Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 413. (Read 130367 times)

I think in the next few weeks bettors will avoid betting on Al-Ahli matches because they show inconsistent performance and they definitely don't want to lose money continuously. They will monitor Al-Ahli's developments first before entering back into betting and at least that reduces the risks as before.

It is clear that football fans are not happy with Al-Ahli's performance even though they have the same strong squad depth as the Al-Hilal, Al-Nassr and Al-Ittihad teams but cannot win matches against weak teams. I think bettors will not bet on Al-Raed even if they can hold the Al-Ahli series and in fact it will make them lose money back when betting on weak teams in this league. It is better to bet on a strong team with clear consistency such as Al-Hilal or Al-Nassr.

In terms of ball possession, Al-Nasr dominated the team with 64 percent while Al-Hilal had 36 percent. Al-Nassr accuracy on target short did not much better while Al-Hilal did well. Al Nasl had only 7 fouls while Al-Hilal had 20. Al Nasr did well in this respect. Al Nasr got only 3 shorts on target while Al-Hilal got double 6. As there is a difference here, a big difference has been noticed in terms of goals. Al-Nassr should have done better if they lost the match by 2-3 goals the fans could have been a little bit more satisfied. Al-Hilal has been consistently performing. The point difference with their nearest rival is 7 which is much higher.

In the match against Al-Feiha we could see that Al-Taawoun had returned to their performance like at the start of the season. And it's good for them that they can beat Al-Feiha with a pretty good score. But I'm not sure Al-Taawoun will get good results in the next match when they face Al-Ettifaq. Because the team coached by Stevan Gerrard really cannot be underestimated. I will even favor Al-Ettifaq in the next match.

Currently when I see Al-Hilal in the SPL it reminds me of Napoli in Serie A last season who were also unbeaten since the start of the season. But I think it's a little boring. And I'm curious which team can ultimately beat Al-Hilal for the first time in the SPL this season.

Loved the game but if Al-Nassr could do a little bit better I could have seen something better. Al-Nassr team may not have expected Al-Nassr team to perform so badly. But those who bet against Al-Nassr team won the bet.  Al-Hilal team performed very well for which they won the match very easily.Al-Hilal team's goalkeeper has been able to go so far to perform very well.

Cristiano Ronaldo struggled a bit last year... but he has been terrific so far in this season. BTW, the three remaining matches are all against very tough teams. Ronaldo maybe able to score, but it is going to be tough. Al Ittihad is another team that is owned by the Public Investment Fund (PIF) and has terrific defenders such as Luiz Felipe in their squad. Al Ettifaq and Al Taawoun are not owned by PIF, but they are very strong teams. Al Taawoun is currently at the 4th place in points table. They also have good players such as Mailson and Mohammed Al-Ghamdi.

Nassr needs to do something but since the transfer season will be starting to open next month and it can still try to use available player at this time. Im not expecting a lot from al nassr but seeing it able to win the game was more than enough.
FYI, al nassr was winning in the match against al shabab. That proves that if the defensive line of al nassr was not in the bad situation. Al nassr can wait till the transfer season will be opening again. it will help nassr to strengthen its club.

I hope that everything goes well for al nassr. It's caused by al hilal was very strong. Al nassr needs to make sure it will able to build better defensive line.
Al nassr was always conceding goals against its opponent. The defensive line is also become the main concern that needs to be solved.

Al nassr may needs to buy a good defenders from european leagues. It will help al nassr to strengthen its club.

It is an impressive stats from a 39-years old player and many players were not able to play after their 35-years old and if they could, their performances drop a lot. Cristiano Ronaldo is an outstanding player who continues to break records and even Saudi Professional League can not compare to Premier League or La Liga, what he has been achieving in this 2023 year is amazing.

Scoring 10 more goals with only three matches in this year seems to be difficult for him but he does not need 60 goals to be recognized. Those three matches are tough ones for him and Al Nassr too so I am realistic that it is impossible task for Cristiano.

I only wait for the match between Al Ittihad and Al Nassr and expect an interesting fight between Cristiano and Benzema, both are ex-players of Real Madrid.

What the amazing from Cristiano Ronaldo, although he age over 39 years old finally Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 50th goals in 2023 after one additional goal last match against Al-Sahabab on King Cup Championship  and Al Nassr won over 2-5. Its amazing achievement for Cristiano Ronaldo due he was over 38 years old but keep on the top level and success raised more than 50 goals in one season. Actually has opportunity for Cristiano Ronaldo make over his 50th goals in one year with three matches left before 2023 over, Al-Nassr have three matches left later and I sure Cristiano Ronaldo won't stop his goals achievement in one season on 50 goals but potential for him close until 60 goals in one season.

