Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 98. (Read 127231 times)

In fact, Al Hilal players are not much more competitive than Al Nassr, but they can play with solid teamwork. The bonding between players is very close, plus the system implemented by Jorge Jesus is really effective for his team. and we can see, Al Hilal players are very productive and not just Mitrovic. maybe we have different points of view regarding Al Nassr, for me the presence of Luis Castro certainly plays a big role for his team. simply he is the one who designs strategies and tactics, implementing the most ideal system. it's not a matter of how to score as many goals as possible, but also how they maintain their defense line. Luis Castro's standard pattern is 4-2-3-1, their two pivots will be very central in every attack building or helping the defense line. if your theory is that the mistake was made by Al Nassr players, especially since the players often make mistakes, the first thing the coach does is bench them. thus, he will try to maximize his performance to return to the main team and play with good performance. honestly, since last season Al Nassr should have replaced Luis Castro, but he was still given a chance. plus, teamwork is the main thing. the ball is not always directed to Ronaldo to score a goal, if other players have a chance then they have to execute it. this is what is called teamwork, and Al Nassr must get a truly competent coach.

Well, that's how it should be if we look at other leagues. But if we pay attention, most of the people who have attended the SPL for several seasons have not attended it before. Then we will realize that most of us follow the development of the SPL with its teams based on the big names in each team. So it is quite clear that here we rarely talk about teams that have fewer European star players in them. And in fact we always talk more about teams that have more star players in them. For example, let's say Al-Ettifaq plays well with his players. But we still prefer to talk about Al-Nassr which has Cristiano Ronaldo in it even though Al-Nassr is currently in a bit of a slump during its season. In fact, most of us are focused on watching the SPL because we only followed Cristiano Ronaldo at first.

But you are right that now our attention is no longer focused only on Cristiano Ronaldo with Al-Nassr. But yeah, slowly we are starting to share our attention on all the teams and all the clubs in the SPL. But of course our attention will be diverted if there is a big match in Europe. For example, when there is a Euro Cup. Or when there is a UCL like now. But it's not just the SPL that we start not paying attention to when there is UCL, but we sometimes ignore competitions in other domestic leagues such as the Premier League when we want to focus more on watching matches in the UCL.

Stefano Pioli previously managed to bring Milan to continue competing in the top of Serie A, but surprisingly Milan fired him and replaced him with the current Fonsesca, Stefano Pioli's dismissal happened after last season ended and I think he had a lot of time to consider the offer that came and decided to be the current Al Nassr coach, Pioli is not a bad coach in my opinion because after all this time he has been able to bring Milan competing with Intermilan in Serie A, so I was quite happy when Al Nassr chose him as the current coach to replace Luis Castro, I think  if Pioli appointment had been earlier then he would have had a lot of time to build the current Al Nassr squad especially improving their poor defensive line, but with the current European transfer market closing then Pioli has very few options with local players available, although it's a little late, but I have a great sense of optimism if we will see Al Nassr get better under Pioli now as a coach. 

Yes I agree with you that Neymar has no contribution to Al Hilal with him being injured all season. Last season alone he only played a few games, it was not commensurate with what he got at Al Hilal. So when Al Hilal started to speak up and had a conflict with Neymar it was something very natural because they expressed their disappointment towards this player. However this is also not entirely Neymar's fault, because after all the players would not want to feel injured, but it just happened. There was a mistake in making decisions on Al Hilal's part in my opinion, because they did not see the history of injuries experienced by the player, so it caused a loss for them, a loss in terms of contribution after the money they had spent.

Well the thing is that Ney hasn't had any kind of influence on Al Hilal, I couldn't say how good his influence is, so much can be said about CR7, but Ney basically what he has done is receive large amounts of money while being injured, what can be said about him is that if he earns so much while injured just imagine him scoring goals and being able to play his game and being more lined with money, so given that things are like this what these two characters do is give relevance to this league, and I think the Arabs see that, and clearly if Al Hilal is like that without Ney, I can't imagine the impact it would have if he had him at 100%, Al Nassr really is very lucky.

yes, now Al-nassr officially has a new coach (Pioli) and of course this will give a new color to Al-nassr and of course we will see what he will do in an effort to make Al-nassr more advanced, and of course the current problems What must be done is of course Pioli must be able to make Al-Nassr's defense strong, but of course we won't know what he will do. but honestly, in my opinion, it would be better for Pioli to bring in top European players so that he can be better, but of course for a good and professional coach, of course, even with the existing players, he will definitely be able to make his players strong.

