French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[Oneandpure]

PSG and Lens are currently only 2 points apart in first and second positions in the standings. Paris Saint-Germain have other ambitions like the Champions League for example, they are used to the French Ligue 1 title. And it's not impossible that this season Paris Saint-Germain will relinquish  their Ligue 1 title for the Champions League, which is part of PSG's consistency this season.

Current standing, PSG behind 2 points left from Lens after held draw last match from Troyes 1-1 and good opportunity for PSG remaining 5 points left on one hour later match against Reims. PSG have bad capital after last match defeating by Rennes and today important match for PSG recovery and make points gap with Lens before have busy match few weeks later with Champion League.

PSG vs Reims are latest match for Ligue 1 on matchday 20 and three points will change standing position for Reims if possibility defeat PSG, current standing Reims on 12th and one points left with Toulouse have chance back to 11th if get draw or win against PSG will play on few minutes later.

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[Doell]

PSG have a good opportunity ahead to open the point gap with Lens and Marseille both today. Because those two teams both lost two points this week.

PSG's matchup is really easy for them as they are going to host Reims. Their previous meet was quite interesting after PSG got a red card. Reims had so many goal attempts but it ended up with a 0-0 draw. This time I don't think PSG will lose points. This must be a comfortable game in Parc des Princes. The attacking trio would carry the team as usual.

This good opportunity should not be wasted by PSG today, because they lost points on matchday 19, but it looks like they will try very hard to get three points in this match. I mean Reims has a good record in 5 matches, so I think this match will not be easy for them, but I'm also sure they won't drop any points in tonight.

[bitgolden]

Even the lens draw saved it in the last minutes.  They were almost renewed.  They scored in the 88th minute and earned 1 point.  This result was very bad for Lens because they were following Paris SG and could not bear the slightest loss of points.  Paris SG will host Reims at home and we know that they will very likely win in that match.  The difference in points between the teams will increase again.

That's basically the reason why PSG becomes champions every year. Not many teams could get a win that constantly, they end up losing mostly because they are not consistently good. This means that Lens will have many games where they are not going to be this good, and that is why I believe that they will get many more draws and losses whereas PSG won't get it. Sure PSG went though a bad period too, but that was quicker and they are still at the top, so even their worst performances was enough to keep them at the top.

This is why I believe they will end up being the champions no matter what. Very hard to somehow get them not to win in the end, would be very tough to do.

[Franctoshi]

Paris St German is not gonna find it easy to win the game over Reims, Reims performance recently is something interesting and should not be looked down upon. However, PSG got more quality players to achieve that three points from Reims despite the outcome of their last match, So I do believe PSG is going in there for vitcory in order to put smiles once again on the face of there fans after they lost their last game.

[swogerino]

Paris St German is not gonna find it easy to win the game over Reims, Reims performance recently is something interesting and should not be looked down upon. However, PSG got more quality players to achieve that three points from Reims despite the outcome of their last match, So I do believe PSG is going in there for vitcory in order to put smiles once again on the face of there fans after they lost their last game.

I think Paris Saint German this night is going to crush Reims and consolidate their title fight further by making a bigger gap to Lens and Marseille,both such teams cannot keep up with Paris consistence and despite Paris not being consistent themselves I think overall they are a much better team and surely most likely they are going to win tonight.They are going to do so even to please their fans who are waiting for a good victory in Stad de France against a relatively good team I would say like Reims as they are in the bottom middle of the standings,so after that they will shift their focus to Champions League which is just 2 weeks away now.

[Ratash]

Psg failed to beat reims team in a home game despite taking the lead early in the second half, their draw today was due to verrati red card, he has not being performing well this season and he made a lot of mistakes which resulted in his team losing points, luckily for psg lens team didnt win this round so they are still three points clear in the lead.

[Leviathan.007]

Paris St German is not gonna find it easy to win the game over Reims, Reims performance recently is something interesting and should not be looked down upon. However, PSG got more quality players to achieve that three points from Reims despite the outcome of their last match, So I do believe PSG is going in there for vitcory in order to put smiles once again on the face of there fans after they lost their last game.

