot.
It's been over a decade since we've talked about Ronaldo, and we're not just talking about one club. Sporting where he was first discovered, Manchester United, then on to Real Madrid, on to Juventus and then back to the club that made his name, and now he's in the SPL.
It's not easy for a player to stand out at so many clubs and even in so many leagues, but he's made his presence felt.

FYI saudi pro league has been offering decent amounts of money for any players who were interesting to join in the saudi pro league. Ronaldo would not move to the saudi pro league if it was not also become the last choice + big salary.
This is the strategy owned by saudi pro league club to attract european players to join in. We may see some names to come soon. I expect another name like de bruyne and salah may be going to this league as well.
There is no other strategy owned by SPL club. Money is the only main weapon owned by this club.

I have no comment in this match. Ittihad is more than everything compared with khaleej. A guy with a sense will obviously pick al ittihad instead of khaleej. I see no reason for it to pick it.
In fact, al ittihad is having very good result this season compared with khaleej. This pretty much the same like liverpool vs luton/sheffield.

Well, this is the right response and opinion because in reality, the SPL team always makes offers that are beyond the capabilities of European team so that great players who initially made their names and careers in Europe prefer to move to Saudi to be able to earn bigger amounts of money.
So far there have been quite number of players who have moved to Saudi with contracts for several seasons and salary agreements almost double those previously received with European teams.
In the next few seasons, if the SPL team continue to spend large budgets, you can be sure that the SPL will really be filled with lots of star players.

This match is big opportunity for Ittihad FC to catch up on points from Al-Ahli if they manage to win it.
But Ittihad FC has become the favorite and they are estimated to have percentage of almost 80% that they can win easily. In Al Khaleej declining condition, it is certain that they will have difficulty facing Ittihad FC.
Moreover, during these 14 matches Al Khaleej were only able to have 3 win.

Jorge Jesus will definitely use a good strategy to fight Al Nassr. Of course, Jorge Jesus will not underestimate the game of Cristiano Ronaldo and his colleagues, because this match is a prestigious match and is truly a match that is eagerly awaited by football fans and those who support Al Nassr and Al Hilal. of course Luis Castro will also use his strength and technique to fight Al Hilal and I also received news that Ronaldo currently has a neck injury, and I hope that in the next match Cristiano Ronaldo will be healthy because I am looking forward to Cristiano Ronaldo's game because it feels like Al Nassr when he plays Without Cristiano Ronaldo it feels empty, I hope that when they play, both teams will be given health and smoothness and I hope that both teams will give their best performance.
but I'm sure Cristiano Ronaldo will recover from his injury because Luis Castro and the medical staff will definitely carry out their duties well.

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Yes, that's right and of course currently the Arab League, especially the Saudi Pro League, has become the spotlight for all world football fans. Especially CR7 fans. In fact, based on the news in August this year, I read that there are already around 140 countries broadcasting the SPL league. And this happened due to the increasing number of top European players entering the transfer market yesterday to clubs in the SPL. Last season there were only around 32 countries broadcasting but this season everything is really growing rapidly. So it is not surprising that many say that currently the popularity of the SPL is almost equal to the popularity of the leagues in Europe. Even people in my country who originally didn't talk much about Arab clubs are now starting to talk about them here like they talk about European clubs. So De Gea should be aware of this and in fact he has the potential to become a goalkeeper who will be highly respected in the Arab League. Because all the players from Europe enter the Arab League, we can see that they are highly respected by the players in the Arab clubs themselves. I'm waiting for De Gea's response in the transfer market regarding the news that he was offered by Al-ettifaq.

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He did refill an offer. But I believe at that time, he was still thinking in his mind that he was going to get an offer from big European clubs. But he did not get that. So now I don't think he's going to refuse any offer that he gets from the Saudi league. Because right now he needs to play to stay relevant. And the Saudi league is going to give him much more of a relevancy compared to the low-level clubs in Europe. Honestly, if he does decide to go to a smaller club in Europe, I think people might actually forget about him. But in the Saudi league, he still can make some noise and make a name for himself. Just ask yourself, how many people actually care about the second league of any big European league? And how many people right now care about the Saudi League?

In terms of scoring goals, for now I agree that his age doesn't affect him, but in terms of speed then I have to say his age does affect him, for me it's very visible when he plays trying to be as effective as possible. We can compare when Ronaldo was young at Manchester United, he relied a lot on dribbling and speed. At Real Madrid too, we know that Real Madrid had a very fast counter-attack when Ronaldo was still there.
At Al Nassr he doesn't rely on the same thing, and that's natural when we look at his age, but he plays more effectively now and I think on the one hand his speed is reduced, but on the other hand he can develop his other abilities.

Ronaldo has been showing the opposite thing. Ronaldo was leaving from manchester united due to the ten hag. Ten hag never feels happy to have him in the squad. Joining in al nassr made ronaldo was able doing better thing. he played in nassr without burden.
He is also having good support system there. This is also triggering the performance from ronaldo to be even better. People were underestimating him to became nothing if ronaldo was going to the nassr but saudi club was just showing the league was not toothless.
We may see another surprise from ronaldo like what he did in the last match by doing a very long panenka to scoring against its opponent.

Maybe this match is the most important game for Al Nassr and Ronaldo because this time Ronaldo and his teammates can have the chance to decrease the gap between themselves and Al Hial and if you use this opportunity and the game they have with Al Hilal tomorrow the whole team will be motivated even for the rest of the season,  Al Hilal currently have 38 and Al Nassr got 34 points.

It's not a good idea when team depends on one player, especially on striker instead of playmaker. Ronaldo is a great striker, one of the greatest in history but good striker needs good midfielders who will provide him with good assists. Ronaldo doesn't have superstar midfielders in his team and whole squad depends on his skills. I think this is wrong. It makes more sense to make whole squad dependent on Messi instead of Ronaldo because Messi is a playmaker and can always create threats, start from scratch and dribble through 5 players to score the goal.

