French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[Raflesia]

I wouldn't doubt PSG this season in Ligue 1 because it seems so irrational not to see them walk away with the title at the end of the season. Having great players at the club may be a challenge for a coach of Pochettino's caliber, he may find it difficult to create harmony between his players at the club even though some of them are players from their own country. Messi has yet to find his best form at PSG and still requires him to adapt to other players. I still have doubts about PSG in the Champions League because after Messi came in, Neymar was no longer in his best form. Next week PSG will meet Angers at home for their 10th Ligue 1 match.

Pochettino of course must be able to unite the harmony of these players, which is most important because after all there must be a little ego from those who already feel that they are talented players, so coach Pochettino needs to think so that harmony is maintained with many talented players.
Before, I was the same, maybe some people believed that Messi's entry could lead PSG to become champions of the Champions League, but my view is different, this is a controversial league.
The challenges are tougher and not to mention facing big opposing teams from other Europe, I just want to know the evidence that messi and his friends can lead PSG to the final.

[blackened515]

Lyon - Monaco game will be the most important game of the coming match weekend. Two of the biggest teams of the Ligue 1 will clash with each other. I'm favoring Monaco in this game honestly. Because their recent form is much better than Lyon. Monaco won their last 3 games while Lyon were getting 2 ties and 1 win. Even though there is only one point gap in the standings between them, Monaco should have more morale than Lyon and they won't lose here I think.

Winning the match will definitely be tough for Monaco as they will be playing away. Although, they have a good squad and have been doing greatly in their last matches. While, I expected Lyon to win against St Étienne in their last match, but the game ended in draw after Étienne got a  penalty kick in the die minutes. Nevertheless, Lyon won against Monaco in their Ligue 1 last meeting, is was a home match for Monaco, and they lost with 2-3 score to Lyon. However, Monaco is likely to win in their next match.

[fullhdpixel]

It is on the desk and if PSG get the Champions League title, Mbappe will not move to anywhere else. With the happiness from it (if it happens) and a huge offer from PSG, Mbappe will not move to Real Madrid.

When you are at Mbappe level, the money is not the problem when there is an offer on the table. More often than not, most clubs will offer you what you want, sure there are only a few teams that can afford it, but they will offer the same to get him for free if he is willing to come to their clubs. This means there was something else about Mbappe deal that did not go through, it wasn't money for sure, PSG has the money to afford to pay him more than anything he wants, if he wants 40 they can give him 50, if it was 50 then they can pay him 60, it is not about money for sure.

What I believe everyone agrees was success at UCL, but I also believe that last year's horrible season was one of the main reasons, they failed to get even the league and that is just way too bad for them. Which is why even if they end up not getting the UCL, they could still be good enough with the current roster to win the league by a large margin, and maybe keep him if they go further in UCL, like semi-finals or finals even if not all the way.

[savetheFORUM]

Lyon - Monaco game will be the most important game of the coming match weekend. Two of the biggest teams of the Ligue 1 will clash with each other. I'm favoring Monaco in this game honestly. Because their recent form is much better than Lyon. Monaco won their last 3 games while Lyon were getting 2 ties and 1 win. Even though there is only one point gap in the standings between them, Monaco should have more morale than Lyon and they won't lose here I think.

Winning the match will definitely be tough for Monaco as they will be playing away. Although, they have a good squad and have been doing greatly in their last matches. While, I expected Lyon to win against St Étienne in their last match, but the game ended in draw after Étienne got a  penalty kick in the die minutes. Nevertheless, Lyon won against Monaco in their Ligue 1 last meeting, is was a home match for Monaco, and they lost with 2-3 score to Lyon. However, Monaco is likely to win in their next match.

Giving predictions in French League has never been easy because many times we have very strange results but still it's very interesting and entertaining Monaco's recent form is good but still Lyon at home is very good, and they have very good record against Monaco but in current season Monaco is doing very good performance after watching this all we can say that Lyon is not going to win this match easily as they are not performing good. Currently as Monaco is doing look like they are trying again for having good and solid place in top ranked French Leagues teams after few bad years.

[Spack17]

I think that the Lyon - Monaco match will be the biggest match of the week. Monaco are showing a fascinating performance comparing to Lyon. They have been victorious three times in a row. Lyon couldn't get any win in their last two matches. Considering their last head-to-head match here in this stadium, Lyon demolished Monaco by 4-1. But this time could be a chance to take revenge on Lyon for Monaco.

