Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 65. (Read 126772 times)

In Saudi Professional League Al-Riyadh vs Al-Ittihad two team match, Al-Riyadh team did not score any goals. Al-Riyadh team player Z. Al Sahafi got red cards in 28 minutes. Al-Ittihad team player N. Kanté in 45+2 minutes.  1 goal. After that, the players of both teams could not score any more goals. If Al-Riyadh team performed well in this match, the match could have been drawn. Z.  Al-Riyadh team was on the field with 10 players for Al Sahafi to receive red cards in 28 minutes.

As previously predicted that Al Ittihad would be able to win this match, even though they won by a narrow score, it still made them take home 3 points from Al Riyadh's headquarters.
However, I regret a little when they couldn't take advantage of the good opportunities they had, especially when they played more players after one of Al Riyadh's players had to be sent off by the referee in the 28th minute. I thought when they had the advantage in terms of players like that, at least they could score at least 2 goals in this match, but it turned out not to be.

But Al Nassr defense, although often making mistakes, can still be considered quite good, they just need to maintain it to be much more stable and continue to be consistent in maintaining its performance in every condition, the habit of Al Nassr defense line is when they play against big team that is stronger and makes them like there is distrust and decline in mentality.
As for the Al Kholood vs Al Nassr match will take place today and I look back at the opportunities that exist, I think taking win for Al Nassr and adding Over 2.5 can be the right choice because my prediction for this match is that they can at least score 3 goal for victory.

Who stand a chance to win when it comes to these SPL clubs in the football transfer market? They're on top and will always be because the revenue and money is there, they got enough generated because Saudi Arabia values football. Saudi Arabia elite clubs are always in for these European players especially focusing on EPL clubs. We know the desperate actions that comes and they're always one step ahead when it comes to making signings and providing iressitable offers for these players. Manchester City can released players but wait a minute, you should simply check the players that are been sold out because the club's manager, Pep Guardiola have made his arrangements, he knows specifically what to do and he always have lined out plans to accomplish top goals.

FYI, Al Ittihad only could win the match with 1 goal only.

Well. In fact, it wasn't an easy match for Al Ittihad. Although they play with more players beacuse Al Riyadh get a red card in minute 28', Al Ittihad only could score 1 goal. They have some opportunities to score more goals, sadly they have lack of accuracy. I think Al Ittihad needs to improve their training for shooting accuracy, it looks not really good in this match. If they are playing against a stronger team, Al Itithad may end up the match with 0 goal.

Sure, Al Ittihad doesn't want to lose any point because they want to maintain their position in the top 3. So far, Al Ittihad can join the race for the title very well. We have 3 familiar teams in the top of Saudi league (Al Hilal, Al Ittihad, Al Nassr). However, it looks quite hard to overtake Al Hilal because Al Hilal performed perfectly until now. Al Hilal is unbeaten, they are getting stronger.

In terms of squad, Al Ittihad should be able to win easily in this match, especially since they do not want to lose points so as not to be left behind by Al Hilal who are currently still firmly at the top of the standings and undefeated. Al Hilal, Al Ittihad, and Al Nassr have always been the favorites to win the title this season. They are required to win every match, so Al Ittihad will try hard in this match to get three points.

However, this match cannot be underestimated because Al Riyadh is in its best form and has won in its last two matches. Al Riyadh after being promoted to LPS has slowly started to improve, last season they managed to survive in LPS and this season they have started the season well, they are currently in fifth place in the standings, of course this is good progress. So even though Al Riyadh is a weak team, Al Ittihad should not underestimate this match because Al Riyadh could give a surprise in this match.

Previously, Manchester City had released players to SPL clubs, one of the most recent being Joao Cancelo. So I wouldn't be surprised if they could also let Kyle Walker go to Al-Ahli if the offer from Al-Ahli was big enough. And actually, even for Kyle Walker, the offer from Al-Ahli is quite tempting. because if Kyle Walker accepts the offer from Al-Ahli then Kyle Walker will automatically be able to play in the SPL with a higher salary than he earned at Manchester City. Kyle Walker's salary will double if he plays at Al-Ahli. And at 34 years old, that's not a bad choice either. It's just that he is the captain at Manchester City and he is still an important figure there. But if Al-Ahli manages to get this player then they are very lucky.

