French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[slaman29]

We all knew it was too good to be true but I feel the most dumb for getting my hopes up again lol

Should have, Monaco had no trouble against Nice at Stade Louis II, their own headquarters. after all, Monaco is one level above Nice. but in fact, Monaco was unable to maximize the momentum when playing at home to overthrow Nice. to be honest, in this match I chose to bet on Nice. not because of the odds available for Nice, but because Monaco have put in quite a tough match. Previously, Monaco played a crucial match in the Europa League playoffs.

Based on my considerations, it seems that Monaco will experience a slight decrease in performance due to an overly busy schedule. My assumption is that this fight will be won by Nice with a narrow score. but in fact, Nice was able to overthrow Monaco with a landslide score. as a result, Manaco is 10 points behind PSG.
Next, Monaco will return to play with full performance. and it seems, the game against Troyes is not a big deal for them to win.

Cool, you should start sharing your big wins here, which book are you placing your money on and what kind of odds did you get for this? I would love to see more people sharing bets for inspiration or whatever you want to call it.

Also I'm wondering now actually if betting against PSG in their next game is worth it, or at least with a good handicap or Double Chance. Just to keep things exciting plus odds are not bad and Nantes, you never know right?

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[shogun47]

however, Marseille and Other teams have been getting very close to PSG, this has led Ligue 1 to become very good, let's hope it continues with your emotions, although I say, PSG is PSG and when they start to play well it is something else.

PSG like to get under pressure from their player self when lost or draw. The public only wants the winning and they don't want to know if the team lost, or draws, so if happens public will blame the player, and the players got pressured and want to leave the clubs. I think 5 points is still big, Marseille, Monaco and lens it will be difficult to pursue PSG, because performance between them almost the same.

Yes, that's what happened, the public or fans may not know anything about what is being faced in the PSG environment. What's more, they are currently in a not-so-good condition, a lot of speculation has sprung up and they don't often hear rumors about the move of one of their players in the upcoming transfer market. The difference in points with the other teams above might make PSG a little safe but it's clear they have to continue to win if they don't want to overtake the points.

Whatever the reason, I don't see PSG as good, in Ligue 1 there isn't that much of a problem, they have a good advantage, I really don't think they will let themselves be caught, although there are some teams that want to, but can't define the goals well. goals because they lose or tie, and if you want to catch up with PSG you have to win every game, the game that caught my attention was PSG vs Bayern in the UCL, because I saw PSG with everything they had, and it wasn't enough not even to tie, although of course when Mbappé scored the goal I thought they were going to continue doing more, but when a goal is disallowed your motivation goes down, in the same way it is good that these teams know that things are not as easy as before, both in UCL as in Ligue 1.


Here is something that causes controversy and that can leave PSG in a bad light:

Report: PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi under investigation for kidnap and torture

The Ligue 1 club's president is being accused of detaining man who allegedly acquired sex tapes and documents in relation to the 2022 World Cup.

The president of Paris Saint-Germain football club, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, is facing an investigation in France over allegations of kidnapping and torture. The case relates to a complaint made by Franco-Algerian lobbyist, Tayeb Benabderrahmane, who claims he was detained in Qatar for six months in 2020 because he possessed "sensitive" documents, including a smartphone belonging to Mr Al-Khelaifi, and compromising materials.

It is alleged that Mr Benabderrahmane had documents relating to the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, as well as the awarding of the 2026 and 2030 World Cup TV rights to beIN Media, of which Mr Al-Khelaifi is president. The lobbyist claims he obtained the materials from Mr Al-Khelaifi's butler.

Source: https://www.livesoccertv.com/es/news/464180/report-psg-president-nasser-al-khelaifi-under-investigation-for-kidnap-and-torture/

Although sometimes everything can be set up to make certain people feel bad, it is a pity that problems of this nature always arise that tarnish fútbol.

I read the article you attached and it is a wild story for sure. The first thing that comes to my mind reading this is the Mohammed bin Salman - Kashoggi case when Kashoggi was killed in the Saudi Arabian ambassy in Turkey. But what's more important that came to my mind is that this journalist still being alive is a miracle given how sensitive the material is said to be. Especially when they already detained him for six months, I doubt that he expected to come out alive ever. If any of the materials do exist why would they let Benabderrahmane go? It is a bit of a contradiction because they should have known that he is going to make it public. Lots of trouble for PSG and Hakimi is also being accused of raping a 24-year old woman. Kidnapping, torture, rape. Those are the headlines PSG doesn't quite like I assume...

