Saudi Professional League 2023/2024

[Solokan]

Franck Kessie saved Al-Ahli's face from a draw against Al-Khaleej after he managed to score the only goal in this match in the 90+7 minute which made the match score end with 1-0. This is an important victory, especially since Al-Ahli is the host and the support from the fans who come can produce commensurate results. The additional 3 points make Al-Ahli's hopes of continuing to stay in 3rd position in the standings and continue to overshadow Al-Nassr with only a difference of 3 points.

This is also an impressive record for Al-Ahli, after 7 matches they have never lost at all. Al-Ahli continues to progress and they have managed to maintain their current performance amidst increasingly fierce competition and at least they don't need to be afraid of slipping because Al-Taawoun who are shadowing them are still quite far away with a difference of 6 points.

F.kessie was indeed a savior for Al Ahli and this match was very exciting and actually in the early minutes Al Ahli had many opportunities but they couldn't be exploited perfectly like in the 36th second and 51st second and in the early minutes Al Ahli was very Extraordinary. and al khaleej was also very great in this match and he created many dangerous opportunities to score against al-ahli like in the 6th minute but unfortunately the al-khaleej players could not take advantage of them perfectly. Yes, I saw that in the second half, Al Ahli really controlled the game and in my opinion, in this match, if the Al Khaleej players had not committed any fouls, it would have been difficult for Al Ahli to score. Fortunately, F. Kessie was able to shoot the ball on target and in the end it resulted in 1 goal for Al-Ahli. Yes, now Al Ahli has 40 points and Al-Nassr has 43 points, but I think it is very difficult to beat Al-Nassr, but if tomorrow Al-Nassr loses to Al-Taawon, it will make Al-Taawon excited and adding points will certainly be a big threat for Al-Ahli.

Yes, it can be said that Al Ahli's performance is very good in matches such as the last 7 matches, but unfortunately Al Ahli has not been able to maximize their points income in the last 7 matches, such as the draw against Al Shabab and other teams. However, Al Ahli's performance has been very good so far, with a difference of 6 points with Al-Taawon, it will certainly make it comfortable for Al-Ahli to be in 3rd place.

[FanEagle]

I dont know what really happen with Neymar and the "injury" he have, because he announced not so much time ago, he is not gonna play the next America cup in the united state with Brazil, wich is really strange to see because is so much time to recover from his injury, i think he made again a mistake in the recovery so the injury is gonna last longer.

This is Neymar's problem, namely discipline. There were even rumors he was throwing parties while he was recovering. This may interfere with the healing period of the injury. It's not just Brazil that suffers. Now the club is the one who suffers the most when he is very new to Saudi and ends up having a long injury. He hasn't shown his role at the club yet. It would be a shame if Neymar would suffer a very long injury.

That is who he is, you can't expect someone to change who he is because you pay him, or you are a fan of him, he is who he is and either you accept him the way he is, or just not deal with him. Neymar getting this much money even while not playing because he is injured is not the issue for Neymar, it's the issue for the club.

The club knew that he is a person who gets injured a lot and not take his job professionally, this was known for 15 years now, and not a new thing they learned, and they still paid him that much, which means that they took the chance. When you consider that as an option, I think it's clear that we are in a situation that everyone knew would happen, and nobody in the world got surprised about the results.

[BlackBoss_]

That is who he is, you can't expect someone to change who he is because you pay him, or you are a fan of him, he is who he is and either you accept him the way he is, or just not deal with him. Neymar getting this much money even while not playing because he is injured is not the issue for Neymar, it's the issue for the club.

Neymar is like other Brazilian players and does not seriously take care of his body. Players from Brazil and Latin American nations usually love parties and they are less professional than players from Europe. So even they have talents, achieve big things at golden time of their career, their performances will drop a lot when they pass their 30s. After 30s, players will have slower ability to recover fitness after each match and training, and if they are not professional to take care of their bodies, from diet to sleep and so on, they will be more sensitive with injuries that will affect their appearances for their clubs.

