Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 553. (Read 119091 times)

Karim Benzema is vulnerable to injuries, he's yet to make high class attacking performance for his new club and injury already dealing with the Frenchman and this will definitely make him lose his chances of improvement in the club. He suffered an injury in their previous game against Al Wehda on Monday which they triumphed ove their opponents. Al-Ittihad supporters will patiently wait for him to fully recover and be available for games but news flashed interpreting he would be absence for several weeks which is not fully detailed on how much time he will be unavailable.

Ronaldo presence had a positive impact on Al Nassr's development in the competition for the title and also had a real impact on the Saudi Professional League, especially in matters of player transfers, although some opinions said that players who moved to the Saudi Professional League were because of money offers, not careers.

Cristiano Ronaldo age which is already 38 years old, cannot be seen because he plays on a service that makes it easier for him to move in scoring goals and open up opportunities for teammates.
He shouldn't have scored 2 goals but more when he beat Al Shabab in the fourth match of the SPL.
You're right. From Al Nassr's provisional point gain, the victory over Al Shabab became an important victory to continue to be on the path to title competition.

Of course Hamdallah can tandem well with Benzema, but Benzema's injury will not be able to immediately turn this team into a weak one, Ittihad FC won last season title without their star players and their old striker managed to become the top scorer, so when a star player is injured and he plays for that strong team will not affect the overall team performance.

Of course I would be very happy if I could see the highlight video of the incident, and it's not a good thing when in a match there are privileges given to players who make something bad to other players. Sadio Mane had previously been involved in an argument with his team-mates at Bayern Munich, maybe he was in a period of frustration with his career, because it turned out that the decision to move from Liverpool to be able to have a more brilliant career at Bayern Munich did not go well even now he has to accept with just playing in Saudi pro league and just a shadow of Ronaldo in this club unless Ronaldo leaves this club.

GGWP for ronaldo. I saw that there were some dramas happened during the match when one of shihabs player got a red card. So many chances were coming to al nassr but winning against al shihab with significant scores are good for nassr.
I dunno why people were feeling ronaldo lost its ability once he proves that if he is still worthy enough to be considered as one of the greatest player in the world. His physic is still supporting him in scoring as many goals as possible for al nassr.
What a great match for him. I really appreciate how hard ronaldo was trying to win the game against al shihab. Full points for al nassr. This is helping the club to boosting its mentality to face another match soon.

Cristiano Ronaldo is playing better in his second season for Al Nassr. He has a summer training with his team mates and it is helpful for him. The appearance of Brozovic improves the midfield of Al Nassr and it gives more support for Ronaldo too. He has an outstanding match with two goals, one assist and one refused goal. In this season, he will be more ready to be a best scorer in Saudi Professional League.

Sadio Mane got a goal but after that his behavior is bad and very arrogant. He fouled against the opponent defender but reacted badly after that. In European leagues, he would be sent off by a red card but fortunately he is one of biggest star players in Saudi Professional League and they need him. Therefore he received special treatment from a referee and was able complete that match without a sent-off.

Yes, I really agree with your opinion. That currently Al Nassr is indeed inhabited by very great and quality players. So if you look at the quality of the players currently available, Al Nassr is indeed very superior compared to other clubs in the SPL. But even so, unfortunately Al Nassr in the last four matches, could only win two matches and lost twice. So at this time Al Nassr has only pocketed 6 points, and is in 6th place in the standings. But I'm not too surprised by this result, because in the world of football something like this is a very natural thing. Because even in the world cup, sometimes a strong team/country or a favored team can lose to an mediocre team/country. But for the future I am more optimistic, that Al Nassr will most likely always win in every match.
The most important thing is that the players from Al Nassr remain compact with each other (chemistry).

It was a good match for  Al Nassr winning with a large goal margin. This win has moved them to the sixth position which is a relief from their poor start at the beginning of the season. Ronaldo has kept increasing his goals. My friend would say he is a penalty goalscorer, but even penalties are not easy to score. The team is united and there has not been any report of disagreement within or between players and coach like it has been reported in some big spending clubs in the SPL. If they keep playing this way, they will recover the points that have been lost and push further to win the league.


