Saudi Professional League 2023/2024

[KTChampions]

Al Hilal lost the last match, I didn't expect Al Hilal to lose, but it's not unusual for any team to have unpredictable performances at some times. But I think they can still stay at the top of the table, even if Al-Nassr wins the next match, Al Hilal will still be at the top, because if Al-Nassr wants to go to the top, they have to win the next match by a margin of 5 goals, which is a bit difficult, but it can also possible, because Al-Nassr will play the next match against Abha, which is a very weak team and they are at the bottom of the table, so it is not impossible to win against this team by a margin of 5 goals. However, I expect Al-Nassr to win the next match by a big margin, where they will play the match with an attempt to go to the top. Their competition will be even tougher this season.

Holy shit! I just now looked at the results and saw that Al Hilal repeated the "feat" of Al Nassr, and even in a worse form - a home goalless defeat.
A strange result, to say the least. Last year, Neom finished 8th with a negative goal difference. They're clearly not a team you'd expect to deliver. Incidentally, if I understand correctly, this ends two long streaks for Al Hilal – one in goals and one in games without a loss (they were undefeated last season). Overall, this is great news, now the current champion is in an equal position with the main contender.

[Shadiq]

Holy shit! I just now looked at the results and saw that Al Hilal repeated the "feat" of Al Nassr, and even in a worse form - a home goalless defeat.
A strange result, to say the least. Last year, Neom finished 8th with a negative goal difference. They're clearly not a team you'd expect to deliver. Incidentally, if I understand correctly, this ends two long streaks for Al Hilal – one in goals and one in games without a loss (they were undefeated last season). Overall, this is great news, now the current champion is in an equal position with the main contender.

I have faced such unexpected events before, so it was not difficult to adjust myself after seeing the scorecard! Of course, I was in favor of Al Hilal winning the championship this season, but they broke that confidence in just one night.

I do not see the defeat as a big deal, winning and losing are part of the game. But how did they lose this match? The defeat at home against a team that had a negative GD last season and finished eighth with 1/3 (of the total points of the season) points was unbelievable. The defeat was not at all acceptable, but rather a very bad match. They should apologize to the fans for such a defeat,

[Plutomanian]

Holy shit! I just now looked at the results and saw that Al Hilal repeated the "feat" of Al Nassr, and even in a worse form - a home goalless defeat.
A strange result, to say the least. Last year, Neom finished 8th with a negative goal difference. They're clearly not a team you'd expect to deliver. Incidentally, if I understand correctly, this ends two long streaks for Al Hilal – one in goals and one in games without a loss (they were undefeated last season). Overall, this is great news, now the current champion is in an equal position with the main contender.

This is football and this kind of results happen once in a while. Al Hilal defeat was shocking to everyone because this is not the kind of team that will be able to stand up to Al Hilal and compete for 3 winning points but they just did. The thing, we should not undermine the performance of Neom because they didn't come here to joke around rather they came for 3 points and they achieved it with lesser stress. AI Hilal will not give up because it's just starting of the SPL and it means there's more time for them to settle and compete for the SPL title.

This SPL title race is going to be a long one because Al Nassr are yet to find their balance and they've not been able to maintain streak winning, it's just a matter of time to see them bouncing and getting ready for the big winnings.

[Abdulzuruku01]

Hope Al Nassr and Al Hilal are not planning to repeat what they were doing last season, because when Al Nassr drops points, Al Hilal will also follow and drop points and that was how both teams were switching the top of the league table until Al Nassr finally won the league title.

That actually happened in this game, because Al Hilal also dropped points to Neom. I'm surprised by Al Hilal in this game because who could have imagined that they will be defeated in their home by Neom? We know Neom as a weaker team compared to Al Hilal even from the squad depth. Since Al Nassr lost to Al ittihad, I expected Al Hilal to win their match so that they could remain at the top. Al Nassr will face Abha in their upcoming match and if Al Nassr wins they will have equal points with Al Hilal, the team with most goals will top the table. I'm expecting Al Nassr to score many goals against Abha because they are the last in the standings.

[YOSHIE]

I have faced such unexpected events before, so it was not difficult to adjust myself after seeing the scorecard! Of course, I was in favor of Al Hilal winning the championship this season, but they broke that confidence in just one night.

