Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 394. (Read 130468 times)

Al Hilal is the most team in the Saudi Pro League this season, scoring the most goals and conceding the fewest goals, and if we look at the difference it is very striking, that Al Hilal has 11 more goals in terms of productivity than Al Nassr who is in second place and also 11 goals conceded less than the same team too, that's an extraordinary statistic, and with 16 matches still to be played it is very possible that in week 28 Al Hilal will have confirmed themselves as champions of the Saudi pro league this season after their domination for several seasons was broken by Al Ittihad and they became champions again with exceptional statistics.

Al ittihad which is currently defending champions are surely doing the worst performance which bring them to 6th spot and there is no positive hope for them to improve their rank and performance with things are not going ideal at this point of the season Karim Benzema and Kante are completely failure in this team and their performance is not as par requirement which is surely big below for them yesterday they lost game against relegation zone team at home due to early red card which bring them to 10 men, and then we have good punishment for them from Al Raed which was at 17th spot and now after winning of this match they are out of the relegation zone.

After two defeats they are going to host Al Nassr on 26th December for their 18th round match at home with most chances visitors will also try to steal all three points as they are also trying their best for having strong hold on second spot and narrowing their difference of points from leaders Al Hilal as well.

Buying someone with the biggest fanbase in the world is really worked not only for the club but it's also for the league too. As you can see that how ronaldo has been also attracting not only viewers but some great players were also coming to the saudi pro league too.
Sad there are some who have rejected it but that's fine. The hype being made by the ronaldo transfer is successfully change everything in the SPL. The league has even more popularity among all of footballers in the world.

More great players are coming to the SPL like mahrez or even benzema. It's really amazing to see that how ronaldo has been successfully transforming the league to have new face with told us about the different side of SPL.
I could imagine if messi would not be rejecting al hilal's movement. The hype is going to the saudi pro league. It's fucking crazy to see how SPL has significant growth after it was buying ronaldo.
Ronaldo's impact is real. No doubt he has been called as the best in the world

Now we are almost heading for the end of the 18th rounds on 26th December with the match between Al Ittihad vs Al Nassr and with the current stats and numbers Al Hilal is strong candidate for the win of this year's title they are currently having 50 points from the 18 matches and if Al Nassr beats Al Ittihad on Tuesday then we will have difference of 7 points which is still enough as we have current performance of the Al Hilal because they are impressive in attack and defense as well with no defeat in 18 matches is amazing.
Neymar is already out of the league with his injury and most chances he will not return to Saudi Arab and Al Hilal is already having good attack, but they will try to have some good signing in January window as well which will help them for having better performance of their team in coming weeks as well.

Al-Hilal is scary if you see how they are doing, how many goals they have scored and how little the number of goals is that they conceded.

Al-Nassr has to hope for Al-Hilal to run into big problems. There are 16 games to go for Al-Hilal and will they really lose several games out of those remaining games? If yes, then Al-Nassr has to be ready to go for it, but I doubt that they will win all of their remaining games.

Yes, the current point gap is 10 points. If Al Nassr can beat Al Ittihad in the next match, surely the point gap becomes 7 points. But I assume it won't be easy because Al Ittihad is a strong team and their need points to improve their positions in the table. What unexpected result do you mean? I think Al Hilal that gave us a surprising result.

It is because the SPL popularity is increasing. People become more familiar with SPL matches, they have the favorite players in Saudi Clubs. Mbappe move to SPL? I doubt it, Mbappe won't have the chance to move to SPL in the near future although there is an interesting offer from Saudi clubs.

Neymar didn't help Al Hilal, he got a long time injury. So, there is no problem although Neymar can't play for Al Hilal. I'm even a bit doubtful if Neymar plays regularly, he may change the game style of Al Hilal.

So far the points gap between the first place team and the second place team is quite far enough so that there is no pressure that Al Nassr can exert so far. Al Hilal has appeared quite consistent this season, even in the 18th match, Al Hilal has never tasted defeat. Thus, of course the chances for Al Nassr to win the trophy this season are quite slim because Al Nassr must hope that Ah Hilal loses in the next match, which will be difficult to happen.

Apart from that, Ronaldo has a strong ambition to bring his team to win the title this season even though the chances are quite slim. But I think they will be able to bring about better changes in maintaining their hopes of taking the top of the standings from Al Hilal. In the upcoming match, Al Nassr will face the Ittihad team, which of course is a quite crucial match for Al Nassr because if they fail, the point difference between with Al Hilal will be even far enough.

During the summer transfer window,  both Kylian Mbappe and Mohamed Salah received  transfer offers from clubs in Saudi Arabia and  the response from the two European based superstars suggests that one of them is absolutely  not interested in playing in the middle East country while the other gave them a nod acceptance. Kylian Mbappe received the most expensive transfer offer but he outrightly rejected it but when Mohamed Salah was contacted, reports had it that he said  he was ready for a move but it can only happen if his current club Liverpool  accepts to let him go.

There are reports in many3 sports tabloids in main land Europe which suggests that Salah is Saudi bound and is likely to join  a Saudi club next summer while Kylian Mbappe is still  trying to force a move to the Real Madrid which is believed to be his dream club

Salah is Mbappe are both in the different situations and that's not right to compare these two or talk about them at the same time because Mappe is much younger than Salah and he can definitely play in the top European teams for years with the good performance we saw from this player but Salah was even close to signing a contract with Saudis and I think we are going to see him soo playing for the Saudi teams.

Al Nassr chance to grab the title has really gone slim especially as the top team keeps winning and doesn’t seem to lose form. But Al Nassr still needs to put in more work Incase there’s a slip at any point. Now players who played really excellent most times doesn’t turn out to be coach and that’s the case for Steven. He hasn’t really done well in his past club and currently isn’t still doing well. But the club’s hierarchy still protect him and want him to say.

