Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 50. (Read 111483 times)

If a team concedes four goals in the first 17 minutes, it must be assumed that the team did not perform like a professional team at all. How weak is a team's midfield and defense that they conceded four goals in just 17 minutes. After conceding four goals in the first 17 minutes, it looked like they might have scored a dozen more in the rest of the period, but that was not the case. You can't blame Ronaldo too much here because he didn't have much to do on his own. Ronaldo did his job well if he could have had better support from the midfield maybe the number of goals would have increased but the biggest thing is that Al Nasser's players here have performed very poorly in defense. 

Such a poor performance in such a big tournament is certainly not expected from Al Nasser.

Al Nassr should have recruited an experienced goalkeeper from a famous league in Europe instead of recruiting Bento who only has little experience, he only made 1 save and unable to hold back other attacks even though Al Hilal also did not make many shots, only 5 shots on target and 4 of them resulted in goals. From this result, it can be seen that Al Nassr's defense is still bad, they will not be able to compete in the title race with Al Hilal this season if their performance is still like this.


Source : https://www.transfermarkt.co.id/al-nassr-fc/transfers/verein/18544/saison_id/2024

Al Nassr has actually recruited 1 defender but it seems that it is not enough and they have not used this player in their match against Al Hilal, Luis Castro must change his strategy and think of a solution so that Al Nassr can perform better in the remaining matches.

As expected, Al Hilal  football team won the final match by 4-1 . My prediction was right, Al Hilal football team won the  match on sided and we didn't see competition in this match. That was the final of Saudi Super Cup and Al Players were dominant in this match.  Mitrović did two goals in this match and made match one sided and he has crucial role in this match because he did back to back goals . He did his first goal at 63 minutes of the match and after that at 69 minutes,he did his second goal . And at that time team score was 3 and opponent team score was 1. Al-Nassr team should work on their skills because that is time to improve yourself and if they improve well,then they will win the next Cup.

Al-Ahli actually do not only need defenders in this summer transfer window, they also need to bring in a striker who is much more productive than what they have. or, a player who can provide service for Firas Al Buraikan in terms of scoring goals. because, they are still struggling even though they already have Firmino and Mahrez. at least, another option is to bring in local players who are also very experienced and established in terms of the game. thus, maybe Al-Ahli will be much more productive in terms of scoring goals. talking about Alexsander, I tried to see his statistics and various references related to his position, it seems that Al-Ahli plans to deepen its midfielders. if I'm not mistaken, Alexsander is positioned as a defensive midfielder. thus, he can be paired with Franck Kessie. but considering that we don't know his performance, especially since he is still very young, it is not certain that this player can adapt quickly. however, at least Al-Ahli is trying to bring in players who are needed in their squad team. well, Al-Ahli should bring in several other newcomers for several positions. however, if they still plan to bring in foreign or European players, Al-Ahli must release some incompetent foreign players.

What Ronaldo did might be a little controversial, but considering what happened in that match, Ronaldo should have been disappointed with his team, because ronaldo had worked very hard in that match and the goal he scored should have been a motivation for his teammates, especially for defense to keeping that the win, but only by 17 minutes they conceded 4 goals and showed that Al Nassr defense was very fragile, Bento who was the goalkeeper in that match couldn't do much and I don't think it should be all blamed for Bento, because after all without a strong defense of course he couldn't do a lot to prevent the goal from being conceded.
But despite all that, currently the transfer market is still open and it would be good for Al Nassr to evaluate their defense to improve existing weaknesses, Szczesny who previously failed to be recruited by Al Nassr from Juventus, now is available with free transfer status and maybe he is still worthy of being recruited by Al Nassr at this time as the main goalkeeper.

That's right, if Al Nassr management does not fix the weaknesses in their current defense, then it is not surprising that next season Al Nassr will again be close friends with failure. Al Nassr latest defeat to Al Hilal in the Saudi Super Cup should be a signal to introspect the shortcomings, and make the most of the transfer window that is still open. I think Al Nassr could experience a setback next season if they are satisfied with the available squad, Ronaldo will automatically continue to extend his trophy drought in Saudi. It must be admitted that Al Hilal is too tough to be defeated by any team, previously they had won the Saudi King Cup and the Saudi Pro League.

On the other hand, the Saudi Pro League has become famous since Ronaldo arrived, Al Nassr should be able to build a quality team around Ronaldo to be able to achieve success. I am very sure that if Al Nassr succeeds in winning the trophy in the future, the prestige of the Saudi Pro League will increase, because of Ronaldo presence in the team. The opportunity is still open, and while Ronaldo has not talked about retiring, Al Nassr must make the most of the momentum. Losing 4-1 indicates that Al Nassr back line is indeed very porous, Luis Castro needs to evaluate the depth of his squad.