[rahmad2nd]

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Even though in the next match PSG will only play against Nantes, to be honest, because PSG also has to prepare its best squad to play in the second leg in the Champions League. So it seems that playing against Nantes is likely that PSG will not be easy to beat Nantes.

Because it looks like PSG will not play all of their main players in the match against Nantes later. But yes, even so, of course PSG will still be the team that is at the top of the standings in Ligue 1 because after all, PSG has the ability to maintain its top position in the Ligue 1 standings.

And yes, we are like minded. it seems, it is likely that Galtier will not field his full squad in the match against Nantes. after all, Nastes is not too tough an opponent for PSG. Galtier will focus more on the match later, when PSG visit Bayern Munich headquarters. but that does not mean, PSG is not targeting full points in this match. because after all, Galtier is targeting victory over Nantes to widen the gap in points from its competitors.

Meanwhile, we have not heard any news regarding Neymar's injury. also, I haven't gotten a prediction for the line-up that Galtier will play during the PSG vs Nantes match. it seems, this fight will take place tough if Galtier doesn't play the core players.

[borovichok]

And yes, we are like minded. it seems, it is likely that Galtier will not field his full squad in the match against Nantes. after all, Nastes is not too tough an opponent for PSG. Galtier will focus more on the match later, when PSG visit Bayern Munich headquarters. but that does not mean, PSG is not targeting full points in this match. because after all, Galtier is targeting victory over Nantes to widen the gap in points from its competitors.

Meanwhile, we have not heard any news regarding Neymar's injury. also, I haven't gotten a prediction for the line-up that Galtier will play during the PSG vs Nantes match. it seems, this fight will take place tough if Galtier doesn't play the core players.

PSG are ranked first on the Ligue 1 table with topping Marseille with 8 points clear. The Parisians have a total stats of 19W 3D 3L in 25 games in their domestic league this season. A good path for Christophe Galtier to pull his team back together inother to get good structuring position against Bayern Munich in the champions league. They have a game against Nantes but I think it's going to be an easy win for the Ligue 1 giant. The club main focus is setting their hands on the UEFEA trophy, they have all it takes to lift the title but there's some tough club that needs to be kicked out before they ascend to the next phase, it's Christophe Galtier job to make sure their dream becomes a reality.

[posi]

I'm not sure why the stars like Neymar and Messi want to leave PSG, because there they can have good salaries and they achieve many titles with this team even if these two leave PSG still a player like Mbappe can shine and even without these two players he can be the only legend of PSG and help this team, so I expect to see Mbappe even performing better if these two leave PSG.

Psg can surely pay them well, but they can leave because they are not happy in the team. For many weeks there have been rumors that Neymar is not happy with the club, and that the club also want to sell him but they haven't found the team that is interested to spend their money to buy him, because it is going to be a lot of money. As for Messi, he has won everything, so the fans believe he isn't playing for anything again, so they don't think that he can help them win the champions league.

I believe it is possible that they may leave, or maybe one of them will, but psg have enough money, so even if they lose both players this summer, they would buy world class players that would replace them, they can't leave everything to Mbappe, only him alone cannot help them to win trophies.

PSG also do not want to keep Neymar and Messi, because their salary fund is too large . Neymar and Messi this season also did not bring many achievements as expected. Neymar is often unable to play because of injury, Messi is probably older, making him not as bright as expected. I think PSG are looking to replace them with young talents like Mbappe, the salary fund will be lower, the young talents will serve them longer.
I agree that Mbappe is a good player, but I think without the good assists like Neymar and Messi, he wouldn't be able to shine like he is now. If Neymar and Messi leave PSG, PSG need to find a player who is really good at creating assists to shine with Mbappe.

[RealMalatesta]

Here is something that causes controversy and that can leave PSG in a bad light:

Report: PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi under investigation for kidnap and torture

The Ligue 1 club's president is being accused of detaining man who allegedly acquired sex tapes and documents in relation to the 2022 World Cup.

