Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 88. (Read 118990 times)

It's great to be Neymar, without trying hard he can still win his fourth trophy with Al-Hilal.

I think if it were Ronaldo's position, maybe he wouldn't be happy at all if he won the trophy without ever playing a single match and here Neymar seems to be used to it because he is still injured and he is helped by his friends to continue to add to his collection of titles in Saudi Arabia.

But on the other hand, Ronaldo will still be happy because he can continue to score goals in almost every match and it seems like he will continue to chase the record that has not been completed. It must be really painful to fail to win the title over and over again and for a great player like him it feels like he doesn't deserve all this.

As long as there is football, it is natural that there will be comparisons between the best players. At one time there was a comparison between the Brazilian legend Pele and the Argentine legend Maradona. Comparisons between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have continued since they retired from football. Their time is almost at the end, maybe if they leave, there will be comparisons among the fans about new star players. The players we compare are all personal preferences, even those who like these players want to promote their favorite players. Currently, Cristiano Ronaldo is playing for Al-Nassr Club of the Saudi League.

A few days ago they faced Al Hilal in the final of the Saudi Super Cup where they lost 4-1. Cristiano Ronaldo managed to score just one goal for Al Nasr in this match, he got a free kick which he shot over the Goal bar. Apart from him, all the other players of their team could not perform well. When I highlighted this match I saw Al Hilal players smashing the Al Nassr Club defense and putting the ball into the net. Then only Ronaldo was suffering from regret.

Indeed, if you look at the first half, Al-Nassr played very well and of course I saw that this made the Al-Nassr fans also enthusiastic and in the second half, Al-Nassr's performance was not so good and indeed conceding goals in a row in such a short time was certainly very surprising for Al-Nassr Club class.

actually in the second half Al-nassr should have been more enthusiastic because they had already scored 1 goal printed Cristiano Ronaldo but in fact Al-hilal were more enthusiastic in the second half and honestly I was also amazed by the mentality of the Al-hilal players who were able to recover in the second half 2 that. That's why it's only fitting that Ronaldo mocked his friend because Ronaldo would also be annoyed by the incident, especially since it was the final match to win the title.

In my opinion, up to now Al-Nassr in terms of defense is still like last season, there has been no progress and of course if this continues with Al-Nassr's condition not improving then it will definitely be difficult for Al-Nassr to win the title and it is not impossible. also that Cristiano Ronaldo will leave Al-nassr if there is no progress from the Al-nassr squad. but I hope that Cristiano Ronaldo does not leave Al-nassr and I hope that Al-nassr's strength will quickly increase.

Al Hillal continues to continue their dominance over Al Nassr currently in the domestic leagu,  If you look at the quality of the squad that Al Hillal has, it is actually not much different from that of Al Nassr, but for some reason every time they meet Al Hillal, Al Nassr seems to lose their mentality and also their fighting power in the match and this was clearly visible when they were easily destroyed by Al Hillal in the Super Cup final yesterday, Al Nassr had actually taken the lead through a goal scored by Ronaldo in that match but Al Hillal rise turned out to be a nightmare for the Al Nassr defense which had to concede 4 goals in just 15 minutes.

In my opinion, if Al Nassr wants to be able to compete with Al Hillal of course they have to overhaul their squad, especially their defense which is very bad and too easily exploited by opposing teams, apart from that, maybe Al Nassr now needs to consider replacing their coach who is poor in strategic creativity and the game scheme, talking about Neymar, it looks like he is still recovering from his injury, although maybe he has recovered, of course Al Hillal doesn't want to take the risk of to played him in that match.

Comparison of Neymar and Ronaldo:

Cristiano is a very respected Athlete but the rivalry between him and Messi made some fans to dislike him because they they believe Messi is better than him. Being a football fan i think everyone will not hate such a player that have achieved so much in football, if not for the rivalry i don’t think anyone will have a reason to hate him.

It was the Super Cup final which ended in a defeat for Al Nassr. It’s sad how Al Hilal have always been better than Al Nassr in every game they play, Ronaldo should have won a major trophy for Al Nassr if not for Mitrovic and Al Hilal they just seem so better as a team and that’s why it is easy for them to keep winning every trophy there is.

Al Nassr still needs more players to strengthen their squad if they ever want to measure up to Al Hilal, their defense is still not strong enough so adding a few more defenders will help and players like Mane needs to step up their game and make things happen and stop depending on Ronaldo to deliver everytime.

After this match it is clear that Al Nassr has no hope of winning the SPL title because in terms of attack Al Hilal is stronger than the club's excellent cooperation.
While Al Nassr is still the same as before, relying too much on Ronaldo in attack so that the results are very bad and I see only Ronaldo and Talisca who are very productive.
Anyone who bets on Al Hilal's victory will definitely get a decent profit because before the match starts we can predict the results very easily.

Al Nassr need improvement in midfield who should be replaced with more productive players.

Even with Neymar not being in the lineup due to the injury, the team still delivered an impressive win. I do agree with the points made further: changes are needed to try to compete more effectively in the future. 

