Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 444. (Read 119349 times)

regarding Ronaldo talent and how he has achieved it up to now, there are definitely still many fans who still like this player and what I like about Ronaldo that every time he fails to kick ball on target he always seems to think about his mistake and he usually kicks the ball again but it hits the target who can score and this is what I like about Ronaldo, he is player who really has very high quality so it not surprising that Al Nassr currently very proud to have this player who can give many fans after Ronaldo joined this team.

and regarding other issues regarding the UCL competition, it seems that this has already been answered by other users here and maybe it is clear enough.

I want to see a good competition being given by Al Nassr just for the sake of Cristiano Ronaldo. I still love that guy and even at this old age, he is still capable of performing really well. He is definitely old but not obsolete for sure. I want to see him actually winning the league title.

But in no way, I think this is going to be easy. The competition is definitely very good. Since Cristiano Ronaldo has come here, a lot of really good. People have also been coming here and the quality of football in this league has increased. So we can expect good competition from all the teams.

Champions League is not going to happen for these clubs anytime soon, I absolutely agree about that. It will at least take 2/3 years.

Al Nassr have not problem yet with their attacking line exactly with scoring four goals in AFC Champion League group stage against Al Duhail but main problem with their defense how possibilities conceded three goals in one match. Al Nassr have conceded four goals in AFC Champion League in last three matches and in domestic league conceded 13 goals of 10 matches.  Automatically, Al Nassr have been conceded 17 goals of 13 matches all competition and seems not good solid with defense.

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Have magnificent with Cristiano Ronaldo performance last match in AFC Champion League, due his age over 38 years old and almost close 39 years old next February but hi still on the top level with consistency scoring goals. This season, Cristiano Ronaldo have scored three goals in AFC Champion League and lead top scorer awhile in Saudi  Pro League with 11 goals, not only consistency scoring goals but also Cristiano Ronaldo have created 7 assists in all competition between domestic league and AFC Champion League.

I have no negative comment about attacking players and attacking power of Al Nassr. They have been playing very aggressive attacking and highly goal productive but there is opposite performance from their players in defense. This match with Al Duhail is a seven match in a row, Al Nassr failed to keep a clean sheet. They have gotten conceded goals in last seven matches. Their weak defense can prevent them to win Saudi Professional League or AFC Champions League this season.

Cristiano Ronaldo at his 38-years old still makes magnificent performances. Two fantastic goals and one amazing assist by his back-heel pass to Talisca. How a 38-years old player can play better than Cristiano?

His prime has gone. Nothing left other than being injury prone. Many people are also feeling disappointed with him. Impossible to get ballon d'or with inconsistent performance like that, sometimes you play and sometimes you don't.
That's being called as inconsisntent from the player. The player needs to keep the consistency from his performance to get ballon d'or. Im not even willing to see neymar being nominated for that caused by he will not get it.
The better for him to focus on his recovery. This is far better rather than try to focus into the unimportant thing like that. Neymar has been indicated to absent for around 9 months and that's until the end of season or even more.

It really dosappointed me as one of hilal fans. I meant mitrovic needs to carry the club till the end of season. Mitrovic has a lot of burden. I hope he will not be injured as well.

Al nassr was able to win this match with a score of 4-3 and in my opinion this was not an easy match for them because their opponents were able to play quite well in balancing their resistance. I think Al nassr must improve their defense in the winter transfer window because in several previous matches I noticed when Al nassr was taking the lead but the opponent was able to respond and equalize like Al nassr match against Abha.

However, today's match was full of emotional because we saw that Al nassr really pressed their opponents hard in the first half. Ronaldo has always been a hero for Al nassr, even in this match he contributed 2 goals. This season, ronaldo is performing quite well, he seems to be able to beat many of the other young players playing in the Saudi Arabian league this season.