[Luzin]

The challenges are tougher and not to mention facing big opposing teams from other Europe, I just want to know the evidence that messi and his friends can lead PSG to the final.

If you look at the last PSG matches against Rennes, I think winning the UCL is very difficult. They are very difficult to enter the penalty box Rennes. They do not seem to have the pattern and patience in chasing goals down. Although I know at the end they only relied on Messi because Mbappe and Neymar were out. The UCL atmosphere will be tighter than the league, although yesterday they were able to reach this year's final a little difficult. I think Pocethiino has a different style to Tuchel. Tuchel is a bit better in terms of tactics and player management.

[Kusman]

Some people say that PSG might have a difficulty in beating Angers next week considering Angers' recent form. But when we check the head-to-head matches, we see clearly that PSG are very highly dominant against them. PSG just won all the time against Angers no matter what. And they can do this again easily without caring about Angers' good form.

[Ratash]

I think that the Lyon - Monaco match will be the biggest match of the week. Monaco are showing a fascinating performance comparing to Lyon. They have been victorious three times in a row. Lyon couldn't get any win in their last two matches. Considering their last head-to-head match here in this stadium, Lyon demolished Monaco by 4-1. But this time could be a chance to take revenge on Lyon for Monaco.

Very hard to predect the outcome since monaco ayed recently against teams that are struggling and are not able to win for a long time so we cant really judge monaco performance since it is not steady but they definetly have an advantage since they won three games in a row so they must be motivated.

[Juggy777]

I think that the Lyon - Monaco match will be the biggest match of the week. Monaco are showing a fascinating performance comparing to Lyon. They have been victorious three times in a row. Lyon couldn't get any win in their last two matches. Considering their last head-to-head match here in this stadium, Lyon demolished Monaco by 4-1. But this time could be a chance to take revenge on Lyon for Monaco.

Very hard to predect the outcome since monaco ayed recently against teams that are struggling and are not able to win for a long time so we cant really judge monaco performance since it is not steady but they definetly have an advantage since they won three games in a row so they must be motivated.

@Spack17 this will be game of equals and don’t let Monaco recent performances fool you, because I feel that Lyon will offer them tough fight. Also @Ratash is correct about Monaco, hence see the match and see how they’re performing before you decide to wager on them.

[coderben]

Recently, Lille and Monaco finally have started climbing the positions in the standings one by one. They both have a 3-win streak now. Lille are the last champions and Monaco ended as the 3rd. It wouldn't be nice to see these teams struggling a lot this season. I hope that they can maintain their form and continue to get better. I would like to see them increasing the competition level even more.

Wouldn't be nice? But why? Monaco were kings for a while when they were the rich club. Then a richer club came along and bought even bigger stars, so Monaco couldn't compete. It's not even in France.

And Lille's manager and stars also left, so their slide is not a surprise.

Why is anyone shocked or feeling uncomfortable to see their struggles?

Monaco were the king indeed once. Maybe they are not the richest club in the Ligue 1 now but I would like to remind you that they still had a great season last year. They didn't have the best lineup and they still ended at the third place. You might say that there are not many big clubs in this league. It is true though. But I would like to remind you one thing also that Monaco had a very poor season before that too.

[slaman29]

Monaco were the king indeed once. Maybe they are not the richest club in the Ligue 1 now but I would like to remind you that they still had a great season last year. They didn't have the best lineup and they still ended at the third place. You might say that there are not many big clubs in this league. It is true though. But I would like to remind you one thing also that Monaco had a very poor season before that too.

Oh no need to remind me, but that's what I was pointing out. They used to be the richest, and now no longer are, and now they know how it feels like to have all the best talents going not to you but to the richer club and from the capital too.

They're still a good team for sure and last season did very well against the best in Europe but it's going to be a hard climb back to the top once you let it go.

[LGD2Business]

Some people say that PSG might have a difficulty in beating Angers next week considering Angers' recent form. But when we check the head-to-head matches, we see clearly that PSG are very highly dominant against them. PSG just won all the time against Angers no matter what. And they can do this again easily without caring about Angers' good form.

I don't think anybody would say that. They started this season better than last ones but that doesn't mean they could be a trouble for PSG. I don't even think they can resist, it will be an easy match for PSG. They play at home, they should score early and have an easy game. Friday fixtures are important for teams, they win their games and give fear to competitors. It also gives time to rest for them before European games. If PSG takes score early they can think about Leipzig game and rest actively in the match later.

