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October 28, 2023, 08:44:27 AM
Trues, sometime money can bring good achievement during with Al Ittihad spent much money for signing Karim Benzema, Ngolo Kante and many top European teams but they can't make Al Ittihad consistent on the top position standings. I think Al Ittihad top European players such as Benzema and Kante need time for adapting well for making Al Ittihad back to the top standings position in domestic league.

Left many matches and half season still not over yet, Al Ittihad have enough time return to top standings place exactly with second window transfer will opening after second half season begin and with much money they have easy who will be next top European player signing to make Al Ittihad more compete for tittle race.
Al Ittihad has spent a lot of money including several other Arab clubs, this is not about European players but the reality is that the professional Saudi League is now increasingly fierce competition not only recruiting European players but must be precise on which players can adapt faster, I think this is still not sure Al Ittihad will continue to decline they still have a lot of leagues left and they are still chasing to continue to return to the top position.

After the second transfer window obviously it will be interesting, the article already has several Arab clubs eyeing European players maybe more will come to this league, but I don't know about Al Ittihad whether this club will return to recruit other top European players?
This league has now evolved from season to season will still always change to a tighter rotation.
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October 28, 2023, 08:34:22 AM
Sometimes even if you spend a huge amount of money, still you can't get the results you want to get because of some expected things. For example, Al Ittihad spent lots of money during the summer and they bought many expensive and top European players for this team. Benzema joined this team but he is one of the best players in the world but Al Ittihad was not lucky enough because Benzema was mostly injured during the time when he joined Alittihad and he could help the team as they were expecting from him.

Al Ittihad headcoach, Nuno Herlander Simões Espírito Santo ready to display good tactics for his team. They're in the competitive race for SPL trophy this season, all they're keen on achieving at the present moment is consistency in league games. Spending hugh sums on Karim Benzema but there's absolutely no positive results from the Frenchman. However there's time for Benzema to develop and he will stand in good position to elevate his balance form in his new team, supporters are forever ready to watch the pending outstanding form of Benzema.
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October 28, 2023, 08:33:04 AM
Slowly we can guess which team will be the champion of the Saudi Pro League this season, not only because of the 5 point advantage they currently have but also the factor in which they appear quite consistent when facing a fairly strong team like Al Ahli. Winning with a convincing score in a big match will make Al Hilal even more confident when facing other strong teams, at least they have already defeated two strong teams.
Al Hilal have actually proven how far they can go in the league this season, they have been excellent and their performance seems to improve as weeks goes by, they dominated the match against Al Ahli team that showed lack of maturity amongst themselves they didn’t play together as everyone wanted to display their individual talents. Mahrez disappointed me the most, he lost too many possessions casually and it affected the team badly. The match was interesting but Al Hilal showed us why they are top of the table they were as clinical as always even though they missed a couple of chances.
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October 28, 2023, 08:11:02 AM
Sometimes even if you spend a huge amount of money, still you can't get the results you want to get because of some expected things. For example, Al Ittihad spent lots of money during the summer and they bought many expensive and top European players for this team. Benzema joined this team but he is one of the best players in the world but Al Ittihad was not lucky enough because Benzema was mostly injured during the time when he joined Alittihad and he could help the team as they were expecting from him.

Trues, sometime money can bring good achievement during with Al Ittihad spent much money for signing Karim Benzema, Ngolo Kante and many top European teams but they can't make Al Ittihad consistent on the top position standings. I think Al Ittihad top European players such as Benzema and Kante need time for adapting well for making Al Ittihad back to the top standings position in domestic league.

Left many matches and half season still not over yet, Al Ittihad have enough time return to top standings place exactly with second window transfer will opening after second half season begin and with much money they have easy who will be next top European player signing to make Al Ittihad more compete for tittle race.
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October 28, 2023, 07:13:12 AM

Al-Hilal won the match against Al-Ahli Saudi 3-1. The team continues its dominance, and the best part is the goal coming in the very first minute of the match. Al-Ahli Saudi played really well, but they weren't able to level the goals. Saint-Maximin made a goal for Al-Ahli Saudi at the second half and an own goal from Ibañez left Al-Hilal take a big lead of 3-1. Though its a loss for Al-Ahli it stays on the fifth position. Another team at its best is the Al Fateh which had won 2-1 against Al-Raed and takes the second position on the points table. Really interesting as the positions keeps changing after every match.
The goal between the Al Hilal and Al Ahli was nearly two,So the Al Hilal had defend the game till the end and doesn’t allow the Al Ahli Saudi to score the balance two goals.The game of the Al Ahli was good,but the players of the Al Hilal was create the good defend game to prevent the two big goals today and create the easy win to the team Al Hilal.Al Ahli should improved their game to manage to keep their position in the first four which is most important for the semi finals.In the same day,the Al Fateh win the game against Al Raed was the expected one and reach the second position in the table.