Yes, the match between Al-Hilal vs. Neom, many fans of the Al-Hilal club were disappointed, they hoped that the Al-Hilal club could occupy and achieve the throne a second time, but this opportunity was wasted. Al-Hilal had to fall in front of Neom with a score of 0-2 without retaliation.

Maybe all football fans, especially in the Saudi Pro League, Al-Hilal have equaled a historic record during the match, they are one of the best clubs in the Saudi Pro League, but their progress towards a historic record was stopped when they faced Neom, In fact, it was a new opportunity for Al-Hilal to set a record, the defeat against Neom, stopped all dreams for Al-Hilal, Neom had really conquered Al-Hilal without being helpless, like it or not, fans and Al-Hilal had to accept the reality and swallow this surprising defeat.

[Judith87403]

Holy shit! I just now looked at the results and saw that Al Hilal repeated the "feat" of Al Nassr, and even in a worse form - a home goalless defeat.
A strange result, to say the least. Last year, Neom finished 8th with a negative goal difference. They're clearly not a team you'd expect to deliver. Incidentally, if I understand correctly, this ends two long streaks for Al Hilal – one in goals and one in games without a loss (they were undefeated last season). Overall, this is great news, now the current champion is in an equal position with the main contender.

It was absolutely a shocking result because nobody could believe that an in-form Al Hilal will lose woefully to Neom who is not even a competitive team. If it were teams like Al Qadisiya or Al Ahli Jeddah it would have been understandable because they have competitive ratings than Neom, that's if we go by their performances last season. Anyway, the defeat faced by Al Hilal is a good news for Al Nassr who fell 3 points behind but they will now have the opportunity to equal in points again if they win their next match. I believe that no one expected that Al Hilal will lost at home and considering that played all through last season without a defeat and still continues winning their matches this season. A lot of bets surely went down on Al Hilal, I'm sure they broke the heart of many bettors.

[KTChampions]

Holy shit! I just now looked at the results and saw that Al Hilal repeated the "feat" of Al Nassr, and even in a worse form - a home goalless defeat.
A strange result, to say the least. Last year, Neom finished 8th with a negative goal difference. They're clearly not a team you'd expect to deliver. Incidentally, if I understand correctly, this ends two long streaks for Al Hilal – one in goals and one in games without a loss (they were undefeated last season). Overall, this is great news, now the current champion is in an equal position with the main contender.

This is football and this kind of results happen once in a while. Al Hilal defeat was shocking to everyone because this is not the kind of team that will be able to stand up to Al Hilal and compete for 3 winning points but they just did. The thing, we should not undermine the performance of Neom because they didn't come here to joke around rather they came for 3 points and they achieved it with lesser stress. AI Hilal will not give up because it's just starting of the SPL and it means there's more time for them to settle and compete for the SPL title.

This SPL title race is going to be a long one because Al Nassr are yet to find their balance and they've not been able to maintain streak winning, it's just a matter of time to see them bouncing and getting ready for the big winnings.

Al Nassr's next game is against Abha, which have just one point. Al Nassr will be playing at home, and I'm sure there won't be any surprises. I wonder what the bookmakers are offering for this game - 1.05? But even 5% looks good here. In the 7th round, both Al Nassr and Al Hilal will play away, but these will be games against teams from 13th and 14th place in the standings. In general, both clubs have an easy schedule to deal with the problems that unexpectedly arose. Last season, it seems that both clubs were undefeated until about the 10th or 11th round (Al Hilal didn’t lose at all).

[PremiumcryptoHub]

I do not see the defeat as a big deal, winning and losing are part of the game. But how did they lose this match? The defeat at home against a team that had a negative GD last season and finished eighth with 1/3 (of the total points of the season) points was unbelievable. The defeat was not at all acceptable, but rather a very bad match. They should apologize to the fans for such a defeat,

Al Hilal has performed well in the last five matches of this new SPL, but they played very poorly against Neom. You should note that last season this team was in eighth place and they are trying to dominate since the early stages of the 2026/27 SPL season because they have already won four matches, so this team seems to be strong too.

Besides Al Hilal was in second place last season with 84 points but if this team could have given their best performance in today's match at home and were much stronger in attack then maybe they would have been able to win this game against Neom. In fact Al Hilal team had a lot of depth as they had former Arsenal forward Gabriel Martinelli in their team and other top players but they could not win. So we can assume that it will be difficult for the top clubs to win the SPL title this season.