I think Paris Saint German this night is going to crush Reims and consolidate their title fight further by making a bigger gap to Lens and Marseille,both such teams cannot keep up with Paris consistence and despite Paris not being consistent themselves I think overall they are a much better team and surely most likely they are going to win tonight.They are going to do so even to please their fans who are waiting for a good victory in Stad de France against a relatively good team I would say like Reims as they are in the bottom middle of the standings,so after that they will shift their focus to Champions League which is just 2 weeks away now.

Yes even after having stars like Messi, Mbappe, and Neymar still Paris Saint-German could win the game, however, we should not forget verratti's red card in the second half which changed lots of things for PSG because they had to somehow replace the position of Ferretti with other player and changing the plan like this in the second half damaged Paris Saint-German otherwise Paris Saint-German is the first place of the league while reims is the 11th and these two teams are not compatible to each other, it was unexpected to me.

[Naficopa]

I think even though Lens is playing away maybe they can still win easily in today's match against Troyes, but the final result of this match is a draw with a score of 1-1. In fact, Lens almost lost because a goal for Lens also just came in the 88th minute, and it was quite close to the end of the match.

Even if I consider from their head to head records at least Lens can dominate the victory, so if I associate it with Lens' good trend this season, it is very possible for Lens to be able to beat Troyes who are in the middle of the standings. But yes, the head to head record once again still cannot fully guarantee, because their situation and conditions will of course always change which makes Lens unable to maintain its good trend of winning.

Lens after everything drew with Troyes, Lens were lucky to have equalised in the 88 minute else it would have ended in a big loss. Lens are getting more draws lately which is not good for the club because Marsielle is gathering so much energy to replace Lens if they keep getting this record

i think the chances of Lens winning Ligue 1 are very slim, they are currently in a fight with Marseille and probably Monaco for the CL qualification ticket, nothing changed between them in this round since the three of them drew, there is still more rounds and fittest by the end is going to take the 2nd place.

PSG and Lens are currently only 2 points apart in first and second positions in the standings. Paris Saint-Germain have other ambitions like the Champions League for example, they are used to the French Ligue 1 title. And it's not impossible that this season Paris Saint-Germain will relinquish  their Ligue 1 title for the Champions League, which is part of PSG's consistency this season.

PSG's draw showed the team's mistakes. Indeed, PSG's defense has many problems. They fail time and again to stop the attack. PSG cannot do well in the Champions League with this kind of performance.

[Rabi3]

Psg failed to beat reims team in a home game despite taking the lead early in the second half, their draw today was due to verrati red card, he has not being performing well this season and he made a lot of mistakes which resulted in his team losing points, luckily for psg lens team didnt win this round so they are still three points clear in the lead.

Verratti was for sure pissed off probably because he wasn't in the starting squad, minutes after he got in he got sent off and he will more matches now and also cost PSG 2 points, the red card really affected them.

[kotwica666]

Psg failed to beat reims team in a home game despite taking the lead early in the second half, their draw today was due to verrati red card, he has not being performing well this season and he made a lot of mistakes which resulted in his team losing points, luckily for psg lens team didnt win this round so they are still three points clear in the lead.

Verratti was for sure pissed off probably because he wasn't in the starting squad, minutes after he got in he got sent off and he will more matches now and also cost PSG 2 points, the red card really affected them.

I really don't understand how a team like PSG can have this kind of defense. I have seen in many matches that PSG's defense is not able to hold on to their goal lead at the end.

[snipie]

Psg failed to beat reims team in a home game despite taking the lead early in the second half, their draw today was due to verrati red card, he has not being performing well this season and he made a lot of mistakes which resulted in his team losing points, luckily for psg lens team didnt win this round so they are still three points clear in the lead.

