Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 74. (Read 126972 times)

I think so. Just a draw would be a pretty good result for Al-Nassr when facing Al-hilal. Instead of having to experience defeat which will only make the difference in their points even further. But of course we who support Al-Nassr hope that Al-Nassr can win this time. And our hopes are even higher after seeing that there is a strong balance this time between all lines at Al-nassr after Pioli came in to replace Luis Castro. But expecting too high can also make us disappointed. because it seems that defeating Al-Hilal will still be the most difficult thing even for Al-Nassr at this time. because the solidity of Al-Hilal's game has never seemed to decline since last season. AL-hilal's unbeaten record last season in the SPL really proves that they have a very high level of play compared to other clubs.

Since Laurent Blanc took charge of Al Ittihad, it has now become a team to be reckoned with in this competition. It is clear that he is able to show his progress with Al Ittihad, giving Karim Benzema confidence back and improving the quality of the team. Although, it is still difficult to break the dominance when competing against Al Hilal. Even so, Laurent Blanc's progress is clear, maybe Laurent Blanc will need some additional players later after evaluating his team. It could be in the middle of the season, or after this season is over. The point is, now Al Ittihad has been able to compete with its rivals in this competition. As for Al Nassr, at least Stefano Pioli has also shown his ability when handling one of the giant clubs in the Saudi Pro League. Since he handled Al Nassr, he has been able to score victories with his team in 5 matches across competitions. Well, the league has only been running for 6 weeks and there are still many matches to be played in the title competition. It is possible that Al Hilal will have trouble with its competitors. After all, one season is not a short time. which means, consistency, discipline is the main thing in the competition for the three teams we discussed. at least, this season's Saudi Pro League is more interesting because it's not just 2 teams competing tightly for this season.

There is no doubt that Al Hilal is indeed very strong in this Saudi pro league, they are very difficult to beat, even clubs that are considered to be able to compete with them have not been able to make them lose so far. They appear solid and have managed to maintain their consistency very well. Their attack line is very sharp, proven now that they are the club that has scored the most goals. This season they are again the main favorites to defend the title. Betting on AL Hilal is very profitable, but the odds they can give are very small, that's natural because their chances in every match are very big, so the bookies give odds that are indeed equivalent.

I agree with your opinion that Al-Hilal is of course still strong and Aleksandar Mitrovic is really a good player and it feels it's not strange anymorethat when he competes he always scores goals. and of course Al-hilal is also very lucky because they have a professional and good coach like Jorge Jesus.

Yes, of course Ittihad and Al-Nassr will certainly find it very difficult to beat Al-Hilal. but of course the opportunity for Al-nassr and Ittihad is still wide open to become champions but of course I am sure that in this season it will definitely be difficult for us to predict who will win to become champions this season but if in the middle of the season Al-hilal is still leading the standings and Having never lost, of course, Jorge Jesus' troops will have great potential to become SPL champions again.

yes, I also predict the same as you, yes, Al-hilal will definitely try as hard as possible to be able to defend last season's title to win again in the SPL this season, yes, this season I also see that Al-hilal has not experienced defeat in the Champions League AFC Elite, so I personally also believe that Al-hilal will try to win and win the title in the AFC Elite Champions League this season. Yes, we'll see whether Al-Hilal will succeed in achieving its goals this season or not.

You right, and indeed the greatest strength of Al Hilal is the very solid teamwork in every game, Al Hilal players really understand what to do and how to play consistently and can establish good cooperation with their colleagues so that this is what makes Al Hilal have quite strong strength and performance.
If look at the player side between Al Hilal and Al Nassr, it is clear that Al Nassr has an advantage with some great players but only few players can play impressively and look so dominant, especially for Al Nassr defense line which in my opinion is not so solid, but now they look better than before.
In the match that brings them together next month I also believe that at least Al Nassr is able to hold draw, under coach Pioli I believe that Al Nassr game will slowly develop over time, there are still few matches before their meeting actually takes place and this is an opportunity for Al Nassr and Pioli to be able to prepare their best performance considering they are 4 points behind Al Hilal for now.

A draw should be good enough for Al Nassr when in the upcoming match with Al Hilal. although they have to work hard for a draw. because we can see how Al Hilan's game is very good. this time Al Nassr will play at home, right? they will fight harder not to lose. because of the bad results in the last meeting between the two in the Saudi Super Cup, they lost badly with a score of 1-4.
It must be admitted that Al Nassr's game has improved after their new coach. this proves that football is not only limited to players with good talents owned by the team, but there is also a coach's tactics which are an important role for the team to develop.

