Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 546. (Read 127800 times)

I love how the Saudi pro league is becoming tough and interesting, I friend of mine was said they're wasting their time by offering players huge salary to lure them into the league and that they'll end up like the Chinese league, but I told him last season to wait and see how the league is going to be transformed, especially with the introduction of Cristiano Ronaldo into the league, currently the league is gaining more popularity and attract  more players to join and not too long from now they'll be rated among one of the most interesting leagues.

 The match was a very though one and Al-Ittihad are trying so well to maintain their position in the league as well as defending their title,I think it would be quite tough because they have a very serious competitor behind that's hoping they'll drop a point so as to take over Al-Ittihad's spot in the table.

yesterday match was a very fierce competition and very interesting in the second half because Romarinho was very good in his performance, replying to the goal to equalize only 8 minutes after Saadane scored. but unfortunately the match became a little boring in the second half, there was nothing interesting in the match because the two teams, Ittihad and Al Fateh, were like the same, only defending the back line and also had several opportunities to score additional scores but always failed.

Ittihad was able to take over first place in the SPL standings and it was all Al Hilal fault for not being able to secure victory even though the match was not against a strong team, even a team from the bottom of the standings and Neymar also did not perform optimally in yesterday match. I think Al Hilal final results yesterday made many bettors lose.

It seems that this season the team at the top of the standings will continue to change throughout the season. Because even now the difference in points between Al-ittihad which is ranked 1st and Al-Hilal which is ranked 2nd is also only 1 point different. And likewise, the clubs ranked 3rd and 4th, namely Al-Taawoun and Al-Ettifaq, currently have the same points, namely 16 points. And only 1 point different from Al-Hilal. So in essence, these clubs can change rankings if they make the mistake of experiencing just 1 defeat. Meanwhile, Al-Nassr is in a much more difficult position to climb to 1st place. Because Al-Nassr currently only has 12 points and has a 6 point difference with Al-Ittihad which is ranked at the top.

For the Al-Hilal match, I didn't expect them to be held to a draw by Damac, who hasn't even won once this season. Even though I hope Neymar can score a goal in this match. But I think my expectations were too high. I hope the next match will be against Al-Shabab. Al-Hilal can return to their best performance again and win the match.

The result from this match has been helping ittihad to climbing up again. It seems like that if ittihad will be competing so hard against al hilal in the title race. Many of ittihad fans are feeling so happy caused by they were seeing its competitor gets draw against mediocre club.
The current positon change anytime caused by al hilal and ittihad have only 1 point gap at this moment. Al hilal will meet al shabab while ittihad against al feiha.

Al feiha is weak compared with al shabab. Al hilal needs to make sure if its club will not be losing full points against al shabab.

I am happy with the victory obtained by Al-Ittihad in this match. But I'm actually wondering about Benzema. I didn't see Benzema in the Al-Ittihad squad in that match and I also didn't see Benzema in the AFC Champions League match against AGMK. Does anyone know why Benzema was not in these two matches?

I looked for several news sources but couldn't find any news related to this matter. And I've also checked Benzema's Twitter and there haven't been any tweets from Benzema recently.

Al Ittihad must thank Damac for giving them the opportunity to take over the top position in the standings again after successfully holding Al Hilal to a draw. This result was certainly beyond Al Hilal's expectations because previously they only drew in the AFC Champions League match. Neymar and Mitrovic not scoring goals in these two matches was certainly not a good thing for Al Hilal.
I thought Al Hilal would be very strong when they managed to beat Al Ittihad and take over the standings but an unexpected thing happened and what was quite bad happened when they only faced Damac which could be said to be an average team, but at least Al Hilal is a team that has not defeated but a draw could also damage their targets this season.
The match against Damac was not a good performance for Al Hilal as seen from the statistics of only two shots on target showing that their attack was quite weak this time despite controlling possession of the ball from their opponent.