The club knew that he is a person who gets injured a lot and not take his job professionally, this was known for 15 years now, and not a new thing they learned, and they still paid him that much, which means that they took the chance. When you consider that as an option, I think it's clear that we are in a situation that everyone knew would happen, and nobody in the world got surprised about the results.

I read some reports which say Neymar already got problems with injuries in Barcelona before moving to Neymar. At PSG, because of his world transfer record, he and PSG hesitated to make a surgery to solve his injury completely. This bad decision from Neymar and PSG lead to what we see nowadays, his ankles are very sensitive with injuries.

[Strongkored]

This is also an impressive record for Al-Ahli, after 7 matches they have never lost at all. Al-Ahli continues to progress and they have managed to maintain their current performance amidst increasingly fierce competition and at least they don't need to be afraid of slipping because Al-Taawoun who are shadowing them are still quite far away with a difference of 6 points.

Six points is quite far and will be increasingly difficult to catch because Al Taawon will face a difficult match today against Al Nassr, a team that is still trying to maintain the opportunity to continue competing with Al Hilal even though the chances are very small considering that Al Hilal continues to perform very well and consistent with being undefeated and already having quite a big point advantage.
Al Taawon will not be favored against Al Nassr later and my prediction is that it will be difficult for Al Taawon to beat Al Nassr and getting one point is good enough for Al Taawon which continues to experience a decline in performance so currently it is only in fourth position in standing.

[hd49728]

Six points is quite far and will be increasingly difficult to catch because Al Taawon will face a difficult match today against Al Nassr, a team that is still trying to maintain the opportunity to continue competing with Al Hilal even though the chances are very small considering that Al Hilal continues to perform very well and consistent with being undefeated and already having quite a big point advantage.
Al Taawon will not be favored against Al Nassr later and my prediction is that it will be difficult for Al Taawon to beat Al Nassr and getting one point is good enough for Al Taawon which continues to experience a decline in performance so currently it is only in fourth position in standing.

Al Nassr will try best to beat Al Taawon to maintain their 7 points less than Al Hilal. If they drop points to Al Taawon, they will see the difference becomes 8 points or 10 points because Al Hilal already won their match.

Al Taawon actually have a good season so far and they successfully stay in top four while the current champion, Al Ittihad continued to drop deeper on the Saudi Professional League standing table. The failure of Al Ittihad is a big surprise in Saudi Professional League as they might fail to defend their title but falling too deep like this is unpredictable when the season began.

[borovichok]

The worst and most boring part about Al-Hilal is how little resistance they experience from their opponents. Al Feiha didn't have one shot on target and during the full 90+ minutes they had two shots (not even on target though!). I don't know but this season will be a boring one and Al-Nassr disappointed a lot of those fans that were hoping for them to win the title. Ronaldo will probably score the most goals this season, but they won't have a chance to close the gap again and have a say in the fight for the title.

Al Hilal is unbeaten and they're very tactical when it comes to facing mediocre clubs, they keep pushing for better results and looks like they're not losing match anytime soon. Every club can fight for their spot in SPL but only few will earned quite important positions. Al Nassr having Ronaldo is like having cheat code in matches, only Ronaldo and his presence is capable of frightening his opponents due to his style of football and he's always up and running for the best results. Cristiano Ronaldo is the first player to bring limelight to Saudi Arabia football. He's a great player that have made history and outstanding records in European football and he's not relenting in achieving and exploring his chances in SPL this season.

[TastyChillySauce00]

This is also an impressive record for Al-Ahli, after 7 matches they have never lost at all. Al-Ahli continues to progress and they have managed to maintain their current performance amidst increasingly fierce competition and at least they don't need to be afraid of slipping because Al-Taawoun who are shadowing them are still quite far away with a difference of 6 points.

Six points is quite far and will be increasingly difficult to catch because Al Taawon will face a difficult match today against Al Nassr, a team that is still trying to maintain the opportunity to continue competing with Al Hilal even though the chances are very small considering that Al Hilal continues to perform very well and consistent with being undefeated and already having quite a big point advantage.
Al Taawon will not be favored against Al Nassr later and my prediction is that it will be difficult for Al Taawon to beat Al Nassr and getting one point is good enough for Al Taawon which continues to experience a decline in performance so currently it is only in fourth position in standing.

