Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 526. (Read 127957 times)

Al Nassr is surely now at good level with their all star players are contributing for the success of this club, and now they have nine matches winning streak which is impressive run they have just two points difference form the leaders Al Hilal which is making this league more entertaining for the soccer lovers in this region and around the world which are now able to watch this league on difference media houses.

In this last game FC Istiklol done good job and take early lead but in second half they were unable to stop Al Nassr attack from ruining their this match and having good win for themselves which bring them to the top of this group and now their next game is against Al-Duhail from Qatar which could be going to play at home with this most chances they will keep their top spot in group and will surely qualify for the next round. In Saudi League now they are going to face Abha which is in relegation zone and have no power to stop them from winning another match for their winning streak.

I think it is more about how much teams care and how well they play. Most teams that are great usually end up dominating smaller clubs, but at some times those big clubs end up underrating their opponent and not be able to get a win.

I think that could be the case here as well, specially considering the league itself is not a hard one, the value of the whole league could be lower than some big name clubs, and these players ended up playing in those clubs before as well, so they look at a team with 25 million euro value, lower than their personal value, and they think they do not have to play all that hard. This results with the other team playing much better and the big club not playing all that well which all results with the fact that we are not going to end up with the expected result.

Saudi Pro League is competitive, and only the best leading clubs comes to lifts significant League titles. Al-Ahli ranked 6th in the table, after a goal-less draw against Al Ettifaq. Al-Ahli manager, Matthias Jaissle is determined to make his team a better one. However they might pushed further to earned themselves a quality position. Effective frontline from Matthias Jaissle men but they need to focused their energy towards scoring because that's the only way to weigh up the team to outstanding form. Al-Ahli next game is Al-Ittihad which would be challenging and difficult to predict, though we hope for good impact in the game.

I dont see any scary about it, they have a very strong team so they dont have to be scary against anything. They are big players and they are very accustomed to play difficult games. The away/home factor in big games when big players are involved are not so important than in the little ones.

What makes it even scarier is that Al-Ahli will play away from home and Al-Ittihad will have a bigger advantage, even if Benzema appears to defend Al-Ittihad, I think Al-Ahli must be ready to form a big wall in defense and I also believe that even though Al-Ahli's away match, if they are able to consistently survive in the match, it is certainly possible that the match will end in a draw because even though currently Al-Ittihad is known as strong club, there are always surprises and there will be no guarantee of victory if a surprise comes.
I still hope that Benzema will appear in the match and provide goal for Al-Ittihad to win.

Al Ahli after having very good start of this season now slip at 6th with having just four points from last four games which is surely poor from them even this was against top teams, but now things are looking more troubling because points difference is widening and if they are able to fail against defending Champions Al Ittihad on road then things could be more problematic for them because they need to keep things on better level for staying into hunt for the title which is not having three teams for fighting hard and these are doing their best.

Al Ittihad vs Al Ahli we have good history with both teams can go for the win but current form is surely favoring home team which is having good performance, and they are surely looking for another good result after having draw against Al Feiha on road this time Al Ahli is surely tried to be as aggressive for all points as well.

Ronaldo really deserves being classified as one of the greatest players of all time, since his arrival to the SPL he's been influential on the league and has made his team very successful this season they've got many achievements which includes;
The Arab Championship Cup.
Being 4th in the table currently.
Being 1st  their Champions league group stage.
Reaching the Semi finals of the Saudi Super Cup.
And reaching the round if 16 of the Kings Cup.

 Due to their performance that's got them to be successful so far their manager Luis Castro has won the Saudi Pro League manager of the month award for September, also a big  congratulations to C Ronaldo for winning the player of the month award two months in a row ( August/September).

This is really the saddest part in Asian sports we are having too much political influence in games and AFC is surely not strong and competitive like we have UEFA which is creating more mess-up and what happen in this match is not acceptable for anyone because recently we have good development in few things but suddenly again things one into wrong way which is going to hurt spirit of the sports hopefully we will have strong reaction from the AFC about this issue, and they will give their best opinion for the future as well.

Sepahan deserve punishment here for what the done in this game for preventing to face strong side like Al Ittihad if AFC fail to bring solid strategy for things like these then surely it's going to be worst for the future in this game which have good potential, but sadly we never came out of these dirty political influence.