Al Hilal headcoach, Jorge Fernando Pinheiro de Jesus having alot going through his mind, having outstanding players in the team and watching them performing below standards. Neymar Jr is a big-name and I'm already conversant with his style of football, he's always entertaining and doesn't mean business on the pitch, he keeps displaying his skills against his opponents, afterall he's been heavily because of the service he rendered. It's definitely a dissapointing results when we watch Al Hilal vs Damac, having shared points dip means the club still have alot of things to work through.

Al-Hilal achieved a less than good result after only drawing against Damac FC and I still don't see Neymar's good performance in this match as the difference. Meanwhile, their rivals in the standings Al-Ittihad achieved a narrow victory when they faced Al-Fateh with a score of 2-1 at home. It seems that Al-Hilal is starting to lose control in maintaining the top position this week and they have to be willing to give that place temporarily to Al-Ittihad. Actually, the distance between these two teams is only 1 point and I think the competition will continue until the following week.

In Saudi Professional League, Al-Shabab vs Al-Hazm team's performance was very good. Al-Shabab team's performance was very good. In today's match, Al-Hazm team's goalkeeper and all other players' performance was really bad. Al-Shabab team scored 4 goals.  The match has been won. In the first half of the game, the players of both teams tried hard to score but could not score. Y.  Ferreira Carrasco scored the first goal in the 45th minute. Al-Shabab team is now at number 9 in the points table. Al-Shabab team players played very well from the beginning to the end of the game. Al-Hazm scored 1 goal in this match in the whole game.

The last game that Neymar played for Al Hilal he didn't have any impact as well, the game against Navbahor in the AFC Champions League› ended in a draw so I wasn't expecting much to happen win this games as well. Domac is a poor side against Al Hilal as they mostly lose each time they play and currently sitting at the 15th position on the table but still they were the better yesterday and deserved a point from the game. I believe the Al Hilal team are now depending on Neymar too much since he started playing, Al Hilal don't lose game that much when Neymar was injuired and if this repeat itself in the next game the coach shoudn't start Neymar but only bring him in as a substitute just as he did against Al-Riyadh and Neymar got an assist in that game.


There are couple of marches to be played today but my interest is in the game between Al-Nassr vs Al-Ahli Saudi. Both teams has been on foeym with Al Nassr winning their last 5 games while Al Ahli Saudi winning 4 but this does mean Al Ahli Saudi is going to be an easy challenge for Al Nassr to pass. Al Nassr has a good record against them as they have won them 3 times in the last 5 meetings with a draw coming recently when both teams played. Al Ahli Saudi has Riyad Mahrez, Roberto Firmino and an experience keeper (forward Chelsea keeper) Édouard Mendy so they have some quality in the team that'll pose a threat to Al Nassr but I have my money on Al Nassr to win because of the form they're on. The chemistry between Ronaldo and Meme is capable of destroying the Al Ahli Saudi defense and giving them the victory.

Until now, that was my question I mean Damac doesn't have a strong defense this can be seen from their last few matches from 7 matches Damac has conceded 14 goals so is it possible that Al-Hilal with the main squad won't be able to score more than 1 goal? Honestly, this doesn't make sense although I know anything can happen in a match but as a gambler I understand some situations. as I said before I will tag this team in the upcoming match especially in unimportant matches like in the local league.

No Al Hilal fan expected such a bad performance from Neymar. So Domac FC is not that strong but draw then I don't see any contribution from Neymar in this match today. I also lost in betting because I bet for Al Hilal after seeing Al Hilal's lineup but I lost so I myself have not benefited from Neymar poor performance for the time being. Although Al Hilal scored a goal early in the match, they were unable to score any more goals in the later period. Because the defenders of both the teams were defensive and strong so it was a match full of competition between the two teams.

Al-Ittihad vs Al Fateh

The match have been won by Al-Ittihad, but the first goal have come from Al Fateh. During the 30^th minute goal have come from Saadane. Following the goal Romarinho made an awesome goal at the 38^th minute that served to be the equaliser. Further the momentum is kept continued as Al-Ittihad player Kante scored another goal during the additional time of the first half. This made Al-Ittihad lead the match 2-1 by the end of the first half. During the second half Al Fateh tried the best, and they failed to convert shots into goals. With this win Al-Ittihad have reached the first place on the points table.