If a team concedes four goals in the first 17 minutes, it must be assumed that the team did not perform like a professional team at all. How weak is a team's midfield and defense that they conceded four goals in just 17 minutes. After conceding four goals in the first 17 minutes, it looked like they might have scored a dozen more in the rest of the period, but that was not the case. You can't blame Ronaldo too much here because he didn't have much to do on his own. Ronaldo did his job well if he could have had better support from the midfield maybe the number of goals would have increased but the biggest thing is that Al Nasser's players here have performed very poorly in defense. 

Such a poor performance in such a big tournament is certainly not expected from Al Nasser.

Al Nassr should have recruited an experienced goalkeeper from a famous league in Europe instead of recruiting Bento who only has little experience, he only made 1 save and unable to hold back other attacks even though Al Hilal also did not make many shots, only 5 shots on target and 4 of them resulted in goals. From this result, it can be seen that Al Nassr's defense is still bad, they will not be able to compete in the title race with Al Hilal this season if their performance is still like this.


Source : https://www.transfermarkt.co.id/al-nassr-fc/transfers/verein/18544/saison_id/2024

Al Nassr has actually recruited 1 defender but it seems that it is not enough and they have not used this player in their match against Al Hilal, Luis Castro must change his strategy and think of a solution so that Al Nassr can perform better in the remaining matches.

As expected, Al Hilal  football team won the final match by 4-1 . My prediction was right, Al Hilal football team won the  match on sided and we didn't see competition in this match. That was the final of Saudi Super Cup and Al Players were dominant in this match.  Mitrović did two goals in this match and made match one sided and he has crucial role in this match because he did back to back goals . He did his first goal at 63 minutes of the match and after that at 69 minutes,he did his second goal . And at that time team score was 3 and opponent team score was 1. Al-Nassr team should work on their skills because that is time to improve yourself and if they improve well,then they will win the next Cup.

Al-Ahli actually do not only need defenders in this summer transfer window, they also need to bring in a striker who is much more productive than what they have. or, a player who can provide service for Firas Al Buraikan in terms of scoring goals. because, they are still struggling even though they already have Firmino and Mahrez. at least, another option is to bring in local players who are also very experienced and established in terms of the game. thus, maybe Al-Ahli will be much more productive in terms of scoring goals. talking about Alexsander, I tried to see his statistics and various references related to his position, it seems that Al-Ahli plans to deepen its midfielders. if I'm not mistaken, Alexsander is positioned as a defensive midfielder. thus, he can be paired with Franck Kessie. but considering that we don't know his performance, especially since he is still very young, it is not certain that this player can adapt quickly. however, at least Al-Ahli is trying to bring in players who are needed in their squad team. well, Al-Ahli should bring in several other newcomers for several positions. however, if they still plan to bring in foreign or European players, Al-Ahli must release some incompetent foreign players.

What Ronaldo did might be a little controversial, but considering what happened in that match, Ronaldo should have been disappointed with his team, because ronaldo had worked very hard in that match and the goal he scored should have been a motivation for his teammates, especially for defense to keeping that the win, but only by 17 minutes they conceded 4 goals and showed that Al Nassr defense was very fragile, Bento who was the goalkeeper in that match couldn't do much and I don't think it should be all blamed for Bento, because after all without a strong defense of course he couldn't do a lot to prevent the goal from being conceded.
But despite all that, currently the transfer market is still open and it would be good for Al Nassr to evaluate their defense to improve existing weaknesses, Szczesny who previously failed to be recruited by Al Nassr from Juventus, now is available with free transfer status and maybe he is still worthy of being recruited by Al Nassr at this time as the main goalkeeper.

That's right, if Al Nassr management does not fix the weaknesses in their current defense, then it is not surprising that next season Al Nassr will again be close friends with failure. Al Nassr latest defeat to Al Hilal in the Saudi Super Cup should be a signal to introspect the shortcomings, and make the most of the transfer window that is still open. I think Al Nassr could experience a setback next season if they are satisfied with the available squad, Ronaldo will automatically continue to extend his trophy drought in Saudi. It must be admitted that Al Hilal is too tough to be defeated by any team, previously they had won the Saudi King Cup and the Saudi Pro League.

On the other hand, the Saudi Pro League has become famous since Ronaldo arrived, Al Nassr should be able to build a quality team around Ronaldo to be able to achieve success. I am very sure that if Al Nassr succeeds in winning the trophy in the future, the prestige of the Saudi Pro League will increase, because of Ronaldo presence in the team. The opportunity is still open, and while Ronaldo has not talked about retiring, Al Nassr must make the most of the momentum. Losing 4-1 indicates that Al Nassr back line is indeed very porous, Luis Castro needs to evaluate the depth of his squad.

