Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 49. (Read 111483 times)

I don't know whether to call Neymar lucky or vice versa. But Neymar's serious injury was bad luck but winning a trophy without trying hard was luck. But I'm sure Neymar would be happier if he wasn't injured and continued playing even though he didn't win a trophy. And Cristiano Ronaldo was unlucky because he failed to win the SPL title with Al-Nassr. But Cristiano Ronaldo was lucky because he was the top scorer last season. And I think this season, Cristiano Ronaldo has the potential to become the top scorer again if he continues his performance in scoring goals in every match. But currently the season hasn't started yet and in two days the league will start and I'm curious whether this time in the SPL Al-nassr will achieve good results or not. And I'm also curious whether Cristiano Ronaldo will be the top scorer again or not in the end.

It's really very unique because Neymar rarely plays for Al-Hilal but he gets a lot of trophies and in this case Neymar is really lucky because he can get a lot of trophies without spending a lot of energy, of course it's different from Cristiano Ronaldo because Cristiano Ronaldo has played a lot for Al-nassr but didn't get many trophies and what I remember is that Cristiano Ronaldo only managed to bring Al-nassr to a trophy once for Al-nassr in the Arab Champions League.

Yes, future generations will definitely see that in the SPL Neymar won many trophies while Cristiano Ronaldo only won a few trophies, but for the current generation who already know Ronaldo's struggle in the SPL, they will certainly be amazed by the struggle of Cristiano Ronaldo who played well for Al-Nassr. even though he is no longer young and will definitely appreciate Cristiano Ronaldo's good and maximum efforts.

but of course we don't know how long Cristiano Ronaldo will continue playing football in the SPL and of course it is possible that in this season's SPL Cristiano Ronaldo will succeed in bringing Al-nassr to a trophy and it is possible that Cristiano and Al-nassr will win more trophies in the future. and of course the opportunity for Cristiano Ronaldo to add trophies is still wide open before he retires.

There is one more rumor for Al-Ahli and reportedly Ivan Toney could join if Al-Ahli is willing to pay a fee of £50 million. Of course that is not a small fee because Ivan Toney is one of the best strikers in the EPL and is also an England national team player. So it is very reasonable if Ivan Toney is labeled expensive by Brentford and this will also be an increasingly abundant attacking line option that Al-Ahli can have.

Now the decision is up to Al-Ahli and of course after spending that much money they also have to think about the salary and contract that will be included in the agreement. If this transfer goes smoothly we will see elite strikers in the Saudi league to strengthen their respective teams and at the same time compete on the top scorer board.



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It seems that Al Hilal will not be defeated again this season. The reason is, Al Hilal's current toughest rival (Al Nasr) was defeated easily. So if Al Nasr has been defeated by Al Hilal it is clear that there is no other team in the Saudi Arabian League that can truly match Al Hilal. This is quite boring, because seeing Al Hilal continue to be champions in almost all Saudi Arabian League competitions, is enough to make me personally very bored. So if it continues like this, the Saudi Arabian League will certainly not become a competitive league. Because of course the top seat of the Saudi Arabian League will continue to be occupied by Al Hilal.

Apart from that, talking about Al Nasr's match against Al Hilal, I also agree that the cause of Al Nassr's defeat in this match was of course because of their weak defense. Because if we talk about the front line, Al Nasr is clearly quite sharp. This is because Al Nasr's front line is filled with Ronaldo, Sadio Mane, Talisca and also Otavinho. However, Al Nasr still doesn't seem to have improved its defense line. The reason is that in the transfer market this season, Al Nasr has not bought any new defenders who have good quality. So it's clear that Al Nasr doesn't seem to have any intention of improving its defense line. Therefore, I also don't really understand the mindset of Al Nasr management. Because it's clear their defense line is weak, but why don't they improve it.

Hopefully the defeat experienced by Al Nasr in this match will be a consideration for completely overhauling its defense line. Because I also saw that Ronaldo was very disappointed with the defenders that Al Nasr had. So hopefully when the new season starts, Al Nasr can revise his team better.

