Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 52. (Read 118843 times)

You're right. Al Hilal is still the strongest team in SPL, Al Ittihad even can't keep up with their game. True, Al Hilal could score 2 goals in 14 minutes. They scored 3 goals in the first half of the match. If they still played aggressively as in the first half, I think Al Hilal can score more goals. But it seems Al Hilal played more defensively in the second half, so it was the opportunity of Al Ittihad to score a goal. However, Al Ittihad only could score a single goal only. It doesn't enough to steal point from Al Hilal.

Agree, Al Ittihad defense looked better in the second half. But I think it may be caused by the change of Al Hilal tactics. Al Hilal seems not playing as aggressive as in the first half. They may feel satisfied to lead the match with 3 goals. They may try to keep their energy and lower the chance of injury, there are still many matches left.

That's right, it's extraordinary that Al Nasr was able to win over Al Ettifaq with a fairly large score of 3-0. Even before this match started, many people doubted that Al Nasr could win this match. Because it cannot be denied that Al Nasr's performance so far has been inconsistent. But Ronaldo and his teammates proved and disproved all these doubts and convinced us all that Al Nasr is a tough team.
Apart from that, from the start I personally was quite confident that in this match against Al Ettifaq the Al Nasr players would perform better. So in this match I bet on Al Nasr, and sure enough my prediction was correct.

Apart from that, Al Nasr's victory over Al Ettifaq did not escape the great tactician, Pioli. I think that with Pioli filling the coaching seat at Al Nasr, it is likely that Al Nasr will experience a significant increase in performance. Because it was proven in his first match coaching Al Nasr, Pioli was able to surprise us all by achieving good results against Al Ettifaq. Apart from that, Pioli doesn't seem to need long to adapt to the Al Nasr players. Because I see that Pioli already knows the potential that the Al Nasr players have and can also create quite good combinations of players. So hopefully under Pioli's leadership Al Nasr can become an even greater team and be able to become champions in various Saudi Arabian and Asian League competitions. Because when Al Nasr was still being trained by Castro, no satisfactory results had been achieved.

Al Hilal are still very strong in this Saudi Pro League so they are difficult to beat, yes they won again in week 4 when they hosted Al Ittihad, they even took the initiative to attack at the beginning of the match and it didn't take long for them to score goals, in the first 15 minutes they were able to score 2 goals. Al Ittihad who tried their best to reply couldn't do much and even had to concede again in the 37th minute so that the first half ended with a score of 3-0 for Al Hilal's advantage.
In the second half, Al Ittihad was able to play better, especially in their defense, but they were not strong enough to catch up, they were only able to score 1 goal through Benzema's goal in the 86th minute and that was not enough for them to get points.

Yeah I agree, now Saudi Professional League is good place for cashing out your experience and coach with things are clearly indicating these players those spend 12 to 15 years in best clubs no need of coaching or any tactics they are already having enough things for giving their best and same apply for the coaches those spend their lifetime in European best clubs and give their best as well with having too many trophies and other achievements are now having good time for cashing out this.

Even conditions are not easy and most of the players and other staff are also not feel comfortable with culture and other things but still they are here for the sack of money as now Saudi League is trying to have their mark in soccer world and money is also not issue for them so they can do as they wanted with the influence of money.

Al Hilal are still very strong in this Saudi Pro League so they are difficult to beat, yes they won again in week 4 when they hosted Al Ittihad, they even took the initiative to attack at the beginning of the match and it didn't take long for them to score goals, in the first 15 minutes they were able to score 2 goals. Al Ittihad who tried their best to reply couldn't do much and even had to concede again in the 37th minute so that the first half ended with a score of 3-0 for Al Hilal's advantage.
In the second half, Al Ittihad was able to play better, especially in their defense, but they were not strong enough to catch up, they were only able to score 1 goal through Benzema's goal in the 86th minute and that was not enough for them to get points.

You could see it either way. Since most of the players going to play in the Saudi Professional League go there for the money, having a coach who understands how to motivate world class players who are about to retire, could be very important. It's a difficult spot to be in for any coach. All these players have a fortune in their bank accounts, won titles and have a lot of experience and then you are the coach and want to explain them during the training sessions how to best play in the next game. I wonder if Ronaldo is taking any of those coaches seriously. He probably doesn't care what the coaches over there have to say and I suppose that other players are the same.

The Saudi league is still going strong for now, but Ronaldo is no longer a young player and he needs to be replaced by someone else, no less important than him, who will entail crowds and fans joining the league. At the moment there are no such players unfortunately and I don't think they will appear any time soon, no matter how much money the Saudis would like to give away

I just didn't expect that drastic changes we could see in the Al-Nassr squad after they had a new coach. I see that almost all the problems that Al-Nassr have, such as in the defense line, are now starting to be resolved after they have a new coach who replaced Luis Castro, namely Stefano Pioli. There is absolutely no doubt about his quality as a coach. I think Al-Nassr has taken the right step by bringing in Pioli. And maybe from now on Al-Nassr will gain much more winning momentum.