Making comparisons to major leagues in Europe such as Bayern Munich with the Bundesliga and PSG with Ligue 1 isn't appropriate, we still know strong competition in those leagues even though they seem like farmer's leagues.

Al-Hilal with their SPL is another case, there's no strong competition there anymore, we just have to wait until the league is over and see Al-Hilal lift the trophy. I dare to bet with you that Al-Hilal will not lose and will definitely get 3 points in their next 3 league matches, I say that because I believe that no one can stop Al-Hilal in the SPL.

SPL has been growing very rapidly with the presence of many European stars, the presence of players such as Ronaldo, Mane, Kante and also Neymar has helped increase the popularity of SPL to be better and interesting for us to witness today, the presence of European players in every squad of SPL club clubs will certainly present more competitive competition today compared to the previous season,  Especially now that it is reported that the SPL authorities has allowed each team to recruit almost 8 european players, so that it will make the existing team stronger and ready to compete for the championship trophy later, today there are indeed several matches that will be played including the match between AI Orobah vs AI Shabab which Al Shabab managed to win with a score of 0-3 over Al Orobah.

The investment made by Saudi to develop the Saudi Pro League to be more competitive is certainly not a joke, recruiting former top European players is one of the instant paths chosen for now. With stable financial strength, I think Saudi will be able to achieve the targets set, it must be admitted that Ronaldo is the pioneer. Messi plays in the major league soccer with Inter Miami, not in Saudi. In the long term, and gradually the Saudi Pro League will certainly become one of the choices for world football players, no longer the last choice before retirement. In my opinion, they will not want to spend a large budget for futile purposes, on many occasions the Saudi Pro League now has been widely discussed.

With time Saudi Arabia will get all the players they need to build up their league because a lot of international players we have always loved to skipped activities just to watch their matches has joined them, though at the beginning players was not that interested in going there but after Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi open the way players has beginning to enjoy that league, very soon the Saudi Arabia will become very popular and will longer be seen as a league for people who wants to retire, however I use to follow up there matches and they have up to three Saudi Professional league matches today and one has started already which is AI Orobah vs AI Shabab and there is no goal yet but the remaining other two matches will be stating soon being Al Riyadh vs Al Ittihad and AI Wehda vs AI Khaleej.

Indeed, in terms of H2H and also statistically Al Ittihad is still better, but that is also not a guarantee that they will win, although I also predict the same thing that Al Ittihad will win in this match.

Al Ittihad just needs to be wary of their opponents, don't let them underestimate Al Riyadh, because that can make them feel something unwanted. They have to play as usual without underestimating their opponents. This is a good opportunity for them to win the match and get 3 points to stay close to Al Hilal at the top of the standings.

Actually I was quite surprised by the odds given by the bookies, there is indeed a difference but in my opinion it is still a difference that is not too far and maybe the odds given by the bookies to Al Ittihad could be even higher. But of course they have other considerations so that they give such odds to the two clubs that will compete. Al Riyadh is not as productive as Al Ittihad in creating goals, so Al Ittihad can take advantage of that so that they can implement a defense that is much more difficult to penetrate. While Al Ittihad has better goal productivity, so that will be something that they will take advantage of well. But Al Riyadh must have also prepared a solid defense.

Nothing is difficult to predict because Ittihad still has a greater opportunity and experience to win this match.

Now we compare from both teams.
Ittihad scored 20 scores from 7 matches with 8 conceding.
Al Riyadh was only able to score 11 scores from 7 matches and conceded 11 times.
From H2H, Ittihad is also very favored because 5X defeated Al Riyadh.

In conclusion, Ittihad will still win but Al Riyadh will provide resistance and will also score.
Betting on the victory of Ittihad or BTTS is a good choice.

Walker still has a few more seasons at the highest level, although he is no longer young but with consistency in playing of course he still has a chance to play in a competitive league, so far we can say he is no longer as fast as used to be, but his experience and ability to defend and his contribution in attack is still very valuable for Manchester City, walker also have the ability to adapt to various situations on the pitch when he plays, so that's why he is still guarded by Guardiola so far, I don't think if Manchester City will sell him in the near time, but if there are indeed attractive offers from Arab clubs, of course it could be an opportunity for walker to consider his future especially from a financial point of view.