To be fair Al Nassr had a good squad that shouldn't lose by this much, this is a bit of a success from Jorge Jesus who made this team better, because if you look at the squad that AL Nassr has, with Laporte, Mane, Talisca, Telles and Ronaldo, these are all players who had a great career and they are all doing fine there.

I suppose the problem could be with the Saudi Arabian players? They should look to get better ones and pay some money for it, but spending a lot within the nation itself makes no sense to them since they want players from Europe. In the end, they lost once again and Al Hilal won again, and by a big margin as well, it feels like this is just replicating what we have seen, shouldn't have been like this.

What is there to be proud of being Neymar? even he did not contribute to the Al Hilal team if I were him I would be ashamed to lift the trophy without doing anything and just sitting watching his club play the match, as a star player he should be a little itchy because he did not play football while Ronaldo continues to show his greatness at his current age.

For me Ronaldo is still greater than Neymar, even though Ronaldo did not win any titles with his club but his skills deserve to be appreciated he did not give up at all going through the season with Al Nassr, it is quite sad to see him fighting for their team but could not win the title Al Nassr should have been able to make improvements in their back line so that Ronaldo's efforts and other attacking lines are not in vain.

There are indeed a lot of Cristiano Ronaldo fans and now it has been proven that the SPL has become more famous because of Cristiano Ronaldo who was brought in by Al-nassr and I am sure that if Cristiano Ronaldo did not go to the SPL I am sure the SPL would not be as popular as it is now. and yes, of course that proves that there are a lot of Cristiano Ronaldo fans in the world.

In the final match of the Saudi Super Cup, this is a match that is eagerly awaited, of course, by many people because they will see the struggle of CR7 and his friends to be able to win the trophy in the final match against Al-Hilal and yes, Cristiano Ronaldo scored the first goal for Al-Nassr, but indeed It's true that Cristiano Ronaldo always tries his best, but yes, it's a shame that at Al-Nassr the players, in terms of ability, still have shortcomings which of course Castro must correct.

but yes Al-hilal did appear brilliant so it looked like he could easily score a goal against Al-nassr but on the one hand I was also amazed by Jorge Jesus' technique because in the second half Al-hilal's players became stronger and it looked very easy for Al-hilal's players can break through Al-nassr's defense.

It is true that if you only rely on 1 player, of course Al-Nassr will definitely not be able to win because of course to achieve success you need the cooperation of all players and also the strength of all players must be strong. Of course, we'll see what match Al-Nassr will have next and of course we will see his strength later.

Sometimes statistics in football tends to look absolutely ridiculous and this Cristiano Ronaldo vs Neymar Jr's achievements with their respective Saudi clubs is one of the those insane statistics. While Neymar Jr have been injured for most part of his time at Al Hilal, Cristiano Ronaldo have been banging in staggering number of goals for his club Al Nassr but sadly, Neymar Jr have four trophies to his name despite scoring just one goal while Cristiano Ronaldo can only boost of one.
Generations to come will read about their achievements in their different clubs and unless they're told in details, they'll think the one with four trophies did better than the one with  just one trophy.

Soccer is a mental game as much as a physical one. Compare Al Nassr and Al Hilal. All witnessed it. One goal against them, boom! Everyone on the squad lost their cool

Four goals in 15 minutes? This is mental collapse, not just bad luck. Al Nassr has great players like Bento who can change a game. But what good is brilliance without focus?

Definitely, Al Hilal has a strong team. If Al Nassr had focused in the first half, we may be singing a different tune. Evidently, mental toughness is the issue, not defense. They must learn to focus under pressure. They need a killing instinct to keep them going when things get rough. The coaching comes in. More adaptability and spontaneous creativity are needed. They need more than individual talent to win games. The team, mindset, and drive to win matter. Al Nassr must handle that or they'll keep failing.

conceded 4 within 17 minutes so, Ronaldo's goal wasn't enough for Al Nassr

Conceding 4 goals in 17 minutes in such a big final is just embarrassing. Cristiano Ronaldo does not deserve this. He was the best performer in his team. Al-Nassr had lost one of their best player in the semi-final and as I have said, that cost them.  

