Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 61. (Read 118885 times)

Al Nassr has started the season quite poorly so far after they have only managed to win 1 game and 2 draws, I don't know what caused Al Nassr current performance to be quite bad at the beginning of the season, but for sure if they continue to lose points in every game they play then I think Al Nassr should go back to burying their dream of winning the league this season, the failure that occurred last season should be a lesson for Al Nassr but in fact this season they still do not look like a team that is indeed ready to be a challenger for the Arab league title, seeing Al Nassr continue to lose points obviously it will make Ronaldo frustrated so maybe he will not think about extending his contract at the end of the season later.

Al Riyadh will be the defending champion, Al Hilal this week. It will be a challenge for Al Riyadh to be able to get points, because they are facing a club that is currently in its heyday in my opinion. Al Hilal will be very difficult to beat, even to hold them to a draw is something difficult.
Al Riyadh's advantage in this match is that they will play as the host, but even so Al Hilal is still a club that is difficult to beat even though they play as the away team. They will also definitely come with a target of victory, especially after their rivals failed to get 3 points.
Al Hilal is indeed superior at this time, even last season they were the club that managed to record a record without defeat for a full season in the Saudi Pro League.

A tightly contested match between Al Nasser and Al Ahly teams, both teams were aggressive enough at half time with neither team able to score. Although they were trying hard to score from the beginning of the game, Franck Kessie, a young player of Al-Ahly team, scored a goal in the 57th minute. 
But Cristiano Ronaldo's side did not see a goal during this long period of play, with a goal in extra time to tie the game. Cristiano Ronaldo failed to score in this match as he usually did not perform as well as in the past, now the age barrier is holding Cristiano Ronaldo back.

I don't play multiple games, this would have been an interesting accumulation game to try out, but however the game between AI Riyadh vs AI Hilal @1.55 points is quite an interesting point to go for. Al Hilal will comfortably win their game with huge goal margin.
Then for rest of of other two games I don't actually have confidence about  Al-Raed winning their game on a visit to Al Feiha.

Al Nassr loss three points against after being draw from Al Ahly on Saudi Pro League games week 3, its not good result for Al Nassr get in the tittle race after two being draw of three matches and have 5 points currently.
Cristiano Ronaldo failed continues keep scoring goals and his record stopped on three matches for Al Nassr after success scoring goals on the first and second matches.
Al Nassr performing not really bad after success dominance in ball possession and made 19 shots although only four on target, but the being draw matches make Al Nassr have left many points recently if the rival team Al Hilal success securing three points today against Al Riyadh.

Today there are 3 matches that we can take advantage of and this is my temporary prediction.

Al Fateh vs Al-Ettifaq (BTTS Yes @1.66)
Al Feiha vs Al-Raed (Al-Raed win @2.80)
Al Riyadh vs Al Hilal (Al Hilal -1.5 @1.55)

Please pay attention to the match Al Feiha vs Al-Raed. Both teams have had a bad start to the season, but Al-Raed is slightly better in defense. While Al Feiha has conceded 5 goals from 2 matches. Al-Raed should be able to take advantage of this condition.

Definitely was a close game, Al Nassr got lucky with a last minute goal and a very lucky one at that as well.

In the end, Ronaldo got away with a draw but the fact that Al Nassr keeps getting away with these is not normal, I feel like it is not looking that great for them neither, we are talking about a situation where Ronaldo was put on that team, and they also got Mane but then they didn't get much else, they should look for better players than who they have if they want to win the league eventually.

Ronaldo didn't do much, as per usual on big games he is not scoring goals, I am sure when they face league last on the table team he will score 4 goals and tally up some more goals, he was a super star, maybe the best for a while but his Arabic period is not looking good to me I am sorry, he should be able to score against these teams if he is still so good.

Match took place today and we can see that Al Nassr has been able to include Ronaldo in their line-up and Ivan Toney has also been included in the Al Ahli squad.
But in the end the game ended in 1 - 1 draw and Al Nassr has been able to dominate the game and they were able to dominate the attack, unfortunately all of these efforts failed to produce results for Al Nassr to gain an advantage and win.
In this match I paid enough attention to how Al Ahli defense was quite good, on the other hand they have Edouard Mendy who was able to show some saves, I was quite surprised and amazed by Al Ahli back game.
They shared the points and it was not disadvantage for Al Nassr because they did not lose points and were not far behind at the start of the season like this.

