Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 410. (Read 112533 times)

Al-Nassr played today in the Asian Champions League, there is no doubt that they will definitely be the favorites to win because they play at home and have a better squad, Al-Nassr has recorded 2 wins and today they will complete it with their 3rd win or become group winner. This season the teams from the Saudi Pro League dominate in almost all groups Al-Ittihad, Al-Hilal and Al-Nassr became the leaders of the group I can't imagine if 2 of these clubs managed to go to the final By the way Al-Nassr managed to score the first goal in the 23 minute through Talisca and this is the 4th goal in the Asian Champions League, I have bet on Al-Nassr -3/4 in the first half but I need one more goal for full win.

In the last 4 matches that Al-Ahli played in two different competitions, they did not experience defeat. especially when they won their match when they visited Al Ittihad headquarters. Of course, it will provide great motivation when Al-Ahli visits Al Hilal's headquarters. With the capital they have, Matthias Jaissie certainly hopes that his team will be able to provide resistance when they meet Al Hilal in this week's match.
Unfortunately, Al Hilal is a team that is difficult for them to beat. Remember, Jorge Jesus' squad is one of the strongest teams in this competition. Plus, Al Hilal's performance is on a positive track. It is not an easy job for Al-Ahli to win full points at this week's meeting.

On the other hand, Al Hilal has just played their match in the AFC Champions League by achieving a big 6-0 win. Jorge Jesus' squad seems to be in quite impressive form. This week, Al Hilal will host Al-Ahli as challengers in the race for the full three points. What is certain is that as the home team and also the top team in this competition, Al Hilal will not let Al-Ahli treat them like when Matthias Jaissie's squad overthrew Al Ittihad. Moreover, referring to betting odds, Al Hilal is more favored than the home team. So, so that their position is safe on the standings, Al Hilal will not let Al-Ahli get any points in this week's meeting.

In the LCA, Al Hilal succeeded in securing full points and even by a big score 6-0. It seems like they are still fine, and I think in the match against Al Ahli it is still difficult to predict which team will win in that match, although there are many bettors who favor Al Ahli. But at the moment I doubt it, maybe there is still a possibility that Al Hilal can continue they winning streak, in terms of quality the both teams are equal.
Although Al Ahli will play at home, but it is still not a guarantee they can secure full points, considering that the performance of the Al Hilal team is also not bad.

That's so true. I don't really care anymore whether hilal will play with or without neymar. The club has been playing so well even when neymar has not yet come to the al hilal. There's no reason to call him as a good player since al hilal was able going at the top without him. Neymar's impact was pretty small to the club. To be honest if al hilal was only wasting so much money for nothing. Paying player that have proven to be injury prone with a non sense salary like this is unbelivable thing right now.

Mitrovic deserves more salary as he was solo carrying the club in any game. Im feeling so amazing about how mitrovic was always able in scoring as many goals as possible in helping hilal to win the game.
It makes sense not to care toward neymar anymore. He was only burden to the club and nothing more.
The decision to recruit him was totally a very bad decision.

@bitgolden I agree that it’s too early to say who’ll win the league because it’ll take some more game’s to determine who’ll inch closer but Al Nassr will definitely regret dropping those early points. However as a Ronaldo fan I’ll be very delighted if he can win a league title in a different league because I doubt that he’ll now be able to go and play in a different league once his Saudi league stint ends.

The league situation can't be known just now, there are still so many games to be played and I believe that we are going to end up with a result that could be a little different from what we have right now. Al-Nassr has been great lately as well, and surely Al Ahli too, and Hilal too, like there are so many good teams at this moment and we just need to wait and see who will lose points first.

We could have these teams not lose to anyone but each other all season long and it wouldn't be that weird. I keep telling people, there are like 5 good Saudi teams and the rest are not that great, and if you look at the very bottom, those teams are doing terrible without a doubt. Ronaldo is a great difference maker but he is not the only reason neither, Nassr got some other decent players as well and they are building a club that could deserve to get to European UCL one day, and the talks have started but I do not think that could happen anytime soon just yet.