Al Ittihad has shown significant improvement this season and they are one of the favourites to compete with Al Hillal and Al Nassr in the title race, but even so Al Hillal is still a strong candidate to be able to defend their title this season considering their have better mentality and consistency than Al Nassr and Al Ittihad, so far Al Hillal and Al Nassr have not been defeated in the league while Al Ittihad actually got their first defeat of the season from Al Hillal in week 4 of the SPL, but indeed the big match we are most waiting for right now is Al Nassr Vs Al Hillal, so far Al Hillal has managed to dominate the victory over Al Nassr but I think this season Stefano Pioli strategy will be the difference in the match later,  Because after all, the coach strategy is also an important factor that can determine the victory of a team, in addition, against Al Hillal will certainly be a challenge and also a big test for Stefano Pioli as the new coach of Al Nassr at this time.

I confess that this is an impressive number that was completely unknown to me. Thinking about it says more about the strikers of the other nations than it says about Ronaldo. Of course it means that Ronaldo has set incredible records here, but what the hell is going on with the top strikers of all those other football nations? As impressive as it is to score so many goals for Ronaldo, as shameful it is for the other countries to not being able to bring forward a striker that scores a considerable number of goals.

But has this been confirmed? It translated into: Ronaldo has scored more goals in the last 9 years than all all-time top scorers combined of the other countries? Isn't there something wrong about this statement? I do think that Ronaldo has scored more goals in the last 9 years for Portugal than any striker of one of the countries ever, but not combined. That's how it reads and it is still crazy if it is true.

It does not mean that Ittihad or other teams have not found Al Hilal's weaknesses, but realistically the quality of players owned by Al Hilal with other teams in the SPL is very different. Although Al Nassr can be relied on to beat Al Hilal, it will not be possible to rely on Ronaldo alone. While Al Hilal has a very solid teamwork that can always create very high consistency. And for the upcoming match I am sure that at least Al Nassr can hold Al Hilal to a draw. We all know how experienced Pioli and Jorge Jesus are and we can see who has more experience from these two coaches.

I think that is a less than accurate statement, because it would be more accurate to say that Ronaldo wants to dedicate the trophy to AL Nassr, not the other way around. Because if Al Nassr wants to dedicate the trophy to Ronaldo, it means that they are not bigger than a player, while I am a person who believes that nothing can be bigger than a team, as said by the owner of Real Madrid, Florentino Perez (if I am not mistaken).
Whether Al Nassr, Al Ittihad or others, must work harder if they want to break the dominance of Al Hilal, because this team is so strong and they are very difficult to beat. I even think they are not a team that can beat Al Hilal unless they are very unlucky in that match. This sounds exaggerated indeed, but it is a picture when you see how solid they are.

Al Ittihad have made improvements this season they have been strong in the League but still it is not enough to beat the current Al Hilal squad you can see in their meeting last September Al Ittihad could not beat Al Hilal it is proof that no matter how strong the changes are their opponents if they have not found Al Hilal's weak point they will still have difficulty breaking the unbeaten record of the club coached by Jorge Jesus.
The next big meeting will take place next month a meeting between Al Hilal and Al Nassr we will see if Stefano Pioli can give his best in that match for Al Nassr the revenge will be seen throughout the match.

Football is a sport of team working and a team must win or lose a match together. They must be strong as a united team to win a match against their opponent. As a team, Al Hilal are stronger than Al Nassr in both attacking and defense systems. Two clubs are similar in their attacking quality but in defense performances, Al Nassr are considerably worse than Al Hilal. Defense is their biggest weakness that costs them not only Saudi Professional League title but some cups in the last season.

In this current season, after several early matches, this weakness in Al Nassr continues its existence. With his unsolved weakness in defense, there will be little chance for Al Nassr to beat Al Hilal in direct matches and in a long season of league competition.

Ronaldo alone can't stop Al Hilal, dude. It is not about Ronaldo, but it is about Al Nassr strength. You can't blame Ronaldo only when Al Nassr never won against Al Hilal, I think it is unfair. You need to check deeply the quality of Al Hilal squad and Al Nassr squad, then you know that Al Hilal has a better squad quality. So, it is reasonable if Al Hilal is unstoppable.