Im not doubting the chance of al nassr to win the game in the upcoming match. Al nassr is far stronger compared to the taawoun in so many aspects. There chance will always there. Al nassr needs to play offensively against it then im sure ronaldo's squad will be winning it.
Al taawoun is still struggling with its performance after it was being humiliated by al fateh. It was a very good momentum for al nassr caused by the lost against fateh might be disrupting the mentality from the club. This is a golden time for ronaldo and his team to destroy it.
AL nassr is very still at this moment and it can beat taawoun with perfect score. Taawoun has not been favored by bookies since it was getting odds greater than 4 while al nassr was around 1.44

It's really worthy to pick al nassr in the upcoming game caused by we do know that which team that is going to win the game. Taawoun got 5.8 which is almost 6 to win against al nassr. It's worthy to take the risk but the chance is pretty small to win against al nassr.
No doubt that if people are questioning it right now. Bookies were favoring nassr coz it has perfect performances in the last five matches. It only suffers 1 lose against al hilal.

[klidex]

Full time and Al Hilal managed 2-0 from Al Feiha, this victory make Al Hilal success unbeaten 19 matches and make gap 10 points behind Al Nassr but has one match more. Its crucial victory for Al Hilal need waiting until 86th minutes for scoring first goals trough Ali Albulayhi and Aleksandar Mitrović scored one goals trough penalty kick on additional time.
First time for Al Hilal need waiting longer time for getting victory against Al Feiha with teams current standings on 12th position, usually Al Hilal easy for winning more than two goals and make goals on the first half but the victory make Al Hilal keep comfortable on the top standings position awhile.

Again, Al Hilal showed us that they have no strong competitor in SPL this season. The point gap is surely 10 points now and they are still undefeated until matchday 19. Al Nassr seems difficult to overtake the points if Al Hilal can play consistently until the end of the season. This season is simply for Al Hilal, they have a great season. Mitrović scored again in the match against Al Feiha, he continues to increase his total goal to compete for the top scorer in SPL. No doubt that Mitrović is very shining with Al Hilal, he becomes a very productive striker.

I think there is no problem although Al Hilal seems not very easy to win the match. The most important thing that they succeed to get full points to maintain their position in the top of SPL. As long as they could get full points, it means they are safe to finish this season with a title. Well, if Al Hilal wins the title, it is very unfortunate for Ronaldo. He again fails to win the SPL title.

Yes, it's true that Al Hilal is indeed very strong at the moment, especially with its striker Alexander Mitrovic who is very productive and competing with Cristiano Ronaldo to become top scorer, now the gap is getting closer. Alexsandar Mitrovic has scored 17 goals and Cristiano Ronaldo 19 goals. This is not only about Al Nassr and Al Hilal is fighting for the Saudi Pro League title but it is also about Cristiano Ronaldo vs Alexsander Mitrovic in the fight for the list of top scorers, but even so I still support Ronaldo in scoring lots of goals for Al Nassr and Ronaldo is still worthy of fighting for it.

Of course it didn't matter because in the end Al Hilal was able to win even though they had to wait a long time. This match was a little tense because Al Hilal seemed to have difficulty breaking down Al Feiha's defense in the first half and in the second half Al Hilal still didn't give up until finally in the 86th minute and In the final minute Al Hilal was able to create 2 goal opportunities at once and achieve victory.

[Docnaster]

The worst and most boring part about Al-Hilal is how little resistance they experience from their opponents. Al Feiha didn't have one shot on target and during the full 90+ minutes they had two shots (not even on target though!). I don't know but this season will be a boring one and Al-Nassr disappointed a lot of those fans that were hoping for them to win the title. Ronaldo will probably score the most goals this season, but they won't have a chance to close the gap again and have a say in the fight for the title.