It was truly a lucky day for Al-Nassr they were saved by that goal, I can't imagine if Al-Nassr were defeated at home of course it's very embarrassing. I wonder what happened to Al-Nassr and why their game is not aggressive? they dominated the game but always struggled to score goals of 19 shots only 4 on target it means the accuracy is very weak even though we know they are playing the main squad which has more experience, or can we say that the current coach is not using the right strategy?

If they continue to play like this then there is no way for Al-Nassr to compete with Al-Hilal instead of trying to win the title even for the top 3 is doubtful, I hope Al-Nassr can improve their performance so we can see a fierce competition in the standings, of course it would be very boring to see the league dominated by just one club. Al-Hilal will play their 3rd match today against Al-Riyadh there should be no problem for Al-Hilal even though they are away they can get 3 points.

Since the first half started, the match has shown the ambition from of both teams to be able to score goals in the match, so it can be seen that both teams played with high intensity in the first half but both teams actually experienced difficulty in scoring goals because of the solid defense  from their, minute 57  was the start of a nightmare for Al Nassr, who was previously the favorite in the match, the former AC Milan player was able to take advantage of the opportunity to score his first goal of the season, an own goal created before the end of the match saved Al Nassr after all the opportunities they had created were in vain.
The draw result obtained by Al Nassr yesterday made Al Nassr move away from Al Hillal as their main rival so far, 1 win and 2 draws from the 3 matches that have been played is of course not a good start for Al Nassr especially now that Al Hillal has not playing their 3rd match, so that if Al Hillal is able to win over Al Riyadh then the difference in points between the two teams has now reached 4 points and it will clearly be difficult for Al Nassr to catch up.

This match ended in a draw. Al Nasr's equalizing goal was achieved through an Al Nasr player's kick which hit the leg of one of Al Ahli's players, so that the direction of the ball was not read by the Al Ahli goalkeeper, resulting in a goal. Honestly, it's a shame that Al Nasr couldn't take advantage of every opportunity he had in this match. The reason is that Al Nasr players created many opportunities in that match. However, the protection of Al Ahli's defenders deserves a thumbs up in this match. The reason is that the Al Nasr players really had difficulty penetrating Al Ahli's defense in this match.
So with this draw, Al Nasr has now dropped its ranking to 6th position and has a 1 point difference with Al Hilal. Maybe the difference in points will increase if, for example, Al Hilal can win the match they will play against Al Riyadh.

Apart from that, I am sure that this season Al Nasr will again have difficulty becoming champions in the SPL. Because I see that Al Nasr's performance has not improved this season. In fact, I see that Al Nasr is experiencing a slight decline in performance at the moment. So who knows what will happen to Al Nasr this season, I think it would be a miracle if for example Al Nasr could finish in 2nd place again like in the previous season. Because currently it is not only Al Hilal that will be a strong rival for Al Nasr. But teams like Al Qadisiyah, Al Ittihad, and also Al Taawon will also be teams that will be difficult rivals for Al Nasr. Because currently the performance of these teams can be said to be very good.

They are not the best team in Saudi Professional League. It can be correct if you say they are one of best teams in this league.

Playing terribly against an opponent which is not too strong in Saudi Professional League, together with their bad results in previous matches including a direct clash with their biggest competitor in Saudi Arabia, Al-Hilal, are all not good performances that can help Al-Nassr to beat Al-Hilal in this season.

They want to take the trophy off from Al-Hilal but so far there is no good signal that they will be able to achieve it in this season. All signals so far are negatively and based in their quality and performances, I am very pessimistic about opportunity of Al-Nassr to flip Al-Hilal in Saudi Professional League.

Congratulate them for making it done this way, at least they don't lose one point but they will not be able to do it in every match. Additionally, other opponents might be stronger than Al-Ahly and will be able to secure their advantage and beat Al-Nassr to have full three points at the final whistle.

