After the title of champion gleaned by Al-Ittihad, the most French team of Saudi Arabia with Laurent Blanc on the bench, Karim Benzema as a fellow captain as well as N'Golo Kanté, Houssem Aouar and Moussa Diaby, that is landed the Neom SC in Saudi Pro League. The promoted has been a team made in Ligue 1! Alexandre Lacazette is the star player, with Christophe Galtier as a coach and four other players recruited in France, namely Marcin Bulka, Nathan Zeze, Amadou Koné and Saimon Bouabré.
The Algerian winger Said Benrahma, loaned by OL, was recruited definitively and Neom SC has hired another French player this summer: the Malian international environment Abdoulaye Doucouré, trained at Stade Rennais. The club is currently based in Tabuk, a city in the northwest of the kingdom, pending construction in a few years of the futuristic city of Neom, with the intriguing The Line over 170 km.
Thursday evening (8 p.m. in France), the Neom SC begins with a hell of a shock against Al-Ahli, the team led by Edouard Mendy and Riyad Mahrez who has just won the Saudi Arabian Super Cup against Al-Nassr. The meeting will be broadcast for free on the YouTube and Twicht channels of the Streamer Zack Nani, which bought the TV rights of three posters per day of Saudi Pro League.
Lacazette but not Benzema
“Neom SC was born a big and is predestined for a great future. Our ambition is clear: quickly being among the best six teams in the championship ”launched Galtier at a press conference, while the first three will qualify for the next Asian Champions League. We will indeed follow the number of goals scored by Lacazette!
The two other meetings offered by Zack Nani are al-Hilal-Al-Riyad on Friday (5:50 p.m.) and al-Taawoun-Al-Nassr on Friday (8 p.m.). The opportunity to see Al-Hilal at work after his club World Cup in the United States (with a victory against Manchester City in the 8th finals) and therefore Cristiano Ronaldo with Al-Nassr, with Joao Félix and Kingsley Coman in addition to Sadio Mané. To see the al-Ittihad of “KB9”, it will be necessary to return to the chain of Zack Nani later.