Cristiano Ronaldo seems to be one of those players whose performance is not significantly affected by age as the Portuguese superstar is still scoring a lot of goals even when he's above 38 years of age. Many of the the players that started football with Ronaldo including the likes of Wayne Rooney who's younger than Ronaldo has already retired from professional football but the Portugal national team captain is still performing like a player in his 20s and that I think is a huge reason to commend  him for what he's been doing since he joined the Saudi Pro League club Al Nassr.

Cristiano Ronaldo is one player who wants to win every every possible trophy and the fact that he's never won the Saudi League is the reason why he's giving his all to help his team lift the Saudi league title this season. They have a game tomorrow against Al Hilal and a win for Al Nassr I think will further strengthen their hopes of winning the league title at the end of the season.

No way for Al-Ettifaq to send De Gea a better offer than what Al Nassr can do. De Gea will consider both issues, salary and chance to win titles and if both Al Nassr and Al-Ettifaq send him offers, if he decides to move to Saudi Professional League, Al Nassr will be his choice because they are able to make better offer than Al-Ettifaq and can give De Gea more chances to lift titles.

It is something I feel weird as De Gea is a goalkeeper who can provide very good quality for any club. Likely problems are from De Gea, like he does not want to play in some leagues he does not like. If he opens to all leagues, he will receive many offers from big to small.

At his age, playing for clubs in La Liga looks to be best choices because he and his family will have chance to live at their home land.

Yes, I agree with your opinion and I also think that if Benzema is at Ittihad, he doesn't have a partner player who can support him to continue scoring, it seems like it will be very difficult and Ittihad management must understand this situation to continue looking for European players who are suitable to be placed in the attack line. to be able to contribute in collaboration with Benzema to win in every match.
I also see that Ittihad management's efforts seem to be starting to look for European players with very high offers to get players who can be relied on to work together strongly in the attack line because Ittihad's current weakness is only in attackers but the defenders are quite good.
For the match against Al Khaleej, it looks like Ittihad will find it a little easier to get additional points in the upcoming match.

That's right, friend. The role of the trainer will certainly be very influential. Because a team's performance must have a good balance. And a good coach is a coach who can bring out every potential that every player has. And I think Luis Castro is a good coach. Because since his arrival at Al-Nassr we can see that Al-Nassr always has quite positive results in every match they play. It's just that I really agree that Al-Nassr has defenses that need to be improved. They have conceded too many balls this season. Fortunately, they can cover their weaknesses by having a good attack line that can always be productive in scoring goals. But facing Al-Hilal will be different from competing against other teams. And yes, there are many things that must be prepared to face a strong team like Al-Hilal. I hope Luis Castro can improve the weaknesses of Al-Nassr. And maybe it would be great if in the next transfer market Al-Nassr also brought in top defenders from Europe. Just like what Al-hilal did when they brought in K.Koulibaly in the transfer market yesterday.


Yes, there will be many who support Al-Nassr in this match. But the matter of betting might be a little different. Because I see we are all a little confused to see which team will win. Al-Nassr are indeed better in attack but they have a few gaps at the back. Meanwhile, Al-hilal has a solid defense and their attack line is also quite sharp. I think the strategy battle between Luis Castro and Jorge Jesus will be really interesting in this match. And we must not miss this match. Because the excitement of this match will definitely be similar to the El Clasico match in Laliga.

In the upcoming Al Nassr VS Hilal match, this match will certainly be very decisive for the two teams to be able to compete for the top ranking in the Saudi Arabian League. The reason is that currently Al Hilal and Al Nasr only have a difference of 4 points. So if for example Al Hilal wins the next match, I think Al Nasr will definitely have more difficulty catching Al Hilal who have never lost this season. However, if for example Al Nasr can win the match, the possibility of winning the Saudi Arabian League is very wide open. For this reason, the match that will be held on Saturday will be a very fierce and tense match.

Then if you look at the head to head between Al Hilal and Al Nasr, in the last five matches Al Hilal has a big lead over Al Nasr. Namely with 3× wins, 1× draw and 1× loss. So I think in this match Al Hilal will be more confident to win the match. Because currently all the winning factors are owned by Al Hilal. Starting from coaches to players, everything is very well organized. But even so, Al Nasr's chances of winning the match are also very big. The reason is that currently Al Nasr has very great players such as Sadio Mane, Talisca and Ronaldo who will be ready to attack Al Hilal's defense. So it is certain that Luis Castro and Jorge Jesus have to prepare excellent tactics and strategies to win the match.

Ittihad is starting to be weakened. It was getting bad result against ettifaq and i think that ittihad has a chance to win against khaleej with narrow score. You do know that how bad the performance is from al ittihad and i saw that even though bookies were favoring it but i may be taking it with low bet.
Benzema doesn't have someone who can play as good as what he wanted. The performance from ittihad was really underperform. It was also having very big gap towards nassr and hilal. Khaleej was a weak club but consider ittihad was underperforma and im sure ittihad is going to struggle against it.
Picking al ittihad was not bad but the worst case must be the result will be draw since al ittihad is not showing improvement in the last match against ettifaq. Ittihad will not able to score a lot against khaleej.
The chance for ittihad to win is quite big but that depends on observation by people. 

@makishart the problem is everyone expects Ronaldo to win every game but when he doesn’t he gets blamed but most of the times the other player’s escape scrutiny because all the attention is on Ronaldo. Lastly I’ll be very surprised if De Bruyne leaves City because he’s an very important player and I can’t see him playing in the Saudi league because he yet has the potential to perform at the highest level.