Damac was able producing more goal attemps compared with al hilal. it's an unbelievable thing to see damac played so crazy. This is the reason why im not fully trusting the big club in SPL even though these clubs have bought lots of europan talents.
The local team can be considered strong as well caused by so many times the club like al hilal and ittihad were struggling to beat the small club.

Al hilal gets draw while ittihad was winning against fateh. Ittihad is now leading the competitiong with 1 point gap to the al hilla at this moment. The competition at the top position becomes very strict right now.
The position is always change anytime caused by we don't know what team that will be struggling to face its opponent.

Overall, Damac played better than Al Hilal in this match, which made them able to put a lot of pressure on Al Hilal in this match. Of course everyone thinks that Al Hilal can win this match easily but they have difficulty doing that after Damac managed to play better than them. Even in this match Neymar also played but he was unable to score because the Damac players did not provide space for Neymar to score.

Damac managed to hold Al Hilal to a draw, of course that was quite good for them because in terms of team quality, Al Hilal certainly has a number of players who are more qualified than them. However, Contra's hard work and tactics were able to make them perform well in this match by recording many shots. This draw resulted in Al Hilal's ranking being taken by Al Ittihad because Al Ittihad managed to get full points when facing Al Fateh.

Unbelievable, statistically Damac FC was able to hold the draw Al Hilal, they are even better rather than Al Hilal, having 14 shot attempts while Al Hilal only 12. How could that happen? On Al Hilal their are many of the best players of their time and surely they had a lot of experience, Al Hilal should can dominated that match but what happened, Damac succeeded in becoming a tough opponent for them. Got one point is not only disappointing but that's a bad result for Al Hilal.

A solid foundation is not built in a hurry therefore I think it's too early to compare the Saudi pro league to the European league, because the European league has been there for decades even before Arabians pick Interest in developing their football  but the SPL on the other hand is on a gradual process and with the help of top European players that switched over to the league has improved it to a better standard.
 
 The thing's majority of these  European players are there to make money while getting more playing time as well as a retirement plan for older players which is very beneficial for both club and players especially if he was top class during his prime like Cr7, Neymar,  Mane, etc. An d if you noticed most clubs that recruited more European players are the ones performing better than others.

With all the quality players at Al Hilal, I wasn't expecting to struggle against clubs like Damac but unfortunately for them today they couldn't take all three points from the Saudi Pro League game they played against Damac today.
Despite having Aleksander Mitrovic, Neymar and Malcolm in their front line today, Al Hilal were forced to a scored draw thereby dropping two points as a result of which I think might affect them in their Saudi Pro League title chase.

Al Hilal's performance in the game dipped slightly, with the frontline missing golden goal scoring opportunities, an impediment for them. Al Hilal were not anticipated to draw points against common clubs, but rather to defeat them with ferocious energy. Al Hilal received a draw point, which is a disappointing outcome for them because they were placed first in the SPL standings but have now dropped to second as a result of this game result. Damac, on the other hand, did not back down and gave the visitors a solid battle on the pitch, they were able to do this with aided defensive strategy mapped out by the coach.

Every player has a team that he could perform good in it and many others where he fails to adapt, like Lukaku, Hazard, Cristiano Ronaldo, even Messi in his first year with PSG and the list is long.
Firmino and Mane are good players in Liverpool but for Mane he tried his luck in Bayern Munich and failed to adapt while Firmino didn't try to find an European club but preferred money instead.

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Al-Hilal missed 2 points in today's match vs Damac, one of the two teams that failed to win a single game in Saudi Pro League and sitting near the relegation zone!
The worst part is that Al-Hilal is playing with all their top players including Neymar, Mitrovic, Malcolm, Milinkovic-Savic...
Thanks to this mistake, Al-Ittihad jumped to the first place in front of them. I am not sure if Al-Ahli can pick the second place from them since they will face Al-Nassr tomorrow.