Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 469. (Read 119308 times)

The level of difference between some of the clubs makes some games super fun to watch. Some of the teams have some amazing superstar level players, sure they are a bit on the older side and getting closer to their retirement, but also we are talking about a situation that is getting a bit more in trouble for the smaller clubs because even at near retirement age they are still vastly better.

So, when a team filled with those type of stars end up playing against a team that doesn't have anyone like that, the difference is too big and the game becomes fun. It's like professional players are ending up playing against amateurs which is really like the case in most games. It's like bigger than a big club playing against their youth team.

We know how fortunate Al Nassr are when they finally brought in Cristiano Ronaldo from European football. He's a total different species and have the capacity of playing till 40. Comparing Ronaldo to some footballers is ridiculous because he's weigh 10x better than these players who are not hardworking like himself. Ronaldo puts in enough energy to be the best in the world. Cristiano Ronaldo is a super being in the football world, he's brilliant and 100% fit in physiques. Facts, all upcoming youngsters imitates the Portugal international as their hero in football.

Without a doubt is his lifestyle the key to his physical condition. Again, if people complain about his character or attitude or whatever they can come up with, his determination and dedication to preserve his best physical condition is unbelievable. In that regard he is a role model for literally every human being around the world although we should not forget that he has access to supplies and expertise that rarely anybody else has outside of professional sports. But still it needs a lot of endurance and also passion to live a healthy lifestyle like that from early in the morning to late in the evening for decades.

Going all in al hilal. Al hilal was different compared with ittihad. Ahli might able to win against ittihad with narrow score but it will not work against al hilal. Mitrokovic is ready to destroy ahli once again. Al hilal may not able to play with neymar soon but that's not a problem. MItrokovic has been covering everything for al hilal and he was consistently scoring for al hilal. Ahli may face difficulty once the club fight against al hilal. Al hilal has become the most favorite club to win this game but we are still more than 1 week away from that match.

It's too soo to discuss it right now. Let's focus into the upcoming match between al hilal vs khaalej. Al hilal is very superior compared with khaleej. The chance to win more than two goals is very big right now.
Im thinking to bet over 2.5 goals or al hilal win. The probability owned by al hilal to win the game is very big right now. People may also pick al hilal for this match.

It is unfair to compare stamina, fitness of a player who is 38 years old and another player who is only 31 years old. We know after 30 years old, athletics can have big differences, changes in their stamina, fitness and strength. And here we are talking about a difference of 7 years that is not small.

Many players even don't continue to play at their 35 years old and very few players who can play till their 38 years old. Here again I think we should repeat Cristiano Ronaldo is still playing and his performance is very good. Many young players even can not play as same as Cristiano in this season. Mane is strong but I am not sure he will still playing at his 38 years old.

It is true that he is super professional and his body is very strong and sustained well over many years. It can be gift for him because he was born with a good body but I believe his professional lifestyle and training help him a lot to gain such amazing body strength. Without professional, he can not prolong his career till 38 years old.

Better stamina than Ronaldo? I would bet if they had to pass a fitness test that most of the time Ronaldo would be the one who comes out on top. I think even the toughest haters of Ronaldo have to admit that his physical condition is insane for a guy at the age of 38. His stamina is not to be confused with his top speed although I think that he would still be faster than Mane as well. But his stamina is probably better than 90% of the players in the Saudi Professional League at least. But one issue for him could be the motivation and the last few percentage points in terms of performance. He is used to play against the best teams in the world in front of the best fans in the world. It could lead to a lack of motivation when he doesn't play on that level anymore.

@Luzin I can understand that he didn’t want to upset Ronaldo but yet he should have taken Ronaldo off because in the end Ronaldo wants to win trophies and he can’t win it if they drop points. Furthermore I hope behind the doors they’re having a conversation about this and the coach is laying down the rule that he’ll sacrifice any player to secure an victory otherwise they won’t be able to win the title.

It should be that all players are wise. Logically, Mane is 31 years younger. He has better stamina than Ronaldo. It should be possible to replace Ronaldo is the right decision. Castro could replace Ronaldo with a defensive midfielder or defender and push Mane forward. This can be done to take advantage of the counterattack. In addition, they strengthened the defense. Losing 2 points is quite meaningful. With the condition that the difference in points is not much. Indeed, managing Star Players will be more difficult and it becomes Castro's burden.

