Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 43. (Read 118829 times)

Al-Nassr continued to win matches after they brought in Pioli as their new coach. And I think the Al-Nassr players are also playing very comfortably now. And yes of course Cristiano Ronaldo remains the most prominent player at Al-Nassr. Cr7 can always put himself in a position ready to receive passes well. I don't know how, but this star player always manages to see gaps in the opponent's defense and he will place himself there. Maybe if he was still young like before with his extraordinary level of accuracy then he could score more goals. But with him being almost 40 years old and still scoring goals in almost every match, it is also proof that his current quality is still good, even though it is not as good as before. but he is still better than the other players there.

We already mentioned here many times now he is 40 years old and have now body and performance like we have 10 years back with he is now also hinting out about his possible retirement in near future because he is also now understanding about things with he is well aware about fact until he can give his best because it's most important thing about his career and future.

Ronaldo is one of the most entertaining and best footballer of this generation with having good experience of playing in all best leagues of Europe with now having his last few years in Saudi League which is going to be historic moment for them as he will be ended his career here.

New coach is having good start as he is taking things serious for having good results and good chance of winning title in this season Al Hilal is surely no easy opponent for them, but they can go through for the challenge Cristiano Ronaldo is still giving his best in every game which is surely amazing now they are having good time on field as their success streak is going long which will give them good confidence for the future and having better results in all competitions which is surely going to have good entertainment for the Saudi League fans.

Bringing Ronaldo to their squad is one of their ambitions in winning the SPL so far, but Al Hillal continues to be a stumbling block for Al Nassr to realize this ambition, after last season they failed to break Al Hillal's dominance, now their competition and work is getting more difficult after Al Ittihad also emerged as a title challenger, the number of other teams in the Arab League that are now starting to improve the quality of their squad is certainly a warning for Al Nassr must to be better and consistent in every match they are played, currently Al Nassr has Pioli as a coach and with these changes that have occurred, of course, the expectations of fans today are getting bigger to see their team champion remembering the ability possessed by Pioli in coaching,  the victory over Al Rayyan in the ACL became their winning streak since being coached by Pioli this season.

Yes Al Hilal is the toughest opponent for Al Nassr and this club always loses when they face each other but now it seems that Al Nassr's competitors have increased, there is Al Ittihad who is back to performing impressively and it seems that it will be the second obstacle to compete for the SPL title or runner up if the last 2 seasons Al Nassr can win second place maybe this season will not be easy for Al Nassr.
Al Nassr ACL Match won the match with a narrow score of 2:1. Sadio Mane and Ronaldo each scored 1 goal. Al Nassr's productivity has decreased a little at the moment, they are not as aggressive as before.

Ronaldo wonderful goal against Al Rayyan was his 904th goal and he dedicated it to his late father. Ronaldo missed Al Nasr's first match due to a viral infection and scored the first goal in the changed elite tournament. The first goal against Al Rayyan was scored by one of Senegal's stars and former Liverpool and Bayern player "Sadio Mane" "Sultan Al Gannan" from a superb cross. At the beginning of the second half of the game, Ronaldo sent the ball into Al Rayyan's net but the goal was disallowed due to offside. The five-time UEFA Champions League winner later scored the desired goal in the 76th minute and raised his hands to the sky to remember his late father. The moment was so beautiful that a proud boy remembers his father in his game.If his father was alive he would have been 71 years old. After the game, Ronaldo himself said that he would be very happy if his father was alive and that today was his father's birthday.

Al Nasr's side have been playing pretty well this season and have been winning every match, but in most cases, Cristiano Ronaldo has been the offensive performer of the match.  He scored goals with a substantial performance in this match, and he stood at the point where every player had a lookup.  So in this match he undoubtedly managed to score a goal and the goalkeeper didn't even realize it.

Currently Al Hilal is again leading the SPL standings while Al Nasr is in 4th position in the standings and currently Al Nasr has a 4 point difference with Al Hilal. I personally am quite doubtful whether Al Nasr can compete again as fiercely as the previous season with Al Hilal. Because we need to remember that currently there are several SPL teams that have experienced an increase in performance, for example Al Ittihad and Al Shabab. So, to be able to compete closely with Al Hilal, Al Nasr must be able to beat the 2 teams first (Al Ittihad and Al Shabab). Because if, for example, Al Nasr still has difficulties when facing these two teams, I don't think Al Nasr will have as big hopes as the previous season to win the SPL. Therefore, currently Al Nasr must really cover all its shortcomings to be able to compete better in the SPL. Because if Al Nasr doesn't improve its performance seriously, I'm sure Al Hilal will become champions again in the SPL.