For the next match against Al Hilal, Al Nassr must try to win the match. They won't target to get a draw result, it is not something to be proud of. Al Nassr always has a dream to win SPL trophy, this only can happen if they can beat Al Hilal. However, Al Nassr needs to play solidly if they want to win against Al Hilal. They can't rely on Ronaldo only!

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Al Hilal and Al Nassr squad comparison

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Related sources:
- https://www.transfermarkt.com/al-hilal-sfc/kader/verein/1114
- https://www.transfermarkt.com/al-nassr-fc/kader/verein/18544

Tonight in UEFA Nations League game between Poland and Portugal, Al Nassr forward Cristiano Ronaldo scored yet another goal to take his number of international goals to 133 goals while also increasing his total number of careers goals to 906. Now that's not the most staggering goal records rlofvthe Portuguese star. Personally I feel the most intimidating goals stat of Cristiano Ronaldo is scoring more goals for Portugal since turning 30 than  record scorers of these six successful football nations. At this juncture, I think they should thoroughly investigate if he's a human or an alien. What a super human.

Yeah the change is not enough to be a strong competitor for Al-Hilal, for example Al-Nassr has a better defense this season but somehow their performance is no better because they draw 2 times and 4 points behind Al-Hilal, for now Al-Nassr seems not consistent from every game this means they cannot be relied upon to win the title this season, but yeah the league is still running and other matches are still waiting.

For this October there are no interesting matches in the Saudi Pro League, what we are waiting for is in November when Al-Nassr has to fight Al-Hilal. We know this match is El Clasico from Saudi because it attracts the attention of many people and the battle between the star players also as proof for 2 players who compete on the top score list.

Al Hilal are still too strong to be defeated by all Saudi Pro League contestants at this time. Al Ittihad have tried in week 4, but again they failed to beat the defending champions, let's see what will happen when Al Hilal face Al Nassr in week 9. Changing managers is not a guarantee for winning trophies, such as the appointment of Pioli, even the former AC Milan manager did not have the opportunity to build a team according to his wishes. I think Al Hilal are one level above their competitors, they have managed to maintain an unbeaten record until now. On the other hand, Al Hilal impressive performance should also be shown in the Asian Champions League (LCA), last season they failed to reach the final, we hope they can do it this season. So far, Al Hilal have managed to top Group B, and I think they will qualify for the next stage easily.

The small changes in Al Ittihad and Al-Nassr teams are not changes that will make Al-Hilal lose its leadership. I don't know if they really want to surpass Al-Hilal and be better than them or if they are happy with the rankings they are in. I can't help but think about this. Al-Hilal, on the other hand, gets one step better every year and it is often exciting to watch their matches.

I agree, Al Hilal is still as strong as the last season. Yep, it seems difficult to beat Al Hilal if Al Ittihad and Al Nassr have no change and no improvement in the squad quality or game strategy. However, I'm very sure both Al Ittihad and Al Nassr are always trying to beat Al Hilal. Al Ittihad improves their player quality, meanwhile Al Nassr changed their coach. With this little change, it is not impossible that Al Hilal can be defeated someday. Even Al Hilal is the strongest one, there should be time that Al Hilal may play not with their best level.

It is all thanks to their good management team and their European connection(the players that were brought in from European club's) besides the league is not as competitive as one of those major leagues we see in Europe, so it typical to see one club dominate the league until the tempo of the competition changes to another level but until then we must acknowledge the fact that Al hilal have been playing quite some tremendous football in the Saudi professional league.

Al Hilal has shown extraordinary consistency in the SPL so far, even when the Arab league is not as popular as it is today they has become a team that continues to be a candidate for the SPL winner, so it is undeniable that Al Hilal is one of the teams that has a long history full of glory in Saudi Arabia,  even when the SPL club club began to transform today by bringing in many European stars, precisly it did not diminish Al Hillal status as the favorite team to win the championship until now.
Week 9 match later  of course the match we are most waiting for, indeed from the head-to-head statistics that have existed so far, Al Hilal is superior to Al Nassr, but I think this season we also cannot underestimate Al Nassr who is indeed starting to be on a positive path after Stefano Pioli became coach, so I think the match between Al Hillal Vs Al Nassr will be a different match later than their previous match because after all, the coach strategy will also be an important factor in determining the victory in the match.