In this transfer market we have seen several young Brazilian players joining the SPL. Apart from this young player, there is also a young Brazilian goalkeeper, namely Bento Matheus Krepski, who is still 25 years old who has joined Al-Nassr. But so far Alexsander is the youngest at 21 years old. With this I think that next season there will be even more young players interested in joining the SPL. This is a positive thing for all SPL clubs. And I understand why these young players dare to come to the SPL apart from money. That is, they can also return to Europe at any time. And if their quality in the SPL is very good. So don't be surprised if one day there will be a European club who will want to recruit him again at a high price. Because several European players have come to the SPL, some have returned to Europe because they have received good offers. So going to the SPL will not decide the player's future. Because even several clubs in the transfer market this time are also targeting European players in the SPL. Atletico Madrid and West Ham are two clubs that are also trying to re-recruit European players in the SPL. But their efforts don't seem to be successful.

That hope existed when Cristiano Ronaldo could create a goal in the first half before halftime. But at the beginning of the second half of Al Naasr could not do much when he saw 4 goals lodged against their goal. Again and again in this match the defense is the highlight of the spotlight and it is also their shortcomings last season. Many people want to see something different that can be shown by Al Nassr but that is only hope that is far from reality.

Congratulations to Al Hilal who once again shows that they are more resilient than their rivals, Al Nassr. If this is not quickly fixed, it is not impossible that Al Hilal will be sukit to be stopped again like last season. After a fairly prison holiday, Beauty's work is still waiting for Al Nassr to be able to improve their performance, especially in now defense, also now which cannot be the first line to break down attacks from Al Hilal.

You have to put the blame on the defense of Al Nassr for letting in four goals in just 17 minutes because that can only happen with a toothless defense line. Al Nassr's problems of last season wasn't lack of a good attacking line that could score plenty goals because they did have it as well as top scorer in the Saudi Pro League last season but it was their poor defending that caused them the league title and other trophies they competed in last season. I thought the club management will fix that issue by signing quality defenders this transfer window but they failed to do that. The goalkeeper was poor with his decisions yesterday and if he continues with such performance, then he should be replaced. I hope the club manager improves the team in no distant time.

Al Hilal beat Al Nasser by a huge margin last night in the final of the Saudi Cup. Cristiano Ronaldo scored for Al-Nasser in this match but his goal was not enough to win the team. Al Hilal scored back-to-back goals and Al Nasser conceded. Al Hilal defeated Al-Nasser by a huge margin of 4-1 to win the Arab Super Cup. Neymar was not in the squad due to injury problems but there was good buzz among the fans about his presence but in the end Al Hilal did not include him in the final of this important match. 

Most of the matches Al Nasser played with Al Hilal last season, Al Nasser lost most of the matches, which means that their team definitely needs changes and the team needs to be strengthened, but they will be able to compete with Al Hilal.

I don't know who to blame but conceding 4 goals in 17 minutes felt very embarrassing and Ronaldo even mocked his teammates with a sleeping movement when conceding the goals. Even though the match was fierce and Al-Nassr's opening goal was scored by Ronaldo but it wouldn't be Al-Hilal if they couldn't reply to the goal.

As a result, in the second half Al-Hilal appeared so aggressive and it all started with goals from Milinkovic Savic, Mitrovic to Malcom making Al-Nassr so miserable. The performance of Al-Nassr's new goalkeeper, Bento, was also considered very bad and he got the lowest rating in this final match. But indeed if Al-Nassr's defense was much stronger, this conceding should not have continued. Once again, Ronaldo and Al-Nassr had to fall in front of Al-Hilal and I think it won't be long before Ronaldo won't be comfortable at Al-Nassr if it is still difficult to win the title.

I have to agreed here but still we need to talk few more things like it's not all about money now Saudi Pro League is also making mark and organizers are doing good work for having better and competitive soccer which will bring good intention from many sensations from the different regions for having their presence here in this league.

 Even we can't go without this money is having enough power and here in Saudi League it's not a problem for them clubs to spend this even they are having no good return of this investment, but they are trying their best for having world's best players here UEFA is still one of the best league in world and soccer players and fans love to be here, but now things are taking changes we have to accept few things about this as well for having development for good.

I have been saying here that Al Nassr probably won't achieve anything relevant with coach Luís Castro, who according to some rumors (maybe they are rumors that are far from the truth), could be fired soon. After losing once again against Al Hilal, it became clear that the Al Nassr coach is not ready to achieve anything with Al Nassr. Losing in a humiliating way in the first official game is not a good start to the season. Al Nassr was the first to score a goal, but then conceded 4 goals and lost, and with that the number of defeats in games against Al Hilal increased. We all know that losing in some game is normal, but in the case of Al Nassr against Al Hilal there is a very particularity, I'm talking about this:



source: https://livescores.biz/h2h/al-hilal-vs-al-nassr

1 - From 2021 to 2024, Al Nassr has only won 2 matches against Al Hilal

2 - In the last 13 matches that Al Nassr has played against Al Hilal, Al Hilal has won 7 matches, while Al Nassr has won only 2 matches. There were 4 draws

3 - In the matches in which Al Hilal has beaten Al Nassr, Al Hilal has managed to score at least 2 goals.