We can say after first ten matches Al Hilal is dominating side in Saudi Professional League with their performance and consistency, but Al Nassr is also doing impressive even after losing first two matches now they are having good consistency which is helping them for staying at third spot and things can take change because we still have 24 matches remaining in this season which mean many ups and downs are possible but Al Hilal is surely having complete package for the title race, and they are not allowing their opponents to have anything positive from them.

Al Nassr shocking draw and Al Ittihad poor performance giving them good advantage, but it's too early for having correct prediction even most chances things could be in better control of the Al Hilal with Al Nassr and Al Ahli could be give their best as well for having good competition until end of this season.

The only good thing al hilal got compensation but that's not enough to cover all of losses faced by al hilal. al hilal deserves more compensation from FIFA due to the injury happened to the neymar. Neymar itself was also injury prone.
Any match is able making him to get injury. The main proble if neymar is now facing serious injury which can also make him to absent from playing in al hilal for almost a year. Al hilal is lose a lot of things due to the regular injury faced by neymar.
The club lose the demand to watch neymar to play in the club.

Al hilal never wants that to happen but due to the FIFA calender and this forces neymar to play when his condition was not as good as what he used to be. Al hilal has become the loser in this case.
Neymar is out for so many months and the club got only a small compensation from FIFA which is unfair. Al hilal shall get more and FIFA shall have paid neymar's salary when he was injured.

That's the win win solution for fifa and al hilal.

Don't forget if Mitrovic is solo carrying Al Hilal, that's make them become favorite almost in every match. Even though Neymar is injured, but he will not change anything to Al Hilal because Mitrovic is still not injured.

Al Ahli do have many European players, but it's still not enough to beat Al Hilal. Al Ahli need to sign eleven European players in order to become a champion.

Al-Hilal is a strong rival who dominates the championship title in the Saudi pro league so it is only natural that Al Hilal is favored by many bookies in the next match, but there are always surprises in football so we cannot be sure whether Al Hilal can beat Al Ahli in this match because Al-Ahli has performed well this season and is currently in 4th place in the points table with 22 points.
It should be remembered that Al Ahli has just beaten Ittihad and it is likely that Al Ahli will be more confident in facing various matches in the Saudi pro league.

If Al Ahli can't win the match, it's possible that Al Ahli will maximize their draw because judging from the H2H records of their last 5 meetings, Al Hilal got 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss, so it's certain that Al Ahli still has a chance holding to a draw rather than accept defeat from Al Hilal.

It looks like the joy of Al-Ahli's victory will have to end sooner and maybe in this week's match against Al-Hilal they will experience difficulties again. I also agree that if Al-Hilal were the favorites in this match, especially at home, they would be much stronger. Maybe in terms of squad depth, these two teams are not much different, but of course there will be prestige that they will bet on in order to get maximum results.

Al-Hilal is currently at the top of the standings and with the addition of 3 points it will be even more difficult for them to be chased by other teams such as Al-Taouwon or Al-Nassr. But if Al-Hilal loses, it will be easier for the team I mentioned to catch them and Al-Ahli will also have the same opportunity.

That's the problem. Fans can call him a magician or a football god, but all of that helps nothing when the player is never healthy for an extended period of time. Any of the superstars that have written history had at least one very extended period of time when they were able to consistently and sustainably perform on their highest level possible. I think Neymar had that once in Barcelona maybe? In 4 years there he played 123 games, which is by far not 100% of the games, but it's around 30 games on average including Copa del Rey and all the other competitions. This makes it hard to earn awards like the Ballon d'or.

Al Hilal signing a player that's vulnerable to injury and expects him to be present for league games, it turns out that the Brazilian having difficulties to be consistent available for games. He vanished when his team needs him, he did that occasionally in PSG, in Brazil also and now he's in SPL and having no change of pattern. However I think Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior is pretty hurt and wouldn't be available for a lengthy period of time. On the records, Al Hilal can do better without him, they have been doing so and this is probably not the time they will relent in performance.