[Qhunman]

It almost seems that a team depends solely on how it moves in the market. A team that managed to win the championship last year is because it already has a squad capable of competing, so it doesn't mean that it can't win even without making a transfer.
Al-Nassr has a very strong team with the potential to win the championship even without too much movement on the transfer market.

Al Nassr can win the championship the season even though they didn't buy players.Since they haven't sold any of their key players, they can win it back to back.. Al Nassr has quality players which is why they were able to win the championship last season, Al-Hilal may be leading the table but it's only temporary because Al Nassr will win their next match and will move ahead of them at the top of the table, thought Al-Hilal performance has been great, Al Nassr will defend their title as champions.

[Gost ms]

Hope Al Nassr and Al Hilal are not planning to repeat what they were doing last season, because when Al Nassr drops points, Al Hilal will also follow and drop points and that was how both teams were switching the top of the league table until Al Nassr finally won the league title.

That actually happened in this game, because Al Hilal also dropped points to Neom. I'm surprised by Al Hilal in this game because who could have imagined that they will be defeated in their home by Neom? We know Neom as a weaker team compared to Al Hilal even from the squad depth. Since Al Nassr lost to Al ittihad, I expected Al Hilal to win their match so that they could remain at the top. Al Nassr will face Abha in their upcoming match and if Al Nassr wins they will have equal points with Al Hilal, the team with most goals will top the table. I'm expecting Al Nassr to score many goals against Abha because they are the last in the standings.

This match was a very bad match for Al Hilal, it was a very bad time for me. Because I thought that Al Hilal could win this match easily and maybe Al Hilal would not have to struggle too much to win, I bet on Al Hilal, but I lost. However, in this match, there were many weaknesses in Al Hilal's defense and I will say that in conceding these two goals, Al Hilal's defense is completely to blame, because of their own mistakes, this match's result has become like this. Al Hilal attacked a lot and none of these attacks were successful. I thought at the last moment that maybe they could see some surprises in the last minute but they could not do anything.

[Pandorak]

Al Hilal lost the last match, I didn't expect Al Hilal to lose, but it's not unusual for any team to have unpredictable performances at some times. But I think they can still stay at the top of the table, even if Al-Nassr wins the next match, Al Hilal will still be at the top, because if Al-Nassr wants to go to the top, they have to win the next match by a margin of 5 goals, which is a bit difficult, but it can also possible, because Al-Nassr will play the next match against Abha, which is a very weak team and they are at the bottom of the table, so it is not impossible to win against this team by a margin of 5 goals. However, I expect Al-Nassr to win the next match by a big margin, where they will play the match with an attempt to go to the top. Their competition will be even tougher this season.

In many previous matches, Al-Hilal looked flawless and dominant, their goal differential truly convinced everyone that they were the strongest contenders to win the title this season. I had even previously praised their strong defense, it was extremely difficult for opponents to break through and score. Coupled with their sharp offense, this further reinforces that belief. But in the match against Neom, their defense was completely dismantled, in fact, one of the goals scored was an own goal by Kalidou. I thought only Al-Nassr had put in a disappointing performance against Ittihad, but it turns out Al-Hilal played even worse.

[bastisisca]

There's no way we should blame Cristiano Ronaldo for the defeat of Al Nassr this weekend. It was a good game that played out well with both sides giving out everything they got for the win but unfortunately, only one side was able to pull the stunt and grab all 3 points. This is mere blow for Al Nassr and they will definitely bounce back, it's just a matter of time before they're able to match up their weaknesses and bounce back. Al Nassr are defending SPL champion and there's no way they would hand over their title without a fight this season.

On the other hand, SPL title race is too early and we're yet to decide those that will competitive and enchanced themselves enough to handle barriers coming their way in upcoming games. Al Nassr deserved this winning because they gave everything and they were the better side. Al Nassr will continue to dominate and try their best.

Obviously you can't blame Ronaldo, you can't always blame Ronaldo. In the end, Al-Nassr is a team, you must always judge the collective and never the individual, because the individual can be replaced, the team instead must demonstrate that it always gives its all and always aims for victory. Every now and then there can be defeat.
For me when a team lost, is a team problem.

[Silence Scream]

There's no way we should blame Cristiano Ronaldo for the defeat of Al Nassr this weekend. It was a good game that played out well with both sides giving out everything they got for the win but unfortunately, only one side was able to pull the stunt and grab all 3 points. This is mere blow for Al Nassr and they will definitely bounce back, it's just a matter of time before they're able to match up their weaknesses and bounce back. Al Nassr are defending SPL champion and there's no way they would hand over their title without a fight this season.