The president of Paris Saint-Germain football club, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, is facing an investigation in France over allegations of kidnapping and torture. The case relates to a complaint made by Franco-Algerian lobbyist, Tayeb Benabderrahmane, who claims he was detained in Qatar for six months in 2020 because he possessed "sensitive" documents, including a smartphone belonging to Mr Al-Khelaifi, and compromising materials.

It is alleged that Mr Benabderrahmane had documents relating to the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, as well as the awarding of the 2026 and 2030 World Cup TV rights to beIN Media, of which Mr Al-Khelaifi is president. The lobbyist claims he obtained the materials from Mr Al-Khelaifi's butler.

Source: https://www.livesoccertv.com/es/news/464180/report-psg-president-nasser-al-khelaifi-under-investigation-for-kidnap-and-torture/

Although sometimes everything can be set up to make certain people feel bad, it is a pity that problems of this nature always arise that tarnish fútbol.

I am 100% certain that certain rich people at the very top probably all have these type of tapes. In fact, when panama papers and similar things came about, where we have seen the clear corruption of the rich people, people who avoided taxes in billions of dollars, and even sex tape of so many famous people, it literally did nothing for their career at all.

I understand that you may want to hide all of this information, it's only natural to want to hide it, but when once it's out, you would just need to take it and move on, in a year it will be all gone anyway and wouldn't really matter. This response to just kidnap and torture a person in retaliation? That's sick, it's disgusting and the owner should be banned from being an owner straight up, how can we support a person who kidnapped another person and tortured him to keep being an owner?

[rendravolt]

Nantes vs Lens will meet in the Coupe De France today and it looks like the match will be quite exciting before the Ligue 1 week will start again. However, Nantes, who is the host, has had a bad record in their last 5 matches at home and only got 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats, while Lens has a pretty good record away from home with 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. I think this match will be Lens's victory, but a draw can still occur if Lens fails to take advantage of the opportunity to win.

[maju69]

Nantes vs Lens will meet in the Coupe De France today and it looks like the match will be quite exciting before the Ligue 1 week will start again. However, Nantes, who is the host, has had a bad record in their last 5 matches at home and only got 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats, while Lens has a pretty good record away from home with 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. I think this match will be Lens's victory, but a draw can still occur if Lens fails to take advantage of the opportunity to win.

Lens should be able to win this match easily, seeing from their position in Ligue 1 also Lens have a better advantage than Nantes. Even though this is the home game of Nantes, but as you said Nantes has a bad home record, conversely Lens can be more convincing in the away games they play so Lens should be able to win and I think it will really happen.

[fullhdpixel]

Nantes vs Lens will meet in the Coupe De France today and it looks like the match will be quite exciting before the Ligue 1 week will start again. However, Nantes, who is the host, has had a bad record in their last 5 matches at home and only got 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats, while Lens has a pretty good record away from home with 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. I think this match will be Lens's victory, but a draw can still occur if Lens fails to take advantage of the opportunity to win.

Right now, we have two quarterfinals of the Coupe de France as first is already ended with the win of Lyon against Ligue 2 team Grenoble with the score of 2 - 1 currently Nantes vs Lens is going to end for first half with the score of 1 - 1 as Lens take early lead, but Nantes is also doing good, and they scored reply just after few minutes with both teams are doing good job, and we are going to have action packed second half as well.

In third quarterfinal of the day Toulouse vs Rodez it's also full of action as we have 2 goals from home team Toulouse within just 10 minutes and look like they are going to have good win against another Ligue 2 team which also dong good job in early rounds after this we have last quarterfinal of the day with Marseille will host Annecy which is also going to be one-sided as Marseille is hot after losing match in French League against PSG badly.

[snipie]

Nantes vs Lens will meet in the Coupe De France today and it looks like the match will be quite exciting before the Ligue 1 week will start again. However, Nantes, who is the host, has had a bad record in their last 5 matches at home and only got 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats, while Lens has a pretty good record away from home with 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. I think this match will be Lens's victory, but a draw can still occur if Lens fails to take advantage of the opportunity to win.

Lens were favourite in this game before its beginning. They took the lead earlier with a goal scored by Fofana but Nantes were able to get a draw just 3 minutes after.
The result is still 0-0 after 50 minutes of the game and Lens has better chances in my opinion.

