Saudi Professional League 2023/2024

[indah rezqi]

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 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.

[TelolettOm]

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.

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.

[Hirose UK]

~snip~

~snip~

Of course not, and of course there is definitely still a chance for all SPL clubs to be able to win the title including Al-Nassr and of course at the start of a season like this where all clubs have only had 3 matches, it can still be said that there is a chance for all teams to be able to win. become champion.

I also think that Al-Nassr certainly still has a big chance of being able to compete for the championship title, but yes, I see that Al-Nassr certainly won't easily rise from its current position, but of course we'll see what happens next.

If you think about it, that's true, yes, and indeed Al-Nassr has not experienced a defeat so far and of course getting a draw is also certainly not a bad thing because of course they can still get points, even if only a little. Of course we'll see what happens in the next match and of course in the next match Al-Nassr will face Al-Ettifaq and of course we will see Cristiano Ronaldo trying to perform better so that Al-Nassr wins the title this season. What do you think, who will win?

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.

[Catenaccio]

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.

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.

[cryptoWODL]

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.

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.

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.

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.

[HajiBagi]

Al Hilal once again showed their mettle when they defeated Al Rayyan, a team from Qatar in the Champions League. Al Rayyan, a club from the Qatar League, did not do much when they hosted Al Hilal at their home ground. The home team did not put up much resistance, especially in the first half, conceding three goals against them. Uniquely, Joao Cancelo scored one goal in this match, Leonadro and Sergej Savic both contributed one goal in this match.
In contrast to Al Nassr who were held to a draw by Shorta, a team from the Iraqi League, although they had taken the lead first, unfortunately the home team was able to equalize and the match ended with a score of 1-1. Referring to these two teams, Al Hilal remains consistent with its positive trend. While Al Nassr, its performance has declined significantly. In the end, looking at the Al Nassr squad list data, there is no name Luis Castro in the Al Nassr squad. Considering that someone made the post above, it turns out that Luis Castro seems to have been kicked out of the coaching chair in the Al Nassr squad.

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.

[Solokan]

Source: https://www.bolasport.com/amp/read/314152502/al-nassr-pecat-luis-castro-cristiano-ronaldo-bakal-diasuh-pelatih-jebolan-ac-milan?page=2

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?  

[Gallar]

Source

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.

[dezoel]

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?  

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.

[Solokan]

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.

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.

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.

[LUCKMCFLY]

I think Neymar’s impact at Al-Hilal and Ronaldo’s role at Al-Nassr holds some validity when viewed in the broader context of team dynamics in football. Neymar, despite his talent and global stature, hasn’t had the continuous playing time at Al-Hilal due to injuries, and while his presence could elevate the squad, Al-Hilal has indeed built a well-rounded team with enough star power to remain competitive. Players like Malcom, Rúben Neves, and others have proven themselves capable of delivering results, even in Neymar’s absence, and I think that was waste of money in the first stage.

Similarly, while Ronaldo’s influence at Al-Nassr has been transformative, especially in terms of leadership and bringing the team to another level, the squad has also strengthened with other key signings. The team's success isn’t entirely dependent on Ronaldo, as they have added depth in various positions, making them a formidable side even without him.

Both teams have demonstrated that, though their star players can make a huge difference, they aren't solely reliant on them, which is a testament to their squad building strategies. It is interesting to see the competition between these team.

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.

[Jody.Drummer]

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 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.

[Palakka]

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 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.

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. 

[Ahli38]

I think you are right. Nowadays, sometimes we focus too much on the names of players owned by clubs in the SPL. So sometimes we judge the strength of the team based on these names. Although none of that is wrong either. But the more important thing actually lies in how well a team utilizes these players to make the team much stronger. And so far Al-hilal and Jorge Jesus are the ones who have succeeded in maximizing the players in their squad well. Be it local players or European star players that they bring in.

Al-Nassr has just lost a coach and maybe we will soon see the name of a new coach who will fill the coaching bench at Al-Nassr.

I don't really know a lot of people who focus on the names. Most people focus on what the team achieves. The Ronaldo effect is already gone and Al Nassr is struggling. Now does it help that Ronaldo is there? It doesn't make a difference and while in the beginning everybody was excited and wanted to see whether Ronaldo can win titles with the team, the buzz around him is now very low. Nobody actually cares what Ronaldo is doing for Al Nassr. On the contrary, people are still paying attention to what he is doing for the Portugal national team and that makes a lot more sense. The Saudi Professional League isn't all that interesting when in Europe there are matches like Manchester City versus Inter Milan.