On the other hand, SPL title race is too early and we're yet to decide those that will competitive and enchanced themselves enough to handle barriers coming their way in upcoming games. Al Nassr deserved this winning because they gave everything and they were the better side. Al Nassr will continue to dominate and try their best.

Obviously you can't blame Ronaldo, you can't always blame Ronaldo. In the end, Al-Nassr is a team, you must always judge the collective and never the individual, because the individual can be replaced, the team instead must demonstrate that it always gives its all and always aims for victory. Every now and then there can be defeat.
For me when a team lost, is a team problem.

That is certainly the case, because football is a team sport. A single player cannot save a team on their own. Even if you are excellent, there may still be matches you lose. Didn't Cristiano Ronaldo lose matches while playing for Real Madrid? Or didn't Lionel Messi lose matches during his time at Barcelona? Who could have blamed Ronaldo at Real Madrid or Messi at Barcelona for that? The same applies to Ronaldo, who is currently playing in Saudi Arabia. If the team loses, Ronaldo is not the one to blame, the responsibility lies with all eleven players.

[kennycryptoitalia]

Al Hilal is currently losing 0:2 to Neom in the first half. Can they overturn the result in the second half? Maybe it's only Al Nassr that can make a 2:0 comeback and still win but let's see what Al Hilal can do in this match because if they lose and Al Nassr wins their next match they might top the league table depending on who will have the higher goals difference.

Hope Al Nassr and Al Hilal are not planning to repeat what they were doing last season, because when Al Nassr drops points, Al Hilal will also follow and drop points and that was how both teams were switching the top of the league table until Al Nassr finally won the league title.

I think things like a comeback from 2-0 to 3-2 happen often in football, but it's not even that simple a thing to achieve. Al Nassr succeeded, Al Hilal had really difficult times. In any case, it would not be three more points in favor of Al Nassr to determine who can win the championship, as it is currently too early.

[Bryan jessy]

There's no way we should blame Cristiano Ronaldo for the defeat of Al Nassr this weekend. It was a good game that played out well with both sides giving out everything they got for the win but unfortunately, only one side was able to pull the stunt and grab all 3 points. This is mere blow for Al Nassr and they will definitely bounce back, it's just a matter of time before they're able to match up their weaknesses and bounce back. Al Nassr are defending SPL champion and there's no way they would hand over their title without a fight this season.

On the other hand, SPL title race is too early and we're yet to decide those that will competitive and enchanced themselves enough to handle barriers coming their way in upcoming games. Al Nassr deserved this winning because they gave everything and they were the better side. Al Nassr will continue to dominate and try their best.

Obviously you can't blame Ronaldo, you can't always blame Ronaldo. In the end, Al-Nassr is a team, you must always judge the collective and never the individual, because the individual can be replaced, the team instead must demonstrate that it always gives its all and always aims for victory. Every now and then there can be defeat.
For me when a team lost, is a team problem.

That is certainly the case, because football is a team sport. A single player cannot save a team on their own. Even if you are excellent, there may still be matches you lose. Didn't Cristiano Ronaldo lose matches while playing for Real Madrid? Or didn't Lionel Messi lose matches during his time at Barcelona? Who could have blamed Ronaldo at Real Madrid or Messi at Barcelona for that? The same applies to Ronaldo, who is currently playing in Saudi Arabia. If the team loses, Ronaldo is not the one to blame, the responsibility lies with all eleven players.

This is one of the funny judgement people passed that kept me wondering how they arrived as such conclusion because football is a group game, it requires joint efforts from each players or team work to achieve a good result and if unfortunately after their hard work and it did not work out as planned none of the team members should be blamed or held specifically responsible for their poor performance they all gave their best, the fact that Ronaldo is a known and outstanding player does not mean that any team he is must always win, it is a game so sometimes the game might turn out the opposite giving a negative result, it's nobody's fault so if they want to blame anyone for the defeat it should be a general one to everyone in that team rather than just pushing the blame on a particular player.

[martinom]

It is somehow fair to throw some blame at the keeper is in many ways justified because conceding cheap goals is having a direct effect on Al-Nassr's progress this season. They had good 8 shot on target and somehow only managed to get 1  ball past Rajkovic who was absolutely on fire and saving almost everything for Al-Ittihad. It is was quite annoying to see CR7 miss some clear chances, most especially when the team needed him to pull a rabbit out of a hat kind of situation. Well, they accepted the loss in good faith, I am sure they will work hard to secure the next match.

