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Al Nassr needs to score in their 3-6 matches consistently to catch up with Al Hilal whereas Al Hilal will need to equally lose in some of their subsequent matches to allow Al Nassr pass them by which is pretty much difficult to do. Al Nassr has missed that opportunity to have lost in their two matches.

I enjoyed today's win which was 2-0 over Khaleej. Cristiano Ronaldo's goal was a great opening for the success of Al Nassr today. It is fantastic to have scored over 460 goals before the age of 30 and another 400 goals after the age of 30. I am so excited to see a young man with such great success.

I feel like that could very well be 4 points, but the difference is big enough that it would be very difficult for Al-Nassr to catch up, not only Al-Hilal has to lose that much points, but meanwhile Al-Nassr can't lose any points as well. That's not that easy, we are still early in the season, more than half of the games are still left and anything could happen, but Al-Hilal has managed to put themselves at a position that would be hard to dethrone them and could be very difficult to handle.

I think it must be something that may cause a lot of trouble and should be a deal where we can't make the teams change all that easily. I believe we need to handle some sort of situation where we can't have greater return that quickly.

Of course but the best pizza in the world doesn't taste like the best pizza in the world when it is cold. It has gotten its name for the hot version and once it is cold, it still has the same name, but meh...

When Ronaldo went from Juventus Turin to Manchester United, it was quite obvious that he is not the hottest export anymore. Nobody really cared about him and it did also have to do with his attitude and his performances there. He raised awareness for the Saudi Pro League, but scoring three goals against Al-Ittihad will never be the same as scoring three goals against Barcelona ten years ago. I think it is a good proof that a name of a player can never get bigger than the name of the UEFA in this case. The UEFA Champions League will be the competition that the best players will still want to play and most of the big football fans around the world want to watch. I am still skeptical whether the Saudi Pro League can ever become a product similar to the Premier League or La Liga.

It is very impressive that Mitrovic, who has just arrived in the Saudi pro league, seems to be trying to appear with his extraordinary talent, scoring 9 goals in 10 matches and it looks like he has a target to become Al Hilal's scoring machine, even though he was wasted at Fulham, he will shine in Al Hilal and I are very happy to see the achievements of Al Hilal who are currently performing very consistently dominating the Saudi pro league until now they are undefeated and this makes it a little difficult for Al Nasr to be behind on points from Al Hilal even though they have Ronaldo and Sadio Mane but the consistency that the club has Al Nasr cannot catch up with Al Hilal's points and at least Al Nassr has to win 3 matches to get first place in the points table but it won't be that easy because Al Hilal will definitely add their points with the next win.
I really enjoy Al Hilal's strategy if the club doesn't win this will end the match for 1 point which is much better than losing points.

It was crazy how Al Shabab got only one shot on target and one goal out of that. They also did it with having only 31% of the possessions that they had. Really did not expect the match to end like this. I thought the results were going to go the opposite way.
This obviously creates a few problems for Al Ittihad trying to stay at the top of the table and stay relevant for the title race. And let me tell you guys, if the team is not balanced,  and the players are working properly with each other, it doesn’t matter how many great players are in the team, the team is not going to be successful.

Yes it's like what I said before, that there are still many opportunities for Al Nassr to catch up with their points from Al Hilal, especially since these two clubs will still meet.
All possibilities can still happen, and the possibility is not only for Al Nassr to catch up with Al Hilal, but Al Hilal itself can stay away from Al Nassr's pursuit.
Apart from that, the way to forget other clubs who are also competitors in the standings, we cannot underestimate names like Al Tawoon and Al Fateh for example and other clubs that are in the top flight now.

Al ittihad was only able making 4 goal attempts from 69% ball possesion which was very bad. This is what i don't like the strategy in acquiring more ball possession. Ittihad needs to use counter attack instead of focusing in controlling the ball.
Al shabab was only able defending from attacks that came from ittihad and then the club can make counter attack as fast as possible. My eyes were so hurt after watching al ittihad's stat against shabab.
The club like being toothless. I can't describe how disappointme but this is really bad result for ittihad. Al ittihad may be out from the title race if the club keeps performing like this. Al nassr is now the closest competitor for al hilal but the gap is also quite big at this moment.
I must admit that if al hilal is the most stable club this season. It's always winning the game.