[SirLancelot]

Mbappe will control the PSG team if Neymar and Messi leave PSG. PSG's management has always taken Mbappe's decision seriously. And PSG probably won't have any problem increasing Mbappe's wages. And so we may see Mbappe with PSG's squad in the next few seasons.

Isn't it like that too.
Mbappe's condition with the authority he has now can be said that he mastered the real PSG.
But indeed that is a definite thing because he was given the authority and freedom for that so that it was not too strange actually with the condition of Mbappe apart from now there were Messi and Neymar or not later.

Mostly we have rumors about things like this for the sometime but most chances we will have no changes in this squad in near future which is clear until anything big happen, and we have to watch drastically changes in this squad because no one can predict 100% about anything in soccer which is having changing in just one day without any serious trouble like we have few in last few years.

Even Mbappé is king for the PSG management, and they are taking him as leading player for the time being and Neymar and Messi's contribution is also at his best with now they are going to face Bayern Munich in second leg match which is currently most important for them after losing at home by 1 - 0 with this all these rumors are just creating mess up another else and if we have any change then surely things could be open for the PSG fans and sporting world as well.

[Docnaster]

Nantes vs Lens will meet in the Coupe De France today and it looks like the match will be quite exciting before the Ligue 1 week will start again. However, Nantes, who is the host, has had a bad record in their last 5 matches at home and only got 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats, while Lens has a pretty good record away from home with 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. I think this match will be Lens's victory, but a draw can still occur if Lens fails to take advantage of the opportunity to win.

Lens are the clear favourites in this match, irrespective that it is an away meeting. Some times I don't believe in home advantage, not even sometimes. Generally the advantages of home playing could be the presence of large number of fan base to cheer up the players and  not spending transport fair for that very week. Every other things remains the same for both home and away team.

[wiss19]

Psg can surely pay them well, but they can leave because they are not happy in the team. For many weeks there have been rumors that Neymar is not happy with the club, and that the club also want to sell him but they haven't found the team that is interested to spend their money to buy him, because it is going to be a lot of money. As for Messi, he has won everything, so the fans believe he isn't playing for anything again, so they don't think that he can help them win the champions league.

I believe it is possible that they may leave, or maybe one of them will, but psg have enough money, so even if they lose both players this summer, they would buy world class players that would replace them, they can't leave everything to Mbappe, only him alone cannot help them to win trophies.

Neymar is surely a headache for the PSG for few seasons, and they are trying their best for selling him sadly they have no solid buyer so just because of this they are having him in this team but now after the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo into Saudi Professional League things looking again in hot water, and we can expect Neymar could be also in Gulf in near future because they are able to spend big amounts for the better media coverage and having the biggest fan base as well even right now nothing is clear but as right now situation is in PSG specially after lost against Bayern Munich we can expect changes in coming summer transfer window as well.

Messi is also in talk but for me, he can adjust here for some more time even right now no one can give exactly what happening but PSG will try to have Messi for one or two more seasons which can help them in many ways but this all depends on Messi as well can he want to say here or no big question as well.

[Jody.Drummer]

Marseille will travel to Rennes after their loss to Paris Saint Germain. Again, they will face tough opponents, because Remmes is also not a weak club. They are one of the clubs fighting for a place in European competition this season. And it seems that the city also provides opportunities that are not much different from these two clubs with Marseille which is still the favorite. Marseille inevitably wants to be able to win in this match, because if not Paris Siant Germain will be further away from them, because PSG will face Nantes in the same week.

[Fesatmas]

Lens had to lose to Nantes in the Coupe de France and this was a defeat they should not have won. The reason is that before the match they were the favorites of many people and even statistically they said so. However, they actually had to lose 2-1 and had to recognize the superiority of Nantes. They should take advantage of this competition to be able to win a trophy this season, because if you talk about Ligue 1 it will be more difficult for them to get a trophy. The advantage that was actually in favor of Lens could not result in victory.

[KTChampions]

Probably because the PSG players felt that the Ligue 1 title would be the only title they would get this year, they started to play well 
Obviously Mbappe is already fully healthy and will take part in the game with Bayern, but I still hope that the star team will beat the team of stars once again.