Reims goal was scored in the last minutes of the game.. PSG were able to resist until the final whistle but they failed. I agree for sure about the red card impact, they might be able to play better and added another goal but this is what happens when you score only 1 goal. You should resist until the end of the game and pray to not receive a surprising goal..
The gap between PSG and Lens remained 3 points. Awkward results for the 5 top teams in Ligue 1 this round

[Zlantann]

Reims goal was scored in the last minutes of the game.. PSG were able to resist until the final whistle but they failed. I agree for sure about the red card impact, they might be able to play better and added another goal but this is what happens when you score only 1 goal. You should resist until the end of the game and pray to not receive a surprising goal..
The gap between PSG and Lens remained 3 points. Awkward results for the 5 top teams in Ligue 1 this round

Reims have continued to improve since after the world cup. In ten games that have just lost one against Lens.  They have scored 22 goal and conceded just 5 goals since December. And the most interesting part of the club is that they are coached by Will Still a 30 years old Englishman. He is the youngest coach in Ligue 1 and he has proved that age is just a number. It is quite interesting that PSG is not having a free ride throughout the season, atleast let them work hard for the title. The French league needs more competition to make it more exciting. I saw the frustration on the face of Christophe Galtier, he needs to be careful when they meet Bayern Munich on February 14. His job depends more on the club's Champions League performance.

[Iranus]

I think even though Lens is playing away maybe they can still win easily in today's match against Troyes, but the final result of this match is a draw with a score of 1-1. In fact, Lens almost lost because a goal for Lens also just came in the 88th minute, and it was quite close to the end of the match.
Even if I consider from their head to head records at least Lens can dominate the victory, so if I associate it with Lens' good trend this season, it is very possible for Lens to be able to beat Troyes who are in the middle of the standings. But yes, the head to head record once again still cannot fully guarantee, because their situation and conditions will of course always change which makes Lens unable to maintain its good trend of winning.

Lens after everything drew with Troyes, Lens were lucky to have equalised in the 88 minute else it would have ended in a big loss. Lens are getting more draws lately which is not good for the club because Marsielle is gathering so much energy to replace Lens if they keep getting this record

i think the chances of Lens winning Ligue 1 are very slim, they are currently in a fight with Marseille and probably Monaco for the CL qualification ticket, nothing changed between them in this round since the three of them drew, there is still more rounds and fittest by the end is going to take the 2nd place.

PSG and Lens are currently only 2 points apart in first and second positions in the standings. Paris Saint-Germain have other ambitions like the Champions League for example, they are used to the French Ligue 1 title. And it's not impossible that this season Paris Saint-Germain will relinquish  their Ligue 1 title for the Champions League, which is part of PSG's consistency this season.

PSG are consistently underperforming. And if they perform like that, they will have to give up their hopes of winning Ligue 1 and the Champions League. They have dropped points in three of their last four matches. And their overall performance was very poor. Bonding between players has become weaker. Despite having the best players like Messi, Neymar and Mbappe in attack, PSG team is facing a lot of problems to score goals. If the bonding between the players is not strong, I don't expect any better performance from PSG.

[makishart]

Paris St German is not gonna find it easy to win the game over Reims, Reims performance recently is something interesting and should not be looked down upon. However, PSG got more quality players to achieve that three points from Reims despite the outcome of their last match, So I do believe PSG is going in there for vitcory in order to put smiles once again on the face of there fans after they lost their last game.

PSG was not able to win against reims. that proves that if PSG's is not facing a big decline in its performance. I hope lens will be surpassing PSG as soon as possible. Verratti was getting a red card which is a very bad result for PSG. I doubt if PSG can win this season. I prefer to take lens or marseille as my most favorite club to win the french league this season. You shall aware that how difficult PSG to beat reims. Look at how even with world class trio PSG could not even win against reims.

[OcTradism]

PSG are consistently underperforming.

Their main players have yet fully recovered and ready after World Cup 2022. Their under-performance is unacceptable because in theory, they have enough star players on bench to replace those key players a few weeks.

And if they perform like that, they will have to give up their hopes of winning Ligue 1 and the Champions League. They have dropped points in three of their last four matches. And their overall performance was very poor.

They wasted some chances to finalize the match and at the end they made another stupid mistake and Reims did not wasted that one to equalize the match in injury time.