Savic and mitrovic. These guys are world class players. Ahli has so many great players like mahrez or even mend but those guys are not enough in being equal to the al hilal. Al hilal has been starting the match with a goal in the first minute from savic.
This is why i have called him as underrated player as well as mitrovic. I think that al hilal has made a mistake by recruiting neymar. The club shall not have spent lots of money for unimportant player like him which was injury prone.
I think that al hilal could reallocate it into the something useful like bringing someone who have same quality like savic and mitrovic. These guys were destroying ahli.
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October 28, 2023, 06:46:37 AM
Until entering the 81st minute Kadesh brought back the advantage for Al-Ittihad, but their careless defense made Salemani managed to equalize six minutes later. The draw obtained by Al-Ittihad made them ranked fifth in the standings of five points adrift with Al-Hilal at the top of the standings.
If Al-Hilal won vs Al-Ahli today, they will start to get good advantage from the other teams. About 4-5 points depending from Al-Nassr result vs Al-Feiha tomorrow.
Al-Ittihad continue to miss points for the fourth match in row, totalling minus 9 points... That would make them first in the ranking.
Al-Taawoun missed also 2 points yesterday, so minus 4 points in the previous two matches.
Saudi teams are missing many points and if things could be more crazy then Al-Ahli have to take down Al-Hilal.
In fact, Al-ittihad's ranking is now dropping and currently Al-ittihad is ranked 6th. Because Al-Fateh looks like it will succeed in collecting 3 points in the match against Al-Raed which will soon end. Benzema Cs seems a little unlucky in recent weeks. The competition has become more difficult this season for them. Because Al-ettifaq also has the potential to get close to Al-ittihad's points tally if Al-ettifaq wins tomorrow's match against Al-wehda. This season it turns out that it is not only the clubs owned by PIF that are showing good performance after getting many top European players. But the other teams also showed quality that was no less great even though they didn't have many top European players. Everything has become more competitive and yes, this makes the Saudi Pro League less boring to follow.

Sometimes even if you spend a huge amount of money, still you can't get the results you want to get because of some expected things. For example, Al Ittihad spent lots of money during the summer and they bought many expensive and top European players for this team. Benzema joined this team but he is one of the best players in the world but Al Ittihad was not lucky enough because Benzema was mostly injured during the time when he joined Alittihad and he could help the team as they were expecting from him.
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October 28, 2023, 06:30:37 AM
This week is a very important week for Al Nassr, they will travel to Al Feiha headquarters and if they can win then they will be perched in second place in the SPL standings shifting Al Fateh and AL Taawon. Al Feiha is not a very strong club, but they also cannot be said to be a bad club.
Al Nassr will go down with their best composition and will target 3 points in this match. Their attackers are also in a very good state and are very productive in scoring goals. But they should not underestimate their opponent, because it could be the same thing as when they faced ABha repeated in this match.
Al-Nassr cannot underestimate Al-Feiha. Because if Al-Nassr underestimates Al-Feiha then I'm afraid Al-Nassr won't be able to get full points like when they fought Abha. But with the opportunity to move up to 2nd place, Al-Nassr definitely doesn't want to miss the opportunity to get full points in this match and occupy 2nd place in the standings.

And Al-Nassr cannot afford to lose in this match because Al-Hilal, who are currently at the top of the standings, have also managed to get full points again when they beat Al-Ahli in the previous match. Al-Nassr must not let the point difference slip away from Al-Hilal. Because if Al-Hilal continues to get full points then it will be very difficult for Al-Nassr to get close again.
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October 28, 2023, 06:27:07 AM
Al Hilal won convincingly, and now they are at the top with good difference of points as well now if Al Nassr won against Al Feiha then we have them first time at second spot in this season, but difference could be four points which is surely not easy to erase because Al Hilal is playing impressively and have eyes on title Al Ahli is suffering badly with this was their third defeat.

