Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 42. (Read 93856 times)

This is also thanks to the right strategy that the coach can implement, because we saw that when he was in the Manchester United uniform he also couldn't do much and in fact he was often on the bench and didn't get much trust from a coach. He is a great player if the coach can provide the right strategy, this is a collaboration between the coach and the players because usually the coach will also know what he has to do with his strategy so that his players can perform optimally, and Al Nassr can do that.

He maintains his fitness very well, this is also one of the factors why he can play this well. In his old age it is sometimes very difficult to maintain fitness, and he has managed to do it very well. This is thanks to the hard work he puts in during training, he is well aware that as an athlete he must be able to keep his body in excellent condition.

Al Nassr are lucky enough to have him in the club. Cristiano Ronaldo is a machine that doesn't generate fault and who believes at his age, he would be capable of hitting hattricks, stunning goals and crucial assists for his club? Ronaldo is one of the top goal scorers and his target is hitting the milestone of 1,000 goals. Firstly his chances of accomplishing it was slim but now it's getting clearer and more closer for the Portugal international.

Relegation strugglers Al Riyadh face Al Nassr, who are guaranteed to finish second in the league with two weeks to go. Al Riyadh have not lost in their last four matches but their last three have ended in draws. Al Riyadh's this matches hopes have been dashed and they have been underperforming in matches. But Al Riyadh have been performing well in recent weeks to stay in the league. Their level of fight in the matches is very high. Had they maintained this performance throughout the season, they wouldn't have had to struggle in the last weeks.

Al Nassr, on the other hand, have not lost a match for weeks. Al Riyadh can start fast and score in the first half despite the strength of their opponent, but I don't think they will lose this match as they aim to stay in the league. My prediction is that both teams will score or the home team will win.

Yes, this season, Al Ittihad will most likely not be able to rise again to 4th place. The reason is that currently Al Ittihad has a 4 point difference with Al Taawon who is in 4th place in the Saudi Arabian League. Even though the difference is not too big, if for example Al Taawon can win this week's match against Al Feiha, then Al Ittihad will no longer be able to catch Al Taawon in terms of points. Although in the remainder of this season Al Ittihad was able to wipe out all matches with a win. Apart from that, I don't think Al Ittihad will be able to wipe out all the remaining matches with a win. The reason is that in Al Ittihad's last match this season they will face Al Nasr which will most likely make it difficult for Al Ittihad to win the match.

So, if for example this prediction is correct, then Al Ittihad will certainly only finish in 5th place in the Saudi Arabian League. Apart from that, initially I personally thought that Al Ittihad would not experience a setback like now, because in the transfer market last season, Al Ittihad was able to bring in quite good players, such as Benzema. Then last season, Al Ittihad was able to become champions of the Saudi Arabian League. However, it turns out that Al Ittihad is much worse than last season. In essence, what I see is that the players and coaches at Al Ittihad don't have good chemistry. Because of the big example, we already know that Benzema always has problems with the Al Ittihad coach. And this is clear evidence that the chemistry between Al Ittihad players and their coach is not good. So for that reason, I am not surprised that Al Ittihad's performance is poor this season.

And maybe it's true, next season Al Ittihad must be able to fix all these problems, because if it continues like this, Al Ittihad will definitely continue to be left behind by its rival teams, Al Nasr and Al Hilal.

Yes, at his current age, he still looks good and can even compete with younger players, but he is still the best player among the other players at his age, but unfortunately his good performance was not able to bring Al Nassr to win the title in any competition and it is possible that he will only win individual title, even so, he will still be at Al Nassr for next season. Hopefully club can improve its performance even better especially that all the players are able to work together well so it is not only Ronaldo who has contributed the most to the Al Nassr club and has players their quality must be better than Al Hilal next season.

Seeing their performance in the last match Al Hilal still didn't want to lose to Al Nassr even though they were 1 goal behind until the full 90 minutes, but 10 minutes of extra time was able to save them from defeat because Mitrovic's penalty kick resulted in a goal so that Al Nassr and Al Hilal resulted in a draw. Al Nassr is still not able to beat Al Hilal in any competition if Al Nassr wants revenge next season Al Nassr must perform even better than this season and be able to beat Al Hilal I really hope Al Nassr can do it, because I saw Al Nassr's performance when they met Al Hilal is very sad.

I'm not sure if Ronaldo still performed with his best. But he surely still can play with a good performance so far. If he still plays in his best level, I am sure he will score more than 40 goals in SPL. Sure, scoring 33 goals at 39 years old is something impressive, but we can't deny that it is in Saudi league. So just don't compare with other strikers who play in European top leagues.

Yes, AL Nassr still can't win SPL trophy although Ronaldo scored more goals in this season. Al Nassr still has weak defense although they have great attackers. It is not enough to strengthen the attacking line only if Al Nassr wants to be more competitive. They must focus to build their defense, they must plan to buy top defenders. I really hope Al Nassr buy some good defenders from top European leagues in the next transfer windows. They need 3-4 defenders and 1-2 new midfielders.