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.

[rahmad2nd]

~~

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.

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.

[Webetcoins]

It looks like Al-Hilal will continue to be the club that dominates the league in the SPL. Because Al-hilal's performance is even better this season. The addition of new players like Joao Cancelo will certainly make Al-Hilal even more solid at the back. We know that Joao Cancelo is a defender, but sometimes he is also good at positioning so he can score goals. He also did this often when he was loaned to Barcelona last season. And actually I feel Al-hilal is very lucky to be able to get this player. Meanwhile, Al-Nassr seemed to be experiencing difficulties at the start of this season. And it turns out that it is not only in the SPL but also in the AFC Champions League Elite. Meanwhile, Al-Hilal is still good in all competitions. I think that even this season, Al-Hilal will still be the favorite to become champions again.

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.

In this season, things are looking pretty interesting as we are having Al Hilal having serious challenge from few clubs like Al Ittihad and Al Ettifaq as currently these three clubs are having 9 points from their 3 games on 21st September Al Hilal will host Al Ittihad and Al Ettifaq will host Al Nassr these matches are going to have brought changes in league table.

Al Hilal is having good depth into team with all doing amazing and not allowing any team to have any chance against them which is surely impressive job by management and coach S Gerrard is also now adjusted just because of this now his club is also having good start of season now change of coach can bring good results for Al Nassr it's looking interesting because if we have some improvement then surely league is going to be had one of the best end in years with these all quality peoples around this league.

[kawetsriyanto]

In fact, Al Hilal players are not much more competitive than Al Nassr, but they can play with solid teamwork.

How can you conclude that "Al Hilal players aren't much more competitive"?
If you compare the market value of Al Hilal squad and Al Nassr squad, you will understand that Al Hilal squad is much more competitive. Even, Al Hilal has the squad with highest market value in Saudi league. It means Al Hilal has the most expensive squad, they have most competitive players.

Al Hilal squad


transfermarkt

Al Nassr squad


transfermarkt

and we can see, Al Hilal players are very productive and not just Mitrovic.

I only see Mitrovic who is very productive in Al Hilal squad. He already scored  goals so far, he leads the top scorer table.
TBH I don't see other players who are very productive. Can you mention other players who scored many goals as Mitrovic?

Just take a look the stats. 
https://fbref.com/en/squads/972e2539/Al-Hilal-Stats

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.

It is quite strange if you claimed Luis Castro applied an ideal system. 
If he did it, Al Nassr should win the SPL trophy already. In fact, Al Nassr never performed better in every season under his management.
Also, the defense line is very weak, how can Al Nassr maintain this weak defense? If they maintain the current defense, they will never have a stronger defense line. What they must do, is to improve the defense line!!

[Nheer]

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.

Cristiano Ronaldo cannot be compared with Neymar because he is a kind of player that doesn’t get injured frequently and despite his age he is able to maintain his fitness and avoid injuries. Al Nassr are really lucky to have Ronaldo on their side, he has scored a lot of goals for them already in just a few seasons but not the same with Neymar.

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.

Zero contributions so far while receiving the highest salary in the team, it is more like he is of no use to the club because without him they are still able to perform well and even better than we expected. It’s a loss for Al Hilal but since they are winning trophies and winning matches it is as if they are not bothered about his injury.

We still don’t know what impact Neymar will bring to the team, some people are even saying Neymar could affect the team negatively with his fancy style of play and will slow the team down but i still think having such a player around is a good thing. Injuries are bound to happen and for some players it becomes frequent for them and this what Neymar is faced with and i am sure he is not happy about that and can’t wait to be back on the pitch again.

[Leviathan.007]

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 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.

I was not expecting to see a coach like Pioli join in the Saudi League. Pioli worked for years in the top team and he had a good performance in AC Milan he is definitely a coach with good knowledge who can help any team and make the team get improve. However, he won't be a heap coach for Al Nassr because they should give him 9 million euros per season which is a huge amount of money.
Some people say Ronaldo was the reason for changing the coach and he asked the team to hire a new coach for Al Nassr.


 

[irhact]

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.

Al Nassr need a top defender to stop their opponents from scoring, they already have good attacks but lack good midfielders and defensive players. Al nassr also have to start performing better in their games as they're slowly falling behind. They have played three games and lost one but it is the draws that they're getting that might cause them to not be able to win the league this year. They haven't conceded that many goals but on an average they have conceded one goal per game. This isn't bad but they need to strengthen their defense so they can concede zero goals for when they only scored one goal in a game, so they can still win and not to be drawing.