You brought up the exact issue here. I also can't see his leadership potential at all and from what I understood, he is so distractible with problems offside the pitch like his religious issues or the sex tape blackmail case which became huge. He isn't a calm guy like Zidane who understands how to be neutral about things and how to lead a team while considering all interests equally. Benzema has now several times raised attention with very questionable actions and while I believe that human beings can change, this guy is not 18 or 20 anymore and can change until he is 35. He is about to turn 36 and has all these private issues of public interest. Imagine this guy is your coach and you are from Israel.

In the first half, Al Nassr was leading with 1 goal. There was no change until the first half was over. But in the second half, Al Duhail played more aggressively, they tried to equalize the scores. Although Al Nassr was leading with 3 goals, Al Duhail never give up, they scored 2 goals in minute 63' and 67'. They almost make Al Nassr to fail winning the match. But with Ronaldo's second goal in minute 81', no doubt Al Nassr secure 3 points in that match.

Ronaldo, Talisca, and Mane are 3 best attackers of Al Nassr. They always contributed for the goals. I see that they play more solidly, specifically after Mane joined Al Nassr.

Indeed. It is not surprising that Arab teams dominated AFC Champions League. They have many top players, so we can understand if they can play better than the teams from the other countries.

And in the end Al-Nassr was able to win the match again in the AFC Champions League. But in the second half everything became more tense. Because 6 goals from both teams came in the second half. The final score was 4-3 with victory of course for Al-Nassr. In this match CR7 scored 2 goals. And I'm happy that Mane also scored a goal in this match. Talisca seems like this player is always not behind in scoring goals. It's rare for an Al-Nassr match to pass without a goal from Talisca.

Arab clubs really performed extraordinary in the AFC Champions League. But this is quite natural because the squad depth of the Arab teams is the best at the moment.

After helping his team to win the Arab club championship cup against Al-Hilal, Ronaldo also help Al-Nassr qualify for the AFC Champions league by beating Shabab Al-Ahli in the playoff to qualify for the tournament, though he didn't score in the match but his performance was good and he created a big impact in the game. However Al-Nassr are currently performing very well in the tournament and have won their 1st three games to top their group E table with 9points.

 Ronaldo's performance is the tournament is good and he's scored about 3 goals to help them reach this point on the table and I believe he could top the goal chart cause he's just 2 goals away from his teammate Talisca who's also created a big impact  for the team just like Ronaldo,well Al-Nassr performance would make them go far in tournament and I won't be suprised if they win it as well.

The game is almost ending and Al-Nassr is leading Al-Duhail SC by 4-3. Ronaldo scored a brace in the 61st and 81st minutes, while Mane also got a goal. Al-Nassr will have themselves to blame if they lose this game because they almost lost a three-goal advantage. The Qatari side came from three goals down to put the match to 3-2 but Ronaldo scored another goal to make it 4-2 and Al-Duhail SC responded again to make the game 4-3. But from the look of things, Ronaldo and his teammates will get the maximum three points from this game. With this win, Al-Nassr will still maintain the leadership of Group E after getting nine points from three games.

It looks like it will be more interesting if for example Al Ahli manages to win in this match, because currently Al Hilal is also at the top of the standings but does not have a far point gap. Therefore, if for example Al Ahli manages to beat Al Hilal, then the competition for the title rase will become tighter of course, because their points gap becomes closer. But indeed, it seems reasonable if Al Hilal is favored this match because after all, Al Hilal also has a good head to head record too when Al Hilal playing against Al Ahli. Moreover, in this match Al Hilal will play at home and also this moment Al Hilal is at the top of the Saudi Pro League standings.

Well, i see a very strong match there because they are both performing well and they both have some experienced players so it will be a very competitive match just as that of Al Nassr vs Al Ahli. The Saudi league is now so competitive and we can tell from the number of points that separate Al Hilal who is topping the league vs Al Ahli who are 4th place. It would’ve been more interesting if Neymar was available but i don’t think it matters because they were playing well even before Neymar’s arrival so it wouldn’t be difficult to maintain their dominance without Neymar, they have Mitrovic who have been the team’s highest goal scorer and other players contributing well to the team. It’s difficult to predict a winner in this match but Al Hilal are more clinical in front of goal so they have better chance of winning the match.

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.