PSG has the most star players. In that ratio, PSG can't perform well in some matches. Mbappe is currently fully healthy while Neymar is injured. Neymar may not be able to participate in this PSG match with Brian Munich. I don't think PSG is a good fit without Neymar. PSG must not only win this match but PSG must beat Bayern Munich by at least 2-0. Only then they can survive in the next round. Let's see what success can bring for the next round.

In order to survive, PSG only need to score one goal, then the game will go into extra time. If, of course, PSG does not concede goals into their own net. The first task sounds real when you have a player like Mbappe in the squad, but the second one is rather dubious. Bookmakers estimate the odds that both teams will score as 1.51. And I have no doubt that Bayern will score, there are doubts about PSG as Bayern's pressure and ball control leave little chance for PSG.

[fullhdpixel]

Nantes vs Lens will meet in the Coupe De France today and it looks like the match will be quite exciting before the Ligue 1 week will start again. However, Nantes, who is the host, has had a bad record in their last 5 matches at home and only got 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats, while Lens has a pretty good record away from home with 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. I think this match will be Lens's victory, but a draw can still occur if Lens fails to take advantage of the opportunity to win.

Lens are the clear favourites in this match, irrespective that it is an away meeting. Some times I don't believe in home advantage, not even sometimes. Generally the advantages of home playing could be the presence of large number of fan base to cheer up the players and  not spending transport fair for that very week. Every other things remains the same for both home and away team.

Lens was clearly favorite for this game, and they were superior as well throughout the game they have good control but sadly Delort's two goals on penalties were enough for Nantes to win this game and have place into last four Nantes is having not good season in the Ligue 1 as they are currently in safe zone but still not good enough with their performance was not consistent.

Lens were also good but sadly fail to have positive result from this match as they are also struggling into French League recently their results are not satisfactory, and they have just one win from their last five games which are clearly giving how things are going if they are not going to change their strategy most chances they could be out of the top six as well.

[herurist]

Nantes vs Lens will meet in the Coupe De France today and it looks like the match will be quite exciting before the Ligue 1 week will start again. However, Nantes, who is the host, has had a bad record in their last 5 matches at home and only got 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats, while Lens has a pretty good record away from home with 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. I think this match will be Lens's victory, but a draw can still occur if Lens fails to take advantage of the opportunity to win.

Lens are the clear favourites in this match, irrespective that it is an away meeting. Some times I don't believe in home advantage, not even sometimes. Generally the advantages of home playing could be the presence of large number of fan base to cheer up the players and  not spending transport fair for that very week. Every other things remains the same for both home and away team.

Lens was clearly favorite for this game, and they were superior as well throughout the game they have good control but sadly Delort's two goals on penalties were enough for Nantes to win this game and have place into last four Nantes is having not good season in the Ligue 1 as they are currently in safe zone but still not good enough with their performance was not consistent.

Lens were also good but sadly fail to have positive result from this match as they are also struggling into French League recently their results are not satisfactory, and they have just one win from their last five games which are clearly giving how things are going if they are not going to change their strategy most chances they could be out of the top six as well.

The match ended in victory as predicted. But seeing the results in this match, it's actually quite difficult to understand that they couldn't score goals normally because the 2 goals they managed to score came from penalties in this match.
But indeed this result is clearly very good because with this result they managed to advance to the semi-finals of the French Cup.

[emrecemsan]

Lens could have done better than this in the Coupe de France. They could have eliminated Nantes actually but they failed big time. Both of Nantes' goals came by penalties. The first one was really amateurish of Lens defense by the way. But the goalkeeper was really desperate right before the second one. Besides Lens had two huge opportunities to get 2-1 ahead during the match as well. One of them was cleared just in front of the goal line and the other shot hit the goal post.

Lens were already out of the title race in the Ligue 1 and now they are out of this cup early as well. This season was actually going on good for them but now they made it more difficult for themselves.

[jostorres]

Marseille which is clearly having dominance in last quarterfinal of this year's Coupe de France against Ligue 2 side Annecy is trailing by 1 - 2 at home and things are looking not good for them as now after losing against PSG in French League game now they are down by Ligue 2 side which can hurt them badly now just 20 minutes left in this game if they want to join Lyon, Nantes and Toulouse for completion of line-up for the last four done something special otherwise Annecy is ready to join them and having an easy competitor for the all French Ligue 1 sides which are going to win this year's Coupe de France 2023 after beating their opponents in their games.