 Why we don’t know but I think they’ll get tired of him soon and send him out of the team. Maybe they are all out for a perfect replacement and when they get that he’ll be fired, Ronaldo got a goal added to his tally and that’s a win for him, his record and his fans, especially the fans that really wants him to win the bolten boot so they wpuld flood the media with news about him,  lol.

Kylian Mbappe was offered gigantic but he rejected the offer because he's hunger for more major titles in European football, the Frenchman made us understand that he's not playing football for the money, rather for the trophy and passion he has for football unlike most young players that easily gets tricked with money. We don't seem to be confident of the players that will trigger moves to Saudi Arabia but we're sure atleast one of these big names will move. I'll not call names because there's presence of uncertainty in the football world and I'm not going to watch my favorite player move to SPL and forget about the European football that's consider the heart of football.

Al-Ittihad is performing bad this season and I agree with you that they can say farewell to the title since there is 22 points between them and Al-Hilal. The second spot isn't obvious too with 12 points away from Al-Nassr.
Getting an early red card made the team more destabilised than previously. To make things even better, they will have a game against Al-Nassr in the upcoming days so another defeat coming most probably

This would be too short-sighted if you consider the possible transfers only from the perspective of age. You said it mustn't be in the near future, but one thing is for sure, which is that Salah's contract is soon about to expire and Liverpool will either want him to sign a longer term contract perhaps at the same or a lower salary or make a lot of money from selling him. The contract situation is what comes into play and it is the same for Mbappe. The players also don't know for how long this goldmine called Saudi Professional League will exist. Those are some hard decisions to be made by everyone.

Both Salah and Mbapee are possible to play in Saudi League but it mustn't be in the near future. As long as they are still capable to play in the Europe leagues, no doubt they will stay there. They will consider to move to Saudi League when they are no longer in the prime age as a footballer. Ronaldo is the example, he left Europe when he is already above 35 years old. So, if Salah and Mbappe are under 35 years old, they won't consider any offer from Saudi clubs.

There will be always news linked top European players like them to any team from Saudi. Since having them in the club will be a big advantage, Saudi clubs will try to sign them as quick as possible. However, Saudi can't offer the competition as well as in Europe. There is no UCL and top leagues like in Europe countries.

Really bad situation Al-Ittihad played with 10 players from the 12th minute luckily they were able to equalize the score even though it was the only shot on target. For this season there is nothing we can expect from Al-Ittihad they were already more than 20 points behind so it was impossible to catch up. Basically, this season Al-Ittihad is playing without ambition/target because the Saudi Pro League only provides 2 tickets for the Asian Champions League and we can be sure that Al-Hilal and Al-Nassr have secured it. so Al-Ittihad just waits until this season ends and every future match has no impact this means we have to be more careful when placing bets on Al-Ittihad that would be more risky.

By the way in the next 3 days Al-Ittihad will face Al-Nassr I'm not sure this is an interesting match because Al-Ittihad is not in its best performance on the other hand, Al-Nassr continues to try to win every match to collect points from each match so we predict Al-Nassr will dominate the match. Today the Saudi Pro League also has one match Al-Wehda vs Al-Riyadh yeah this isn't an interesting match but Al-Wehda as the home team + a better position might be able to win easily, Al-Riyadh is one of the worst teams in the Saudi Pro League which is in the relegation zone.

When you say that, it proves that the SPL's buzz in the transfer market has been very successful and it has brought in new fans who in turn follow the SPL's progress. Cristiano Ronaldo seemed to open the door for other players to follow in his footsteps. I think they were clever in this regard, first they signed a player who has tremendous charm in football, then they approached other players who soon agreed to play in Arabia.
Oh yes about Cristiano Ronaldo, at the end of his career he can still play like he is young of course in terms of scoring goals. In fact he is now the current top scorer with 17 goals. At his age it's definitely not easy to maintain that sharpness and he's managed to do just that.

Al Ittihad-Jeddah were down to 10 players early in the must-win match. When Alolayan brought down the last man, he received a red card and the card was correct. The position looked like a penalty, but a free kick was awarded and Al Raed couldn't take advantage of it. Now Al Ittihad-Jeddah is in big trouble. They will have to play with 10 players for a very long time. If they can't get 3 points, Al Ittihad-Jeddah will be far behind in the championship race. Al Hilal Riyadh has already broken away from other teams, but their chances in the race to finish in the top 3 and go to the AFC Champions League will be greatly reduced.

One thing that keeps me being nervous about Mbappe destroying his career in the Saudi Professional League is the unpredictability of their sheikhs and their desire to flex their finance muscles. Under almost all circumstances I think we will see Mbappe play in  Europe next season and most likely for Real Madrid, but what is he going to do if this absolutely out of this world offer is presented to him by his management that would make him a multi billionaire? I am not 100% sure he would decline the offer then and I don't know who would at all. If there are suddenly 10 figures to be made, that would change a lot of minds.

Al-Ettifaq started the season pretty well then in their latest games their results were chaotic. Their presence in the 8th position is due to their victories in the beginning. I don't know what Al-Ettifaq objectives this season but Saudis don't tend to accept successive defeats and might sack him if bad results continue.

Cristiano Ronaldo refused to see Mitrovic tying with him and he got the lead again with 17 goals after he scored a penalty against Al-Ettifaq

Yeah i think the same as the guy above me, i dont know how in the hell Gerrard remains in charge, he is doing pretty bad in that team. And for worst he has a really good team in player terms, so i dont know what to think.

About Cristiano record in the year is amazing to still see him wanting to chase more and more.