Three matches left before end this year and potential for Cristiano Ronaldo score more goals again

• Al-Nassr vs Al-Ettifaq
• Al-Ittihad vs Al-Nassr
• Al-Taawoun vs Al-Nassr

in the king's cup of Saudi Arabia al hilal managed to win the match with a score of 3-0 against Al-taawon and al nassr also not left behind in the cup of king of saudi arabia won the match with a score of 2-5 against al shabab yes al nassr and al hilal are a great team and indeed a team that deserves to occupy the standings in first and second place. and in the Saudi Arabian king's cup it is very suitable for al nassr and al hilal to advance to the next phase. Yes, against Al Ettifaq of course Al Taawon must really be able to win, so as not to drop in ranking, but in my opinion, Al Taawon will definitely not let other teams shifttheirposition

Yes, of course Al Nassr in the next match against Al-Taawon will definitely give their best performance and I think Al-Nassr will win against Al-Taawon. and I remember when Al-Nassr lost against Al-Tawon with a score of 2-0 and if in the next match Al-Tawon wins against Al-Nassr, I think Al-Nassr's chance of becoming champion this season will fail.

But you can raise the competitive level with money and make the league more attractive for people to watch it. I think what you can't achieve within a decade is to copy the Premier League. There is more to that than just good players and if it was that easy, Saudi Arabia would simply keep pumping money into the Saudi Professional League hoping to build another top level league, but that is probably not sustainable. A lot is possible if there is unlimited money, but I doubt that a sustainable number of world class players would want to spend the majority of their career in Saudi Arabia. The money has been like a magnet for some of them and it is hard to say no to some of these contracts like Benzema or Ronaldo signed them, but Messi was the first popular player who decided against the SPL and went elsewhere, probably for reasons that are concerning his quality of life.

Ahli is not that strong right now. The club has more european stars even compared to the al hilal but they were still far away from being called as a good club. This is why al hilal was dominating everything as they have no good chemistry at this moment unlike al hilal.
The only main problems if they were not playing like they were a club. This also becomes the main problem that needs to be fixed by ahli as soon as possible. It will be a disaster if al ahli is going to be another ittihad.
Having lots of europpean players didn't give a guarantee if the club can win everything. Look at al hilal, the main thing was chemistry. If the players didn't have chemistry and it doesn't even matter how expensive your squad is and that will still useless.


Raed was not a strong club and winning the game of it was a must for al ahli. It would be a shame if the club was unable to have good scores against al raed. Look at the differences in the shoots between al raed and al ahli.
Al ahli was dominating. Everything against raed but the result is very bad. It was getting only 4 shots on target. That means the rest of shoots are very wasteful shoots by al ahli.

Where the hell the qualify if european players owned by al ahli?

Of course, if Al Nassr wins against Al Hilal, it will be positive news for Al Nassr, but now Al Nassr must be able to admit that Al Hilal is a strong team. but I saw that Al Hilal's performance seemed to be experiencing a slight decline when facing Al-Ta'ee because it only produced a score of 1-2 for Al Hilal's victory. but when facing al-taawon yesterday in the Saudi Arabian king's cup I saw that al hilal's strength had recovered and its performance was good again because it resulted in a 3-0 win against al-taawon through goals from Michael, A.mitrovic, Malcom.

but I see that Al-nassr is a worthy rival for Al-hilal because he also in the closest match that has been played, such as against Al Shabab won the match with a score of 5-2 and Cristiano Ronaldo of course scored a goal in that match. Yes, but indeed Al Hilal is very strong and the strength on the front and back lines is very balanced so it will definitely be a tough opponent for Al Nassr.

Al Taawon just lost in the King's Cup to Al Hilal with a score of 3-0. in this match, Jorge Jesus played his main players and only Neves started the match from the bench. In this match, Al Taawon really had difficulty keeping up with a team that was on fire.  From a technical perspective, Al Hilal was much better and dominated the match. Based on the opportunities these two teams have, Al Hilal has a lot of opportunities. 3 goals were scored against Al Taawon by Michael, Mitrovic and Malcom. according to my estimation in the previous post, Al Taawon will be eliminated in the Quarterfinal match.
Likewise with Al Nassr, who won their match by overthrowing Al Shabab with a landslide score. So, these two teams qualified for the next phase of the King's Cup competition.

As for Al Taawon in the Saudi Pro League, this team is in 4th place in the standings and has the same 31 points as Al-Ahli. However, it seems that Al Taawon will have difficulty shifting the ranking position above them. In fact, it has the potential to be replaced by Al Ittihad if Al Taawon loses to Al Ettifaq in the match next week. The reason is, Steven Gerrard's troops will not waste their home match to achieve victory after playing 5 matches without winning. apart from that, a week later, Al Taawon will host Al Nassr. where, Al Nassr will not repeat its defeat like in the first meeting.