And now they are at the fifth spot and defending champions Al Ittihad is also going down which is surely big problem for them because they were at the top but now after losing 9 points things are completely different they are at sixth spot and their chances for top spots are going end because with this performance and confidence they could be faced more troubles in the future.
btw, Al Hilal performed well without Neymar and this is the pure strength of Al Hilal that without european star players this team is able to lead the SPL with very good points and for Al Nassr it is increasingly difficult to catch up with Al Hilal position at the top of this standings while competing fighting Al Feiha is not an easy task on the one hand Al Feiha has a very good defense even though Al Nassr still relies on Ronaldo and Mane but still Al Feiha knows that if they play against Al Nassr they have to use a defensive formation even though they can not score against Al Nassr, Al Feiha will try to end the match in a draw.
even so, Ronaldo, as a player who is highly valued at Al Nassr, will prove to the owner of this team that he can make a good enough contribution to try to catch up with the points left behind by Al Hilal and hopefully the match against Al Feiha can be a slightly easier match.
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October 28, 2023, 05:22:25 AM
This week is a very important week for Al Nassr, they will travel to Al Feiha headquarters and if they can win then they will be perched in second place in the SPL standings shifting Al Fateh and AL Taawon. Al Feiha is not a very strong club, but they also cannot be said to be a bad club.
Al Nassr will go down with their best composition and will target 3 points in this match. Their attackers are also in a very good state and are very productive in scoring goals. But they should not underestimate their opponent, because it could be the same thing as when they faced ABha repeated in this match.
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October 28, 2023, 05:00:23 AM
I think Al Hilal played much better than Al Ahli because they were already leading 2-0 and the score could have been even higher if Melinkovic-Savic could have forgotten the penalty, but he instead Marez and Saint-Maximen were able to get one goal back, but a gross error by Roger Ibanez and Mendy wiped out Al Ahli's efforts. Although by the composition of the teams with Malcom, Saint-Maximen, Marez, Melinkovic-Savic, Mehdi you would have thought you were watching an English Premier League match.
Al Hilal is very known as the strongest team in Saudi Pro League, so they must be get pressure to win the league. While Al Ahli's players are more relax and the European players are only play for fun, they're not playing as good as they were.

Slowly we can guess which team will be the champion of the Saudi Pro League this season
Yeah you're correct, the champion will be Al Nassr.
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October 28, 2023, 04:49:10 AM
Until entering the 81st minute Kadesh brought back the advantage for Al-Ittihad, but their careless defense made Salemani managed to equalize six minutes later. The draw obtained by Al-Ittihad made them ranked fifth in the standings of five points adrift with Al-Hilal at the top of the standings.
If Al-Hilal won vs Al-Ahli today, they will start to get good advantage from the other teams. About 4-5 points depending from Al-Nassr result vs Al-Feiha tomorrow.
Al-Ittihad continue to miss points for the fourth match in row, totalling minus 9 points... That would make them first in the ranking.
Al-Taawoun missed also 2 points yesterday, so minus 4 points in the previous two matches.
Saudi teams are missing many points and if things could be more crazy then Al-Ahli have to take down Al-Hilal.
Al Hilal won convincingly, and now they are at the top with good difference of points as well now if Al Nassr won against Al Feiha then we have them first time at second spot in this season, but difference could be four points which is surely not easy to erase because Al Hilal is playing impressively and have eyes on title Al Ahli is suffering badly with this was their third defeat.

And now they are at the fifth spot and defending champions Al Ittihad is also going down which is surely big problem for them because they were at the top but now after losing 9 points things are completely different they are at sixth spot and their chances for top spots are going end because with this performance and confidence they could be faced more troubles in the future.
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October 28, 2023, 04:29:31 AM

The match against Al Ahli was a very even match but the home team was more successful in maximizing opportunities and mistakes by Al Ahli player Roger Ibanez further confirmed the victory.
I think Al Hilal played much better than Al Ahli because they were already leading 2-0 and the score could have been even higher if Melinkovic-Savic could have forgotten the penalty, but he instead Marez and Saint-Maximen were able to get one goal back, but a gross error by Roger Ibanez and Mendy wiped out Al Ahli's efforts. Although by the composition of the teams with Malcom, Saint-Maximen, Marez, Melinkovic-Savic, Mehdi you would have thought you were watching an English Premier League match.
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October 28, 2023, 03:45:28 AM
It seems that with this point difference, the only team that has the opportunity to compete with Al-Hilal in the standings is Al-Nassr and they will start their match today.

Not only Al-Nassr, we also have Al-Taawoun and Al-Fateh there, if they continue to be consistent with good results, it's not impossible that one of the two teams will become champions in the SPL. Regarding Al-Nassr, they will play an away match today, and their opponents will be Al-Feiha even though in H2H Al-Nassr tends to be more dominant, in their last meeting, Al-Nassr was held to a draw by Al-Feiha. This will be an important match for Al-Nassr.
This will be quite a difficult match for Al-Nassr, if they can't use the opportunity well, it's possible that Al-Faiha will maximize their draw like their last match because they will be playing at home, of course they will try their best not to losess, this season Al-Feiha also received the most draws in the SPL.

