Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 609. (Read 127268 times)

Sometimes it's not easy to combine the top players in the squad they have their own character so it takes time to find the best game let time will answer
In addition, there is also a downside when a top player enters a team sometimes he prefers his selfishness to score goals I still see it on Ronaldo
in such situations usually the coach can take the role only he can motivate all players in a match.

Ronaldo has a few hidden clauses in his contract. He is guaranteed of additional payments if he stays in Saudi Arabia until the bidding for the 2030 FIFA World Cup gets finished. There is no guarantee that Saudi Arabia will be able to win the bid, but they believe that presence of Ronaldo is going to help them immensely. The Saudis actually want Ronaldo to forfeit his Portuguese citizenship in exchange for a Saudi passport, but from what I have heard his family is against the idea of settling down there on a permanent basis.

Their last meeting Al Khaleej managed to win with a thin goal margin, but this meeting could have very different results because Al Ettifaq is in a pretty good trend by winning 6 points, and the presence of Steven Gerrard as the club manager is quite positive. because their first match successfully beat Al Nassr.
In this match, Ettifaq will again try to get 3 points because this is a home match, the bookmakers give odds @ 1.69 and Al Khaleej @ 4.40 so it is clear that they are the favorites to win in the third match this week to maintain this positive trend.
The good thing for Al Ettifaq is that their three strikers have always been installed as the starting XI by Steven Gerrard, quite productive because each of them has scored goals, unlike strikers from other clubs who have not scored goals until the second match, like Karim Benzema.

As mentioned Al Hilal social media is doing right job for the Neymar because main purpose to bring him in Saudi League is some good social media activity instead of having him on the ground for the game, mostly peoples understand how things were going into PSG while he was staying there and having luxury contract with them now latest updates showing most chances he will join his team in September, but things are going as Al Hilal wants if he is able to give them few good matches then surely all investment is going to have filled.

Ronaldo having two and half years contract which is going to end in 2025 then most chances at the age of 40 he will retire from soccer but still stay in soccer because now he is brand ambassador of the Saudi League and Al Nassr soccer club, and they want him to stay until 2030 which is long time hopefully things will be good for them during this time.

this European player who has been present at Al Nassr has played a very important role even though like Mane, Ronaldo cannot score in certain match but this player can get assists by passing the ball right and can score and this is what I want at Al Nassr without having to rely only on Ronaldo or Mane but also all Al Nassr players have the opportunity to score and work together to get more scores it will be much better than having to rely on Ronaldo alone because sometimes a player performance decreases and if other players are able to work with me sure Al Nassr will be part of the strongest team in the SPL.

Al Ettifaq vs Al Khaleej

Home team in the good shape after gets 2 consecutive wins at the beginning of the league and now Gerrard confirmed he have ambition want to gets 3rd winning against Al Khaleej and i think if Al Ettifaq can able to managed their performance then it's not difficult to beat Al Khaleej especially at home Al Ettifaq had good results from Al Khaleej so to earn 3 points from this match i think it's not difficult task for them

Gerrard finally has found his best strategy for Al Ettifaq and the result is Al Ettifaq has good progress under him and regarding squad condition i can see all of Al Ettifaq key players will be available today and probably Gerrard will used same strategy just like Al Ettifaq previous match with putting Moussa Dembélé as centre striker and Robin Quaison as a winger and these players currently in the good performance even Dembélé has scored on the last match and Al Ettifaq has odds @1.63 and this is not high odds but i think it's safe bets because most likely Al Ettifaq will be able to beat Al Khaleej

If based on the statistics of the results of the previous match, Al Nassr was far superior to Al Hilal when the two met each other and everyone would have more confidence or support for Al Nassr to win.
In the Saudi Pro League 2023/24 season Al Nassr must try to get the title and Ronaldo definitely wants to get two trophies at once in one season.
It is possible that Al Nassr can achieve everything if the performance of the game can be maintained or increased.
There are many big hopes for Al Nassr to become the champion of the Saudi Pro League.

I was very impressed with the struggle of Al Nassr player for 90 minutes, Al Nassr fell behind at the start of the second half after Alghassani scored a brace which made the score 2-1. The Al Nassr players performed extraordinary towards the end of the match, they managed to make a Comeback which made the match end in favor of Al Nassr with a final score of 4-2.
Ronaldo and Mane did not score goals in this game, their presence on the field had a good impact on Al Nassr appearance. The number of star players who joined the Al Nassr squad had a positive impact, especially on Al Nassr appearance, they were getting solid and experiencing improved performance which made it easier to win.

He's been playing for decades, so those kinds of things are normal for him I don't think there's a problem, as you said the attack line is still reliable only the defense needs attention. By the way today there will be 3 top Saudi clubs playing  Al-Ahli (home) , Al Hilal (away) and Al-Ittihad (away) if we bet on 3 clubs in a parlay the total odds are 1.67 with an average odds per match 1.19 is it an interesting multi bet? or if you want higher odds place a bet in the first half the total odds 4.02 but of course the risk is higher. 3 clubs will try to get 3 points to secure their place while Al Nassr is not yet on track.

 

I honestly feel that Al-Nassr's current coach is not much better than Rudi Garcia. Luis Castro was actually recommended by CR7. But somehow he hasn't brought enough change after the season started. But in pre-season Al-Nassr actually showed an extraordinary game. But I don't know what happened when the season started, it turned out that Al-Nassr seemed to have lost his balance. I feel it is Al-Nassr's back line that needs to get a lot of attention in this regard. Because on the front lines I feel that Al-Nassr has done well.

