Saudi Professional League 2023/2024

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It is not impossible for Al-Hilal to repeat their undefeated record from last season. So far, they have shown consistent performance and continue to maintain a positive trend. Al-Ahli failed to trip up Al-Hilal, even though they have pretty good squad depth. This defeat has pushed Al-Ahli down to 10th place, while Al-Hilal has strengthened their position at the top of the table. The competition for the trophy this season is arguably getting fiercer, with Al-Ittihad and Al-Nassr likely to continue pressing Al-Hilal until the end of the season. Expectations for Al-Nassr are now slightly higher after they recruited Pioli, but it will take extra effort if they aspire to snatch the trophy from Al-Hilal hands, I think it won't be an easy task.

Correct. And that's the problem right now, namely, even though Al-Nassr's current strength looks better than before, it seems like winning the trophy from Al-Hilal will still be very difficult to do. But the chances do look better after Stefano Pioli came here. The Al-Nassr squad already looks better and more balanced than Al-nassr at the start of the season before Pioli arrived. And I hope Pioli can continue to improve Al-nassr's performance to be even better.

But I noticed something from Al-hilal at the moment, namely that they currently seem to have a slight decline in their back line. We can see all of this from every Al-Hilal match result, even though they always win, they also always concede.

After achieving negative results in the last few seasons, of course we hope that the arrival of Stefano Pioli can have a positive impact on Al-Nassr, with his experience and also his ability to formulate strategies, of course we can see if Pioli has managed to balance the squad and improve al Nassr's performance, so far Al Hillal has dominated the competition in the SPL and with the changes in Al nassr current squad there is certainly a possibility if their can break the dominance Al-Hilal later.
Regarding Al-Hilal, although it looks like they have weaknesses in the backline, but I think the sharpness and also the impressiveness of their current attacking line is able to cover these weaknesses, besides that we can also see how big the mentality and also the unyielding attitude possessed by the current Al Hillal squad which precisly able to be a differentiator from other big teams in the  Arab League.

[Arenga pinnata]

Correct. And that's the problem right now, namely, even though Al-Nassr's current strength looks better than before, it seems like winning the trophy from Al-Hilal will still be very difficult to do. But the chances do look better after Stefano Pioli came here. The Al-Nassr squad already looks better and more balanced than Al-nassr at the start of the season before Pioli arrived. And I hope Pioli can continue to improve Al-nassr's performance to be even better.

But I noticed something from Al-hilal at the moment, namely that they currently seem to have a slight decline in their back line. We can see all of this from every Al-Hilal match result, even though they always win, they also always concede.

After achieving negative results in the last few seasons, of course we hope that the arrival of Stefano Pioli can have a positive impact on Al-Nassr, with his experience and also his ability to formulate strategies, of course we can see if Pioli has managed to balance the squad and improve al Nassr's performance, so far Al Hillal has dominated the competition in the SPL and with the changes in Al nassr current squad there is certainly a possibility if their can break the dominance Al-Hilal later.
Regarding Al-Hilal, although it looks like they have weaknesses in the backline, but I think the sharpness and also the impressiveness of their current attacking line is able to cover these weaknesses, besides that we can also see how big the mentality and also the unyielding attitude possessed by the current Al Hillal squad which precisly able to be a differentiator from other big teams in the  Arab League.

I also cannot deny that Al-hilal is not only superior in terms of the quality of their game, but they also have other advantages, such as the mentality of their players who always play and never give up. In fact, they are always able to turn things around in the end. As in the match against Al-Ahli, we know that throughout the first half Al-hilal was 1 goal behind. but in the second half Al-hilal managed to turn things around and make the match theirs. And yes, there is no doubt that their attack line can cover the shortcomings of their back line.

[Franctoshi]

Al Nassr will host Al Orobah this week, on paper Al Nassr is more favored, no doubt. However, they must remain vigilant against the team that will be their opponent this week, because AL Orobah did not come to suffer defeat, but they came with a mission to bring home points from this match, at least they will target 1 point to bring home.
Apart from that, Al Orobah brings quite positive capital, because in the last 2 matches they were able to win the match. The victory they achieved in the last 2 matches will make their morale even better and they will be motivated to continue their positive record.

Al-Nassr football team played well in this match and they won the match one sided and they did 3 goals in this match. Ronaldo did first goal of the match and he did goal at penalty . Mané did 2 goals and he did first goal at 29 minutes and he did 3rd goal at 71 minutes . He made the match one sided and bent the match to their sides. Al-Nassr team is at top and have 14 points and Al-Orobah team is at 11 position with 7 points.The performance of Al-Nassr team was good and they proved that they are winners because all players of that team are working good and they worked as a team and they gave more passes and their possession percentage was good.

S. Mané and Cristiano Ronaldo's great chemistry helped Al Nasser secure a big 3-0 win over Al-Orobah. Al-Nassr's points table has changed a bit after securing a big win in their sixth match and they are currently third in the points table with 14 points. Al Ittihad is in the second position with one point more than Al-Nassr and Al Hilal is currently at the top of the points table with four points more than Al Nasser. If Al Naser performs a little better in the upcoming matches, they will have a chance to move to the second position in the points table and they will be able to compete with Al Hilal. However, Al-Hilal will be stronger up front as their key player Neymar Jr. will soon be on the field for Al-Hilal.