This match is very important for Al-Nassr to be able to get 3 points and shift Al Fateh's position in the top 3, Al Nassr is trying hard this season to be able to win the SPL but looking at its opponents such as Al Taawon and Al Hilal it seems that Al Nassr will experienced some difficulties because both clubs are in good form, especially Al Hilal, who are unbeaten this season.
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October 28, 2023, 03:33:20 AM
Slowly we can guess which team will be the champion of the Saudi Pro League this season, not only because of the 5 point advantage they currently have but also the factor in which they appear quite consistent when facing a fairly strong team like Al Ahli. Winning with a convincing score in a big match will make Al Hilal even more confident when facing other strong teams, at least they have already defeated two strong teams.
Al Hilal was successful in making changes to its team with several new players it bought in the last transfer market, even though one of its stars was injured but there has been no visible decline.
The match against Al Ahli was a very even match but the home team was more successful in maximizing opportunities and mistakes by Al Ahli player Roger Ibanez further confirmed the victory.
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October 28, 2023, 03:26:15 AM
Unlike what we saw in Al Nassr when Ronaldo joined this team, I think Benzema was not a successful transfer for Al Ittihad and he was not performing well at all. In fact, he was mostly injured and even during the time when he was not injured, he needed some time to get in the good form. I think Al Ittihad with Abderrazak Hamdallah could have better performance if were investing in younger players instead of Karim Benzema.
Saudi Pro League is an entirely different league, there are many things these new European players ought to quickly get adopted to. It's totally new environment and not all players make good impression in their first appearance in their perspective new clubs. Karim Benzema is vulnerable to injuries. Al Ittihad signing him to do what actually? They should have been aware about the inconsistent form of the Frenchman in Santiago Bernabéu. He's available for today's game and unavailable when it's next game, that's how he plays and I'm already acquainted with his performance.
No doubt things are completely different here from the UEFA and Saudi League is also having no tempo like this which is another problem, but organizers invested huge funds for the improvement and things can take good changes in coming years because they are having long term strategy with this all they are also well aware about all players condition as well which is also important for them because they are not investing this without any profit.

Neymar Jr and Karim Benzema both are bench of injuries and things are surely not good right now but Saudi League organizers were looking for the better marketing exposure which allow more peoples to watch and having talk about them which is doing good because currently they are having good awareness about their league around the world, and they could be having good jump as well in coming years about their eligibility as well.
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October 28, 2023, 02:49:21 AM
Unlike what we saw in Al Nassr when Ronaldo joined this team, I think Benzema was not a successful transfer for Al Ittihad and he was not performing well at all. In fact, he was mostly injured and even during the time when he was not injured, he needed some time to get in the good form. I think Al Ittihad with Abderrazak Hamdallah could have better performance if were investing in younger players instead of Karim Benzema.
Saudi Pro League is an entirely different league, there are many things these new European players ought to quickly get adopted to. It's totally new environment and not all players make good impression in their first appearance in their perspective new clubs. Karim Benzema is vulnerable to injuries. Al Ittihad signing him to do what actually? They should have been aware about the inconsistent form of the Frenchman in Santiago Bernabéu. He's available for today's game and unavailable when it's next game, that's how he plays and I'm already acquainted with his performance.
Since he was at Real Madrid, Benzema has suffered quite a lot of injuries which have made him often absent while defending Real Madrid. And now Benzema has also been injured quite often while with Al-Ittihad and I don't think that should surprise us. And Al-Ittihad is ready for all of that. The aim of PIF in providing large funds to the clubs they own is to attract the attention of the football world so that they pay more attention to Arab football. And also to improve the quality of matches in the Saudi Pro League. And yes, now we can see clearly that the quality of all Arab clubs has really changed this season. Everything becomes more competitive and becomes stronger.

Talking about injuries, I think Al-Nassr is very lucky to be able to bring in Cristiano Ronaldo. Because this player really knows how to avoid injury and really knows how to maintain stamina in the match. His skills are also better than the young players. So it is not surprising that some players call Cristiano Ronaldo a monster in football. Age doesn't seem to stop him.
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October 28, 2023, 02:29:11 AM
It seems that with this point difference, the only team that has the opportunity to compete with Al-Hilal in the standings is Al-Nassr and they will start their match today.

