Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 51. (Read 119399 times)

But it is very difficult if you look at the current situation even though it is not something to be afraid of but AL Hilal has really gained momentum to become the strongest team so far when the new season starts, we see clearly how AL Hilal cannot be defeated at this time even by Al Ittihad who is a competitor in the hunt for the top of the standings, they cannot beat him, Pioli really has to work hard on how AL Hilal can win, I can't bear to see how Ronaldo or other players are crying because of the defeat they received, I also admit that this league is quite competitive and is getting better day by day.

Well this year could be CR7's revenge for his team to finally get on top, it's never too late, I usually see things in a very positive light, Al Nassr is very hurt when they lose, and looking back at when CR7 cried, I think that showed how highly competitive he is, something like what happened to Messi at one point, when they were also crying, that is worthy of being players who feel absolutely everything and are very professional, this is what I like most about football, that these players don't hold back anything, in this case I'm sure that Al Nassr will have everything to win and will be able to do so to score points.

In this match, we got to see a lot of strength and more goals from Al-Nasr side.  And their players have not allowed Al Wahda's players to score a single goal.  The reason for this is Al Nasr's performance which is making them strong be it SPL or Saudi League.  Moreover, in this league, more bets are placed on Al-Nasr and a lot of profit is taken from it.  Because Rolando, who is the player of this team, has made every team player stronger.  Al-Nasr has scored 6 goals in this match and the strength of their players can be estimated from this match.  Yes, you are right and it has been proven that they should have played stronger than hard work and victory, but they could not succeed in this. Due to which they lost by 6 goals.  Yes, but for that they have to work hard and fast.

It is true that this is Al-Nassr's main problem in the past few seasons. Their not so strong defense always makes Al-Nassr almost concede in every match. So the task of the attack line always becomes much harder. because they also have to compensate by scoring more goals.

But in Al-Nassr's match against Al-Ettifaq, it seems like we saw quite a rapid improvement in Al-Nassr's back line. Because for the first time this season in the SPL we saw Al-Nassr end the match without conceding a ball into their goal. And Al-Nassr even won with an extraordinary score of 0-3. Al-Ettifaq, which is also a strong club, turned out to lose by a fairly large score. And I think Pioli can really bring Al-Nassr to better results this season. Al-Nassr's defense level will also be better.

But at least so far Pioli's arrival has had a big impact on Al Nassr, by recording two wins that became a big motivation for the club that previously only recorded one win from three early season matches. Pioli's arrival not only restored the players' confidence, but also showed Al Nassr's potential this season to compete for the SPL trophy quite big. Far from reasonable expectations because he has only played a few times with Al Nassr, we'll just see in the future how he will make Al Nassr consistent and of course be able to beat Al Hilal as the defending champion.

But what is certain is that Al Nassr still needs strong defenders and midfielders because so far Al Nassr's weaknesses have been in the defensive line and attacking midfielders to build more creative attacks. I think if Pioli is given the freedom to bring in some players, Al Nassr will be champions this season.

Pioli can be said to be successful so far because in a short time, Pioli has succeeded in building good relationships with the players and Pioli's presence also provides an injection of enthusiasm to the entire team, maybe this will continue in the following matches.

Al Wahda must have a hard time facing Al Nassr. They are not good enough at the moment. Even when they met Al Ittihad they had to lose 7-1. While the last meeting with Al Nassr they lost 7-0. Clearly a bad result for Al Wahda.
Pioli's arrival seems to give a better spirit. At least to catch up on the current points I think Ronaldo and the team can do it.
I'm not so sure about the bet on this match. But maybe Al Wahda can also score in the next match.

