If you only bet by prioritizing odds as determinant of the result, then Al Hilal is indeed favored and the bookie gives lower odds for Al Hilal as form of possibility for Al Hilal win, but I think that the bookie gives all of that one of the reasons is because in H2H Al Hilal always dominates and beats Al Ittihad more.
This time it different, you should see how strong Al Ittihad is and plus they are playing at home, I bet not to see if and who is favored but based on the analysis and predictions I made, for the future I don't know what it will be like and we also can't underestimate Al Hilal.
Of course, in making bets we must base it on analysis because it is very important in choosing which team will definitely win the match, but betting based on looking at the odds and also looking at H2H alone in my opinion will reduce our chances of winning the match in our bets, if we do a good analysis then we will see Al Hilal's shortcomings in this defeat, namely they do not have a mainstay, namely Mitrović and that is why choosing Al Hilal as a bet is very difficult because the players fielded by Al-Ittihad in this match are quite complete while Al Hilal is not, therefore as you said that in choosing a bet must be based on good analysis in order to achieve victory.
Currently the Saudi Pro competition is very tense with a point difference that is not far from several teams, of course this season is interesting to watch Saudi Pro with the arrival of good players, of course the improvement of the game in this league will not be boring, and one of the interesting things about the 4 teams above is the improvement of Al-Qadsiah which is so amazing and in my opinion they give a new color here and are above Al Nassr, of course it is not easy for them to get there and in my opinion with Al Hilal's game which is getting worse, it feels like they will finish below the top 4 this season because their strength is currently weakening and I still choose the favorite in the Saudi league is Al Nassr to become the league champion this season.