Before Ronaldo's arrival at Al Nassr, Talisca was already an important player for the team's squad, he even scored 20 goals last season. If it's not wrong, in Talisca's first season with Al Nassr, he also scored at least 20 goals with Al Nassr. Since Ronaldo joined this team, there have been changes in the Al Nassr squad.

Now, Ronaldo is the Target Man in the Al Nassr squad. So it would be very natural if Ronaldo had a significant impact on Al Nassr. Likewise with his teammates, without them Ronaldo would not have scored 10 goals in 7 appearances in the Saudi Pro League this season.  It is appropriate for a team to work together when they play match after match.
If Ronaldo has a positive and impressive influence as you say, it is very natural given the wealth of experience he has. because after all, he is one of two mega stars who ever existed in his glory era in football history. Now, Ronaldo has friends he can rely on compared to last season. Their current target is to achieve the League Topfi, as well as in other competitions. Well, whether Ronaldo and his teammates are able to bring Al Nassr to win the League trophy this season, we'll see how far Al Nassr goes.

Al Hilal is a most successful club in Saudi Professional League with 18 titles. Two clubs behind Al Hilal with 9 titles are Al Ittihad and Al Nassr. Before Al Ittihad won Saudi Professional League in the last season, Al Hilal won three seasons in a row previously. They also want to come back by buying some start players in the summer including Neymar from PSG.

The big clash between them will be one of big milestone for this season race amongst four biggest clubs in the league: Al Hilal, Al Ittihad, Al Nassr and Al Ahli that all received money from PIF.

That's right. If you look at the quality of the players and the head to head records of the clubs that Al Nasr will face in the future. What is clear is that Al Nasr will definitely be superior and the possibility of winning every match is definitely very big. But even so, Al Nasr still has to remain vigilant and careful. Because even though the possibility is small, it doesn't rule out the possibility that the club that Al Nasr will play against could make a surprise. Because in the world of football, it is possible that a team that is labeled as weak and not favored can beat a team that is truly strong. However, if you look at Al Nasr's record in each match, it seems that the possibility of losing is very small.

Then apart from that, Ronaldo can currently be said to be in very good times. Because it has been proven, in almost every match Ronaldo always scores goals and assists. But apart from Ronaldo, Talisca's performance is no less great in my opinion. Because he has always made great contributions to Al Nasr. Because if you look at the matches, I see that Talisca's game is getting better and in almost the last few matches, Talisca has always scored goals. So it could be said that Al Nasr is currently in its best period. Maybe it's all because the chemistry between the players has formed well.

And for Al Nasr's match against Al Hilal or Al Ittihad, perhaps this match could be said to be the deciding match, to win the top position in the standings this season.

Yes of course it will still be difficult match for Al Ahli, because Al Ahli will also be the away team against Al Ittihad in the next match in the Saudi Pro League. I also think that there seems to be no chance for Al Ahli to beat Al Ittihad at their home ground at King Abdullah Sports City . Because if, even if we consider the existing head to head results and also even if we consider the available odds factors, it seems indeed nothing can really boost the good performance and good results for Al Ahli in this match . Therefore, I am confident that it will be difficult match for Al Ahli to win this match, because maybe Al Ahli can only try for a draw result even though that still seems difficult.

And you will stop watching Saudi Pro League after Ronaldo retired.

Saudi Pro League will not survive when their big players aren't play in their league anymore, if they can get Haaland and Mbappe, most people will put their eyes in Saudi Pro League. But the chance to see both of them to join this league during their prime is near zero.

So we're just enjoy the moment and say goodbye when the time comes.

The Al-Ahli vs Al-Ettifaq match ended in a draw. And in general, the quality of play of these two clubs is not much different. It's just that for me Al-Ahli was clearly superior in that match. Several times Al-Ettifaq's back line was quite overwhelmed by the attack patterns developed by Al-Ahli. I think Firmino is a really good player even though he hasn't restored his attacking sharpness. It's just that he can always put good pressure on the opponent's defense.

Al-Ettifaq they are very organized. Even though they didn't have many opportunities to attack. But Al-Ettifaq players can always handle Al-Ahli's attacks very well. They could read the direction of Al-Ahli's attack. So yes, these two clubs have advantages and disadvantages to each other.

