Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 45. (Read 111450 times)

https://www.youtube.com/@cristiano
Until now when I see the number of subscribers on his YouTube channel, there are already 40.2 million subscribers, I don't know but maybe this is the fastest increase in the number of subscribers that someone can record on YouTube. The popularity of Cristiano Ronaldo is no joke, he is always the center of attention of many people and now he is listed as the player with the most followers on social media plus the number of subscribers on his YouTube channel.
Amazing!!! 

Honestly, if you take the best they have to offer, and put them on the midtable teams or even lower ranked teams like relegation zone battle, then I do not think that it will be that much of a trouble. Not saying they are great or anything, but they have some 5+ million dollar valued players, which means that it wouldn't be really unheard of for many of the big leagues low level teams.

But I would suggest going a little bit further down, to build something, like go to championship, they may get a lot more chances there. Of course these are just few players but at the same time Saudi League started caring about football just recently, they need some time to grow and eventually I am sure that they will be sending a lot more.

Actually Al Nassr started the season well, it's just that they were unlucky in this match, there were many opportunities but the goalkeeper Al Raed in this match also performed quite well. Al Nassr should have also been able to win this match if Ronaldo's second goal was not disallowed for offside, this offside was also full of controversy with the referee's decision but that's how football is sometimes unlucky. This draw made Al Nassr lose two points in front of their own supporters.

Although it is still early, Al Nassr still has a lot of time to fix the team to be able to compete in the league. Al Nassr only needs a good and experienced defender so that it no longer gives an extra burden to the goalkeeper during the match. Al Nassr still needs to build a solid squad and be able to work well and must no longer give a heavy burden to Ronaldo. The back line, midfield, and front line must have good chemistry so that Al Nassr can win every match consistently.

Nacho Fernandes made his first debut with Al Qadisiyah against Al Fateh, in this match Al Qadisiyah managed to win the match with a landslide score of 3-0. With these results, Al Qadisiyah is now at the top of the Saudi Arabian League standings. So this victory will certainly make Nacho Fernandes very happy, because at the start of his debut with Al Qadisiyah, which is also a team that has just been promoted to the Saudi Arabian Premier League, this victory will certainly be something to be very proud of. from. from. Maybe this season Al Qadisiyah will be a great competitor to become a candidate to win the Saudi Arabian League. Therefore I am very curious and definitely looking forward to the match between Al Hilal, last season's Saudi Arabian League champions, and Al Qadisiyah, a very promising newcomer. I am sure the match between Al Qadisiyah and Al Hilal will be exciting.

Apart from that, today Al Hilal is scheduled to compete against Al Okhdood. This match should be very easy for Al Hilal. But we'll see later, whether Al Hilal still has good performance like last season or not. Because as we know, last season Al Hilal never lost to any team in the Saudi Arabian league. So I am very curious, whether this season Al Hilal will again create an unbeaten record like last season or not.

Most of the Asian players believes that it takes moving to European clubs to actualize their dreams and announce themselves to the football but unlike them, Feras Albrikan like you rightly said have a different idea which had paid off. When Albrikan was getting offers to join clubs in Europe, the Saudi Pro League wasn't as popular as it is today and I don't think he knew that the league will enjoy the sort of global audience it currently enjoys but the Saudi player turned down most of these offers to remain in Saudi League. Right now, it seems he's now ready to move to Europe and considering the recent transfer rumours concerning him, that's very likely to happen this summer

It’s a disappointing start for Al Nassr because if they want to compete with Al Hilal they cannot start the season in this manner. Ronaldo has always been there scoring goals for them but the defender don’t balance it up for them, they keep conceding goals even to lesser opponents. They didn’t play bad the entire match they were just unlucky not to have scored a second goal, they kept on mounting pressure and couple of chances were missed and some hit the post.

The penalty conceded was as a result of poor defending that’s why it is important for them to improve their defense before the transfer window closes else it will be the same old story as last season where Al Hilal will end up being the best team once again.

Currently the Saudi League is still monitoring European star players but it seems they know that they are quite difficult to work with to play in the Saudi League so they do it slowly and recruit young European players from less well-known leagues.

Players who perform well in the Saudi League are not necessarily able to play well in the big European leagues because the level of competition is different, Firas al-Buraikan is a native Saudi Arabian player and his performance in the Saudi League since he was at Al Fateh has also shown his greatness but is the La Liga club that serious about this player? I think the Saudi Arabian club will not let go of their players that easily because they are building strength to break into their League and besides they are not short of money to sell players.