Injuries are really affecting Karim Benzema's performance in the SPL. In the game against Al-Wehda, he picked up a suspected hamstring injury and he was substituted in the first half of the game. The French striker has scored just one goal this season which is not commendable based on the club's expectations after spending so much on him. The club will just have to pray that the injury will not take him out of action for a long time. But Al-Ittihad went on to win the game by two goals to nothing and Benzema's replacement Jota scored the second goal.

Another morale boosting win for Al Nassr after the horrific start they had for this season. They lost the first two matches (against Al Ettifaq and Al Taawoun), but made a strong comeback after that by defeating Al Fateh and Al Shabab. And the margin of victory was huge. Defeated Al Fateh by a margin of 5-0, while Al Shabab was destroyed with a margin of 4-0. And the good thing is that the combination of Sadio Mané and Cristiano Ronaldo appears to be working really well. On the other hand, Al Ittihad is still wondering how to include Karim Benzema to the squad without impacting the performance from Abderrazak Hamdallah.

Sadio mane was a nice acquisition by Al Nassr team and if they have signed Hakim Ziyech as they initially wanted to sign or another player with his level of quality that means this Al Nassr team would had been the best team in Saudi Pro league because right now they're looking unstoppable and that's because the of the introduction of Sadio mane to help Ronaldo in the attack. Ronaldo is getting more assist now because he has a finisher like himself in Sadio mane in the team and most ball given to him won't be wasted like last season that their was no one with his level of quality excluding Talisca that had his back but still it was just one player but now Sadio mane has added to that list and if the Al Nassr side keep playing like this they'll be unstoppable.


This new Al Nassr attacking side has been scoring over 4 goals in the last couple of matches and if this continues we might see Ronaldo'l netting over 30 goals again at this age and Sadio mane scoring close goals as well because this two has been on fire lately. I feel Al-Shabab didn't expect Al Nassr to dominate the game as they did and they felt overwhelmed because they didn't look like they would cause any harm all through the game. Al Nassr dominated everything from the possession to the shots at goal and that's why they were able to convert this much shots at goal into goals. The two early Ronaldo penalty did play an impact in the game but that's no excuse for them to lose with this much margin after holding Al Nassr to a draw most recently.

Regarding Al-Ittihad, their most important player, Benzema is very important for this game, and since the match between Al-Ittihad and Al-Hilal is going to be an important match they are trying to make this French superstar player ready for this match but nothing is clear yet and when they asked Benzema about his situation for this game he said I don't know which can make the Al-Ittihad fans worried.

 

Cristiano Ronaldo has opened well this season, scoring comfortable goals. Even though Ronaldo won the match in the 22nd minute of the match, the rest should have come easily and it did. Al-Nassr looks pretty strong this season, with new player reinforcements, Ronaldo is 38 years old, but he has no problems with finishing as long as there are strong players behind him who can play him. I saw the team's motivation very high. They got their second win in the 4th week. This win was very important. For Al-Nassr, they should not easily lose a match with this squad quality.

Ronaldo got good level players to help and this raised his performance, but I don’t think he will take first place in the scorer race (at least it won’t be easy) - other teams also have good bunches of players and sometimes against the weakest clubs in the League they will do hat tricks and even pokers. It is unlikely that Neymar will be in the race, but Benzema most likely yes, the main thing is that injuries stop bothering him.

Yes, right now CR7 has even scored 5 goals this season in the SPL. which made him occupy the top score while temporarily. And Sadio Mane is not much different because he has scored 4 goals this season. And I'm starting to be impressed with the combination between Mane and CR7. Even Assist CR7 for Mane in the match against Al-Fateh last week is really an assist which I think is very beautiful and quality to watch. Which proves that the style of play of these two players is really at a very high level. And well these two players started to have a good relationship on the field. Both of them increasingly understand each other's game. So it's no wonder CR7 is back providing quality Assists for Mane in this match (against Al-Shabab).