Apart from that, Al Nasr managed to win its first match in the ACL when it faced Al Rayyan. In that match, Al Nasr won with a score of 2-1 over Al Rayyan. Then in that match Ronaldo and Mane were able to score goals for Al Nasr. I think this winning result will definitely be able to motivate the Al Nasr players even better. Apart from that, with the arrival of Pioli as the new coach at Al Nasr, perhaps Al Nasr's performance can improve even more.

Al-hilal's performance is indeed very good, but of course in every season there are always ups and downs in a club's performance and indeed last season Al-hilal had extraordinary strength and had never lost match and indeed 2023 Al-hilal certainly lose the competition which ultimately resulted in Al-hilal only being able to finish in 3rd place in the SPL. and it is true that this season Al-hilal is also very good because up to now they have never experienced a defeat and of course we will not know what will happen to Al-hilal this season whether they can continue to consistently win or not.

However, currently Al-Nassr and Ittihad are the closest to competing and of course we must not forget Al Shabab because Al Shabab is performing well and now Al Shabab has managed to sit in 3rd place in the standings. and of course Al Shabab will also definitely fight for the championship title. However, I personally also predict that one day Al Shabab will be succeeded in being replaced by Al-Nassr .standings ranking Al shabab

It's true that Al-hilal, of course, in their matches this season there has been a slight decline, especially from Al-hilal's back line, that's why Al-hilal always concedes in their matches, especially against Damac. Al-hilal of course conceded 2 goals, which of course is certain now Jorge Jesus must really improve Al-hilal's back line. But usually Jorge Jesus can always fix a team's shortcomings and I'm sure Jorge Jesus will be able to improve its defense line for Al-Hilal.

Ronaldo no longer has a body of young player and he has worse jump power as well as his shots are less powerful and accurate but he is still a very good player. He is one of most professional player and it forces him continue playing with high ambition. In this match, it's easy to see Ronaldo wasted some good opportunities from shots to head-shots that he did not miss when he was younger. The goal he scored in this match shows that he has good skills that are helpful when he does not face with too much pressure from opponent defenders.

Talisca is back but he did not play too well in this match and main attacking power of Al Nassr is from Ronaldo, Mane and Ontavio. The Spanish midfielder has been playing more like a play maker for Al Nassr and he shows his good vision as well as accurate passes in this match. Ontavio is important to connect Al Nassr midfield and attacking systems, and I believe Al Nassr will get big problem in matches without Ontavio.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Sadio Mane are two European players who scored two goals in today's match, and these two goals were the best and most interesting. Counterattacks did not allow the team to create any chances to score, but Rayyan team lacks attacking players in the attack department, although there were enough attacks in this match but could not succeed. Because they don't have good strikers in the finish line due to which they were not able to score in this match.

 But in comparison, Al Nass's squad of experienced players, Cristiano Ronaldo and Sadio Mane, managed two successful attacks in this match, and those two goals were the most difficult goals in a difficult situation. And Al Nasr team won 2-0 after a fierce competition in the last minute, and Al Nasr team collected three points and occupied the third place in the points table.

I'm currently watching the match and I can see Al Nassr winning this game thanks to Mane and Ronaldo, Al Rayyan also had a good performance and they could even get a draw and made the game 2-2 but Al Nassr won this match because of some experienced players in this team.
Ronaldo and Mane each scored one goal for Al Nassr against Al Rayyan. The interesting thing about this match was Ronaldo scoring his 71st goal for Al Nassr and now he is one of the top ten players in the history of this team. However, he scored another goal and it was rejected by the VAR.

Al-Hilal often dominates the SPL. But that doesn't happen in every season. As in the 2023 season, we know that at that time Al-ittihad and Al-nassr dominated and Al-Ittihad became champions in that season. Meanwhile, last season we saw Al-Hilal dominate the SPL and win the SPL title. This season Al-hilal also seems to dominate the SPL again and that is not surprising. But so far AL-Nassr and Al-ittihad are the closest to competing with Al-Hilal.

But talking about Al-hilal this season, I think there has been a decline in Al-hilal's defense. It seems like in every match they always concede goals this season.

That will be high competition because both teams will play with full strength and all top class players will play in this match. But I am impressed by last match performance of Al-Nassr team because they did well and won the match one sided. And that team is winning the matches with consistency and no team is playing like that and I am big fan of that due to top class attackers. They can win match against any team but luck plays great role in game ,so they should pray to God to listen their words. Today Al-Nassr football team will play against Al-Rayyan football team and I am expecting good match by Al-Nassr team because they can make good match by rising challenging situations.

