Al-Nassr Vs Al Akhdoud: Live Score, Preview, Lineup, Telecast Details

Saudi Pro League
MATCH INFO
MATCH :	Al-Nassr  V/s Al Akhdoud
COMPETITION :	Round 14
DATE:	09-01-2025
TIME:	10:30 PM IST (UTC +5:30)
STADIUM:	Al -Awwal Park

Al-Nassr	Lineup
Possible XI: Krepski (GK); Al Ghanam, Simakan, Lajami, Al-Boushail; Alkhaibari, Brozovic; Angelo, Otavio, Mane; Ronaldo.
Al Akhdoud	Lineup
Possible XI: Vitor(GK); Mansour, Burca, Kvirkvelia, Zabdani; Muwallad, Pedroza; Godwin, Tanase, Collado; Tawamba

Preview: Al-Nassr Vs Al Akhdoud

Saudi Pro League action is set to resume after the month-long December break this week with Al-Nassr taking on Al Okhdood at Al-Awwal Park on Thursday evening.

Al-Nassr will be looking to start 2025 positively after suffering defeats to Al-Qadsiah and title challengers Al Ittihad in two of their final three games ahead of the league break last month.

Against their PIF-owned rivals, Karim Benzema opened the scoring and Cristiano Ronaldo levelled proceedings two minutes later for Al-Alami, but it was Steven Bergwijn who got the winner for the People's Club in stoppage time.

With those goals, the former Real Madrid strike partners took their league goal tallies for the season to 10, two behind Al-Hilal's Aleksandar Mitrovic, who currently leads the race for the Golden Boot.

Those results also saw the gap in the league standings between the Knights of Najd and the Blue Waves widen to 11 points, while a defeat to Al Saad on matchday six in the AFC Champions League Elite forced them into third place in Group B.

However, Stefano Pioli's side are unsurprisingly massively fancied to return to winning ways this week, having beaten and scored three goals both home and away against their upcoming opponents last season.

Meanwhile, Al Okhdood survived the drop by the slenderest of margins last season and look likely to battle at the bottom end of the table again this term unless they can find major improvement in the New Year.

The Najran-based outfit have managed just 12 points in 13 games to date but pulled off an excellent 3-2 victory over fellow relegation candidates Al Wehda on the final matchday of 2024 to give themselves a three-point cushion above the dotted line.

However, delivering consistent results has not been easy for Stjepan Tomas's side, as they have never managed to win back-to-back league games since earning promotion to the top flight.

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About Saudi Pro League:

History

The Saudi Pro League (SPL), known as the Roshn Saudi League (RSL)for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of association football in the Saudi league system.

The first season of competition was the 1976–77 season. The league had been operating as a round-robin tournament from its inaugural season until the 1989–90 season, after that the Saudi Federation decided to merge the football League with the King's Cup in one tournament and the addition of the Golden Box. The Golden Box would be an end of season knockout competition played between the top four teams of the regular league season. These teams would play at a semi-final stage to crown the champions of Saudi Arabia. The league reverted to a round-robin system in the 2007–08 season..

The association is also regularly ranked with the highest coefficient in Asia due to the successful and consistent performances in the AFC Champions League Elite, Asian Super Cup & Asian Cup Winners' Cup by its clubs. Al-Hilal is the most successful team, holding 19 titles in its history and most recently winning the title in 2023–24. Al-Shabab, Al-Ittihad and Al-Nassr are also some of the most successful teams in the league.

Beginning in 2023, the league started experiencing widespread international exposure due to attracting numerous top level players from European leagues through financially lucrative contracts, immediately becoming a star-studded league. The nation's Public Investment Fund took 75% stakes in four founding members (Al-Ahli, Al-Ittihad, Al-Hilal, and Al-Nassr) in the same year as part of the Saudi Vision 2030 program.