CR7 has always been the center of attention of opposing players. He is always guarded wherever he goes. So it was very difficult for a ball to flow to CR7's feet. But CR7 is always not at a loss for ideas. Yes, he can always place positions in certain gaps. But yeah, once again he was always held back hard by the opposing players. In fact I consider that CR7 is very lucky because he always escapes injury when he always gets some hard blows from the opponent.

The defensive line has always become the main weakness of al nassr. I can't deny the fact that if al nassr was performing so badly as it was always losing against its opponent during the first leg. I saw that al nassr is trying to buy the new defender, but it seems like that this will be done probably in the last week of this month. The chance for al nssr to win AFC champion is very big. I would like to see al nassr to face a club like manchester city. It will be the hottest match.
In fact, al nassr keeps try to improve its performance through buying more and more players. Al nassr has the time until the end of this month to strenthen its squad caused by the transfer windown in european league gonna be closed on 1st september.
Ronaldo was always giving huge impact to the al nassr. I dunno why there was no european club that interested to sign him last season. he was old but he is having quality.

I saw Al Nassr keep trying to attack but sometimes they forget that there will be a counterattack so that Al Nassr conceded 2 goals, I think Al Nassr needs to strengthen the defense line conceding 2 goals in every match or 6 goals in the last 3 matches is proof that their defense is still weak we don't know if coaches are aware of this gap which clearly needs attention. Ronaldo contribution in this match was 1 assist in the last goal, if Al Nassr is lucky to become AFC champion then they will face the winner of the Champions League in the Club World Cup competition
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The thing is, the Saudi league is still in the early stages of getting recognized. And the players are not very high-quality even at this stage. So they will still need a little time to actually get players who will be very consistent in their performances. So it will take a little more time for them to actually perform consistently in the Saudi league. And that actually goes for almost every team in the Saudi league. And end this trend in the Saudi league has just started recently. The influx of players, who partake in the Saudi league, undeniably necessitates a prolonged period to harmoniously assimilate into their respective clubs.

And if he was the man he'll need quality services from his team mate as when he was paying for Liverpool, he had Mo Salah that'll constantly assist him with goals and then the whole Liverpool front line were on fire both Al Nassr isn't having similar quality and when Ronaldo isn't having a good day, it seems to affect other players. Mane was bought to deliver assist to Ronaldo but he isn't doing that very effectively. Al Nassr needs to regroup and they need someone that can single-handedly change the results of games like Ronaldo because he can't be doing it every game as he's now too old for that and the league is getting more competitive than it was because other teams are buying top players to strengthen their teams.


Ronaldo also need to build other players confidence by letting them take free kick, penalty so they can build their confidence to the point that they can turn up for the team when Ronaldo isn't getting the job done. When he's doing everything without carrying others along, he's making it difficult for them to be full of believe that they can change the results of the game in their favor. Al Nassr probably doesn't have the best team in fhe Saudi Pro league but they have a decent squad that should be able to win games with or without Ronaldo been in the team.

The inconsistency in Al Nassr's results in recent games isn't what they need at this moment. The club management has done really well in spending a lot of money to sign some of the high profile players in the squad and deserves to see them winning matches regularly.
The club manager must make the players know that they mustn't rely on the sole brilliance of Cristiano Ronaldo to have a good season hence the reason for all hands to be on deck

Al-Nassr although having many top players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Sadio Mane, Marcelo Brozovic and the others, still didn't find its proper rythme to achieve victories in every competition! It is really sad to see them suffering almost 88 minutes to get the draw and get a chance to win.

Al Hilal bought Neymar for a huge amount of money and now it seems he was injured when they hired this player However this is not surprising at all because we know Neymar lost half of the past season and it's normal to see he is injured.
Now it seems another player he bought, Hassan Altambakti is also injured and they hired two injured players in this transfer window during the summer.

To be fair though Al-Nasser was the better team in both league games, but I am not sure if Al-Nassr players rely too much on Ronaldo scoring goals. He is weak at times and things don't really work out as he wants them to, but there should still be others to take responsibility as well.

Mané isn't the player that many think he is. I don't know but his Liverpool performances can't be taken as a good example for what should be expected from him in a different team. When he played for Liverpool, the game that Klopp wanted his team to play seemed to suit Mané perfectly. But as soon as individual extra class is needed, someone like Mané fails to deliver. He isn't the player who takes the ball and solves problems on his own. He fits very well into a complete attack line as an important element. But on a bad day he isn't the one to save three points through an extraordinary one-man show.

The reason is only one; they were unlucky and did not capitalize on the perfect goal opportunity at all. After all other teams also want to win matches regardless of the strategy they adopt, but in those two defeats I think Al-Nassr really dominated.

So far Al-Nassr still hasn't gotten a single point in the two Saudi Pro League matches, which is certainly bad because most people expect them to win. But don't forget, Al-Nassr can still lose because he's not perfect even though he has Ronaldo and Sadio Mane in his line of attack. They are not very good at defense so the opposing team can exploit that weakness and score goals.

Exactly my thoughts. When I see such volatility in results, I think it makes sense to bet on underdogs and profit from it. The problem is that the bookmaker's assessment corresponds to this volatility and often the odds of the favorite in the game are in the region of 2.4 This means that the coefficient on outsiders is also small. Therefore, I have not yet figured out what bets to make in this league.