Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 392. (Read 130466 times)

Al-Wehda's victory means they are now in 8th position in the standings and succeeded in shifting Al-Ettifaq's position. I think Al-Wehda is indeed capable of doing it because their opponent is Al-Riyadh who are currently at the bottom of the relegation table. Al-Wehda did not hesitate to win with a score of 3-1 in this match and at the same time Al-Riyadh's hopes of getting out of the relegation zone had to be temporarily postponed.

Apart from that, Al-Wehda is now increasingly threatening Al-Ittihad's position and if Al-Wehda wins again in the next match then the points tally for both will be the same as 28 points. But that is if Al-Ittihad loses against Al-Nassr and I think we all know that Al-Ittihad is not promising this season and this possibility will be very profitable for Al-Wehda.

Yes, I also didn't expect last season's champion Ittihad to lose to Al-Raed with a score of 1-3. Al-Raed in the previous match, which was defeated by Damac, certainly did not reduce Al-Raed's performance and mentality. and I think Marcelo Gallardo must make the Ittihad players confident again and must be able to produce like last season. Yes, now Damac is ranked higher than Ittihad.

the goal created by al-raed player K. El Berkaoui in the 22nd minute was very beautiful, his header was very accurate and I also liked the reply from ittihad player Romarinho in the 25th minute at that time I thought it would make the ittihad players excited and continue to score goals but apparently not.

In my opinion, Ittihad's next match against Al-Nassr will certainly be easy to predict, although of course we won't know what the result will be. Yes, Benzema will meet Cristiano Ronaldo, of course that is what the viewers and everyone are really waiting for.

Losing the number of players is certainly very influential, especially in the early minutes, as M. Alolayan did and as a result of his actions he had to receive a red card.

It is true that the reduction in players has a big impact on the coach's formation and plans. Of course we won't know what game Cristiano Ronaldo and Benzema are playing, but what is clear is that I want to bet on Al-Nassr winning.

In the match Al Ittihad vs Al Nassr, it is a must for Al Nassr to win the match. If Al Nassr fails to get full points, they probably become harder to compete for the title. At least, Al Nassr must shorten the point gap to be 7 points again. In the second half of the season, Al Nassr may have the chance to shorten the point gap again. I hope the point gap will be under 5 points, so the race for the title will be more interesting until the end of the season.

Neymar didn't contribute anything for Al Hilal. So, it won't be a serious problem if Neymar can't join Al Hilal in this season. Al Hilal already has a solid team, they have enough players to win the competition for the title. They proved that their current players are playing with their best form. They only need to maintain the good performance.

Al Nassr has roared in a new way this season. Al Nassr has many good and experienced players who are always ready to score goals. Especially Cristiano Ronaldo and Sadiomane are two very experienced and dynamic players whose running speed is still intense. But I have won several times by betting for the Al Nassr team.  In this case, Al Ittihad is a strong team, but if you compare the two teams, Al Nassr will be much stronger.

The best part about this is that the most expensive soccer players on the planet are not playing for teams that ultimately win the Saudi Professional League title. These guys earn around 750 million euros combined in a bit more than 2 years. And yet they don't win the title with their teams. I don't know what to think about that, but the two players can be happy to have signed those contracts from a financial perspective. Whether they have the reputation that they would do everything for money? I think so, too. It is good to see that there are players who resist the money. Messi is one of them and some others did as well. But Benzema and Ronaldo are the way they are.

So true. Last season, perhaps when we bet on the Al-ittihad vs Al-Nassr match, we would have doubted Al-Nassr a little. Because last season Al-ittihad always played with full confidence. And they are always the favorites. It's just that this season everything has changed. So when Al-ittihad became the hosts, it seemed like many people were hesitant to choose them as favourites. Personally, as I said from the start, I will favor Al-Nassr. Because as you said, the performance of Benzema and several European players at Al-ittihad cannot be expected too much. Well, we feel more disappointment nowadays when betting on Al-ittihad. But indeed, as the host, Al-ittihad could suddenly rise and beat Al-Nassr. I didn't expect that. Because I might bet on Al-Nassr.

Ittihad will play at home, maybe they will be slightly favored. but seeing that their performance has not been stable recently, making predictions might be slightly in favor of Al Nassr who appears more consistent at the moment.
However, this is a big match, Ittihad, which managed to win the trophy last season, of course, doesn't want it to end badly this season. and Al Nassr, who are already several points behind Al Hilal, certainly don't want to lose the opportunity to catch up.
both teams will have strong ambitions to win. but Al Hilal has not been defeated so far. That is a truly extraordinary achievement.