Yes, it's true, it's widely circulated that there are a number of SPL clubs who are really serious about securing the services of player Lewandowski. And it has been rumored that several SPL clubs have been chasing striker Lewandowski since last summer. But they still failed to bring the striker to the SPL, but they didn't just give up. These SPL teams continue to be determined to secure the services of Lewandowski players next season.

Barcelona will likely be forced to release Lewandowski to an SPL club because considering that Barcelona is currently experiencing a difficult situation, their spending limit has been cut quite significantly by La Liga. So like it or not, Barcelona has to reduce the burden on player salaries, and Lewandowski is one of the players with the highest salary in the Barcelona squad. So Bacelona was forced to sell him, where the money from selling Lewandowski could increase their income.

But I still hope that Lewandowski can complete his contract at Barcelona because even though he is no longer young, his performance has still been very good at Barcelona so far.

Of course, without a doubt, things are like that, when we think about Al Nassr we can always say that the piraeus that comes to mind is CR7, of course he does not control a game, he cannot control many things, besides this league He is becoming very good because on the one hand he is there, on the other hand there are other world stars, we have Ney who is a different player, a player who has always made the difference at all times, everywhere we see the Saudi league we must consider that there is a very good player in charge, for now things continue to be the same in Europe, but eventually more stars will continue to join, and the rivalry that can exist between those teams led by CR7, Neymar or someone in particular will always be possible. manetner, as far as I know, CR7 is going to extend and sign his contract until 2027 at Al-Nassr, because things sound good, because after the 206 World Cup, he can simply retire.

Meanwhile, there is still time to enjoy the legend, so far no players have come out at the level of CR7 and Messi, it is not for nothing, but I am right in that sense, the players there are are good, like Haaladán and Mbappé , among others, but I think that these players have a lot of fun to reach the level that CR7 maintains. And Messi, I remember that at the beginning of this thread, many said that this was just a CR7 thread, but it is because he opened the doors to The other players, when they called him crazy, look at the changes he has caused in the League, this makes any team on any continent stagger, Europe is still the hegemony, but at any moment everything can fall and the most important players Those people can choose to go to Saudi football because there is more money, they value them more and besides they have many more facilities for everything, after 25 they will not be treated like old people, as they do in most countries in Europe , in Saudi football they are even more valued.

But at least Al-Nassr didn't lose any points in the match and an additional 1 point would still be very meaningful for them. Maybe Castro is too confident in the depth of the squad he has but sometimes what he hopes for doesn't work out as it should. It's natural for Mane to be angry because he definitely still has a way to do something and if he withdraws Cristiano it will be a big problem because we know Cristiano always wants to play 90 minutes but he sometimes forgets that the team needs to win. Of course, Castro didn't want to take too many risks and therefore he sacrificed Mane to be replaced rather than having to cause problems with Cristiano. I hope that in the next match Cristiano will sometimes realize that the team's victory is above all else.

even though in that match Al Nasr failed to win. But at least the draw still saved Al Nasr from dropping its ranking in the standings. Despite playing in a draw, Al Nasr was able to climb to third place and overtake Al Ittihad. So in my opinion, even though the Al Nasr vs Abha match ended in a draw, this still brought positive results for Al Nasr to be able to occupy the top of the standings. So Al Nasr doesn't need to worry for now. The reason is, the obstacle to being able to top the Al Nasr standings is just having to continue to win in the following matches.

And regarding this match, in general Al Nasr really controlled the match. Both in terms of ball control and shots on target. However, Al Nasr's front line was unable to take advantage of goal-scoring opportunities. Because actually Al Nasr's game in this match was very good as usual. However, his neat play was still unable to penetrate the Abha team's defense in depth.

After Sadio Mane and Brozović were withdrawn and replaced. Indeed, this brings a little change on the front line. And actually I would prefer if these two players were not taken off to be replaced. Because both of them make important contributions in the attack line. Both got 1 assist each. And maybe they will make it again if they are given the opportunity until the game ends. Al-Nassr was caught off guard at the end of the match which forced them to experience a draw and at the same time stopped their winning streak.