If we talk about the club that has won the most titles in the SPL in the last 10 seasons then of course Al-Hilal will be at the top. Al-hilal even won 5 championship titles in the last 10 seasons in the SPL. So, no one will definitely be afraid if Al-Hilal dominates again in the SPL this season. Other clubs that have also won the championship in the last 10 seasons are Al-ittihad, Al-nassr and Al-Ahli. So I think this season the championship title will be in the hands of these 4 clubs.

Honestly I have hope for Al-Nassr this season. But it looks like it won't be easy. Because so far the SPL has become more competitive than usual. But Al-Nassr's performance has become much better now even though they started the season badly.

You are right that Al-Hilal is just returning the glory they are used to in the Saudi pro League. Because Al-Hilal is one of the teams that has won the most titles in the Saudi Pro League. Last season they failed. So it is not surprising that this season they are fighting harder to win the title.

But yes, Al-ittihad and Al-Nassr will definitely try to stop Al-Hilal. And Al-Ahli also has the potential to stop Al-Hilal. But what I really regret at the moment is Al-Ettifaq, who seems to be experiencing difficulties for several weeks. Even though initially I thought that Al-Nassr, Al-ittihad, Al-hilal, Al-Ahli and Al-ettifaq would continue to dominate in ranks 1-5. But now Al-Taawoun is actually making a surprise by competing in the top 4 rankings. Even Al-Taawoun is still able to stay in 2nd place at the moment. This season doesn't look like it will be boring. Because the competition is getting fiercer than the previous season.

That is true that Neymar can do a whole lot of things when he is on the pitch and his fitness is good, but didn't Al-Hilal play well already without him? I am not sure when exactly he joined the team, but wasn't that when some games have been played?

It doesn't really matter because the bottom line is that Al-Hilal should have known before they signed him that it is extremely unlikely that he will play a whole season without injuries. I mean when he arrived he was still recovering from a surgery on his ankle, and it wasn't a light surgery, it was serious. That's why it was astonishing how much money they were still willing to pay for him.

He was threatened but was not removed as the main player because Talisca was also an important player for Al Nassr.
Luis Castro is an experienced coach so it is impossible for him to use Talisca as a reserve and with Luis Castro experience in managing positions and strategies he can develop the line-up as it is now.
Mane is quite important for Al Nassr but the ones who really stand out are Ronaldo and Talisca.
These two players may be one of the SPL top scorers this season.

Many football observers say that Al Nassr is able to catch up and become the top by overthrowing Al Hilal.
And regarding Al Hilal in fact without Neymar from the start they have been strong enough team if only to dominate the SPL and now they will experience quite significant loss with Neymar injury.

Being unbeatable is a good achievement but they are a most successful club in Saudi Arabia so their performance in this season is not a surprise with me. They just reclaim what they used to do in many seasons.

Neymar was bought with expensive fee and received high salary from Al Hilal but his contribution for them is very limited. With his serious injury in an international match for Brazil, this season nearly ended for Neymar. Without Neymar, Al Hilal will have less creative passes for their attacking but they have enough good players to cover the absence of Neymar in coming months.

Saudi Professional League so far is very interesting and there are six clubs are competing for the title. When the season goes longer, there will be more differences on the table but Al Hilal will be challenged by some big clubs that actually want to win the league too. Al Nassr and Al Ittihad will not let Al Hilal take the title too easily.

Al-Hilal really surprised everyone this season. Because this is the only team that hasn't lost this season. Even before Neymar's arrival we could see that Al-Hilal was very strong. And now Neymar is injured. So I think Al-Hilal will still be as strong as before Neymar's arrival at the Club.

But next week Al-Hilal will really be tested with a quite difficult match because they will face Al-Ahli. I think this match will really be very fierce. Because Al-Ahli can still show their consistency this season. It is even possible that in this match Al-hilal will experience their first defeat. But if you look at the squad, both of them look balanced. So I can't predict who will be the favorite. But if Al-Hilal wins. So I think Al-hilal will really be difficult to stop this season.

Im gonna mark one thing of this, and is Jorge Jesus, Al Hilal is the only team who ahve a really very good manager , the other teams has mediocre or non so good managers, so i can see this as a real good handicap in favour of Al Hilal in the long run.