Ittihad FC is a very different team this season, at least that can be seen in the several matches they have played and also their ranking in the standings shows that they are quite weak this season so any team has a chance of beating them, especially Al Nassr who are still struggling to close the gap. the point is with Al Hilal.
Benzema did not perform as expected, maybe this will be his first and last season at Ittihad because he and the club are not satisfied with what he got, while Ronaldo has always been able to be relied on by his team so far, but it is not impossible that Ittihad will give a surprise in the match. This.
The betting market favors Al Nassr even though they as the away team, are quite different from last season's conditions, and this difference is because Ittihad is one of the teams that has experienced a decline and is certain to fail to defend the title.

Comparing leagues and talking about players currently is not right time because in this season we have huge investments from few clubs with just one company is owned four clubs which are showing how things are working here with their vision is impressive, and their start is also good if they are going to do things for the long run then surely in coming years we will have good results and improved performance from many clubs with owners and other stakeholders will also enjoy this all but right now it's all under government which is trying to bring changes into their culture and other things related to open doors for the world.

Now most chances we will have too many players will join in coming days and this will create good competition and also quality as well we have few different ratings which are showing they are on good run for the having better spot, and they will be achieved something big in coming years.

Any team that gets a red card will definitely be the team at a disadvantage without a doubt. Only a few teams can remain undefeated after one of their players gets a red card. And usually the team that gets a red card, they won't even have a chance to win. They will only have the chance to get a draw. Because it is very difficult for a team to continue playing well with only 10 players. Al-ittihad is also like that. They were completely in disarray after the red card. That is why every team must avoid red cards as much as possible and not be provoked by opponents who will definitely deliberately make a team more emotional. And usually it is those who are provoked who are more often caught up with fouls and red cards.

Well, the Al-Nassr va Al-ittihad match will certainly be quite fierce. But I will favorite Al-Nassr without hesitation. Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo will really reminisce about this match. Because they were once colleagues in the same club and now they are facing each other as opponents. Well this is very interesting and I think we should not miss this match.

It's clear that Al Nassr is superior in terms of squad so it won't be easy for other clubs to beat Al Nassr, after all Al Nassr has European star player Cristiano Ronaldo so it feels like it will be difficult for a club like Ettifaq to beat him, and it's proven that Ettifaq can't do much and Ettifaq conceded 3 goals from the home team so it is only natural that they suffered a defeat because Ettifaq's condition in the last 5 matches did not look very impressive and there was no victory there.

The match between Ittihad FC vs Al Nassr is quite an interesting match seeing that Al Nassr will play with the Saudi pro league champions last season, but even so, Al Nassr condition is much better when compared to Ittihad so I am quite sure that Al Nassr will win again. in this match and Al Nassr achieved consecutive wins to continue to be in 2nd place approaching Al Hilal.

I have to agree with you about this because Ajax just come out of the bottom with having some horrible time and now things are coming back to normal but Al Ittihad is having much better they were at the top but now suddenly having decline in performance which bring them to this level and now new coach which is trying to make things better need some time for having better results, but their match on 26th December is surely going to be not easy for them.

Currently, their defense is really in bad shape with they already concede 11 goals in last five games, so they need to work on this because Al Nassr surely tries to destroy them with their aggressive attack, and they have to face more troubling time.

Implementing and securing a strategic formulation is good but not all these coaches are able to achieve this target. Implementing an attack doesn't seem easy at all, alot of things becomes involved and the main target of the attacking is to secure winning. An attacking strategy can be enforced when there's presence of high spirit performance from players and not some random relenting players who can't afford to dominate or use chances. Strategy is the key basis and solid confidence that every coach stands upon to decides for their perspective clubs.

To be honest, I'm not sure what Al Ittihad is doing now. I was very optimistic when Gallardo was brought in. Their team has a lot of great players, so it's strange to see them having this much trouble. The problem seemed more mental than physical. Like, you know what you're doing, but where's your confidence?

The fact that Al Hilal is setting a high bar in the SPL doesn't help either. They play like they're in a different league, which must be annoying for teams like Al Ittihad. Now that Al Nassr is coming up, things don't look any better. Ronaldo is playing extremely well for Al Nassr. Of course, everyone would want that much force. In all honesty, though, this season could be the end for Al Ittihad. Their plan for the next season might need to be rethought as they get back together and refocus.

