Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 55. (Read 118873 times)

Although it was against a relegation zone team, but until the 65th minute Al Khaleej was still very difficult to score, to be honest, although Al Khaleej was favored if we saw their position in the standings at this time, but their game was not better than Al Fayha, the two teams were actually very balanced and the same was not able to create many good opportunities to score,  So if Seeing Al Khaleej poor game and current performance makes me doubt that they can win over Al Fayha at the end of the match later, even Al Fayha is more effective when counterattacking Al Khaleej defense.

In another match, Al Ahli again showed their current ability by facing damac, they appeared quite spartan since the match started and without waiting long Veiga managed to bring Al Ahli ahead in the 13th minute with a goal that he created, while this match almost entered the rest time with a score of 1-0 for Al Ahli victory and if you look at Al Ahli current game it seems that they have the opportunity to add to the score in the second half later.

I think the upcoming Al-Nassr vs Al-Ettifaq match will be a lucky for Pioli as the new Manager of Al- Nassr, because Al-Nassr is superior to Al-Ettifaq. Based on the last 5 H2H matches between Al-Nassr vs Al-Ettifaq, i'm sure that Al-Nassr will win and the odds of 1.61 to choose Al-Nassr prove that Al-Nassr is favored in this match, whereas if you choose Al-Ettifaq as the winner the odds are 4.70, which indicates that it is difficult for Al-Ettifaq to win.

Al-Khaleej vs Al Feiha in the match between two teams, no team has scored any goal so far. Al-Khaleej team has more chances to win in today's match. Al-Khaleej team has performed well in the previous matches. I don't know how well Al Feiha team can do this.  In the match. Al-Khaleej team's players are much better than Al Feiha team's players. I don't think any team will be able to score before half time.

In the Al Ahli match against Damac, there is no need to doubt that Al Ahli can definitely win this match. The reason is that Al Ahli's performance so far can be said to be quite good, because even a team like Al Nasr was unable to beat Al Ahli. So with this Damac will definitely be a fairly easy opponent for Al Ahli, because if you look at the last match between Al Ahli and Damac the result is that Al Ahli can win. So there is no doubt that with this, Al Ahli will definitely win this match.

Apart from that, talking about the match between Al Ettifaq and Al Nasr, this match is a little difficult to predict, because Al Nasr and Al Ettifaq are both quite strong teams in the Saudi Arabian League. Therefore, predicting the result of the match this time will indeed be a little difficult. Although it is true, if you look at the second place, the Al Ettifaq team is superior to Al Nasr. Because currently Al Ettifaq is in 3rd place and Al Nasr is in 7th place. However, in my personal opinion, this cannot be a strong benchmark for predicting the result of this match. Because Al Nasr can sometimes be quite a strong team if they play against strong teams too. Apart from that, if you compare the current performance of Al Ettifaq and Al Nasr, when talking about the front line, Al Nasr is superior. However, when compared, Al Ettifaq's back line is indeed superior. So with this, the team that can overcome its shortcomings in this match will definitely be able to win the match. But in this match I have confidence that Al Nasr has a big chance of winning in this match
And in conclusion, I personally will bet on Al Ahli and Al Nasr in these matches.

The problems that Al Nassr had last season were actually more complex and actually contagious until this season, poor defense, poor game strategy, a squad that did not have a mentality and also inconsistency were the things that made Al Nassr last season fail to be championship, but now Al Nassr is starting to improve it one by one by bringing in Salem Al Najdi and Mo Simakan in their current defensive line,  However, the arrival of the two defenders is still not able to strengthen the defense that Al Nassr currently has, besides that the arrival of Pioli as the new coach of Al Nassr at this time of course may solve other problems that I mentioned above.

Al Nassr has played the first 3 matches with poor consistency after only one win and two draw, week 4 will obviously be a difficult match for Al Nassr because they have to face a team that is currently consistent in the league, Al ettifaq is currently in the 3rd position with 3 wins from 3 matches and obviously there are many differences happening at the moment between Al Nassr and Al Ettifaq in terms of performance and consistency team, at the moment Pioli has become the coach of Al Nassr and I think we will see a different game from Al Nassr in the match later.

You're right. Al Nassr has a problem in defense line since the last season. They only has Laporte as a strong defender, other defenders are too weak. I think Al Nassr will strengthen their defense with some new stronger defenders but they only signed 1 center-back (Mohamed Simakan). Honestly, I don't know this player, he was RB Leipzig defender. I never watched RB Leipzig match. In my opinion, it is still not strong enough to face Al Hilal with the current defenders.

The new coach must be aware with the problem on the defense line. I'm not sure what his plan, sure he can change the formation or applies a new strategy. He also can change the players on the main lineup, or move a certain player on the new position. The change on the defense line may bring impact on the other lines. But, whatever the change in the defense line, I believe the 3 players* in the attacking line will remain the same.