Al Riyadh vs Al Ittihad

I think this is a match that is quite difficult to predict at first glance maybe we will see Al Ittihad favored by bookies but Al Riyadh is also not a club that can be underestimated this season maybe he will give a surprise in the match especially since he has the advantage of playing as the home team but even though playing at home he has odds @6.00 while for Al Ittihad itself has odds @1.44.
It is very difficult to determine the prediction in this match but I think I will bet on Al Ittihad only because I think every point he gets is very important to continue in the title hunt with Al Hilal and Al Nassr.

Kyle Walker is a captain at Manchester City. However, this season he did not get much playing time. The reason is, Manchester City currently has another young right-back, Rico Lewis. So with Rico Lewis, Kyle Walker's position is now slightly marginalized even though he is a team captain at Manchester City. Maybe because of that, it is only natural that Manchester City has now agreed to the offer submitted by Al Ahli. Because in essence Kyle Walker has now passed his glory days at Manchester City. Because as far as I know Kyle Walker has been at Manchester City for 7 seasons. In my opinion, with such a long duration, Manchester City must be very satisfied with Kyle Walker's performance. So in my opinion, next season is very suitable for Kyle Walker to be able to enjoy the rest of his career in the Saudi Arabian League with Al Ahli. Because currently Kyle Walker is also quite old, so playing 1 or 2 seasons in the Saudi Arabian League will of course be very good for him. And besides that, if Kyle Walker really gets contracted by Al Ahli, of course it will have a very good impact on Al Ahli's defense line.

It is true that Esteghlal's defense is very impressive and of course Al-Nassr players really have difficulty scoring goals and it looks like there is no gap to score against Esteghlal and it is clear that kicks like Talisca's and the others are always inaccurate when in front of the goal. There was even a kick from an Al-Nassr player that hit the goalpost which was inaccurate, because Esteghlal's defense was very good. and of course coach Esteghlal was really great at creating this strategy which overwhelmed the Al-nassr players.

yes, fortunately Laporte was able to score a goal because of course if Laporte couldn't score a goal of course Al-nassr wouldn't win. Yes, even though Cristiano Ronaldo didn't score a goal, of course it wasn't a big problem because he played well in that match and he fought tooth and nail to score a goal.

Yes, currently Pioli still hasn't disappointed the fans of Al-nassr and Al-nassr and indeed when compared to Castro I also see that Pioli is better and now in terms of defense Al-nassr is also starting to improve after Al-nassr was coached by Pioli. Of course I see the biggest challenge for Pioli in the future in the Al-Nassr SPL against Al-Hilal and if Pioli can bring Al-Nassr to victory, of course it will be a happy thing for Al-Nassr and Al-Nassr fans and what is certain is that Al -Nassr can win at that time, of course it will definitely be popular news and Pioli's name will definitely become more popular.

Yes, currently it is very difficult for Al-Nassr to become champions in several competitions. Yes, I personally also hope that with the presence of Pioli Al-Nassr can win titles in the domestic league and others.

As he has the willpower and the support of his current club, breaking the 1000 goal barrier will not be a difficult task for him. If it was the case that he has injury problems and if he continues to play with this problem then it might be impossible for him to overcome this hurdle but still because he is playing good football I believe he has this problem. You can touch the milestone. At the end of his career where other players don't get good respect from clubs or clubs don't want to buy players, this club in the Saudi League is very sympathetic to Ronaldo and Ronaldo is very good there mentally so we definitely want him to reach 1000 goals. I will wait to see the celebration.

The worst part about what we are seeing right now is how Ronaldo will eventually have to give up, I mean father time beats us all and he has to retire eventually, that will be a sad day, same for Messi as well. They can't play forever, even if we assume lets say they keep their body very healthy and play unt il 45, doesn't matter because they will retire eventually and that will be a very sad day.

They semi-retired already, both of them went to leagues with very small competition and not really caring about the results, they are just padding their stats at this point and not going to win anything important, Ronaldo failed to win the league so far, and even if he ever did, wouldn't be a huge deal, but he doesn't even get that. They are sort of retired, but at least we get to see him still playing.