The next match against Al-ittihad will definitely be very difficult. Because actually Al-Ittihad is strong even without Benzema. Last season Cr7 even felt the greatness of Al-ittihad who were still without Benzema. So Al-Ahli must prepare for this more difficult match.

I saw this news via Twitter and it is very unfortunate why football has to be mixed up with political matters which will definitely be detrimental to various parties. Al-Ittihad came with more confidence to win the match and it seemed that their opponents were not ready to face them and tried to do something stupid so that Al-Ittihad could withdraw from this competition. I think the AFC must be able to provide appropriate sanctions for Sepahan so that they can understand that in football everything is equal and there should be no other "interests" in it that could damage the image of football itself.

How does a draw indicate that two teams have the same quality of play? When out of coincidence Real Madrid loses against Las Palmas, is Real Madrid worse than Las Palmas? I think it needs a lot more things to judge the quality of play other than the result. The result can be the consequence of many events including luck.

Benzema is just one factor and I wouldn't give him too much credit anymore. He can be important to the team and there I agree, but to say that they are doomed to lose or something when he is injured just goes too far.

Not always but he scored many goals for Al Nassr and wasted many opportunities too. If he is younger, has better body, I believe he would not miss those opportunities but it is life and his career is already very long. At his age, many old players would choose retirement and enjoy their life, not continue playing like Cristiano. I admire his ambition and motivation to keep playing with highest professional but fact is he is actually affected by his age recent seasons. He scored many goals by help of his team mates and he should thank to his team mates for great chances and assists he got so far.

It is true that Cristiano is a first brick to kick off a massive wave of super star and star players from Europe to Saudi Arabia. The league and clubs there do not only have star players but also have three super star players, Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Neymar. If Messi had not refuse to join, they would have gotten him too.

Al-Ahli seems to have to face strong clubs successively. This week they played against Al-Ettifaq and no one won or lost the match. Which indicates that both have the same quality of play. So the match ended in a draw.

Next week Al-Ahli will also have to face a tougher enemy, namely Al-Ittihad. And I think this will make it much more difficult for Al-Ahli than when competing with Al-ettifaq. But Al-Ahli still has a chance to be superior if Benzema is still injured and unable to play for Al-Ittihad. Firmino CS has to work harder this time. Because Al-Ahli is slowly losing its place in the top 4 of the current standings.

Ronaldo has always become savior for al nassr. He was not only helping al nassr but he was also helping the league so much in pushing it to be larger scale competition with so many european stars on it. It's very hard to imagine the league without him.
He has been also convincing a lot of european players to move there. Many people said that his age was preventing him in producing as many goals as possible but they are all wrong.

Ronaldio is always keeping his stamina no matter if he is aged. Ronaldo will always try to put his name in the leader board of top scorer for this season. It's likely that if we will see another record to be made by him.
Asian champion club has become his main target by ronaldo and al nassr to compete in the world cup club.

Everything is still going as a plan by ronaldo and al nassr. I expect another easy run for al nassr in ACL. I hope that ronaldo will able to become top scorer in ACL.
My feeling said that if we will see the final of ACL between ittihad vs nassr.

I don't think I've personally paid attention into watching the Saudi Pro League like in the present. This is one of the greatest thing Ronaldo has brought to the league entirely. Ronaldo's featuring in Al-Nassr is a big deal for the entire league and not the club alone. Al-Nassr's consistency since the coming of Ronaldo, has not only encouraged the club to win consecutively but have also pushed other players in the club to work harder. Ronaldo is acting a fatherly figure to the squad and has given the league more attention. Yesterday's three win over the one goal scored by Istiklol was a good one.


Al Nassr is doing awesomely, from the August this year until yesterday, Al Nassr has played approximately 16 matches, home and away in the ACL and Saudi Pro League. In all of those matches, the club has won 13 matches, draw in only 1 match and lost only 2 matches. I don't think any club has gotten a better performance like Al Nassr so far, especially since the transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo and Sadio Mane into the club. What I will encourage the club to do now is to get a better goalkeeper, th one goal scored by Istiklol yesterday was avoidable, if Nawaf Al-Aqidi could put more efforts. I was impressed by Brazilian midfielder, Talisca's performance too.