In as much as we all know that Al Hilal's strength against other Saudi Arabian clubs are significantly higher,  I think it's also great to know that as a team with average quality players, Al Feiha performed well against  Al Hilal yesterday. Considering how clinical Al Hilal have been this season in the Saudi Pro League,  stopping them from scoring a goal till the last seven minutes of normal time is a very good attempt by Al Feiha to get a point from that game yesterday but unfortunately for them, the league leaders still found their way to grab all three points from that game.
Now that Al Hilal's point difference against  Al Nassr is 10, I think  it'll be near impossible to catch up with them at the top of the league standing

[8rch7]

Again, Al Hilal showed us that they have no strong competitor in SPL this season. The point gap is surely 10 points now and they are still undefeated until matchday 19. Al Nassr seems difficult to overtake the points if Al Hilal can play consistently until the end of the season. This season is simply for Al Hilal, they have a great season. Mitrović scored again in the match against Al Feiha, he continues to increase his total goal to compete for the top scorer in SPL. No doubt that Mitrović is very shining with Al Hilal, he becomes a very productive striker.

I think there is no problem although Al Hilal seems not very easy to win the match. The most important thing that they succeed to get full points to maintain their position in the top of SPL. As long as they could get full points, it means they are safe to finish this season with a title. Well, if Al Hilal wins the title, it is very unfortunate for Ronaldo. He again fails to win the SPL title.

Left 10 points seems difficult for Al Nassr to overtake Al Hilal on the top standings position exactly with Al Hilal performance unbeaten on first half season without any teams can defeat them. Al Nassr loss over 3-0 against Al Hilal and likely the same result on second half season when both team face each other again. Current performance in 19 matches, Al Hilal not strong with offensive have scored 59 goals but also they have good defensive with 9 goals conceded and become most fewest conceded goals of Saudi Pro League teams participants in this season.

Cristiano Ronaldo opportunity to win domestic league tittle with Al Nassr not close yet but very difficult to get teams can take points against Al Hilal, left one opportunity second half season when Al Nassr facing Al Hilal they should take three points and wish the other team opponent can get one or three points from Al Hilal.

[roksana.hee]

The challenge for Al Nassr to overtake Al Hilal in the standings, emphasizes Al Hilal's strong performance, especially in terms of a solid defense. The mention of Cristiano Ronaldo highlights the difficulty for Al Nassr to win the domestic league title, with a slim chance hinging on a crucial match against Al Hilal in the second half of the season. The overall sentiment suggests a tough competition and a critical opportunity for Al Nassr to secure points against a formidable opponent.

[Uruhara]

Franck Kessie saved Al-Ahli's face from a draw against Al-Khaleej after he managed to score the only goal in this match in the 90+7 minute which made the match score end with 1-0. This is an important victory, especially since Al-Ahli is the host and the support from the fans who come can produce commensurate results. The additional 3 points make Al-Ahli's hopes of continuing to stay in 3rd position in the standings and continue to overshadow Al-Nassr with only a difference of 3 points.

This is also an impressive record for Al-Ahli, after 7 matches they have never lost at all. Al-Ahli continues to progress and they have managed to maintain their current performance amidst increasingly fierce competition and at least they don't need to be afraid of slipping because Al-Taawoun who are shadowing them are still quite far away with a difference of 6 points.

But I didn't expect that Al-Ahli would have difficulty scoring goals in this match. Even though I hope there are lots of goals in this match. Because Al-khaleej is also a team that is not that strong this season. So Al-Ahli should be able to play better and score more than 1 goal. But this proves that other teams are now getting better. Everyone has adapted well and continues to improve the quality of play this season. And 1 goal in the extra minute of added time was indeed a miracle that was valuable for Al-Ahli's victory. Even though it was only a goal obtained from a penalty kick, it was actually a very high stroke of luck for Al-Ahli.

Today I am looking forward to the Al-Taawoun vs Al-Nassr match. Because I think this match will be the most interesting match this week.