I am happy that Al-Nassr can finally play better after they always experienced a deadlock in previous matches. Stefano Pioli, who is used to managing big clubs in Serie A such as AC Milan, Inter Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio and Bologna, will certainly have no difficulty at all in adapting to Al-Nassr, which is also full of quality players so far. I think it's time for Al-Nassr to improve again like last season. Luis Castro last season made Al-nassr achieve good results. but this season it seems he hasn't succeeded so he seems to have agreed to leave and be replaced by Pioli.

I also do not care about head to head even honestly I am also interested in following the Saudi professional league because of the influence of Ronaldo and a number of other big names that follow in the footsteps of Ronaldo such as Neymar, Benzema, Mane, Firmino to famous coaches such as Gerrard and others.
Stefano Pioli might look for new challenges after leaving AC Milan. For me it is good because Al Nassr is filled by phenomenal players who will soon leave professional football.

Without a doubt things can be very difficult when such a good player can't contribute as much as it was thought he could, we really wanted to see the validation between the teams, on the one hand cr7 and on the other a Ney who, well, it wasn't his fault really, the truth is that this player is really needed by the Brazilian national team, he has to wait around a year to be able to return to the fields, that's what I've seen in the news but I haven't confirmed it, from here on it will be difficult for Ney to get a team to play for.

Al Hilal was the host team in this game and considering their records against Al Ittihad whenever they play at home, statistics favors them to get all three points from the game but because Al Ittihad were at the top of the table before facing Al Hilal, I was of the opinion that they stand a chance of getting something out of the game.

The host team dominated the game from start till the end and if not for Karim Benzema's late strike, it would've ended as a clean sheet for the home team. Aleksander Mitrovic who can't stop scoring goals whenever it matters most for Al Hilal got a brace today and was close to getting a hattrick.

No matter how strong Ittihad is, it will not be enough to beat Al Hilal and even to hold the match to a draw is very difficult. We see that the match is already underway and Al Hilal playing style is really very good. Mitrovic appeared very productive and he was always able to take advantage of the opportunities that existed.
In this match I took too much risk to bet on Al Hilal victory -2 because I was late to the event to bet.

Currently the temporary score is 2-0 and I still have confidence that at least Al Hilal can score 3 more goals and hold Ittihad from scoring.

Blanc acknowledges the challenge of facing dominant Al Hilal

RIYADH — French coach Laurent Blanc admitted the challenges of playing against Al Hilal, describing them as the best team in the Middle East following Al Ittihad's 3-1 defeat in the Saudi Clasico.

In a post-match press conference, Blanc said: "We played a match against a very strong opponent with a good coach. Al Hilal is a stable team that has maintained consistency for nearly a season. We made some mistakes, and in my opinion, if we hadn't conceded those two early goals, the situation might have been different."

There was a mistake in making decisions on Al Hilal's part in my opinion, because they did not see the history of injuries experienced by the player, so it caused a loss for them, a loss in terms of contribution after the money they had spent.

In the match of Al-Wehda vs Al Kholood team, Al Kholood won today's match by scoring 1 goal. Al-Wehda team did not score any goals in today's match after many efforts. Al Kholood team player Á.  Collado scored in the 60th minute. On the other hand, Al-Wehda's player A. Bandar Darwish received a red card in the 57th minute.

Al Hilal vs Al Ittihad.

This prestigious match between elite Saudi Pro League clubs was won by Jorge Jesus' team, thus Al Ittihad was unable to break Al Hilal's dominance in 13 meetings in various competitions. In this match, Laurent Blanc's team was unable to match the strength of its rivals in the Saudi Pro League, even Al Ittihad was quite overwhelmed in keeping up with the game of its opponent's team. The only goal scored by Al Itthad was scored by Karim Benzema, it's a shame even though the two teams previously had the same points. In the Al Hilal camp, Mitrovic once again showed his sharpness by scoring two goals. Thus, he has collected 8 goals in his 4 matches in the Saudi Pro League. Statistically, Jorge Jesus' team played quite well even though some players played below standard. Al Dawsari is one of the local players whose performance is worth considering, he is one of the local players who shines quite well. In this match, Al Dawsari contributed one goal through an assist from Ruben Neves. as a result, Al Hilal was able to widen the points gap from its rivals.

I feel like head coach doesn't play that much part in getting the players in Saudi Arabia like other leagues. This league is looking to get famous players, while some players and teams are just for right talent reasons, most of the moves are just for fame reasons, like while Al Nassr never won the league while Ronaldo was there, they are the team with the most income because they are selling the most jerseys. So, it's definitely that we are going to see that it's going to be a hard situation and we are going to have some trouble one way or another and we can make sure that Al Nassr will continue to do the same thing. Head Coaches do not really get to say much here, they are fine with whoever they are given and tasked to win as much as they can with whatever team they are given.

Whatever reasons, it's not important, if as a head coach, he can not get good results with the team, he is responsible for it and need to leave the club, if not proactively, it has to be a sack.