Whenever I read the Ronaldo news in the internet and I see that the man is still at the helms of affairs in his club. He is still scoring goals and still contesting with young players like Mbappe and Haaland, I begin to imagine the kind of man Ronaldo is.
Honestly speaking, that guy is a model both on pitch and outside the pitch. Mane  is another dedicated footballer who Liverpool carelessly left to leave the club. With the combination of this good and determined players more things will be achieved in that club. Ronaldo will likely be the highest goal scorer of the season.

It will take an extended period of time for the league to change the global public perception for the better and as influential as Cristiano Ronaldo is, he won't take the league anywhere with just his presence. There has been so much culture developing in Europe from so many nations with soccer being their number one national sport that even if it is also the number one sport in Saudi Arabia, it doesn't mean it has the same gobal recognition as European soccer.

But one more important ingredient is needed and that is the intention of the Saudi officials to push this league for a very long time beyond 2030. This is what I am not sure about. For now I believe they want to give the sport everything it needs until the World Cup 2030, but then what?

Ronaldo should be aiming at winning the top scorer in the league this season with how much the competition has increased. He has already started the season well scoring goals. His combination with Sadio Mane looks very promising and they both look like they will become the best attacking duo in the Saudi league this season with the kind of understanding that is developing between them, we saw that in the assist from Ronaldo for Mane to score. It will be very good for Al Nassr if Ronaldo's and Mane connection in front becomes very strong because it will influence how this season will turn out for them. They have to win the league this season.

It looks like it will be difficult against Al-Hilal who is also in his best form so far, but I'm pretty sure even without Benzema being strengthened, Al-Ittihad will still perform well later. If the news is true then we could see Neymar debut in a big game and I think he will score his first goal for Al-Hilal but one thing is for sure in this high intensity game I hope he doesn't get injured again.

Regarding the Al-Nassr vs Al-Shahab match, it even exceeded my predicted score and currently Al-Nassr is ahead with a score of 3-0 in the first half. I can't stop thinking whether Al-Nassr will feast on goals again today, considering that Ronaldo has scored 2 goals and needs 1 more goal to make it a hat trick. Sadio Mane also contributed 1 goal in this match. Let's see the second half later because it seems like there will still be a lot of goals created.

The first half of the Al-Nassr vs Al-Shabab match is almost over and it is very surprising that Al-Nassr has won 3 goals in this match. And the current temporary score in the Al-Nassr vs Al-Shabab match is 3-0. CR7 scored 2 goals via penalty kicks in the 13th and 38th minutes, and Mane scored 1 goal in the 40th minute. I think Al-Nassr already owned this game. It seems that Al-Shabab really didn't get many chances in this fight. In fact, Al-Shabab has only been able to make an attack once, which has resulted in a single kick. I think Al-Nassr is really unstoppable. At the start of the season Al-Nassr had lost two straight. It seems that now they want to get back on track they should be in the Saudi Pro League.

To be fair Al-hilal and Al-Ittihad played teams that were much lower than them and that is how they ended up getting so easy wins but also we need to remember that not all favorites end up winning their games, if it was so guaranteed then there wouldn't be betting on sports, there are times when the favorites lose too. This was a good job by them, got the win, got my profit as well thanks to them and I think it is quite obvious that they played just like they should without having any trouble or drama.

I like these kind of weeks, there are weeks where all the favorites just win and the bets are so simple and you suddenly make money like it was a free giveaway, then there are weeks where favorites all start to lose and remember why it is gambling.

I don't think it's comparable to the squad but of course Gerrard has tried hard in his matches as a leader but will still be outperformed by Al Hilal.

LOL - it won't be that easy I know Al Hilal have the ability above them but look and compare between them, it's definitely not going to be easy for Gerarrad but at least Al-Ettifaq in the last 4 matches are not bad for them.