Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 525. (Read 127957 times)

All clubs in the SPL will have the same ambition, namely to win a trophy at the end of the season, the top five standings are very competitive at the moment. Week 9 will happen soon, the standings are likely to change again significantly, I think. The match between Al Ittihad and Al Ahli will be an interesting one to look forward to, Al Nassr will have a slightly easier opponent, Abha Club.

If Al Ahli draws with Al Ittihad, then Al Nassr will move up one level but with the condition that they must succeed in getting points by beating Abha Club. For Al Hilal, who currently leads the standings, I think they will remain at the top because the chance of winning over Al Akhdoud is quite big.

Al Nassr is performing better and always shows very good progress so that it is able to catch up and only has few points difference with first place occupied by Al Hilal and second or third place occupied by Al-Ittihad and Al-Taawon.
From what Al Nassr has achieved they have a big chance of becoming champions this season and can make the squad the strongest for the Saudi Pro League.

Actually if you say it easy it not quite right because Ronaldo and his friends try very hard and always maximize their performance to be able to win every match and catch up with the team at the top of the standings.

As time went by some Al Nassr players were really showed the world that for this season big changes had occurred, changes that made Al Nassr difficult team to beat.
I believe Al Nassr can take advantage of the opportunity and can become the team that occupies first and place to win the trophy this season.

It is true that Al Nasr's front players, namely Ronaldo, Talisca and Sadio Mane, are excellent goal scorers. Because of this, it has been proven in the last eight Saudi Arabian League matches that these three players always contributed goals in almost every match. However, in my personal opinion, Al Nasr cannot be said to be a great team if it cannot beat strong teams such as Al Ittihad, Al Etifaq and Al Taawon. The reason is that in the last matches played by the Al Nasr team, they only played against teams whose level was below them or could be said to be weaker. So in my personal opinion, to measure Al Nasr's true abilities, I think we have to wait until the match against another strong team occurs.

And indeed, if you look at the difference in points, Al Nasr is currently not far apart from group leader Al Hilal. So Al Nasr does have great potential to top the standings. However, with the condition, Al Nasr must be able to beat a strong team first. Maybe that's quite a challenge for Al Nasr. Because if you look at other strong teams besides Al Nasr such as Al Hilal, Al Ittihad, Al Taawon and Al Etifaq. I think these teams have almost the same quality. So, to determine which team is stronger, the answer is that we have to wait for the upcoming match between the five teams.

I have also thought about something else because when there is a weaker team that plays against Al-Nasr, wouldn't it be more motivating when there is someone like Ronaldo on the pitch? I can imagine that players put even more effort into beating Al-Nasr because it has this extra bit of global attention and every player of the opponent knows it. They know that a part of the world will watch that game. Of course it is still an advantage to have Ronaldo on the team, but this is just a consideration that came to my mind. I think if I was a player and I would be playing against Ronaldo, it would definitely motivate me some extra.

Al Nassr are among the favorite team clinching for title, the Knights of Najd is elite club who want the very best results in SPL. With the presence of frontline vital players, Cristiano Ronaldo, Sadio Mane and Talisca, scoring goals have been made easy for the team. They have ultimate targets to hits this season, moving into more considerable essential spots on SPL table with the aides of frontlines who doesn't relent in games. Al Nassr keeps consistent winning this season, they're able to achieved it because of the star line-ups, who are ready to take the team to next level.

The difference in points is indeed small, but the competition of the difference in points is very small. At the moment I am not quite sure that An Nassr can easily get a champion. They have a rival team that is almost equally powerful. So if you say it's easy, I think it's wrong. Indeed they look convincing this end because of 6 consecutive wins. Mane's arrival had a big effect.

I agree that Al-ittihad seems to be the favorite in this match. And Al-Ahli is actually not that consistent. They do have great players. But I don't think Al-Ahli is as strong as Al-ittihad. Benzema is currently still injured but the Al-ittihad squad is always strong even without Benzema. We have seen this since last season. Because last season Al-Ittihad won the title because they deserved it. Al-Nassr always had difficulties when facing Al-ittihad, which at that time did not have Benzema. So Al-Ahli will not be much different. They must have had difficulties in this match. But I can't predict whether Al-ittihad will win. But what is certain is that Al-ittihad will definitely dominate in possession of the ball. And it will continue to make things difficult for Al-Ahli's defense.

I’ve always known how influential Ronaldo can be and am not not surprised of his impact on the Al Nassr team and the Saudi league in general. Despite his old age he still proves everyone wrong that he is still capable of playing and scoring goals, the whole team has improved and thanks to his goals for keeping the defenders and other players motivated and i like what is happening to Al Nassr team currently despite having a bad start they have managed to improve their game. Talisca has been a good support to Ronaldo he shows up and delivers when Ronaldo is struggling to score to relief him from pressure.

Before Ronaldo’s arrival Talisca has been an important player for the team and for a player with so much quality it is only right for him to shine along side Ronaldo in the team, he is a goal scorer that’s why it’s easy for him to shine as well. Al Nassr attackers are all goal scorers that is why they score 3 goals and more in almost every match they play and in this way they can easily challenge for the trophy. They are just 2 points behind the league leaders so there are still in the title race.