In the 44th minute, Ronaldo got his team Al-Nassr the lead and honestly, I was thinking that Ronaldo is finally going to win a cup for himself after a long time. But that 17 minutes was just shocking. They conceded goal after goal. Mitrovic got the best out of the defense of Al-Nassr, picking it apart. If I was in the place of Ronaldo, I would have been very disappointed as well. Ronaldo was just a few minutes away from winning a well-deserved championship until his team fell apart.

Al-Nassr has some quality players in their defense though. Laporte, and Alex Telles are all quality players. They just could not achieve anything yesterday. Before the match started I actually thought that this defense could get the job done and help Ronaldo win his trophy.

I beg to go off from everyone on the point of Al Nassr and their possibility of winning the suadi pro league in this season, although the club still remains one of the best performing clubs in the suadi Arabia league and at that Al Hilal is only trying to be a opponent in the league and also trying their own best to break a record in this season, and as you rightly Said, both clubs have similar players features, but apart from players there is more to what makes a team win a league which is totally outside player's and that is management and coach processing.
If you notice on the match the AI Nassr coach failed to properly managed and use his available player's in the right tactical place and time to give the opponent a tough one, same thing can also happens to any club no matter the amount of star players that are available on the team, so let us look out to what will come along the way and the remaining days of the league.

Al-Nassr seemed to lose his confidence in the second half. I don't know what happened, but after the first goal scored by Al-Hilal against Al-Nassr's goal, Al-Nassr's defensive mentality dropped drastically. Even Bento, who usually always manages to be the savior, but in the second half he momentarily lost focus. Apart from the mentality of the Al-Nassr defenders who really need attention, I think the Al-Nassr midfielders are also sometimes not quick in helping them go down the back line. However, I am sure that if Al-Nassr in the second half had not lost focus after Al-Hilal's first goal then they would not have conceded so many goals in such a relatively short time.

I hope Al-nassr doesn't repeat its mistakes in the SPL. because what we are waiting for is that they can play better in the SPL.

I also hope that Neymar can recover completely because I want to see this player return to playing on the green field.

Neymar was only listed in the Al Hilal squad but he suffered a long injury so he could not help Al Hilal. However, it is interesting when players who only sit on the bench and are not even there can win more trophies than players who have contributed a lot to the team.
From here we see that the individual does not have much influence if the team can have a very good game and also good teamwork. This reminds me of Hazard at Real Madrid, he was just a decoration on the bench, but he won many prestigious trophies. Lol
Earlier we talked about Al Nassr's weak defense and now I see the same thing again. There is no other way for Al Nassr other than to improve the performance of their defensive line, because this is the main problem they have, making it difficult to compete with Al Hilal.

It's great to be Neymar, without trying hard he can still win his fourth trophy with Al-Hilal.

I think if it were Ronaldo's position, maybe he wouldn't be happy at all if he won the trophy without ever playing a single match and here Neymar seems to be used to it because he is still injured and he is helped by his friends to continue to add to his collection of titles in Saudi Arabia.

But on the other hand, Ronaldo will still be happy because he can continue to score goals in almost every match and it seems like he will continue to chase the record that has not been completed. It must be really painful to fail to win the title over and over again and for a great player like him it feels like he doesn't deserve all this.

As long as there is football, it is natural that there will be comparisons between the best players. At one time there was a comparison between the Brazilian legend Pele and the Argentine legend Maradona. Comparisons between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have continued since they retired from football. Their time is almost at the end, maybe if they leave, there will be comparisons among the fans about new star players. The players we compare are all personal preferences, even those who like these players want to promote their favorite players. Currently, Cristiano Ronaldo is playing for Al-Nassr Club of the Saudi League.