Looking at this data and knowing that this season Al Hilal does not have any great players on the field and yet they have achieved great things, then I see that Al Nassr's biggest problem is the coach. Ronaldo was very unlucky to have gone to Al Nassr, since he left Real Madrid, who has only gone to teams with serious problems and failures.

Since last season Al Hilal team occupied the first place of Saudi Professional League, and coming to the new season they started to perform better. In this case, it is not possible to rely on Cristiano Ronaldo to win the team of Al Nassr, it is true that one should never rely on another person in the game of football. Although Cristiano Ronaldo scored a goal at half time by his performance, but Al Hilal team scored four goals in a row. 

My question here is that the goalkeepers and defenders of the Al Nassr team seem to have been indifferent for some time, because the match will change so quickly, I never imagined. But from the beginning of the game until halftime I thought Al Nassr would win and within a short time the match turned into a huge difference.

I am a big fan of CR Seven, I always respect him. The king of the football world is CR7, those who are fans of Messi, Neymar are also big fans of CR7, there is no football lover who does not like CR7.

But in yesterday's Saudi Pro League final match, two strong teams Al Hilal VS Al Nasr faced each other, where the first goal was scored by CR7 of Al Nasr, Al Hilal is a very strong team, there is no doubt about it, they perform great in every match and defeat their opponents. give CR 7 tried their best in this final match, but no one can survive in front of a full team, every player of Al-Nassr team should play equally, but they couldn't. While every player of Al Hilal team on the opposite side performed brilliantly, they easily beat Al Nasr 4-1.

To be honest, as a fan of CR Seven, their defeat felt very bad to me. At the moment, the coach of Al-Nassr team should train each player well, because depending on one player, the match can never be won.

It is true that young Brazilian players prefer Europe, but when it comes to money, money must be more attractive. Saudi Arabian teams can make very high contract offers. European teams want to transfer players with lower offers and more modest ones. When it comes to this, Saudi Arabia does not matter much to Brazilian players because they focus on the money they will earn rather than the country's situation. They also have the chance to go to Europe a few years later when they are richer. In fact, I think they are making a logical move.

Al Ahli got their first new player this season and they were successfully to gets Fluminense defender player Alexsander and it says Al Ahli have to spend 10 million as transfer fees and Alexsander will gets 3 years contract duration however Alexsander current age is 21 years old so for some of Brazilian player he is still too young to playing at Saudi Pro League because mostly the players from Brazil is targetting want to play at Europa instead of Saudi Pro League

Source : https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1824950785714606427

But for Al Ahli i think this is good transfer for them because finally they can gets young potential player from outside Saudi Arabia but i can see they are not too active to buy players this summer

I personally also feel sad because I see Al-Nassr always losing to Al-Hilal and of course I thought that in yesterday's match against Al-Hilal in the Saudi Super Cup, Al-Nassr would win because I think Al-Hilal got the trophy too often and snatched it from Al-nassr. and I also saw that Al-Nassr fans were sad, but it couldn't be helped because Al-Hilal was a strong team.

and I personally also feel sorry for the Cristiano Ronaldo that I remember because until now he hasn't won a trophy since he went to the Saudi league and brought his team to the title. I agree with your opinion that the club manager should try as much as possible to make Al-Nassr even stronger and it is very painful for Al-Nassr because his dreams are always taken away by Jorge Jesus' troops.


and I also see that Al-Nassr's defense still needs to be improved and I also hope that Luis Castro can improve Al-Nassr's defense and also Luis Castro must train in terms of the mentality of Al-Nassr's players to make them stronger because I saw in the final match yesterday that Al-Nassr's players When the score was 2-1, Al-Nassr's players looked like their performance was not good and of course if Al-Nassr wanted to win the title next season, it would be very difficult if their performance did not improve.

As a fan of Cristiano Ronaldo, I felt very bad to watch them suffer another defeat that denied them what would've been the first trophy of the season but to think that the defeat was handed to them by the same Al Hilal that's denied them the chance of winning at least three different trophies last season makes it even more painful. The club manager must as a matter of fact try work on the team and their failures to win games against big Al Hilal since they'll still meet in the league and probably in the league cup later this season. They must not continue to suffer defeat in the hands of Al Hilal whenever they meet unless they don't want to win any trophy this new season.

I was not at all present for this result, the game was quite competitive until half time. But since then Al Hilal scored four goals between 55 minutes and 72 minutes. Al Nasr's team players seemed to be asleep, because of how they temporarily performed during such a weak performance.  Al Hilal team waited for a long time which they took advantage of, one attack after another Al Nasr team's defense department and goalkeeper failed to meet their attacks.

So I would like to say that despite performing well throughout the whole period and losing badly in the end, this season Al Hilal has proven once again that they are strong and capable.