Spending much money is no problem if it really builds a team to be stronger. But if it doesn't bring significant impact to the team, it is just wasting money. Al Nassr must be more selective to choose the next coach. They also don't focus on building the attacking only. They need to focus on building defense and midfield. Having many superstar players won't be a good idea if those won't cover the weakness of the whole squad.

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Anyway, if we look at the market value of the club, Al Nassr is still in the 3rd place.



Source: transfermarkt.com

Spending too much money is what the Saudis usually do at the end of the season to have better players and coaches for the next season and that is what Al Nassr is going to do for the next season but still, I think spending money fort the superstar players will not work every time and something the teamwork is more important.
For example, during this situation, Al Nassr had much better players and they had a good team but still, they couldn't have a better performance than Al Hilal because Al Hilal had much better teamwork than Al Nassr thanks to their coach.

Both players had a wonderful season. Mitrovic was lucky to be in the best team and if he didn’t score as many goals I would have said he is not a good striker but he pushed Ronaldo to the extreme at first and it was almost as if he would overtake Ronaldo but Ronaldo was experienced enough to keep going. I never expected Ronaldo to score 33 league goals at this age, some would say the league is a farmers league but I would disagree, Saudi league is now even more competitive than some leagues in Europe and with the quality of players they are signing they have now el

He just keep proving people wrong, after he was criticized at Manchester United he have now gone to win the highest goal scorer award in Saudi. He might not have the strength to dribble like his old days but he is quite capable of scoring goals and he doesn’t seem to be slowing down at the moment despite being this old.

Can anyone ever do what Ronaldo is doing at this age? I doubt it, being able to play actively and still out score young players is not something anyone can do at this age.

Defending champions Al Ittihad which is having worst season due to poor run and many off the field issues having no chance of ending their season into top four spots because they are having nothing improvement with last four games without win is clearly indicating how the worst things are going for them in this season, and they are having four points difference from the Al Taawon which is currently at the fourth spot with they can stay at this spot with having nothing Al ittihad is going to have last game against Al Nassr which will give them another setback and staying outside the top four but in coming season we can expect something improvement as now they are having few quality players into their radar which will give them better results and have a chance again for the top spots.

The schedule that I got for the King of Saudi Arabia cup Final match is June 1, 2024. You can see it in the picture I attached below.

(Sourch: https://www.flashscore.co.id/sepak-bola/arab-saudi/piala-raja-para-juara/jadwal-pertandingan/)

Al-Nassr will really prioritize winning this match. Because in the SPL there is no longer any hope left for Al-nassr this season. So the only hope for Al-nassr to be superior to Al-hilal is to win in the Saudi Arabian King's Cup Final. and actually Al-nassr also looks better now. Even in the last meeting against Al-hilal, we saw that Al-nassr managed to score first against Al-hilal. So Al-Nassr's hopes of winning the Saudi Arabian King's Cup final seem quite good. But Al-Hilal is still the most difficult team to face this season. In fact, they have never lost in the SPL.

Al Nassr is doing good but sadly their defense is not competitive to give them strength which needs to be fixed in coming season with things could be more interesting because now we are having Al Hilal at the new level of highs, and they will try to keep things at this level, but Al Nassr will be surely tried to give them challenging competition with Al Ahli is also able to have good success with their strong squad and quality with this all we are going to have few changes with Al Ittihad and Al Nassr surely will work.

Cristiano Ronald and Sadio Mané holding things in front but at the back side things are not good which are needed to be fixed for having better results in coming season and having some more challenging performance for the title.

Even though Al Nassr failed to compete in the SPL championship this season, of course they should be proud to have Ronaldo in their squad, even though Ronaldo can be said to be no longer at a young age, but he is still able to show his capacity as a striker who is hungry for goals wherever he plays, bringing Ronaldo into the squad certainly guarantees that Al Nassr can have a striker who is able to score lots of goals and of course be the difference in a match , but this of course does not guarantee that Al Nassr can win the SPL if their team has many weaknesses especially in their defense like this season, next season Ronaldo contract will end, although it is reported that Ronaldo will soon extend his contract with Al Nassr, but it is important for Al Nassr to have clarity on their targets and projects for next season in order to attract Ronaldo interest in staying at Al Nassr.

 I think players like Ronaldo, who will not be satisfied with just an individual title, of course have the motivation and desire to end the season by bringing their team as champions and if Al Nassr does not have the desire to improve the performance of their squad next season, and they will be motivated to win the title,of course, it doesn't rule out the possibility that Ronaldo will leave for another team that has a better winning mentality than Al Nassr.

Saudi Pro League is not complicated with things are now having good change, and they are wide opening which is good change for them in this season we are having good performance from the few top ranked players which were doing their best in UEFA now having chance to show their best here and bring some good number of fans here in grounds for the entertainment.