Yeah this was beyond our expectations because we thought Al-Nassr would win easily but disaster came through a penalty, I don't understand why Al-Nassr are struggling to score goals because based on statistics Al-Nassr recorded 28 shots, does Al-Raed have a strong defense? or on the contrary the Al-Nassr attackers got unlucky. If at the start of the match Al-Nassr only draw, it means they give Al-Hilal the opportunity to leave them behind who will play their first match today.

I have to say Saudi Pro League is boring if Al-Hilal wins the title again this season as if they had no competitors even though some clubs have good or equal squads. I know it's too early to make assumptions since it's the start of the season but what is disappointing is that their opponents are not a strong team, maybe we can exclude it if the opponent is Al-Hilal or Al-Ahli but this is not at all.

It seems that the massive investment made by the Saudi league has begun to find a bright spot where if there is a European team monitoring local players here, they must have known about the quality that he has shown. This is also a notice where secretly talent scouts from European teams have been monitoring players here and Feras Albrikan is one of the talents they don't want to miss.

I also want to add that not only Feras Albrikan from Al-Ahli has received attention from outside parties but also Al-Ahli's right-back, Saud Abdulhamid, who is now getting closer to an agreement with Roma. Isn't it surprising that there are big teams willing to come here to get their target players? with this it can be said that the value of Saudi league players is currently very large and maybe there will be more players who will be targeted by European teams.

Yep. It was a bad result for the first match of this season. Everyone expects for a big win for Al Nassr because they played against a weak team (Al Raed). Regarding Ronaldo, he actually scored a goal as people expected. But I'm surprised that no other players scored goals and help Al Nassr to win the match. What is the contribution of Mane, Talisca, and Otavio? 

Al Nassr made 28 shots, this is a big number of opportunities. It is very bad that they only scored 1 goals from 28 shots. I'm starting to doubt the shot quality of Al Nassr players. Why they so weak in shooting accuracy? Even if Al Raed got a penalty and scored 1 goal, it won't be a problem if Al Nassr players have better shot accuracy. They should score more than 3 goals with 28 shot attempts. I think Al Nassr coach needs to give harder training for shot accuracy.

In the last match of last season, Al-Raed troubled Al Nassr in Riyadh, Al Nassr's home base. In the first opening match for both teams this season, Al-Raed once again became a stumbling block for the home team. Although the ball possession was dominated by Al Nassr, Al Nassr had difficulty ending the match with a win. The only goal was scored thanks to Ronaldo's header from Sadio Mane's cool assist, unfortunately Al Nassr had difficulty scoring additional goals. In the Al-Raed camp, this team applies a more defensive system, counterattacking when they have the opportunity. It is proven, their defense line is quite tight. Although Al Nassr had 28 total shots, only 8 were on target. While the away team, they benefited from getting a penalty kick that equalized the score. Amazingly, Mshari Sanyoor made eight pretty cool saves. As a result, Al Nassr had to be satisfied with only sharing one point.

After an embarrassing defeat in the super cup final some time ago, I think Al Nassr will bounce back and be able to get their first win in the current league but when Ronaldo was able to return to being a hero to Al Nassr by scoring in the match, but  they were still unable to maintain the victory and at this time it seems that Ronaldo is starting to get uncomfortable again with the defeats and failures that he continues to get with Al Nassr so maybe he starts to have a desire to leaving,  actually Al Nassr has dominated that the match since the match started and it is recorded that they have 28 shots in the match, but only 1 goal was created so this indicates if Al Nassr attacker line is still not sharp to break into the opponent goal, indeed so far Ronaldo has been their main striker but I think Ronaldo will not be able to carry Al Nassr alone at this time without the better support from other players in Al Nassr.

Unexpectedly, Al-Nassr failed to win the match against Al-Raed in the first week of this season in the SPL. Well, those of us who bet on Al-nassr are certainly a little annoyed with this result. but we know that at the start of the season there are many results that we cannot predict at all. And in many leagues this happens quite often. But I hope that in the next match Cristiano Ronaldo and his friends can play even better.

For today's match, there are 3 matches that will take place, namely
- Damac vs Al Khaleej
- Al-Ahli vs Al-Orubah
- Al-Qadisiyah vs Al-Fateh.

From these three matches, I am curious about the performance of Al-Qadisiyah, which is one of the clubs that is quite aggressive in the transfer market in hunting for European players. I want to know whether they managed to make a good squad or not.

Yeah, it's not fair to Ronaldo, for him to be bashed after every single loss of Al Nassr. Football never was a one-man game, and Al Nassr in all its entirety is not that bad of a team either. They have star players all around the pitch, and if they fail to win games, they have to take responsibility for it.