There are a lot of risks with this much money spending, if you keep on spending a lot of money for all teams, then eventually some of them will not be all that great. You can't have a league filled with winners, mathematically some of them needs to be worse than the others, and while Al Hilal looks great, teams like Al Ahli or Ittihad do not look like they are all that great.

We need to realize something that would be logical, it should be a benefit that would help everyone and should be something that could get to a point where it could be profitable. I understand life is not all that easy, we need to approach things like it is going to be something that should be like it is normal for some teams to underachieve even though they spent a lot of money.

Saudi King's Cup

Al shabab 1 - 1 Al Nassr

I'm following this game, Al Nassr is playing with all its best players, so far they have more possession of the ball, Talisca is not playing and is not on the list of players who were called up, but although he is a very important player for the team, I think that even without him Al Nassr would be able to come out of this game with victory, they are playing against a team that in the last 4 games they have not been able to beat in any game, while Al Nassr has done very well in the last games, After the defeat they had in the game against the league leader, they didn't let themselves get depressed, they continued to be in good emotional health and are playing well.

As of writing this post, the game is still in the 1st half and Al Nassr has already scored 1 goal and was winning the game, but the opponent scored a goal and the game is tied, but in my opinion they will be able to get out of this game with victory, the question here will be how many goals will they be able to score, how many goals will Ronaldo be able to score and how many goals will they concede. If they lose in this game against this weak opponent, then Al Nassr fans will be making nasty jokes in the stadium again, because it has been like this every time Al Nassr loses.

Had Al Nassr defeated Al Hilal in their Saudi Pro League game that was played last two weeks, they would've narrowed the points difference at the top of the to just one point but after the Saudi champions defeated Al Nassr, they extended their lead at the top of the table to seven points and that is the main reason why a lot people thinks that catching up again with Al Hilal will be very difficult for Al Nassr. The Al Hilal team has been the most consistent team in the Saudi League this season and are yet to concede a defeat in the league but I still think Al Nassr have a chance to catch up with them if they are determined enough to do so.

Al Nassr's Cristiano Ronaldo is the leading scorer in the Saudi league this season and has been very instrumental to the team's impressive performance since the start of the season so if he continues to average the same number of goals he already has this season, I'm very optimistic that Al Nassr can still win the league title at the end of the season

By the way, Al-Taawoun faced Al-Hilal today in the Quarter-final of King Cup of Champions and they lost badly by three goals to 0.
Al-Hilal are just unstoppable whether in Saudi Pro League, AFC Champions League or King Cup of Champions. There is Al-Nassr and Al-Ittihad that will have matches later.
Al-Nassr will face Al-Shabab today and are expected to win since their opponents aren't doing well with successive negative results in Saudi Pro League.
Al-Ittihad will have a match in the upcoming week vs Al-Faisaly in Division 1 and should win too. They haven't a match today since they will play tomorrow vs Auckland City in Club World Cup.

The match Al Hilal vs Al Nassr was a tough match in the first half. But it won't be a tough match anymore when the match reached the minute 90'. Al Hilal scored 2 goals in minute 90' and 90+2'. It showed that Al Nassr players feel frustrated because they couldn't equalize the score. So, they have no more motivation when the match was almost over. It was the chance for Al Hilal to destroy Al Nassr with more goals.

Most people expected Al Nassr to win the match, so the competition for the title will be more interesting. Since Al Nassr failed to win, the point gap is bigger now. Everyone started to think that Al Nassr seems to have a small chance to overtake Al Hilal in the top of SPL table.

Al-Ahli's squad is quite strong. Al-Ahli have several star players in their squad like RIyad Mahrez, Firmino and Kessie. But still the performance of this team is not satisfactory. They have fallen behind in the title race. And now the team has no chance of winning the title. Al-Ahliklub is 13 points behind Al Hilal at the top of the table.

But against Al Raed I thought I would see Al-Ahli win. But even after dominating the match, Al-Ahli players could not score a single goal. Al raed played poorly defensively. In 90 minutes they made only 2 shots while Al-Ahli players made 22 shots. Al-Ahli Jeddah failed to win despite performing well.

Al tawwoun making a come back, seems like they have a good run right now, i dont think this can last so much, but good for them.

I was seeing the Al Hilal stats and man, what a numbers they have, asides of the 0 defeats, they only allowed 3 goals in eight home games, truly amazing defensive performance.