[X-ray]

The challenge for Al Nassr to overtake Al Hilal in the standings, emphasizes Al Hilal's strong performance, especially in terms of a solid defense. The mention of Cristiano Ronaldo highlights the difficulty for Al Nassr to win the domestic league title, with a slim chance hinging on a crucial match against Al Hilal in the second half of the season. The overall sentiment suggests a tough competition and a critical opportunity for Al Nassr to secure points against a formidable opponent.

It's impossible mate. AL nassr will stay at the second place till the end of season. Al hilal is too strong and al nassr will never ever able to replace it. Al hilal is the perfect team in the saudi pro league by seeing the stats recorded by the club.
I saw that al nassr was nothing for al hilal and it has proven with the result when al hilal has been destroying al nassr with a lot of goals. So, we will be seeing al hilal to win the game this time. There will be another chance for al nassr to surpass al hilal.
The gap will become even bigger otherwise. We will be seeing more people to realize how strong al hilal is right now. It will be able to perform even better soon. Al hilal must admit that if al nassr was not a worthy competitor for al hilal.

[rendravolt]

Franck Kessie saved Al-Ahli's face from a draw against Al-Khaleej after he managed to score the only goal in this match in the 90+7 minute which made the match score end with 1-0. This is an important victory, especially since Al-Ahli is the host and the support from the fans who come can produce commensurate results. The additional 3 points make Al-Ahli's hopes of continuing to stay in 3rd position in the standings and continue to overshadow Al-Nassr with only a difference of 3 points.

This is also an impressive record for Al-Ahli, after 7 matches they have never lost at all. Al-Ahli continues to progress and they have managed to maintain their current performance amidst increasingly fierce competition and at least they don't need to be afraid of slipping because Al-Taawoun who are shadowing them are still quite far away with a difference of 6 points.

Fortunately, Al Ahli was able to win and successful securing three points, although their goal was scored in the last minutes but that match was very tight. Kessie saved Al Ahli pride in front of his supporters, if he couldn't score through this penalty shot, maybe their fans would feel very disappointed, but fortunately Kessie didn't disappoint at all.
That's right, now Al Ahli have a good record in their last 7 matches. Their performance is quite consistent, so they can still overshadow Al Nassr in the table standings.
The gap between Al Ahli and Taawon is currently difference of 6 points, yes indeed quite far away. Also, tomorrow Taawon will face against Al Nassr. It looks like I think Taawon have little chance to getting three points perfectly in that match.

If we look at the match statistics, Al-Ahli actually dominated and by having 15 goal opportunities, that is a very large number, but not a single goal occurred through normal attacks. But of course one of his attacks paid off until Al-Ahli finally got a penalty kick and Fracnk Kessie did his job well. I don't know what Firminho was doing because this player seemed to disappear on the field and had to be replaced in the 68th minute. It looks like Firminho has experienced a setback recently.

Al-Taawoun faces quite strong opponents and it is not easy considering that Al-Nassr is still eager to reduce the difference in points from Al-Hilal. There is no doubt that Al-Nassr will get 3 points in this match, especially since previously Al-Nassr also beat Al-Ittihad badly with a score of 2-5.

[wakier]

The worst and most boring part about Al-Hilal is how little resistance they experience from their opponents. Al Feiha didn't have one shot on target and during the full 90+ minutes they had two shots (not even on target though!). I don't know but this season will be a boring one and Al-Nassr disappointed a lot of those fans that were hoping for them to win the title. Ronaldo will probably score the most goals this season, but they won't have a chance to close the gap again and have a say in the fight for the title.

Yeah that's true, but Al Feiha has a reason for that they apply a defensive game and hope to get a point if the match ends in a draw it's just that they forget that their opponent is Al-Hilal as the strongest team and has great players like Aleksandar Mitrovic there really was no way to avoid attacks by Al-Hilal players. Next, it was Al-Nassr's turn to defeat Al-Taawon and I think Al-Nassr will get 3 more points this situation will continue until Al-Nassr plays Al-Hilal next year. I still hope Al-Hilal gets its first defeat so Al-Nassr still has a chance to win the title.

