Al-Nasr vs Al-Feiha. Is Ronaldo's team still motivated?
On Friday, April 19, at the Msul Park arena in Riyadh, a match will take place between the Al-Nasr and Al-Feiha teams as part of the 28th round of the Saudi Arabian League.
Luis Castro's team found themselves in a curious tournament situation before the end of the season. After Al-Nasr lost to Al-Hilal in the semi-finals of the Saudi Arabian Super Cup (1:2), the team essentially had only one tournament left with clear tournament goals - the country's cup. There, Ronaldo and company will meet Al-Khalij in the semi-finals on the first day of May, and in fact can already think about the final, the opponent of which will most likely be the same Al-Hilal (unless, of course, he stumbles over Al-Ittihad ).
But in the championship, Al-Nasr's situation has already been virtually resolved - 7 rounds before the finish, the team is 12 points behind the leader, the impeccable Al-Hilal, and is unlikely to be able to overtake the opponent who has gained crazy form. At the same time, Castro’s team shouldn’t let Al-Ahly, who is in third place and 13 points behind them, pass ahead of them. So why and with what motivation to play in the remaining league games is not very clear. Perhaps - for the sake of the individual records of their leaders, and Ronaldo in particular?
True, it looks like we won’t see Cristiano on the field in the next match. For being sent off in the Super Cup match and subsequent unsavory behavior, the Portuguese faces a two-match disqualification and a fine. Although no sanctions against Ronaldo have been officially announced yet.
Al-Feiha
Al-Feikha, who represented Saudi Arabia quite well in the Asian Champions League (and was eliminated from there, by the way, by Al-Nasr), can hardly count on getting into any continental tournaments in the new championship. And the main reason for this is the terrible game in defense. If the foreign players, whom the club signed in the middle of the field and attack, work out their fees quite conscientiously (Africans Sakala and Onyekuru scored a double-digit number of goals each), then in defense things are much worse. And it is the inability of the redoubts to line up reliably and firmly that is often the reason for the majority of lost points over a long distance. Not to mention the negative difference in goals scored and goals conceded, which is quite strange for a representative of the top half of the table (Feija is in 9th place).
There are no noticeable personnel losses among Vuk Rasovic's team.
Our Expert Predictions & Analysis on Al-Nasr vs Al-Feiha
Al-NasrLuis Castro's team found themselves in a curious tournament situation before the end of the season. After Al-Nasr lost to Al-Hilal in the semi-finals of the Saudi Arabian Super Cup (1:2), the team essentially had only one tournament left with clear tournament goals - the country's cup. There, Ronaldo and company will meet Al-Khalij in the semi-finals on the first day of May, and in fact can already think about the final, the opponent of which will most likely be the same Al-Hilal (unless, of course, he stumbles over Al-Ittihad ).
But in the championship, Al-Nasr's situation has already been virtually resolved - 7 rounds before the finish, the team is 12 points behind the leader, the impeccable Al-Hilal, and is unlikely to be able to overtake the opponent who has gained crazy form. At the same time, Castro’s team shouldn’t let Al-Ahly, who is in third place and 13 points behind them, pass ahead of them. So why and with what motivation to play in the remaining league games is not very clear. Perhaps - for the sake of the individual records of their leaders, and Ronaldo in particular?
True, it looks like we won’t see Cristiano on the field in the next match. For being sent off in the Super Cup match and subsequent unsavory behavior, the Portuguese faces a two-match disqualification and a fine. Although no sanctions against Ronaldo have been officially announced yet.
Al-Feiha
Al-Feikha, who represented Saudi Arabia quite well in the Asian Champions League (and was eliminated from there, by the way, by Al-Nasr), can hardly count on getting into any continental tournaments in the new championship. And the main reason for this is the terrible game in defense. If the foreign players, whom the club signed in the middle of the field and attack, work out their fees quite conscientiously (Africans Sakala and Onyekuru scored a double-digit number of goals each), then in defense things are much worse. And it is the inability of the redoubts to line up reliably and firmly that is often the reason for the majority of lost points over a long distance. Not to mention the negative difference in goals scored and goals conceded, which is quite strange for a representative of the top half of the table (Feija is in 9th place).
There are no noticeable personnel losses among Vuk Rasovic's team.
Al-Nasr vs Al-Feiha facts
- Al-Nasr scored and conceded goals in the last 6 home matches of the championship
- Al-Nasr is second only to leader Al-Hilal (83) in the number of goals scored (80) in the championship.
- Al-Feikhi has the 12th defense in the championship - 43 goals conceded in 27 matches, but in terms of attack level, Rashovich's team is in 9th place, as in the standings
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