Yes I missed it and I am lucky I did not put it in my bet slip because if I did it would have losess my bet because Al Nassr only managed a draw with Al Ahli in that match and to be honest I was hesitant to bet on Al Nassr because I knew their opponent was Al Ahli a club that cannot be underestimated, regarding betting odds which are lower than what you said I think odds @2.32 are not too bad they are good odds rather than the odds being too big but more risky to lose.

It is a shame if you choose the BTTS option in the Al Taawon match because Al Khaleej could not score in this match, the final result was 2:0 for Al Taawon's victory exactly as I predicted.

Al Nassr were fortunate to avoid defeat as an Al Ahli player scored an own goal at the end of the match, just before the end of the match. Al Nassr seem to have failed to live up to expectations with their performance as it is. They played well, but it was not enough for them to be the best team in the Saudi Pro League. Their competitors have performed better than them, especially Al Hilal who are still undefeated.
I actually predicted this result, because even though they were playing as hosts, Al Ahli are not a team to be underestimated. A draw would have been a fair result for both teams in my opinion, although Al Nassr were also very fortunate to escape an embarrassing result in the

Although Al Nassr team is the best team of this season, they performed very poorly in this match today, even though Cristiano Ronaldo was in the team, he was not able to score in this match today. Al-Ahly defenders easily controlled Cristiano Ronaldo's attack even though there was enough attack from Cristiano Ronaldo. That's why even after Cristiano Ronaldo performed for a long time, he was not enthusiastic enough in this match, in this match Al Nassr team targeted the goal post with 19 attacks, and Al Ahli team targeted six goal posts.

 Despite this gap, Al Nassr team scored a goal in the last minute to equalize the game. In this match today, the gamblers faced the biggest losses as almost every gambler placed a bet in favor of Al Nassr team.

It should have been a good start to Ivan Tooney's career in his number 99 shirt at Al Ahli, And he would have been okay with helping his team to get three points from this game against Al Nassr even though he cannot score. The last minute equalizer for Al Nassr from an own goal took away all the joy that would have followed. Al Ahli will not be so happy with how they have started this season with them having just three points in just three games despite the team of talented players that they have.
Al Nassr are far from the top of the table, they need to sit up.

It looks like all is not well for Cristiano Ronaldo as well as Al-Nassr in this game. After celebrating his 900th goal, one would think that they were on course to continue whatever positivity they had going but, alas, the reverse was true. A loss, even just a draw, would highly jeopardize their placement within the table. Unless they make a quick recovery, then the gap with Al-Hilal will widen... and that might pose them into difficulty competing right at the summit come end of season. There is still much time left in this game; however, they have to find some goals quickly if not ways of scoring and ensure that they do not pick a very important point from losing.

The remaining time will see Al-Nassr take every opportunity that presents itself to avoid going down. The chase will be at a very high rate of pressure to ensure catching up, more so when the standings soon are starting to be threatened.

The game ended 1-1 and Al Nassr has escape another loss thanks to an own goal from Alhurayji. I thought this was going to be another disappointing performances from Al Nassr and Ronaldo as he couldn't score as he always loves to do. Starting him is the mistake, we know he loves to play but he shouldn't be started at every game. He's just returning from the international break, he played lots of minutes there and should have been rested. If he had come on when the players were a little weaker, he would had put on a performance. He isn't as young as other although the league is below his quality but he's now old and should be used strategically.

Yes previous meeting even Al Nassr beat Al Ahli at home with a score of 0-1. and now Al Ahli still leads with a score of 0-1 from Al Nassr.
Al Nassr actually got a lot of chances but they couldn't take advantage of them well. some passing mistakes were also made by Al Ahli's defenders. but still didn't create any meaningful chances for them.

But the final result was 1-1. the goal happened in the last minute. a little bit of disbelief with the extra time given quite long. and the goal happened at the last minute. something disappointing of course for AL Ahli.

I am not entirely aware of the most recent head to head history between Al Nassr and Al Ahli, but if I am not mistaken here, I think Al Nassr has had problems beating Al Ahli for quite a while now is that correct? And again Al Ahli took the lead and Ronaldo can't get it done. But it's these games where the club actually wants and needs him to perform. Nobody cares when he scores five goals against a team from the bottom of the standings. Now is the time he should show his best. Mane is playing and Ronaldo can't complain about the quality of his team. I was expecting more from him, but still 20 minutes to go.