Al Feiha's defense was actually quite strong because they were able to keep the defense tight until Al Hilal had a little difficulty scoring goals until in the second half and until the 86th minute Al Hilal just able to create their first chance and not long after Mitrovic was able to score the second goal for Al Hilal, and in In the end, Al Feiha did not manage to get 1 point from Al Hilal.

This is Al Hilal's 19th win, this team is still consistent to date and has not experienced a defeat, Al Nassr will play Al Taawon tomorrow but in the last meeting in August Al Nassr suffered a defeat when playing at home with Al Taawon so in the next match I am not too sure if Al Nassr can win it.

[bitvalak]

The challenge for Al Nassr to overtake Al Hilal in the standings, emphasizes Al Hilal's strong performance, especially in terms of a solid defense. The mention of Cristiano Ronaldo highlights the difficulty for Al Nassr to win the domestic league title, with a slim chance hinging on a crucial match against Al Hilal in the second half of the season. The overall sentiment suggests a tough competition and a critical opportunity for Al Nassr to secure points against a formidable opponent.

If you look at the point difference between the two, it is still very possible that Al Nassr can overtake Al Hilal.
This only depends on Al Nassr's consistency for each match with a guaranteed win, and hope that at least Al Hilal has a few matches that end in a draw.
Because losing seems impossible for Al Hilal considering the very complete composition of its players.
If the point difference gets closer, I think it will be even more exciting to watch the Saudi Arabian League. Especially if Al Ittihad is also able to climb to the top 5 rankings.

[Plaguedeath]

If you look at the point difference between the two, it is still very possible that Al Nassr can overtake Al Hilal.
This only depends on Al Nassr's consistency for each match with a guaranteed win, and hope that at least Al Hilal has a few matches that end in a draw.
Because losing seems impossible for Al Hilal considering the very complete composition of its players.
If the point difference gets closer, I think it will be even more exciting to watch the Saudi Arabian League. Especially if Al Ittihad is also able to climb to the top 5 rankings.

Someone need to give hard tackle to Mitrovic, so he will get an injury or out from season, this will make Al Hilal lose their primary striker.

It really looks hard for Al Nassr to overtake Al Hilal, I'd say Al Nassr is stronger than Al Hilal, but in terms of consistency Al Hilal is better than Al Nassr. Al Nassr need to import more players to compete against Al Hilal.

[puloweh555]

The challenge for Al Nassr to overtake Al Hilal in the standings, emphasizes Al Hilal's strong performance, especially in terms of a solid defense. The mention of Cristiano Ronaldo highlights the difficulty for Al Nassr to win the domestic league title, with a slim chance hinging on a crucial match against Al Hilal in the second half of the season. The overall sentiment suggests a tough competition and a critical opportunity for Al Nassr to secure points against a formidable opponent.

It's impossible mate. AL nassr will stay at the second place till the end of season. Al hilal is too strong and al nassr will never ever able to replace it. Al hilal is the perfect team in the saudi pro league by seeing the stats recorded by the club.
I saw that al nassr was nothing for al hilal and it has proven with the result when al hilal has been destroying al nassr with a lot of goals. So, we will be seeing al hilal to win the game this time. There will be another chance for al nassr to surpass al hilal.
The gap will become even bigger otherwise. We will be seeing more people to realize how strong al hilal is right now. It will be able to perform even better soon. Al hilal must admit that if al nassr was not a worthy competitor for al hilal.

It seems that it is difficult for Al Nassr to catch up on points with Al Hilal, the difference in points is now 10 points. Al Nassr has not yet played its 19th match against Al Taawoun. If Al Nassr can win this match, it means the difference in points with Al Hilal will be 7 points. This is still difficult to catch because Al Hilal this season has performed very well and they have not even been defeated in 19 matches in the SPL, of course they still want to maintain this trend.

Al Hilal this season is too strong and solid, putting pressure on its closest competitor Al Nassr. Al Hilal can also always play consistently because they have players with a combination of two creative midfielders Milinkovic Savic and Ruben Neves, and a strong defense like Koulibaly.