Al Hilal having well organized squad which helps them for having better results but no one expecting performance like this from them with having world record and winning many titles are dream end for them Al Nassr is competitive but not able to give their best in early games which hurt their cause for the title, and now they need to improve their quality for the next season which will give them better results and chance of having trophies.

Ronaldo is still performing at his best. Who would say that this player will score 33 goals at this age? He is a player who still does not compromise on his quality at this age. Moreover, his team could not become the champion in the league, but Ronaldo received the golden shoe again. Great times for Ronaldo. He is one of the four best players in the history of football and never before has a player scored so many goals at this age.

In terms of performances, Al Nassr did put out a very impressive performance this season but despite their incredible results, they weren't able to stop Al Hilal from dominating the Saudi Pro League and that's why I agree to the opinion that they'll surely be very active in the transfer market in their bid to get players that'll help them remain competitive in the Saudi league and other competitions come next season. They already have a world class striker in Cristiano Ronaldo who is scoring goals for fun despite his old age and I'm certain he's going to continue his prolific form in front of goal come next season so the club management will likely get players that'll help the team in the perceived weak positions at the club so they can be able to match any club they meet next season including Al Hilal

We still don't know the exact day when the Kings Cup finals will be played but I assume that they will care about that game a lot more. They know that is the only game they can win to mean something and finish the season with a cup, if they lose then they will not have any cups at all.

So, I assume that they are going to try their very best to make it work one way or another, I am not expecting them to have anything other than that. I know that we are not going to have anything marginal in that regard, we are going to see both teams be very well and play quite close to each other in level. I think Al Nassr knows that winning that cup means a lot more to them, and they will try their best to make it work one way or another.

I think this Summer will be seeing Al-Nassr doing some great signings especially as they would want to be chasing the league title. This will be the club’s min target next season as they have in mind that Ronaldo’s performance could decline a little next season. So they will want to get the best from him by at lest winning the league which will be him conquering all clubs he’s played for.

 He’s so crucial and have much to offer to the club, so I think the club having this in mind will do all to at least win the trophy. Age isn’t on his side anymore though he has good fitness and he has a very great lassion for football so there are speculations he could still be available next season. I think majorly what the club needs is to empower their defense and rebuild on it while doing great adjustments to the midfield, I think this wil be pretty enough to make them be able to contest for the league title.

Well I think the club has the finance so they will be able to fight for some great signings. I as a fan of Ronaldo will love to see him lift the league which will be a great addition for him and a great feat attained. He has a lot to offer and I think this should be the club’s driving factor to making some signings to help the club attain victory.

This week Al Ittihad is scheduled to face Damac in the SPL. I hope Al Ittihad is able to win this match, because in the last 5 matches Al Ittihad has not been able to win a single match. So if, for example, in this match Al Ittihad loses to Damac, of course that will be Al Ittihad's worst record this season. This season Al Ittihad's condition is indeed worrying, because many of its main players suffered injuries at the end of this season. What I know is that if I'm not mistaken, 14 Al Ittihad players are injured, and the majority of injured players are main players such as Benzema, Fabinho. Maybe that's why Al Ittihad's performance at the end of this season is getting worse.

However, in this match, even though Al Ittihad only played with minimal players, they should still be able to produce very good results (victory). Because if you look at the head to head record between Al Ittihad and Damac, the result is that Al Ittihad is superior with 2 wins, 2 draws and only experienced 1 defeat.

It's only for al hilal who would be getting beneficial from the draw against al nassr. Al hilal can still keep its unbeatable record until the end of season. Al nassr gets no beneficial caused by it was trying to break al hilal's invicible running this season but it's failed.

It's a shame for al nassr never able to beat al hilal this season. It likes all of efforts being made by bringing so many world class players like ronaldo and many were not paying off. I meant the club was always performing so poorly even though ronaldo was able becoming the top scorer but this is only applicable to him.

His club is still trophyless at this moment. Given that if al nassr must be overhauling its club once again in order to compete with al hilal. The competition is just getting even harder for the clubs.

Al hilal has perfect run this season. It may also continue for the upcoming season too. im hoping that hilal to have same run like this time. That's amazing if al hilal can be invicible in saudi pro league for two times in a row.

Yes, maybe that could happen because Al Nassr needs defenders to keep their defense stronger next season, for the attack line I don't think there will be any changes because currently Al Nassr has a very good front line and is almost the same as Al Hilal in terms of productivity their goals are even currently one of the Al Nassr players is the top scorer in the Saudi League so there is no doubt that Al Nassr's front line is part of it and they only need to spend money to recruit the players the coach needs, we don't know when Ronaldo's retirement will be for the season. In the future, Ronaldo will be 40 years old and that is the right age to retire, but if his performance is still good, why retire? he can further enrich himself before enjoying his hard work in old age.

I am sure that if Al Nassr has made changes next season they will compete fiercely in the hunt for the Saudi League title. Al Hilal will play competitively like this season but Al Nassr will take revenge this season which has been beaten many times by Al Hilal, to be honest I want to see Ronaldo won the title for the last time and he could only decide to retire with a feeling of pride.