In the match against Al Ittihad, Al Hilal was not only able to match him, but Al Hilal really made Al Ittihad helpless. The reason is that in this match Al Hilal was able to win the match with a fairly landslide score, namely 3-1. So with this we can conclude that this season Al Hilal is still the strongest team in the Saudi Arabian League. Because the proof is that currently Al Hilal looks like it will again record the same record as the previous season, namely continuing to win without losing. Maybe the only team that can hinder Al Hilal at the moment is Al Nasr, and that is still only a possibility. The reason is that currently Al Nasr is handled by a great coach (Pioli), and he was able to win his last 2 matches well. However, even so, Al Nasr will still have difficulty winning over Al Hilal. Because Al Hilal really has the right composition in every line, has a really great coach too, and Al Hilal already has very strong chemistry between its players. So even though Al Nasr has many star players at the moment, it looks like it will still be a little difficult to keep up with Al Hilal's game. But even so, nothing is impossible in the world of football. So even though the possibility that Al Nasr can beat Al Hilal is not very big, in essence Al Nasr still has hope. And yes, currently Al Hilal is leading the standings again in the Saudi Arabian league. Apart from that, it is true, to be able to shift Al Hilal's current position, a minimum of two losses to Al Hilal are needed. But in my opinion this is still a little difficult to happen at the moment.

Stefano Pioli was appointed on the 18th of September, and since then, Al Nassr has played just two games. They won an away game against Al-Ettifaq in the Saudi Professional League and defeated Al-Hazm in the King Cup of Champions. The Italian tactician has the experience and skills to keep winning but it is too early to conclude that he is the solution to the club's past poor performance. The general performance has improved, and it showed in their ball possession. They controlled these two games and even had more shots on target. I am glad Ronaldo and Mane have all scored this season. With the improved performance, I can also bet on them because winning two straight games shows that there is an improvement.

Upcoming matches.

Al Nassr vs Al Wahda.

There is no doubt that Al Nassr currently looks more likely to compete with strong teams in the SPL after Pioli joined Al Nassr.
I have a temporary prediction that betting on Al Nassr victory is very profitable by choosing Al Nassr over 3.5 with odds @2.15.

First Pioli has a better coach CV than Castro and second he had a good debut with Al-Nassr. It's good start for him and Al-Nassr can hope that Pioli will bring more positive changes to the club. They actually saw potential of Pioli to help their club breaking the crisis and improving their performances to compete better against a very strong club in Saudi Professional League, Al-Hilal.

Al-Nassr in two latest seasons don't have problems with attacking but they had big problems in defense that will be a main focus of Pioli in coming months. They need to help Al-Nassr to improve defense, and if he fails the club will fail in a title competition with Al-Hilal again.

Al-Nassr club has good quality players and with these players it is definitely possible to be in the best position in the Saudi League. However, this club has always been behind Al Hilal due to some wrong decisions of the manager in several seasons, but there are indications that Al-Nassr will compete hard with Al Hilal this season. 

Al Hilal has collected 12 points from the first 4 matches while Al-Nassr has collected 8 points from the first four matches so far. Al Hilal won all the matches while Al Nach won two matches and drew two matches. With most of the season ahead of them, if Al-Nassr pays more attention to every game and tries to play more aggressively, maybe the points gap they have with Al Hilal will be closed very easily.

Al Hilal is a team that is always at the top of the standings at the beginning of each season while Al Ittihad is also one of the best teams in the Arab League both of them display quite interesting games with ball possession controlled by Al Ittihad. There were several mistakes made by Al Ittihad players so that they conceded and Al Hilal players continued to attack until the 2nd half ended with a big win for them.

Currently, Al Hilal is at the top of the standings with the most points for the time being, the match is not over yet, Al Hilal is able to maintain the standings until they become champions this season, Al Nassr is also a team that is difficult to beat this season.

Al Hilal is still very difficult to beat even though the opponent they face is Al Ittihad who has recently performed well but Al Hilal is still able to match Al Ittihad's game and make their opponent unable to move, Al Hilal's attacks cannot be stopped they play more dominantly to put pressure on their opponents and try hard to win the match just like they did when facing Al Nassr.

Now Al Hilal leads the standings with the most points, when this club is at the top it will be difficult for the clubs below it to shift their position from the top unless Al Hilal loses in the next 2 matches.