Al-Taawon Vs Damac Fc
It seems like Taawon can win and secure three points in tomorrow match, considering that the match will also held at the Taawon club stadium, and at home Taawon have never lost so far in 5 matches.
Meanwhile, Damac FC performance poorly when playing away, in 6 matches they lost 4 times. So I think on paper Taawon is much better and can probably win without difficulty.

The odds for Taawon are currently @1.60, seemed they are favorites in that match. While the odds for Damac win are @4.70, I don't think there is any doubt if bet on Taawon, although the odds are @1.60 but it's not too bad. How do you think guys about this match? If you have another bet option, feel free to give your opinion.

Overall, Al Hilal's progress has not stopped in achieving victory, so far it is the only club that has not been defeated in the SPL. The 7 point gap with AL Nassr in second place will be reduced again if they can beat Al Khaleej tomorrow. Indeed, a small point gap cannot make Neymar club comfortable at the top of the standings, because we know there are still lots of matches ahead.

The competition for the top four in the standings is getting more interesting as the season enters week 12. I also did not expect Al Ittihad, Al Ahli and Al Ettifaq which are strengthened by several former European players, to be knocked out of the top four in the standings. Al Taawon and Al Fateh are able to compete with the favorite clubs to win, The increase in competitiveness of the League will continue, it is currently too early to say anything regarding which clubs will win trophies at the end of the season.

Its good first half season start for Al Hilal moved up 7 points behind Al Nassr who second standings position awhile but still have one match left few hours later against Al Khaalej. I think depend on Al Nassr match result to know how exciting  Saudi Pro League competition behind 7 points gap with top standings its seems not really competitive.

Al Nassr looks will win their match tonight against Al Khaalej because team with two slip above from relegation zone, I think Cristiano Ronaldo has chance added his goals collection in Saudi Pro League and lead top scorer until playing 10 matches he scored 11 goals and Aleksandar Mitrovic have two goals remaining to raise Cristiano Ronaldo goals.

Winning 7 points does not mean that Al Hilal can be calm and safe in topping the standings because this is still early in the season and the journey is still very long, just as you said that it is too early to determine if Al Hilal will be the strongest in the SPL.

In reaching second place Al Nassr have progressed quite well and they are now one of the unbeaten teams in the last few matches this is quite fierce competition for Al Hilal.
Even though we know that Al Hilal is in the best condition there is still the possibility that Al Nassr can replace Al Hilal in first place.

This is because each team has made improvements to be able to develop more quickly, when there is schedule that brings together the two strongest teams then this becomes even more interesting.

Al ittihad performed so garbage after it has internal problem. many people were thinking benzema's club was starting the season with very good start till this time it has so many internal problems that were affecting the performance from the club.
Im feeling so confidence to say that if al hilal is going to win the game. It's amazing to see that how mitrovic is fucking carrying the club alone. It doesn't even matter what opponents that will be faced by al hilal and mitrovic's club will always humiliate it.
I think that al hilal is slowly trying to lock the trophy. I hope that al nassr will be struggle to win its upcoming game. This will give hilal advantage in making the gap even bigger.

SPL needs to prepare the trophy to be awared to the al hilal.   Al hilal is clearly will be dominating the league. This mitrovic as a former of fulham's striker was fucking amazing.

Al-Hilal has moved 7 points clear at the top of the Saudi Pro League. But it's still too early to make the final call. Just like Arsenal could have won the EPL last season.

Al-Nassr is in the second position, with a game in hand. They are on the rise, and who knows, they might just surprise us? Al-Nassr has to win their next game, by the way!

The league is gradually becoming more exciting.

The points difference between these two clubs is 7 points with Al Nassr still having 1 game they haven't played this week. Looking at Al NAssr's opponents this week it looks like they will win the match and make their point difference reduced to 4 points. 4 points is a pretty tight point difference considering the remaining matches in the SPL are still very much. And also the meeting between these two clubs can make the situation change. The meeting of these two clubs is scheduled to take place in the next month and it will definitely be an interesting match.