You are right about PSG opportunity in Champions League. If they continue playing and under-performing like this, their opponent in Champions League, Bayern won't let PSG easily win and go next. To win Bayern in Champions League, they must play as best as they can but it is not what they are showing latest matches.

Bonding between players has become weaker. Despite having the best players like Messi, Neymar and Mbappe in attack, PSG team is facing a lot of problems to score goals. If the bonding between the players is not strong, I don't expect any better performance from PSG.

I think Mbappe shows some proactive corporations with his team-mates recent matches. He made more passes to his mates but accuracy and efficiency from his efforts are still not too good. Anyway, if it is what Mbappe actually want to do, he can improve it and if effect can be shown in matches with Bayern, it would be perfect for PSG.

[hahay]

I am very happy with Reims who was able to score a goal in the final minutes of the match, this goal also made PSG fail to gain full points. At least with a three-point gap between PSG and Lens of course it will look more interesting, although I also believe PSG will be able to maintain its position at the top of the standings.

But about Reims, it looks like they do have a formula to be able to hold PSG to a draw because in their first match of the season Reims also managed to hold PSG to a 0-0 draw, and for now Reims succeeded with a score of 1-1.
But what's great is that Reims is only a team that is ranked in the middle of the standings and doesn't have good overall quality, but Reims this season managed to be unbeaten by PSG.

[bering]

Paris St German is not gonna find it easy to win the game over Reims, Reims performance recently is something interesting and should not be looked down upon. However, PSG got more quality players to achieve that three points from Reims despite the outcome of their last match, So I do believe PSG is going in there for vitcory in order to put smiles once again on the face of there fans after they lost their last game.

I was predicted this match before that Reims is the opponent who hard to defeated by PSG because Reims has strong defense but his time i will considers PSG is very unlucky that although they were playing with 10 players after Verratti got red card but PSG still can able to playing attacking and they got good opportunities to scores goals from Ramos and Messi on the second half but unfortunately they were failed to utilized it to scoring goals

Balogun is deserve as man of the match today besides scoring goal in the last minutes which makes PSG failed to earn 3 points from this match he also performing well and during this match his movement is very difficult for PSG players to guard

[LDL]

The match between PSG Vs Reims was a dramatic draw with PSG and Reims getting a point each. The first half of the game ended goalless and Brazilian Stryker Neymar scored a brilliant goal in the 51st minute of the second half. Then came a dramatic goal towards the end of the game by Reims striker #29 F. Balogun. With just 30 seconds remaining in the game, this unexpected equalizer brought the game back into the game and Reims recorded a 12-match unbeaten streak.

[crunck]

Balogun is deserve as man of the match today besides scoring goal in the last minutes which makes PSG failed to earn 3 points from this match he also performing well and during this match his movement is very difficult for PSG players to guard

Balogun's performance was good throughout the match. And he keeps Reims' attack strong. I don't think Reims players will play such an attacking strategy against PSG. Balogun and Flips performance in this match was excellent. Reims were lucky and their players were very confident in this match so they managed to get points in this match. At the same time, it has become riskier for PSG to hold the top spot in the points table.

[Polkeins]

The match between PSG Vs Reims was a dramatic draw with PSG and Reims getting a point each. The first half of the game ended goalless and Brazilian Stryker Neymar scored a brilliant goal in the 51st minute of the second half. Then came a dramatic goal towards the end of the game by Reims striker #29 F. Balogun. With just 30 seconds remaining in the game, this unexpected equalizer brought the game back into the game and Reims recorded a 12-match unbeaten streak.

Reims in general played great, in the first half just crushed PSG. Reims had 9 shots in the first half, while PSG had only 1 shot on goal. In the second half the situation became a little better for PSG, but all the same Reims played for a draw, so the result is logical

It is unclear whether PSG really got into a crisis situation or just plays this way on purpose, so that before the Champions League everyone thought that PSG will be easy to play with. While in the championship is also an intrigue, because of the last 4 games PSG won only one. And the gap from second place is only 3 points.