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*3 players in Al Nassr attacking line: Ronaldo, Mane, Talisca.

While I do agree that coaches have some responsibility, I agree that players are the real reason and their defense has been terrible for a while and they have been losing games because of that. When the other team could attack easily, you have hard time even going to attack as well, because the other team keeps the ball at all times and not let you control the ball, and that is why Al Nassr should have much better defense, and probably a bit better centre midfield as well, but I wouldn't say to a better manager neither, their coach isn't the greatest so it could happen again.

I think the best thing to do right now would be just looking at the situation as well as they could do right now. This should be copied from Al Hilal, because they have a very very strong midfield and because of that they end up getting a greater results, and they could do fine in the end. It's not that clear if they are going to end up with a good result that easily.

From a bettor's perspective, we certainly won't take a big risk betting on Al Nassr victory which is currently in a worse condition than last season. Even though they have Ronaldo but if the defense is bad, all of that is in vain and on the one hand Al Ettifaq has a very strong defense only conceding 1 goal. In that match I had the same thought as you if this match could end in a draw and our chance of getting big odds betting on double chance (Ettifaq or draw) with odds @2.10

Yes, that's right. It must be admitted that every advantage must have its weaknesses. Al Nassr's weakness this season and even last season was its defense line which was easily penetrated by opponents. If the defense line is weak even though it often scores goals, of course this is useless because to be able to compete with Al Hilal all lines must be equally solid.

Al Nassr will next face Al-Ettifaq. This will be the first match for Al Nassr's new coach, Pioli, to prove that he is worthy of fixing Al Nassr this season. The reason is, Pioli came to Al Nassr to solve the problems that occurred at Al Nassr, and he must find a solution to the weaknesses of Al Nassr's defense line so far. He must improve Al Nassr's performance which has been declining at the beginning of the season and he must prove it later when facing Al-Ettifaq.

Since the beginning we have seen that Al Nassr's weakness lies in the defense line, that's what makes them unable to talk much especially when facing Al Hilal. Although their attack line works well, but if it is not balanced by a good defense line then it makes it difficult for them, because they have to score more goals to win the match to anticipate the opponent scoring several goals into their goal.
Who knows what their coach will do, but there are several options that can be applied, such as implementing a different formation by placing 3 defenders at once and or they can add players in the defensive midfielder position to be the first person to break up the opponent's attack. Now they must dare to try a new formation before they get a really tough defender.

* Al Ahli vs Al Damac
* Al Ettifaq vs Al Nassr
2 matches that are very difficult to predict when viewed from the bookie's odds, of course Al Nassr and Al Ahli are favorites in this match, they have low odds, but I am a little doubtful about Al Nassr because this club's performance has been disappointing lately and has lost quite a lot of points while the club they will be playing against has been in good form lately by winning consecutively and this match certainly makes it easier for Al Ettifaq who are playing as the home team and Al Nassr's defense has been bad lately so I think a fair result for both teams is to get a draw but once again Al Nassr might be left further behind by Al Hilal at the top of the standings.

At present, CR7 is considered to be the fastest and strongest player in football and wherever each of these players play matches, most of the wins and other players are encouraged.  There is no such deficiency in this player and you are talking about his injury, he has made the whole team good and his hard work has made them a tip team.  And if he doesn't play for his team, other players will be frustrated and unable to do anything.  Everyone is playing for money, but will you include the players who win the match by working hard and scoring more goals?  I don't believe that a player like CR7 plays for his team and with full effort, he plays for money and does not support his team.And even if you see the board of the Arabs, not with them, they will definitely see for them and encourage them.

We all know it's been Al-Nassr's problem since last season weakness in the defense line so they couldn't compete with Al-Hilal and almost all of them ended in defeat. For this season we have not seen any significant improvement in Al-Nassr's defense and maybe that's the reason why Al-Nassr is out of the top 2. Today Al-Nassr will play the 4th match against Al-Ettifaq as an away team I am not too confident in Al-Nassr able to win, also Al-Ettifaq is in its best performance never lost in the last 3 matches so there is a possibility that both teams will draw.

Why you don't expect it? Pioli deserves to manage Al Nassr, right?
The quality and huge experience of Pioli is the matter that Al Nassr board wants to hire him.
I think this time Al Nassr hires a much better coach. I really hope he will fit with the current Al Nassr squad.

I think it is a rumor only. Many haters always try to make a bad reputation on Ronaldo. There is no proof that Ronaldo asked for a new coach. Ronaldo is just a player, he isn't bigger than Al Nassr board. It is impossible that Ronaldo requests to change the coach.