Yes, Pioli, who recently became Al-Nassr's coach, will definitely need time to adapt to the Al-Nassr players and of course we will see whether the Al-Nassr players will quickly adapt to Pioli or not.

Yes, Pioli, who has experience, especially in the Italian League, certainly makes me curious about what he will do and of course I am also curious about what happened to Cristiano Ronaldo's game because now Pioli is his coach. Yes, of course it will be very difficult for Al-Nassr to be able to compete with Jorge Jesus' troops if Al-Nassr's defense is not improved, but yes, I hope that with the replacement of the Al-Nassr coach, Al-Nassr will be stronger and able to compete with Al-Hilal. but what is certain is that it will not be easy for Pioli to make Al-nassr stronger, but what is certain is that Pioli will fight as hard as possible to make Al-nassr beat Al-hilal, so we'll see.

There are different views about the sacking of Luis Castro because he was doing good job for years but suddenly things gone from bad to worse which bring management at this level to take this decision even this is too early to talk about success of Stefano Pioli because this is his first assignment outside Italy and things are never been easy for him to have success against teams like Al Hilal and Al Ittihad as both are doing good job and having good advantage.

Now, his first duty is to fix problems at the defense which is never been settled, and they are conceding too many goals which are bringing them down if we are able to have improvement after this new signing then surely we will have good entertaining end of this season in Saudi Pro League which is now touching new highs after having too many big names in just two years just because of their huge investments.

Al Ittihad is now at the top of the Saudi Arabian League standings for the time being. Al Ittihad's performance this season is considered very good, winning all 3 matches they have played so far. In these 3 matches, Al Ittihad can be said to be quite productive, because in these 3 matches Al Ittihad was able to score 10 goals and so far only conceded 2 goals. So this season Al Ittihad can really rise from its downturn. Because last season Al Ittihad really had difficulty getting their best performance. But currently Al Ittihad seems to have good chemistry and Benzema, who had a poor performance last season, has now achieved his best performance again. Because of the 3 matches that Benzema has played with Al Ittihad, he has scored 4 goals. Benzema's peak performance was seen in the Al Ittihad match against Al Wahda, because in that match Benzema managed to score a hat trick. I think with this, it is quite fair to say that Benzema has found his best performance. And next week Al Ittihad will face a match that will definitely be quite difficult, because the team that Al Ittihad will face is Al Hilal. So in this match we will assess Al Ittihad's performance, because the match against Al Hilal will be a very good benchmark to see Al Ittihad's performance. So I really can't wait to see this fight.

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Honestly, I didn't think that Luis Castro would be fired. At first I thought that Luis Castro would be fired at the end of this season if Luis Castro couldn't bring Al-Nassr to become champions this season. However, I don't think Al-Nassr's decision to fire Luis Castro was wrong because if we look at Al-Nassr's match at the start of this season it wasn't very impressive and of course I also saw that Al-Nassr's defense still hasn't changed, even though I think Luis Casto should have can fix the problems in Al-Nassr's back line, so I personally also agree if Luis Castro is fired by Al-Nassr because of course the dismissal of Luis Castro at the start of this season will certainly provide an opportunity for another coach who replaces Luis Castro to improve Al-Nassr.

but yes, I also see that of course Luis Castro is also very good at training Al-nassr, but of course Al-nassr wants to see Al-nassr perform even better and become champions and of course Al-nassr fans also want to see Al-nassr become champions and Of course, what is certain is that with the dismissal of Luis Castro at the start of this season, Al-Nassr and Al-Nassr fans will certainly hope that their new coach can bring Al-Nassr to become champions.

Now Stefano Pioli has been widely discussed and linked that he has the potential to be Luis Castro's replacement but I personally agree if for example he coaches Al-Nassr because of course I think he is experienced but of course we'll see what happens and I want to ask Do you all agree if Stefano Pioli becomes Luis Castro's replacement?  