Losing the number of players on the field will destroy everything. For example, a strategy that has been carefully created by a coach will immediately become useless. Because the coach will suddenly change strategy and formation in the second half. That is what also happened to Al-ittihad. So they had to accept defeat and lose points because they lost to a team that was actually much weaker than them.

The Al-Nassr vs Al-ittihad match will definitely be quite fierce. And I also think that there will be a lot of goals in that match. Because Al-Nassr actually has weaknesses at the back. And so does Al-ittihad. So that both teams will definitely score goals alternately. Because both of them will definitely implement an attack strategy.

I was a little impressed with this team which was initially ignored many people, I even thought that Damac was just a small, weak team, but since I saw its performance in every match, it was able to hold a draw against teams from the top flight and at that time I started to think that Damac was really a small team why is there always improvement in every match and finally this team has proven that Damac deserves to be in the top 10 standings with 5 consecutive wins and my mistake was too quick to speculate if Damac was just a small team because I haven't liked SPL football for too long so I dont follow developments all the teams in the SPL and now I know more about Damac actual performance.

this increase in Damac can give a happy impression to the fans of this team but it puts pressure on Al Taawon who is only 4 points behind and in the next match if Al Taawon cannot add points I am sure this could result in a shift in Damac position who will take over Al Taawon position. but maybe it won't happen in a short time because we have to consider in the next match whether Damac is also able to appear more consistent.

Well, even though Al Nassr won, Al Hilal as the top of the standings is still quite far, there must be series of consecutive wins and also defeats experienced by Al Hilal if Al Nassr wants to occupy first place.
The competition becomes less interesting when the difference between the two is quite large because the competition can really feel sensational when the difference is only very small, but it does not rule out the possibility that after the middle of the season Al Nassr will be able to get full points in every match.
Both teams have shown that this season they are the only ones capable of dominating the League and becoming the strongest candidates in the race for the title.

But on the other hand, you are absolutely right that Al Nassr delay at the start of the season was very detrimental to them because they had to accept that the points gap with Al Hilal had also been happening since the start of the season.
If Al Nassr had won more since the start of the season, perhaps the difference between the two would not have been so far and of course we could see that Al Nssr could really keep up with Al Hilal.

This week Al Nassr has scheduled match against Ittihad FC and it is home match for Ittihad FC and we will see how Al Nassr will play by winning there, but this will not be an easy match for Al Nssr.

If we compare based on the last performance of each team, it is normal that Al-Nassr is the favorite and comparing them based on match history is not ideal because because the line-up has been different since this season we know Al-Nassr already has some great players while in previous seasons it wasn't. Personally, I support Al-Nassr to win apart from Al-Nassr's good performance, another reason is to compete for the title I mean if Al-Nassr lose this match then the Saudi Pro League will no longer be interesting to wait for because we definitely know who will be the champion this season Al-Nassr was unable to catch up because it was already far behind, therefore I hope Al-Nassr wins so that the opportunity for the title is still open and we could still see an interesting fight ahead.

Apart from the battle at the top of the standings, we cannot ignore the battle at the bottom of the standings yeah 3 teams will fight to stay away from relegation and the teams in positions 10 to 15 are really not safe because the points are close to each other only 3 points away.  Apart from that, teams like Al-Damac are still of concern to us because they have succeeded in continuing the positive trend, Al-Damac managed to record 5 consecutive wins and can still continue this record. Unfortunately they don't have any targets because it is impossible to reach the top 2 to get a ticket to the Asian Champions League.

Ittihad was the unique game changing team,because it had their unique performance from the beginning of the game.Al Nassr also the good team,So this game will be the toughest game.We don’t know how the result will change till the end of the game.The history was based on the Al Nassr many times win towards the Ittihad,but this season game of the Ittihad was enough to rewritten the same history.The reason for the change because of the coach of the Ittihad was enough to make the team more stronger.The team player of the Ittihad accept the words of the coach without any hesitation.

I would maybe not compare Al Ittihad with Ajax Amsterdam as Ajax Amsterdam had a horrible experience at the beginning of the season whereas they could stabilize at some point. But Al Ittihad never really came into shape. They have some fundamental struggles to cope with. A new manager might be able to solve some of the problems. But for this season I think it's pretty much over as Al Hilal is teaching the rest of the league how to bring the game to perfection for SPL standards.