The results are out for their match against Real Madrid, honestly I didn't expect them to be able to produce such a result considering they still had more Real Madrid key players in the line-up. If they can get a result like this against Real Madrid, I think we can expect even better results from them against the other 2 teams, there are still Salzburg & Pachuca.
Real Madrid came with full strength besides only Mbappe who did not play there, it was quite disappointing at the beginning of Xabi Alonso career to have to swallow a draw on the other hand who would have thought that Al Hilal would appear solid and able to make Madrid have difficulty, maybe because of the factor of Inzaghi in the Al Hilal camp, a coach with experience against European teams so it makes sense why Al Hilal performance is very good. A good start to the journey for Al Hilal and they only need to focus on Salzburg because I think they will not have difficulty against Pachuca.
Al Hilal really showed that they deserve to be there, in the most prestigious competition in the world and carry the great name of SPL as the best league in Asia. 1-1 is a fairly satisfying result obtained by Al Hilal, considering that the opponent they faced was not an easy opponent but a big team that has often emerged as the champion of the inter-club world cup.
Under the guidance of Simone Inzaghi, Al Hilal now has a more solid defense, the typical philosophy of the Italian coach. In the match, although in terms of ball possession between the two teams were almost the same, in terms of the number of attacks, it was clear that Madrid was more favored and Al Hilal was more often under pressure, but Al Hilal's back line was always able to dampen the attacks well. and fortunately they got a penalty challenge at the end of the first half, so Al Hilal was able to equalize from the white spot.