AL Hilal will always show up in every game they are playing even if they are losing in the game they must find a way to win the match, AL Hilal is like a Real Madrid team that even if they do not play well they will find a way to win the match, AL Hilal have a good player's and they know how to sign player's that can help the team not like AL nassr that did not know how to solve the problem of their team, AL nassr just sack their coach and sign another coach, did we think that the coach is AL nassr problem of not winning the trophy?

Al Nassr's problem is not from the coach, the problem of AL nassr is from the players because if you look at AL nassr's match you will see that the players are the ones making mistakes and are conceding goals even when they are leading in the match, No matter how many coach AL nassr sign if they did not sign good player's like AL Hilal they will never win any trophy in that league.

We have recently seen in the newspaper that Al-Nassr has appointed a new coach in their team. The weak point of Al-Nassr team at the moment is their Department of Defense. They have some of the world's best forwards in their squad like Cristiano Ronaldo and Sadio Mane but they still cannot play well against the opposition due to their weak defence. As Al-Nassr have appointed a new manager to complete their squad, they should add some new players to strengthen their defence.
One of the most successful and powerful teams in the Saudi Premier League is Al Hilal. They have been dominating various club level leagues in Saudi Arabia for the past few years. Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia is a self sufficient team they are strong in all aspects be it attack and defense. A few weeks ago they also won the title by defeating Al Nassr Club in the final of the Saudi Super Cup. Al Hilal are still in the doldrums as they spent the biggest money in their club's history on Neymar mainly to bolster their attack force. But Neymar Jr injuries seem like a waste of money for them to spend right now.

Al-Nassr has a weak defense system that can be improved by two main changes: defensive players and head coach. They're doing this with hiring a new coach, Pioli who was appointed hours ago. The first part is done and Pioli is a good coach with knowledge of Italian art of defense. He can help Al-Nassr to improve defensive tactics but it is only the first part. The second part is defensive players in the club must be improved by either training sessions with Pioli or transfer market.

Al-Nassr won't be able beat Al-Hilal in Saudi Professional League and other competitions in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East if they can not improve their defense in this season. Al-Hilal is better than Al-Nassr in both attacking and defense systems so they're better to collect points in Saudi Professional League for defending their crown.

Well, that what we should be able to understand that in some of these matches, even though the results are less than satisfactory, it cannot be an assessment that the team will experience decline and will not be able to perform well in the future, this is still early and it is natural that there are some unexpected things such as defeat.
Each team will have good chance to be at the top, even team that looks behind for almost full season can still win the title as long as the lag is not too bad like in the Premier League last season which showed Manchester City lagging behind but in the last few matches they were able to achieve success with all the wins in the remaining matches.
SPL could have an ending like that if each team is only few points behind at the end of the season, remember that surprises always come in football.

As long as performance can still be maintained more consistently, getting draw and sharing points will be much better than suffering defeat because with draw each team can still catch up with difference that is more likely to surpass the top.
Al Nassr can make big surprise by minimizing defeats and can collect more points, they have pretty perfect squad here and the only team that is the toughest competitor is probably only Al Hilal, in my opinion the title fight is still like the previous few season which were dominated by Al Hilal, Al Nassr and Al Ittihad.
For the match between Al-Ettifaq and Al Nassr itself, this shows that Al-Ettifaq is playing at home, but I sure that Al Nassr will win with fairly narrow result, such as the 0 - 1 victory for Al Nassr.

Al Nassr has weak defense, no doubt Pioli will rebuild the defense line. They need 2 top local players for the left and right backs. They have 2 foreign players on center backs, I'm not sure if Pioli will try to sign new foreign players for left or right back. Since maximum foreign players is 10 players, I doubt if Pioli is interested to sign another top european defender.

Yes, Ronaldo is getting older, he will be 40 years old soon. I think Al Nassr should plan to replace him with someone else. Although I think Talisca will be put as a CF if Ronaldo retired or leave the club, Al Nassr needs another CF because they only have 1 pure CF now (Ronaldo).