Not only Al-Nassr, we also have Al-Taawoun and Al-Fateh there, if they continue to be consistent with good results, it's not impossible that one of the two teams will become champions in the SPL. Regarding Al-Nassr, they will play an away match today, and their opponents will be Al-Feiha. Even though in H2H Al-Nassr tends to be more dominant, in their last meeting, Al-Nassr was held to a draw by Al-Feiha. This will be an important match for Al-Nassr.
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October 28, 2023, 02:20:39 AM
I understand the hype surrounding Al-Fateh's streak, I must say. Four straight triumphs? That is noteworthy! I agree with you, though, that Al-Nassr's next match could alter the situation. Seeing these teams so close in points makes for some nerve-wracking moments. However, football is all the more exciting because of how unpredictable it is. Al-Nassr has my support as well, and I hope they don't disappoint

I have also been monitoring Al-Fateh and Al-Taawoun. Who would have guessed? They don't have any big European stars, yet they're nonetheless competitive against elite teams. We will undoubtedly have a better picture by midseason. But what if they decide to remain up there? What a fantastic underdog tale that would be

So that's what we're waiting for, waiting to see how they are in the middle of the season. I checked Al-Fateh's match history I was surprised that they ever beat AL-Ahli 5-1 in early September and next month Al-Fateh will fight Al-Hilal we know Al-Hilal is currently at the top of the standings with an unbeaten record obviously this will be a challenge for Al-Fateh even though they are very strong when playing at home but it's still not easy to beat Al-Hilal. Another thing that I noted regarding Al-Fateh is they are the 2nd most productive team in scoring goals in 11 matches they scored 28 goals, the same as Al-Nassr and they have 2 players in the top 5 scorers Mourad Batna 7 goals and Cristian Tello 6 golas.
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October 28, 2023, 01:56:35 AM
Al Hilal - Al Ahli match started very quickly, there was a great atmosphere and a bit foggy weather, the fans were very good, so was the game. In the first goal, Milinković-Savić scored a very early goal in the fog in the developing attack. There were missed penalties in the match, he had a dangerous free-kick shot, it was very close and exploded on the crossbar, it was an unlucky moment for Malcom.

Mahrez scored a goal in his usual style, but it was not enough. Al Ahli Mahrez created many dangerous moments in the ongoing period, however. Al-Hilal is very strong both as a team and as a game.

I saw this match like seeing 2 clubs from the major European leagues competing, both teams have a composition of top European players. Al-Hilal has Bono, Koulibaly, Ruben Neves, Milinkovic-Savic, Malcom and Mitrovic, while on the other hand Al-Ahli has Franck Kessie, Riyad Mahrez, Saint-Maximin and Roberto Firmino.

Al-Hilal is still too strong for Al-Ahli, the match result 3 - 1 is the ideal result in my opinion (in line with people's expectations). With this result, Al-Hilal is increasingly firmly in first place in the SPL standings with 29 points, 5 points above Al-Taawoun.
Yes, because the quality of these two teams is almost equal and it could be said that even if they were both in one of Europe's top leagues they would also compete competitively. The Al-Hilal vs Al-Ahli match makes us feel like we are watching a big match in Europe and the influence of both on football fans is also quite pronounced considering that there are so many names of stars there. The final result of 3-1 actually did not fall within my expectations and previously I hoped that Al-Ahli could beat Al-Hilal at home.

But it seems that this is not enough for them to do and the difference of two goals in this match is enough to prove that Al-Hilal is better than Al-Ahli. It seems that with this point difference, the only team that has the opportunity to compete with Al-Hilal in the standings is Al-Nassr and they will start their match today.
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October 28, 2023, 12:15:21 AM
Al Hilal - Al Ahli match started very quickly, there was a great atmosphere and a bit foggy weather, the fans were very good, so was the game. In the first goal, Milinković-Savić scored a very early goal in the fog in the developing attack. There were missed penalties in the match, he had a dangerous free-kick shot, it was very close and exploded on the crossbar, it was an unlucky moment for Malcom.

Mahrez scored a goal in his usual style, but it was not enough. Al Ahli Mahrez created many dangerous moments in the ongoing period, however. Al-Hilal is very strong both as a team and as a game.

I saw this match like seeing 2 clubs from the major European leagues competing, both teams have a composition of top European players. Al-Hilal has Bono, Koulibaly, Ruben Neves, Milinkovic-Savic, Malcom and Mitrovic, while on the other hand Al-Ahli has Franck Kessie, Riyad Mahrez, Saint-Maximin and Roberto Firmino.

Al-Hilal is still too strong for Al-Ahli, the match result 3 - 1 is the ideal result in my opinion (in line with people's expectations). With this result, Al-Hilal is increasingly firmly in first place in the SPL standings with 29 points, 5 points above Al-Taawoun.
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