It is a fact that Neymar is no longer in good physical shape as he was in years past. After this injury that kept him out of the field for many months, it seems to me that his only option will be to retire. He will not be able to play well for Al Hilal. He was out of action for 11 months. He has always been a player with injury problems, but now that he is 32 years old, things have gotten worse to the point that even in the Saudi league, he is not physically fit enough to compete. And honestly, I highly doubt that the Al Hilal coach will put him in the starting 11. They will probably put him in when the team is winning by many goals so that he can play for a few minutes.

The most important player in Al Hilal is Aleksandar Mitrović



He has already scored 9 goals and leads the list of top scorers. Al Hilal definitely does not need Neymar. Even for marketing reasons, Al Hilal already has a lot of attention, which is why in my opinion it would be better if Al Hilal did not renew Neymar's contract next season.

Injury has been one major problem with Neymar jr both when he was in Barcelona and PSG,  I don't really think Neymar would want to retire at this age because of his injury, he will better want to choose to move to playe for a team that won't give him much of stress and, or hugely rely on him but to be more of a supportive player or coach player, and the Brazilian league will be a good option for him in this case

[bitgolden]

While it was a good win and they needed it, Ittihad and Hilal also won their games, making their gap stay the same. Mitrovic is leading top scorers with 9 goals, nearly double what Ronaldo scored so far.

While I respect what Ronaldo did for world of football, it's clear that he is not that great anymore, which is very normal because he is 40 years old or nearly 40, we shouldn't be expecting him to do great jobs anyway, makes no sense for someone at 39 years old to be still playing let alone being valued this high to be fair, it's definitely not clear how he can do it and others can, we do not see many players at 39 still playing, I understand dude took care of himself but not like all the players in the world go to parties and drink and smoke, sure some do, but there are many who try to take care of themselves and fail to play at 39, this dude is wired different and we should respect him.

But just because we respect him, doesn't change the fact that he is not good enough to make this team win the league, this has been proven for two times in a row now, and we are about to see third time this season as well, I do not think that we are going to really see him get anything anymore here.

[kawetsriyanto]

Injury has been one major problem with Neymar jr both when he was in Barcelona and PSG,  I don't really think Neymar would want to retire at this age because of his injury, he will better want to choose to move to playe for a team that won't give him much of stress and, or hugely rely on him but to be more of a supportive player or coach player, and the Brazilian league will be a good option for him in this case

Yep. Injury becomes a serious problem for Neymar in his career. He is prone of injury, he is getting easily injured. Even worse, the injury takes a long time for the recovery. So Neymar can't do much to help his team, whether in Barcelona or PSG. I think it is the biggest reason why PSG wants to sell him to Al Hilal. Now in Al Hilal, the injury problem is never resolved, Neymar mostly sit on the bench. I agree with you that actually Neymar is better to consider for retirement. He can start for a new career (joining a training staff or being a coach assistant). This can be better that he forces himself to stay as a professional player but he never has enough time to play because of the injury problem.

[Smack That Ace]

currently the SPL standings are still dominated by 3 strong teams who are favorites as title contenders this season, so far Al Hillal, Al Ittihad and Al Nassr have a fairly small point difference and there is still a possibility for a change in the standings later considering that they are has only playing 6 matches in the SPL, previously I thought that Al Hillal would face a difficult challenge and get the first defeat of the season when facing Al Ahli,  but in fact they are still able to maintain their current unbeaten record after defeating Al Ahli with a score of 2-1, even though they got difficult in the match with a quite attractive and impressive game from Al Ahli, but again and again they were able to rise and make a comeback at the end of the match to solidify their position at the top of the current SPL standings.

Al-Hilal looks like they will repeat their record from last season, namely that they had an unbeaten record. but actually I hope Al-nassr can stop them this season. And actually we have a little good hope for Al-Nassr this season after the team brought in Pioli to replace Castro. Now we see Al-nassr playing consistently and winning continuously after Pioli arrived. And hopefully this will continue so that Al-nassr can continue to approach Al-Hilal. And waiting for Al-hilal to make a mistake. But hoping that Al-Hilal will lose is quite difficult. Maybe we can hope that Al-hilal can get some draws that will allow Al-Nassr to approach them more easily.
I also thought that this season Al-Hilal would have difficulty maintaining their good performance which was below last season. but in reality this team is still as strong as last season.

Yes, this team is definitely still very strong, and honestly, I am not going to be surprised if they are able to win the league title again. I personally want Al Nassr to be in the title race till the end and maybe even win the title. But I don’t think they are actually consistent enough. At least they were not consistent enough in the last season. Maybe this time it is going to be different. But all we can do is hope and speculate.

Right now Al Hilal is at the top of the table and Al Nassr is in the third position. Al Ittihad is in the second position and so far it looks like they are performing really well. So far it suggests that the competition is going to be pretty good between these teams for the Saudi league title.

Regards

Duke