There isn't a reason for them to be this good though in theory lol. That's the part that confuses me the most in many times, it's clear that we are seeing them do fine, but I do not see why they are doing that well. I mean this in the nicest way but they do not have the best squad, they do not have a manager who has done awesome before, did alright but not like they hired Pep or something, it's Jorge Jesus, an ordinary manager that barely anyone really knows.

So, the reason why they are doing this well must be just they clicked together very well, which is why I think, we are going to see this doing fine, but it's complicated without a doubt. I think it's clear that football is very complicated to begin with and many teams don't do that well normally, even when they should. So when we see a team that does better than expected, it's definitely confusing to see a team be this great, not even lose a game? How does that work, it's really a complicated situation.

So far, the competition at the top of the Saudi Pro League standings has been tight, with a fairly thin point difference. In my opinion, the competition for the trophy this season will be more competitive than last season, Al Ittihad and Al Nassr will most likely be the teams that are most serious about suppressing Al Hilal dominance. Al Ahli, Al Shahab and Al Ettifaq actually also have the potential to become stumbling blocks, what is clear is that this season competition will be more interesting to follow. The presence of Stefano Pioli increases the expectations of Al Nassr fans, but in my opinion this season competition will be more complex and most likely not only two-way.

Its the question we made to us all this months or lets said years now, no other team is so strong like Al Hilal in this league, we already discused this but both Al Nassr and Al Itihad are not in the same league of Al Hilal, Al Hilal play a top tier football and is super dominant.

When a team has no rival there is no excitement. Al-Hilal have almost consistently held the top position over the past few years with their points tally always far ahead of the rest. Viewers don't have much interest in the tournament if no one can compete with them. Al-Nassr is considered to be the biggest rival to Al-Hilal. But what is the position of the team Al-Nassr? and Where is Al-Hilal? A question may arise while looking at this point. In this concern it should not be assumed because Al-Ittihad cannot be ignored in any way. Al-Ittihad and Al-Nassr are now Al-Hilal's biggest rivals but Al-Nassr is far behind. To make the team stronger, there must be changes in players. If a good team can be formed then surely there can be a competitive fight.

Yes it is true that the Saudi league is becoming one sided, only one team wins the title every season the rest are not able to win. Since Al-Hilal are equally strong in all aspects, no team can properly compete against them, which is why they play aggressively against any team on the field. Among the other clubs in Saudi Arabia, Al-Nassr and Al-Ittihad tried their best but finished second or third every season. However, they could never keep pace with Al-Hilal in the title race, which led to Al-Hilal dominating their opponents to win the title every season. As the Saudi club owners are spending a lot of money on players, they should buy more quality players and build a strong team to compete with Al-Hilal.

I wouldn't call what is happening there now competition because there is no competition there. Al Hilal have dominated the Saudi Arabia Legue the same way PSG have dominated the French Lig 1. Last season they prevailed against all the clubs and this season they are already going unbeaten while the supposed challenger, Al Nassr are not even in the second position in the table. Therefore, I did not see any competition in the SPL this season and in the few seasons to come unless there is some remarkable changes in the clubs.

Of course, Ronaldo isn't a problem for Al Nassr. He already showed big contributions for Al Nassr. It is strange if there are people who claimed Ronaldo is a problem.    Yes, the defense line is one of the problems in Al Nassr team. If we analyzed the total conceded goals in the last season, it is clear that Al Nassr defense is weaker than Al Hilal. But I think the defense line isn't the only problem, Al Nassr also has no a player who can be an attacking control or a mastermind player in building every attack. Al Nassr should have a player like De Bruyne, Modric, Kross, or Martin Ødegaard. These players have a role to control the game and deliver any assist accurately. They also function to open spaces for strikers to score goals.

Al Hilal wasn't quite strong in the season 2022-2023. The competition for the title between Al Hilal and Al Nassr just began in the last season (2023-2024). Al Hilal, Al Ittihad, Al Shabab, and Al Nassr look the be some candidates for the title this season. But it seems Al Hilal is still the strongest one, meanwhile Al Nassr looks more difficult to compete for the title. I think it is no longer the season for Al Hilal vs Al Nassr, there are many other teams to join the race. However, I think there are 3 teams to compete for the title until the end of the season. They are probably Al Hilal, Al Ittihad, and Al Nassr. Let's see which one can perform more consistently in this season.

Al Hilal vs Al Ittihad vs Al Nassr


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