Sure, Al Nassr needs some top defenders. However, the problem is they have a limitation for foreign players. Each Saudi club is only allowed to sign 10 foreign players. Al Nassr already has 10 foreign players now. They actually have no chance to sign another foreign player.

Al Nassr need a top defender to stop their opponents from scoring, they already have good attacks but lack good midfielders and defensive players. Al nassr also have to start performing better in their games as they're slowly falling behind. They have played three games and lost one but it is the draws that they're getting that might cause them to not be able to win the league this year. They haven't conceded that many goals but on an average they have conceded one goal per game. This isn't bad but they need to strengthen their defense so they can concede zero goals for when they only scored one goal in a game, so they can still win and not to be drawing.

I was not expecting to see a coach like Pioli join in the Saudi League. Pioli worked for years in the top team and he had a good performance in AC Milan he is definitely a coach with good knowledge who can help any team and make the team get improve. However, he won't be a heap coach for Al Nassr because they should give him 9 million euros per season which is a huge amount of money.
Some people say Ronaldo was the reason for changing the coach and he asked the team to hire a new coach for Al Nassr.


 

Cristiano Ronaldo cannot be compared with Neymar because he is a kind of player that doesn’t get injured frequently and despite his age he is able to maintain his fitness and avoid injuries. Al Nassr are really lucky to have Ronaldo on their side, he has scored a lot of goals for them already in just a few seasons but not the same with Neymar.

Zero contributions so far while receiving the highest salary in the team, it is more like he is of no use to the club because without him they are still able to perform well and even better than we expected. It’s a loss for Al Hilal but since they are winning trophies and winning matches it is as if they are not bothered about his injury.

We still don’t know what impact Neymar will bring to the team, some people are even saying Neymar could affect the team negatively with his fancy style of play and will slow the team down but i still think having such a player around is a good thing. Injuries are bound to happen and for some players it becomes frequent for them and this what Neymar is faced with and i am sure he is not happy about that and can’t wait to be back on the pitch again.

How can you conclude that "Al Hilal players aren't much more competitive"?
If you compare the market value of Al Hilal squad and Al Nassr squad, you will understand that Al Hilal squad is much more competitive. Even, Al Hilal has the squad with highest market value in Saudi league. It means Al Hilal has the most expensive squad, they have most competitive players.

Al Hilal squad


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Al Nassr squad


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I only see Mitrovic who is very productive in Al Hilal squad. He already scored  goals so far, he leads the top scorer table.
TBH I don't see other players who are very productive. Can you mention other players who scored many goals as Mitrovic?

Just take a look the stats. 
https://fbref.com/en/squads/972e2539/Al-Hilal-Stats

It is quite strange if you claimed Luis Castro applied an ideal system. 
If he did it, Al Nassr should win the SPL trophy already. In fact, Al Nassr never performed better in every season under his management.
Also, the defense line is very weak, how can Al Nassr maintain this weak defense? If they maintain the current defense, they will never have a stronger defense line. What they must do, is to improve the defense line!!

In this season, things are looking pretty interesting as we are having Al Hilal having serious challenge from few clubs like Al Ittihad and Al Ettifaq as currently these three clubs are having 9 points from their 3 games on 21st September Al Hilal will host Al Ittihad and Al Ettifaq will host Al Nassr these matches are going to have brought changes in league table.

Al Hilal is having good depth into team with all doing amazing and not allowing any team to have any chance against them which is surely impressive job by management and coach S Gerrard is also now adjusted just because of this now his club is also having good start of season now change of coach can bring good results for Al Nassr it's looking interesting because if we have some improvement then surely league is going to be had one of the best end in years with these all quality peoples around this league.

In fact, Al Hilal players are not much more competitive than Al Nassr, but they can play with solid teamwork. The bonding between players is very close, plus the system implemented by Jorge Jesus is really effective for his team. and we can see, Al Hilal players are very productive and not just Mitrovic. maybe we have different points of view regarding Al Nassr, for me the presence of Luis Castro certainly plays a big role for his team. simply he is the one who designs strategies and tactics, implementing the most ideal system. it's not a matter of how to score as many goals as possible, but also how they maintain their defense line. Luis Castro's standard pattern is 4-2-3-1, their two pivots will be very central in every attack building or helping the defense line. if your theory is that the mistake was made by Al Nassr players, especially since the players often make mistakes, the first thing the coach does is bench them. thus, he will try to maximize his performance to return to the main team and play with good performance. honestly, since last season Al Nassr should have replaced Luis Castro, but he was still given a chance. plus, teamwork is the main thing. the ball is not always directed to Ronaldo to score a goal, if other players have a chance then they have to execute it. this is what is called teamwork, and Al Nassr must get a truly competent coach.