It's no secret that in recent times Al-Nassr's defense and defense has been a bit lacking in terms of performance. Al-Nassr has been struggling in the defensive phase for a long time now and hasn't even managed to change things with some signings during this summer transfer window.

[aipercoin]

While it's true that the Saudi Arabian League isn't a top league like the major European leagues, there's still quite tough competition for Ronaldo. Because, basically, in the Saudi Arabian League, there are a lot of former top European players coming here.

So, that's why all of this is clearly an exciting challenge for Ronaldo. Then regarding the 1,000 goals that Ronaldo might score, I think even if Ronaldo played in Europe, he would definitely pursue this target.

Because, as we know, Ronaldo is a very ambitious person. So that's why I'm very confident, even though Ronaldo plays in Europe, he certainly won't dampen his intention to break his record. But coincidentally, he's currently in the Saudi Arabian League, so what's wrong with breaking his 1,000-goal record here? Because that's also quite good, and doesn't diminish anything in my opinion.

Ronaldo once said that the Saudi Pro League would become one of the most followed leagues. We can't say for sure that today it is, but there has been a shift of many players towards that championship.

In fact i believe that Ronaldo also feels happy to be able to play in a league where there are many top-level players to compete with.

[banana33]

It's a new perspective that I hadn't thought about. Like I mentioned above, I don't remember Al-Hilal losing a single game last season, but I do remember Al-Nassr losing a few games, and the reason Al-Nassr won on points is because of the number of draws Al-Hilal had and double chance was always a safe bet for them in the last season and unfortunately not this season.

In reality i think that there are clubs in the Saudi Pro League that could easily compete in the top 5 European leagues. Let's also just consider that during the Club World Cup, Al Hilal managed to beat Manchester City. So surely there are teams that can easily play against major league teams.

[giorgione]

After winning five consecutive matches, Al Hilal is on the verge of defeat today. In fact, we never imagined that this team would play so poorly against Neom team. Anyway in the sixth match of the new season's SPL, after Al Hilal scored an own goal in the 15th minute, the Neom team scored another goal as a result, it became very difficult for the team that was the runner-up last season to equalize this match.

To be honest Al Hilal had reached the top of the points table, so many of us imagined that they might not win the title last season, but they would win the title this season. But they are struggling to win against a weak team even with a strong XI. Neom made a great comeback after losing two consecutive matches and they were able to defeat Al Hilal, the top club in the SPL.

I don't understand why we should take for granted the fact that he won't win the title this year.

The championship has literally just started and for a defeat after five games we are talking about possible defeat in the championship. its something that doesn't make sense, we need to give the teams time to play and make predictions only when the championship is already in an advanced stage and certainly not now.

[Decimetre]

After winning five consecutive matches, Al Hilal is on the verge of defeat today. In fact, we never imagined that this team would play so poorly against Neom team. Anyway in the sixth match of the new season's SPL, after Al Hilal scored an own goal in the 15th minute, the Neom team scored another goal as a result, it became very difficult for the team that was the runner-up last season to equalize this match.

To be honest Al Hilal had reached the top of the points table, so many of us imagined that they might not win the title last season, but they would win the title this season. But they are struggling to win against a weak team even with a strong XI. Neom made a great comeback after losing two consecutive matches and they were able to defeat Al Hilal, the top club in the SPL.

I don't understand why we should take for granted the fact that he won't win the title this year.

The championship has literally just started and for a defeat after five games we are talking about possible defeat in the championship. its something that doesn't make sense, we need to give the teams time to play and make predictions only when the championship is already in an advanced stage and certainly not now.

It is true that the season is just starting but truthfully, Al Hilal beat the imagination of many fans who never expected them to be defeated by Neom in that game. I was hoping they could at least score a goal but no, it was a clean sheet for the Neom team at Kingdom Arena. I also see this home loss as an eye opener for the Al Hilal players and Inzaghi so they don't get carried away by their good performances in the last 5 games. They still have the time to make up for the rest of the season. Al Nassr now has the chance to cover over the gap for today so they'll have the hopes still high. This season is going to be very interesting, seems every team in the Saudi league has wisen up and ready to compete. So any unnecessary losses could kick anyone out of the race.