That's right, I see that Talisca is a special figure for Al-Nassr and often when Ronaldo or other players are less productive in a match, he can be the club's mainstay when it comes to scoring goals. He is already considered mature at 29 years old and his contract ends in 2026, so it should be later or next season that Al-Nassr will start offering him a contract extension so that he stays. However, he is a Brazilian who has very good playing intensity, especially for the needs of the Saudi League competition. It looks like players will still be needed for the next season.

this week there will be an interesting match that I will not miss and in this match the top team is favored by the bookies and I will take a share of the profits from this match.

Al Taawon vs Al Ta'ee
Al Nassr vs Abha
Ittihad vs Al Ahli
Al Akhdoud vs Al Hilal

from this match we can predict that Al Taawon is currently part of a strong team in the SPL while Al Ta'ee has not been able to be consistent in every match and Al Nassr will continue to perform with quality with its best players Ronaldo and Mane who are the mainstay of this team while Abha The last match was lost at home against Al Riyadh and next, Ittihad, which is currently still in a stable condition, remains consistent even though Al Ahli also has the ability to score because after all Al Ahli is also one of the teams that has a pretty good performance even though it is a little inconsistent.
and for Al Hilal, even though they are playing away, unlike other top teams, they are hosts, but Al Hilal is quite strong in the upcoming match because as we can see, Al Akhdoud is not a strong opponent for Al Hilal and my prediction is that at least Al Hilal will get over 2 scores.

maybe my prediction is a little risky with odds that are a little big, but there no harm in trying your luck and I hope that european star players are able to make a good contribution to their respective teams.

Right now, Al Nassr is experimenting with the combination of Cristiano Ronaldo-Sadio Mané-Talisca-Otávio, and it was worked very well so far. They have won 6 matches consecutively as of now, and that includes matches against tough opponents such as Al Ahli and Al Shabab. My only concern here is about injuries. Cristiano Ronaldo is 38 years old and he maybe prone to injury. The same can be said about Sadio Mané as well. He missed Qatar 2022 as a result of injury (which he suffered during the match between Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen).

Even though Ronaldo is the main target for Al Nassr at the moment, that does not reduce Talisca's sharpness and how important he is at the club, he has scored 4 goals and 2 assists, and 4 other goals in different competitions. Talisca has managed to appear consistently, maybe he won't be Al Nassr's top scorer again this season, but without him Al Nassr is very likely to experience problems in attack, so keeping him at the club is no less important than keeping Ronaldo.

Under the coaching of Matthias Jaissle, Al-Ahli has actually improved rapidly. Because in 2021-2022 we know that Al-Ahli was even relegated from the Saudi Pro League. And this season they have been promoted again and are directly competing for the top rankings fiercely at the moment. The purchase of many European star players and good coaches has brought very significant improvements. And I feel that being held to a draw by Al-Ettifaq was well deserved. Because Al-Ettifaq was really strong even last season. This season they have become stronger after bringing in coach Steven Gerrard.

But the match against Al-Ittihas looks like it will be more exciting. But it looks like there won't be a draw in this match. We will definitely see who loses and who wins.

It is surprising that Al Ahli has conceded so many goals, despite having good defenders such as Roger Ibañez, Merih Demiral and Ibrahim Al-Zubaidi. And their only match against top sides have been the 3-4 loss against Al Nassr. All the remaining matches were against relatively weaker clubs. In addition to all this, they have one of the best goal-keepers (Édouard Mendy) currently playing in the Saudi Professional League. What they can do now? Maybe it will be a good idea to get 1-2 defenders from any of the European clubs.

There are important stars in Al Ahli and they are still behind in the race for leadership. They are experiencing regressions in scoring goals. While they could score 16 goals, they conceded 13 goals, which also shows that they have a problem conceding goals. They also need to solve their defense and goal problems. The Saudi Arabian league is now above average. They have teams with excellent players. Al Ahli should not be left behind in this race.

Ronaldo is still having unbreakable target. That has been motivated him to play better when he is still being aged. I think that it's the main reason why he was always keeping his healthy life. It was helping him so much in having great stamina to compete with the young players.
Ronaldo was opening the door for his team mate helped the club to win the match in ACL. Ronaldo is always being my most favorite player in al nassr. He is still playing as good as what he used to be.
No doubt if he has been called GOAT. His performance is not even declining even when his age was always going up. He was also rarely getting injured. What a true top tier player he is.

But we have seen that his abilities are also somewhat limited to the abilities of his teammates. If they either can't play better or they are having a bad day, it's the same for him as he can't throw the party on his own contrary to what many believed. In those difficult games Al-Nasr will be happy to have him on the team for sure because if they all deliver and play a great game, he is the one who can score a goal out of half chances. That's a quality that can decide over win or loss.

It would be interesting to see if Ronaldo played for three more seasons. If I'm not mistaken, he already has a little less than 900 goals scored in official games and he is already first in this indicator. The pace at which he is scoring goals for Al-Nassr suggests that he can reach the figure of 1000!  It seems to me that such numbers, on the one hand, can inspire young players, but on the other hand, they will rather scare them 

Currently, Cristiano Ronaldo is 38 years old with still a good and fit for this game even few are feeling he is getting old, but I have feeling still he can do 2 or 3 years in soccer with this fitness and physical fitness like we have few good legendary players done good performance at the age of 40+ but surely he is super fit with many goals and trophies are waiting for him in recent time his change of league is surely going to work for him because Saudi Pro League is not competitive like we have in UEFA which is good because with this he will be able to take good rest and this is positive for his future and physical fitness as well.

Al Nassr now having few more good stars which are useful and able to give support which is also important because with this any player can feel comfortable and this can bring good long run advantage for the player and team as well.