In this transfer market we have seen several young Brazilian players joining the SPL. Apart from this young player, there is also a young Brazilian goalkeeper, namely Bento Matheus Krepski, who is still 25 years old who has joined Al-Nassr. But so far Alexsander is the youngest at 21 years old. With this I think that next season there will be even more young players interested in joining the SPL. This is a positive thing for all SPL clubs. And I understand why these young players dare to come to the SPL apart from money. That is, they can also return to Europe at any time. And if their quality in the SPL is very good. So don't be surprised if one day there will be a European club who will want to recruit him again at a high price. Because several European players have come to the SPL, some have returned to Europe because they have received good offers. So going to the SPL will not decide the player's future. Because even several clubs in the transfer market this time are also targeting European players in the SPL. Atletico Madrid and West Ham are two clubs that are also trying to re-recruit European players in the SPL. But their efforts don't seem to be successful.

That hope existed when Cristiano Ronaldo could create a goal in the first half before halftime. But at the beginning of the second half of Al Naasr could not do much when he saw 4 goals lodged against their goal. Again and again in this match the defense is the highlight of the spotlight and it is also their shortcomings last season. Many people want to see something different that can be shown by Al Nassr but that is only hope that is far from reality.

Congratulations to Al Hilal who once again shows that they are more resilient than their rivals, Al Nassr. If this is not quickly fixed, it is not impossible that Al Hilal will be sukit to be stopped again like last season. After a fairly prison holiday, Beauty's work is still waiting for Al Nassr to be able to improve their performance, especially in now defense, also now which cannot be the first line to break down attacks from Al Hilal.

You have to put the blame on the defense of Al Nassr for letting in four goals in just 17 minutes because that can only happen with a toothless defense line. Al Nassr's problems of last season wasn't lack of a good attacking line that could score plenty goals because they did have it as well as top scorer in the Saudi Pro League last season but it was their poor defending that caused them the league title and other trophies they competed in last season. I thought the club management will fix that issue by signing quality defenders this transfer window but they failed to do that. The goalkeeper was poor with his decisions yesterday and if he continues with such performance, then he should be replaced. I hope the club manager improves the team in no distant time.

Al Hilal beat Al Nasser by a huge margin last night in the final of the Saudi Cup. Cristiano Ronaldo scored for Al-Nasser in this match but his goal was not enough to win the team. Al Hilal scored back-to-back goals and Al Nasser conceded. Al Hilal defeated Al-Nasser by a huge margin of 4-1 to win the Arab Super Cup. Neymar was not in the squad due to injury problems but there was good buzz among the fans about his presence but in the end Al Hilal did not include him in the final of this important match. 

Most of the matches Al Nasser played with Al Hilal last season, Al Nasser lost most of the matches, which means that their team definitely needs changes and the team needs to be strengthened, but they will be able to compete with Al Hilal.

I don't know who to blame but conceding 4 goals in 17 minutes felt very embarrassing and Ronaldo even mocked his teammates with a sleeping movement when conceding the goals. Even though the match was fierce and Al-Nassr's opening goal was scored by Ronaldo but it wouldn't be Al-Hilal if they couldn't reply to the goal.

As a result, in the second half Al-Hilal appeared so aggressive and it all started with goals from Milinkovic Savic, Mitrovic to Malcom making Al-Nassr so miserable. The performance of Al-Nassr's new goalkeeper, Bento, was also considered very bad and he got the lowest rating in this final match. But indeed if Al-Nassr's defense was much stronger, this conceding should not have continued. Once again, Ronaldo and Al-Nassr had to fall in front of Al-Hilal and I think it won't be long before Ronaldo won't be comfortable at Al-Nassr if it is still difficult to win the title.

I have to agreed here but still we need to talk few more things like it's not all about money now Saudi Pro League is also making mark and organizers are doing good work for having better and competitive soccer which will bring good intention from many sensations from the different regions for having their presence here in this league.

 Even we can't go without this money is having enough power and here in Saudi League it's not a problem for them clubs to spend this even they are having no good return of this investment, but they are trying their best for having world's best players here UEFA is still one of the best league in world and soccer players and fans love to be here, but now things are taking changes we have to accept few things about this as well for having development for good.

I have been saying here that Al Nassr probably won't achieve anything relevant with coach Luís Castro, who according to some rumors (maybe they are rumors that are far from the truth), could be fired soon. After losing once again against Al Hilal, it became clear that the Al Nassr coach is not ready to achieve anything with Al Nassr. Losing in a humiliating way in the first official game is not a good start to the season. Al Nassr was the first to score a goal, but then conceded 4 goals and lost, and with that the number of defeats in games against Al Hilal increased. We all know that losing in some game is normal, but in the case of Al Nassr against Al Hilal there is a very particularity, I'm talking about this:



source: https://livescores.biz/h2h/al-hilal-vs-al-nassr

1 - From 2021 to 2024, Al Nassr has only won 2 matches against Al Hilal

2 - In the last 13 matches that Al Nassr has played against Al Hilal, Al Hilal has won 7 matches, while Al Nassr has won only 2 matches. There were 4 draws

3 - In the matches in which Al Hilal has beaten Al Nassr, Al Hilal has managed to score at least 2 goals.

Looking at this data and knowing that this season Al Hilal does not have any great players on the field and yet they have achieved great things, then I see that Al Nassr's biggest problem is the coach. Ronaldo was very unlucky to have gone to Al Nassr, since he left Real Madrid, who has only gone to teams with serious problems and failures.