I think Al-Ittihad deserves this defeat and in fact Al-Shabab is not an opponent they can beat easily. Even though they conceded first, Al-Ittihad seemed to have difficulty finding gaps in the Al-Shabab defense and they actually controlled the game with 68% ball possession. But Al-Ittihad failed to convert every opportunity they had into a goal and indeed for Al-Shabab they only needed 1 chance to win at home. I also see that Al-Ittihad is not as usual and continues to experience decline, I don't know why this team has declined and in terms of quality they are filled with several star players who should be more consistent in each match.

Al-Hilal is now increasingly comfortable maintaining its position at the top of the standings. They continue to get satisfactory results in their matches this season. And if Al-Hilal continues with these positive results, it will be difficult for other teams to catch up with Al-Hilal at the top of the standings. Even Al-Nassr still has to wait for Al-Hilal to fail to get full points if Al-Nassr wants to replace Al-Hilal at the top of the standings.

But Al-Ittihad's current fate is similar to Al-Hilal last season. Because last season Al-Hilal lost balance in their squad. And it looks like Al-ittihad will now find it increasingly difficult to return to the top of the standings. I think Benzema is currently losing his sharpness.

The difference is not that much if you ask me because both teams have a prolific striker that always scores the goals and the two team’s attack well and are consistent in winning matches. I think if Al Nassr didn’t struggle at the beginning of the season they would be top of the league by now but also Al Hilal’s consistency is what i admire but i still think in terms of play and clinicality Al Nassr is a bit ahead of them.

I like the competition between these two teams being 1st and 2nd on the table they would be more serious and wouldn’t want to drop points to stay in the title race. It’s to early to predict who will survive and stay consistent till the end of the season but these two are on the right track if they want to win the title.

I have no doubt in Al Nassr, I believe they are more than capable to win the match because they know what is at stake, they wouldn’t want to throw away their title hopes so they need to win to close up the gap between them and Al Hilal. The league has been so competitive this season so we can’t underestimate any team as it now but teams like Al Khaleej that have been struggling in recent matches and are not far from relegation zone needs a miracle to win in-form Al Nassr team. Al Nassr form have been one of the best form in the world recently, they have not lost a match since August and only draw once while winning the rest. That’s an impressive run of games.

But how big of a blow is it to them considering that they won their games without Neymar as they did with Neymar? Al-Hilal has tied games with and without him. I don't see much of a problem in Neymar being injured. I agree that he would give the team some more options because his quality is higher than that of his replacement, but still the team as a whole doesn't suffer from it as if they were about to face a significant weakening and about to start losing games or anything like that.

Ittihad FC lost to Al Shabab by a very narrow score and this defeat showed a real decline from last season's Saudi Pro League champions, in five matches they only managed to get 3 points, a loss that clearly made it impossible for them to defend the title.
The home team only had one good chance but managed to maximize it into a goal, while Ittihad had more chances, all of which failed to become goals. It can be seen that Ittihad had difficulty scoring goals, Hamdallah and Benzema failed to get their team out of defeat because of the goal scored by the home team happened since the early rounds but all of Ittihad's efforts failed.
Hamdallah, who was able to score a lot of goals for the club last season, but seems to be down this season, even Benzema's presence doesn't help this team to retain the title, and Al Hilal, who are again able to win matches, are more comfortable at the top of the standings.

Al Ahly continue their free fall after the best start to a season in history. Last time they suffered another shock by being eliminated in the cup by Abha, who played with 9 player and were subjected to massive protests from the fans. They are struggling to get results due to Jaissle's forward play and his bad relationship with some players. Which may as Merih Demiral will miss the game against Al Riyadh due to injury, while Ibanez and Abdul Hindi are suspended. If the injured Kessie also misses the game, the team will be relying on the efforts of Mahrez and Veiga, given Firmino's lack of form. Al Riyadh, who have started to benefit from their new players after the change of manager, are goal in the last 6 matches. I expect both teams to score in this match.