Ramos is a good option but I think he is not in the prime age anymore. Why Al Nassr needs to sign an old player anymore? I think it is time Al Nassr to sign the new players in prime ages (below 30 years old). It is no  longer difficult to sign European players, many of them want to join SPL because of the high salary.

Al Nassr management should have done it sooner, before the season started, to give him the opportunity to build squad depth and have more time to adapt to the team. The responsibility that is placed on Pioli is quite large, namely leading the club to win the Saudi Pro League trophy this season, which in my opinion is very difficult to realize. It is not impossible, but the opportunities that Al Nassr have now are relatively low, although the points difference is still relatively thin. Changing managers without adding depth to the squad will not have an instant impact, we know the transfer window has closed, and Al Nassr really needs improvements in the area of ​​​​its defense line. It is indeed possible that Al Nassr will be able to appear impressive as expected, but currently Al Hilal as the main competitor in the fight for the trophy has not shown any signs of decline, that's what's the most difficult factor.

Yes, the performance they will see in the recent match shows how strong and hardworking they are becoming.    But as long as he plays well and supports other players in the match and tries to score more goals.    Right now these players are their base and because of them they are making themselves stronger and winning matches as well.    Yes you are right but it requires hard work and effort they also cannot dominate them and if this player who is the real strength of this team.    But it's hard to say and I also think they will definitely win championships and win matches and maintain their strength in the next season as they are now.

I think it's clear that we are going to see Al Nassr put more emphasis on their defense next season but they are getting an older and older Ronaldo each year and they need to do something quickly before the time runs out. As far as I know Ramos is still free agent and if they could get him that would be a good thing for them and they could make some good defensive adjustments with him, definitely looks like a good thing for them. I know that it's a bad situation to be in for them but at the same time I think they should be doing whatever they can to keep doing whatever they can do.

This isn't a simple solution but they should be looking at this as something that will take a while and I believe that we are going to see this changing for the long term and Ronaldo will be either too old or retired by the time Al Nassr is better. They need to act quicker and do fine and shouldn't be taking their time this much to make a better squad, should do it while Ronaldo is still good.

Earlier today when I firstly saw report that Stefano Pioli have terminated his contract with AC Milan to join Al Nassr, I couldn't believe my eyes and had to go search in the most trusted transfer news websites to confirm the news. For a manager who was coaching a top Italian Serie A club to join a Saudi club I think is a big positive impact to the Saudi Pro League.
Al Nassr have not been living up to expectations of many despite having star players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Sadio Mane, Brozovic and many other in their midst. With the arrival of Stefano Pioli, I strongly believe their performance will improve significantly.

Al Nassr have had an unconvincing start to the season, gaining just 5 points from 3 games; they have secured one win and two draws. This is quite below the belt after expecting too much from the club that contends equally at the top with Al Hilal, Al Ittihad. A draw 4 points off the top is not too far, and there is still a possibility of bouncing back if their performance can be boosted in the upcoming games.

The subsequent game against Al Wahda ould be an important opportunity for Al Nassr to gain momentum. In the last five games where they have met, Al Nassr emerged winners in four of them against Al Wahda. They lost only in that duel during the semi-finals of the Saudi Arabian King's Cup competition. More so, if Al Nassr has any intentions of being in contention for the league title, then they must use this match to reorganize their house and not allow either Al Hilal or Al Ittihad to move further away on top while at it.

Most of the teams in the current Arab League already have at least one European player who does have star status in their current squad, so we can indeed say that the performance of their game will depend greatly on the game strategy applied by the current coaches, and the coach has a very important role in shaping and also building their teams to be able to compete in the current league,  what happened to Al Nassr and Al Hillal is proof that if a good coach will be able to bring the team to the better and vice versa, Al Nassr has a luxurious squad but the inability of Luis Castro actually makes them slump at the moment, while Al Hillal who has indeed lost Neymar as their star player so far is still able to make Al Hillal achieve positive results without defeat,  So it is clear that the strategy and also the ability that Jorge Jesus has are the main factors in Al Hillal success so far.
Al Nassr has officially sacked Luis Castro and appointed Stefano Pioli their new coach, so I think there will be a lot of improvements that will happen to Al Nassr in the future given Stefano Pioli's performance and ability so far in coaching a club like Milan previously.