I think every team goes through a rough patch, and the same is happening for Al Nassr too. We have to manage our expectations for Ronaldo at the same time too. Keep in mind, he's aging and his form will now start worsening at times. It's still a huge luck for us that we get to see him perform at such a high level.

With time, Al Nassr will get back to their peak and will start challenging the league title once again.

A bad start for Al Nassr as they had to start the league with a draw. Ronaldo was the scorer again and again in this match, but the goals he created were not enough to bring victory to Al Nassr as they still conceded.
They did not lack opportunities, but they could not make the most of them so they could only score one goal. They actually had to concede a goal early in the second half through a penalty. They were unlucky in this match and this also left another note. They could not concentrate quickly, especially at the beginning of the match, which is what made them finally get a penalty. Yes, that is a note that they must immediately fix.

I tried to check any news that relates to Feras Albrikan's transfer interest from the Spanish League and found none. It will be good if you can drop any link that leads to such news. But it is a piece of good news that a Saudi player is attracting interest from clubs in Europe. It shows that the Saudi Professional League is developing. I was sceptical about the strategy of the government of Saudi Arabia in developing the league. I predicted that they might suffer the same fate as the Chinese Super League. Anyway, Feras Albrikan will be happy to play in a top club in Europe and he might be willing to take a pay cut if it will be an impediment.

Usually, we saw some rich Saudi team hiring superstars and expensive paler from Europe and they were usually spending too much more for these players but they are now about to lose a player to these teams.
Feras Albrikan is the player of Al Ahli and he had a good performance so far, this made some teams to get interested in hiring this player. There are some rumors about some teams from La Liga showing interest in hiring this Saudi player.
Years ago and back in 2018 some players from Saudi Arabia including Salem Aldawsari joined European terms but they couldn't have any achievements.

Becoming a youtuber was not really something I expected Ronaldo to do, that really doesn't look like a bad idea at all. I am not expecting him to move with that, because lets face it this dude is making like 100 million, what could youtube offer that would be even remotely similar to that.

And when these people end up starting a channel, they do nothing but just be there for the shoots, from ads to camera to what they will do, to editing, everything is done by another firm, and I do not mean like they build a studio themselves and hire these people to do the job, no, they literally work with a studio who deals with all of this, so all they do is just go there for the shoot, they don't even hire anyone.

So this means Ronaldo will not be making too much, it's impossible, and for someone who can make tens of millions of dollars even after retirement, and certainly a lot more right now, this doesn't make sense. If he makes nearly nothing, he will not have fun with it, put that much time for merely a few million at best? I do not think that would make sense. It's a good job for people who know how to do this, but not for someone who already makes  more money anyway. He will give up eventually.

It must be difficult for Ronaldo as a star who always gets pressure from the public after what he did for Al-Nassr still has not got his first win this season and in the end he looked very tired with what happened to his squad. Al-Nassr only drew against Al-Raed which is a weak team and with this Al-Nassr has missed the first 3 points in the last 2 seasons after Ronaldo's arrival.

I think all the players have tried quite well but again positioning and finishing are obstacles for Al-Nassr to be able to increase the goal advantage. Initially Al-Nassr was ahead through Ronaldo's header which utilized Mane's assist but in the second half just started Al-Raed managed to equalize through the penalty spot. Ronaldo had the opportunity to score a brace but unfortunately the goal was disallowed by VAR because of a very slight offside. After that there was an important moment where the Al-Raed defender committed a handball in the penalty box after blocking Mane's pass but unfortunately the referee again made a controversial decision and stated that it was not a penalty for Al-Nassr.

Well, it seems that luck is still not on Ronaldo's side and it is quite unfortunate that many bettors must have lost because they bet on Al-Nassr.

This match ended in a draw (1-1). In this match, Al Nasr actually played very well, because in that match Al Nasr really controlled the game very well. However, it cannot be denied that in this match Al Nasr had great difficulty penetrating Al Raed's defensive wall. So that every opportunity and attack made by Ronaldo and his friends can always be broken. As a result, Al Nasr had to settle for sharing points with Al Raed in this first match. Apart from that, the only goal Al Nasr got in this match was scored by Ronaldo. As usual Ronaldo always plays well and scores goals. But unfortunately this was not enough to make Al Nasr get maximum points in this match. With this draw, Al Nasr is now in 4th position in the Saudi Arabian league standings. Meanwhile, in the top position is Al Taawon with 3 points.