A few days ago they faced Al Hilal in the final of the Saudi Super Cup where they lost 4-1. Cristiano Ronaldo managed to score just one goal for Al Nasr in this match, he got a free kick which he shot over the Goal bar. Apart from him, all the other players of their team could not perform well. When I highlighted this match I saw Al Hilal players smashing the Al Nassr Club defense and putting the ball into the net. Then only Ronaldo was suffering from regret.

Indeed, if you look at the first half, Al-Nassr played very well and of course I saw that this made the Al-Nassr fans also enthusiastic and in the second half, Al-Nassr's performance was not so good and indeed conceding goals in a row in such a short time was certainly very surprising for Al-Nassr Club class.

actually in the second half Al-nassr should have been more enthusiastic because they had already scored 1 goal printed Cristiano Ronaldo but in fact Al-hilal were more enthusiastic in the second half and honestly I was also amazed by the mentality of the Al-hilal players who were able to recover in the second half 2 that. That's why it's only fitting that Ronaldo mocked his friend because Ronaldo would also be annoyed by the incident, especially since it was the final match to win the title.

In my opinion, up to now Al-Nassr in terms of defense is still like last season, there has been no progress and of course if this continues with Al-Nassr's condition not improving then it will definitely be difficult for Al-Nassr to win the title and it is not impossible. also that Cristiano Ronaldo will leave Al-nassr if there is no progress from the Al-nassr squad. but I hope that Cristiano Ronaldo does not leave Al-nassr and I hope that Al-nassr's strength will quickly increase.

Al Hillal continues to continue their dominance over Al Nassr currently in the domestic leagu,  If you look at the quality of the squad that Al Hillal has, it is actually not much different from that of Al Nassr, but for some reason every time they meet Al Hillal, Al Nassr seems to lose their mentality and also their fighting power in the match and this was clearly visible when they were easily destroyed by Al Hillal in the Super Cup final yesterday, Al Nassr had actually taken the lead through a goal scored by Ronaldo in that match but Al Hillal rise turned out to be a nightmare for the Al Nassr defense which had to concede 4 goals in just 15 minutes.

In my opinion, if Al Nassr wants to be able to compete with Al Hillal of course they have to overhaul their squad, especially their defense which is very bad and too easily exploited by opposing teams, apart from that, maybe Al Nassr now needs to consider replacing their coach who is poor in strategic creativity and the game scheme, talking about Neymar, it looks like he is still recovering from his injury, although maybe he has recovered, of course Al Hillal doesn't want to take the risk of to played him in that match.

Comparison of Neymar and Ronaldo:

Cristiano is a very respected Athlete but the rivalry between him and Messi made some fans to dislike him because they they believe Messi is better than him. Being a football fan i think everyone will not hate such a player that have achieved so much in football, if not for the rivalry i don’t think anyone will have a reason to hate him.

It was the Super Cup final which ended in a defeat for Al Nassr. It’s sad how Al Hilal have always been better than Al Nassr in every game they play, Ronaldo should have won a major trophy for Al Nassr if not for Mitrovic and Al Hilal they just seem so better as a team and that’s why it is easy for them to keep winning every trophy there is.

Al Nassr still needs more players to strengthen their squad if they ever want to measure up to Al Hilal, their defense is still not strong enough so adding a few more defenders will help and players like Mane needs to step up their game and make things happen and stop depending on Ronaldo to deliver everytime.

After this match it is clear that Al Nassr has no hope of winning the SPL title because in terms of attack Al Hilal is stronger than the club's excellent cooperation.
While Al Nassr is still the same as before, relying too much on Ronaldo in attack so that the results are very bad and I see only Ronaldo and Talisca who are very productive.
Anyone who bets on Al Hilal's victory will definitely get a decent profit because before the match starts we can predict the results very easily.

Al Nassr need improvement in midfield who should be replaced with more productive players.

Even with Neymar not being in the lineup due to the injury, the team still delivered an impressive win. I do agree with the points made further: changes are needed to try to compete more effectively in the future.