I think Luis Castro took Mane and Brozović out because he was too confident that Al-Nassr at that time would maintain their lead until the end of the match. But it turned out he was wrong and the substitute steps he took actually made Al-Nassr weak at the end of the match.

Al Nassr's winning streak comes to an end following a 2-2 tie with Ahba on the scoreboard. After the international break, Al Nassr boss Lus Manuel Ribeiro de Castro will try to bolster his team, working to enchance the team in due time. Al Nassr are in a strong position to win the SPL and would not have to give up, especially now that they have made a major comeback. Last Saturday, Al Nassr suffered a setback and came up short against a mediocre opponent. Though it is usual for a team's performance in league games to suffer as a result of the substitution of some important frontline players.

Al Nassr failed to maintain their lead and it was quite unfortunate that they only got a draw, strangely enough after leading in the first half Al Nassr really had difficulty scoring goals to keep them from being chased by their opponents, and what was even more unpleasant was that they got a draw against Abha who previously experienced a losing streak and is a fairly weak team
Sometimes a player gets angry when he feels he is playing well but is replaced by the coach because maybe he thinks it is still possible to score a goal for his team, but the coach always has his own view so he makes that decision, only this time the decision is not effective in getting his team to score goals. In addition, after the previous two goals, they actually failed to maintain the victory they almost achieved, which should be able to make them reduce the points behind the two teams above them in the standings.

But they should not be able to do that as they have no Ronaldo on their team and also no Mane. It is not meant to disrespect Abha, but it is known that the quality in the team from Al-Nassr should easily outplay that from Abha and if it's not possible on a day, then there are issues within the Al-Nassr team. They score less than 2 goals on average per game and now they scored 2 goals against Al-Nassr away from home. That sometimes happens when a team relies to much on their offensive game and hopes for 5 goals when they concede 4 goals. On any day when Ronaldo misses his chances, the game could be tied or lost. Doesn't sound like the ideal approach.

Abha did put up quite a surprising resistance in that match. Even though Abha's ranking in the standings is really very different from Al-Nassr, in reality they are able to make Al-Nassr difficult.
In fact, the number of shots on target that Abha and Al-Nassr had in that match was also the same, namely 6 shots on target.

But a draw seems fair enough for the match. But I imagine that if Al-Nassr wins that match and gets 3 points then of course now Al-Nassr will be in a better ranking, namely at 2nd place. But being at 3rd place is also quite good. It's just that the points Al-Nassr currently has are the same as Al-Ittihad and Al-Ahli. Which makes everything possible in the next match. changes in the standings will really become more fierce.

Yes, the skills shown by the Al Nassr players were very good, because I also saw their calmness in playing the ball, and as the host Al Nassr was very good because after only 2 minutes of the match Otavio managed to score a goal and in the 28th minute Talisca finally scored a goal for Al Nassr very well.

However, Abha's players also showed a good performance and I think Abha was also quite strong, that's why they managed to equalize the match at 2-2.
but if no one takes the penalty kick from the Abha player I think Al Nassr will win the match with a satisfying result, but honestly this is a tense match. and this is proof that Abha players are also very strong.

It looks like Al Hilal has big chance of winning plus the advantage of the home match because the match will take place at the King Fahd International Stadium.
From the head to head record Al Hilal managed to beat Al Ahli twice and drew twice then one win for Al Ahli but now that has changed because each of the two teams has great players from Europe who can create quite significant changes for the team development but look at how both are in the League so Al Hilal is the favorite for this match.

It doesn't matter because several young players can still be relied on by both teams so it will still present a very interesting match for all of us when we watch it later.
But by the way this match is still quite far away because it is scheduled for the end of this month.

The series of victories obtained by An Nasr finally disappeared. So it seems that their coach will have to learn again to make decisions in utilizing substitutions. It seems that during the draw against Abha, Castro's strategy was ineffective. Mane's replacement is not better, even this makes the team's conditions not conducive because Mane is angry. Even if it shouldn't happen.
In addition, An Nasr will not go through an easy season to get the championship. Indeed they have a great list of players coming from Europe. But that doesn't make them always get the most out of it.