Pioli wasn't a great manager at Milan and I think it shouldn't really be that crazy to think about at all, it is something that Saudi teams are doing quite famously and I do not think that they should do it. A manager who has done badly and fired by some team, gets a job here and people expect him to do great here, I get hat Milan and Al Nassr isn't that same and Al Nassr is a lot worse and that is why we are not seeing anyone be mad that Pioli was brought in, but I do not think that they are doing as well as Hilal and Jesus.

I guess that we are going to see this team not change that much and we are not going to see it become something big. It has to be something that will probably keep it same. I believe Hilal will be first and Nasr will be second yet again.

The style of play in the Saudi Arabian league is not as competitive as Europe so it will be much easier for Pioli to improve the performance of his players to be better. Need to maximize some of the existing players so that he can give something much better to the team. Pioli is also experienced as a coach and I am optimistic that he can bring Al Nassr to become one of the title contenders and some of the players he has are also quite experienced.

There is still a lot of time to prepare for the match and facing Al Hilal is indeed not an easy matter because the rivalry between the two is quite big. But if Pioli can give something different then I am sure he can get three points in the match.

That was a narrow win and not a confident win, the both goals from Al Nassr was scored in extra time. The first goal came in the extra time for the first half and the second goal came in the extra time of the second half but it is good that the coach tried playing without Ronaldo and gave him a rest as he needs it. Ronaldo can not be playing every match or he won't be able to perform in all the matches as he's no longer a young player. Any coach that knows how to manage old players will get the best out of them and it looks like that's what is going to be happening as Ronaldo gets rested more in games that isn't the league games to regain his strength and score in league games.

Actually Al Nassr is a team that is rich enough to bring in quality players and in fact they also have quality players in their current squad, but overall the game still has many shortcomings that they have so this slightly hampers their development in pursuing achievements in the Saudi Pro League or in other competitions. What is in the spotlight is the performance of their defense line, yes they still have many weaknesses in that position.
somehow they seem to be late to fix all that, even though I think they are very aware that they still have some weaknesses in the defense line. There must be a definite step that they take, either from signing new players or rotating players in the current squad.

Al Hilal and Al Nassr only have difference of 4 points and it is still very possible for Al Nassr to catch up to match and surpass Al Hilal in the future, but if in the future Al Hilal is undefeated and the worst result with several draws to share points then that is still success because Al Nassr will not be able to catch up.
But the chance for Al Hilal not to lose also has fairly small percentage and I sure there must be some unexpected results where Al Hilal loses because the increase and decrease in the performance of each team cannot be really predicted with certainty.
What is clear is that I want to see Al Nassr be able to achieve more wins and minimize the occurrence of defeats, they must be able to save points from each match even if it is only 1 point because of draw, that way Al Nassr will never be left behind by large point difference.
In tomorrow match I sure Al Nassr will still be able to win against Al Wehda by utilizing all the advantages they have.

Pioli might have done well for Al Nassr but I think the result is still below expectations because they have the quality of players needed to win the KSA league but they always fail at doing that. For several matches, they have failed to win Al Hilal and still lacking in consistency as well. The season might be young but judging from last season, the patter and sequence of play still persist. I still do not believe they will beat Al Hilal when they meet because I am not seeing anything special that they are playing.

Correct. It is too early to conclude that Pioli succeeds to improve Al Nassr. But it is a good sign that Pioli can lead Al Nassr properly. Winning in 2 early matches is always crucial, it can boost the spirit and motivation of all players. I'm very sure Al Nassr players become more optimistic to play, they look more comfortable with Pioli's strategy.

If Pioli can win against Al Hilal, I no doubt that Al Nassr will return to the race of the champion. Now, they in the 5th place, the point gap with Al Hilal is quite large. It is difficult to overtake Al Hilal if Al Nassr fails to get full points again. But if Al Hilal can't get the points, it is the chance to shorten the point gap.

The match will be held in Al Nassr home. Al Nassr must win the match for the prestige and for the chance of winning the trophy. A draw should be the target because it doesn't bring any good impact for Al Nassr. In this time, it is a must to beat Al Hilal if Al Nassr still has a dream to win SPL trophy.