[Slow death]

the news coming from saudi arabia is not good, karim benzema disappeared

Karim Benzema fails to train and ‘disappears’ from Jeddah ahead of Al Ittihad game



Karim Benzema is not going through a positive spell as a professional footballer and the French striker is once again in the spotlight in Saudi Arabia. It turns out that the player has actually ‘gone missing’, just a few hours before his team play in a Saudi Pro League match.

The former Real Madrid player did not train on either Thursday or Friday with the rest of his Al Ittihad teammates. As a result, he will not be included in the squad for the match against Al Taee.

According to the Saudi media outlet Al-Riyadiya, Benzema has in fact left the port city of Jeddah, with the reason behind his unscheduled trip in the middle of the season currently unknown. His coach, Marcelo Gallardo, did not want to explain the motive, a move which has not gone down well with neither the club’s fans nor the local media. “He may be in disagreement with the club (...) but that does not excuse him because he does not make any effort”.

source: https://en.as.com/soccer/karim-benzema-fails-to-train-and-disappears-from-jeddah-ahead-of-al-ittihad-game-n/

I have already commented on this many times, and I will repeat myself once again, Saudi Arabian fans are not moderate fans, they are very aggressive fans and think that just one player is enough to win all the games and they have a lot of memory short, last season this benzema team was champion of that league but this season, because they are in that current position, they immediately rushed to fire the coach, which made it possible for them to become champions last season, because for these Arabs, when they buy a player, they They begin to think that the players and coaches they bought became the property of the Arabs. This thought is due to the fact that these Arab people have lived under dictatorship for centuries

European players who are used to living in democracy, they will have a lot of difficulties adapting to this league and I have always said that the day Ronaldo retires and leaves Saudi Arabia, all good famous players who went to Saudi Arabia They will leave Saudi Arabia as soon as their contract ends. I don't see this league having the same reputation in 4 years. I hope Benzema is well and shows up and tells us what happened to him. It's sad that Real Madrid's best player from past seasons is going through this, I was sad when he left Real Madrid, as a Real Madrid fan I thought he didn't make a good decision to leave Real Madrid for Saudi Arabia. the greed of money blinds people

[shinratensei_]

The challenge for Al Nassr to overtake Al Hilal in the standings, emphasizes Al Hilal's strong performance, especially in terms of a solid defense. The mention of Cristiano Ronaldo highlights the difficulty for Al Nassr to win the domestic league title, with a slim chance hinging on a crucial match against Al Hilal in the second half of the season. The overall sentiment suggests a tough competition and a critical opportunity for Al Nassr to secure points against a formidable opponent.

If you look at the point difference between the two, it is still very possible that Al Nassr can overtake Al Hilal.
This only depends on Al Nassr's consistency for each match with a guaranteed win, and hope that at least Al Hilal has a few matches that end in a draw.
Because losing seems impossible for Al Hilal considering the very complete composition of its players.
If the point difference gets closer, I think it will be even more exciting to watch the Saudi Arabian League. Especially if Al Ittihad is also able to climb to the top 5 rankings.

That's possible only if al hilal will be missing some points. As long as al hilal keep win the upcoming games then it will be a pressure for al nassr caused by as a club that is placed in the second place then it needs to perform consistently to keep up with al hilal.
This is still remains the big question whether al hilal is going to have another flop performance. In fact, metrovic is always competing with ronaldo till this time and this is the main problem for al nassr. We can argue that if al hilal can lose some points but it can also happen with al nassr as well.
Im still standing in my choice to pick as hilal as the winner of saudi pro league this season. Al hilal has proven that if the club is now in the perfect condition compared to another club in the saudi pro league.

Mitrovic and savic are the centre of game play from al hilal this time. I can't deny the contribution from these players are a lot to the club. Mitrovic is having an ambition to beat ronaldo in the top scorer race.
These strikers are competing each other and the second leg between al hilal vs al nassr will be so good. The chance of al nassr to beat al hilal is pretty small though.