[blackened515]

Some people say that PSG might have a difficulty in beating Angers next week considering Angers' recent form. But when we check the head-to-head matches, we see clearly that PSG are very highly dominant against them. PSG just won all the time against Angers no matter what. And they can do this again easily without caring about Angers' good form.

This is Football, and anything can happen, Anger can probably win against PSG for the first time. They are in their best form, but I don't think Anger can easily beat PSG in an away match, not after PSG got their first losing match this season against Rennes. PSG dominated the game , but got 0 shot on target. Anger have to play carefully and put in more effort. They are below Nice and needs more points to slide up on the table.

[henmark]

Some people say that PSG might have a difficulty in beating Angers next week considering Angers' recent form. But when we check the head-to-head matches, we see clearly that PSG are very highly dominant against them. PSG just won all the time against Angers no matter what. And they can do this again easily without caring about Angers' good form.

This time peoples may be wrong because Rennes and Angers are completely different clubs and Angers never been threat for PSG in last few years even Rennes have different history they beat them many times just because of this PSG lost against them but Angers never been good team but this year they are performing good usually they lost very badly against PSG but now this year they will fight and give them good resistance but still they are not able to defeat them. Now, players coming after good rest and have some better strategy, so it could be one-sided game for the giants.

[Joca97]

Some people say that PSG might have a difficulty in beating Angers next week considering Angers' recent form. But when we check the head-to-head matches, we see clearly that PSG are very highly dominant against them. PSG just won all the time against Angers no matter what. And they can do this again easily without caring about Angers' good form.

This is Football, and anything can happen, Anger can probably win against PSG for the first time. They are in their best form, but I don't think Anger can easily beat PSG in an away match, not after PSG got their first losing match this season against Rennes. PSG dominated the game , but got 0 shot on target. Anger have to play carefully and put in more effort. They are below Nice and needs more points to slide up on the table.

I think this match for PSG will be a huge win due to the last match that PSG lost against Rennes. PSG will need to dominate
against someone for a change. They didnt destroy any team in the ligue 1 or the champions league so far. So im expecting a big win from them.

[Spack17]

I think that the Lyon - Monaco match will be the biggest match of the week. Monaco are showing a fascinating performance comparing to Lyon. They have been victorious three times in a row. Lyon couldn't get any win in their last two matches. Considering their last head-to-head match here in this stadium, Lyon demolished Monaco by 4-1. But this time could be a chance to take revenge on Lyon for Monaco.

Very hard to predect the outcome since monaco ayed recently against teams that are struggling and are not able to win for a long time so we cant really judge monaco performance since it is not steady but they definetly have an advantage since they won three games in a row so they must be motivated.

@Spack17 this will be game of equals and don’t let Monaco recent performances fool you, because I feel that Lyon will offer them tough fight. Also @Ratash is correct about Monaco, hence see the match and see how they’re performing before you decide to wager on them.

I see the points of both of you. And I'm not thinking of wagering on any team here before making sure about something for this match. Monaco didn't have a good start and actually it was a terrible one. But in the last weeks, nearly everything started to change about them. Players are more accurate now seemingly. And the recent good results should be helping them get better. But still, I don't want to be carried away by their recent performance. An away match or not, this is a very tough match for Monaco indeed.

[CryptoBuds]

Some people say that PSG might have a difficulty in beating Angers next week considering Angers' recent form. But when we check the head-to-head matches, we see clearly that PSG are very highly dominant against them. PSG just won all the time against Angers no matter what. And they can do this again easily without caring about Angers' good form.

This time peoples may be wrong because Rennes and Angers are completely different clubs and Angers never been threat for PSG in last few years even Rennes have different history they beat them many times just because of this PSG lost against them but Angers never been good team but this year they are performing good usually they lost very badly against PSG but now this year they will fight and give them good resistance but still they are not able to defeat them. Now, players coming after good rest and have some better strategy, so it could be one-sided game for the giants.

^ I don't know who is saying that Angers will give a hard time to PSG. Just look at the history between them for the past few years and PSG now is stronger than ever. Even if Mess, Neymar, Mbappe - one of them plays their game good enough, Angers will concede at least more than 2 or 3 goals. But also a thing to note is that Football is a very unpredictable game and we have already seen Real Madrid lose to Sheriff with a full squad so if PSG doesn't make any blunder, it should be their game.

[snipie]

Some people say that PSG might have a difficulty in beating Angers next week considering Angers' recent form. But when we check the head-to-head matches, we see clearly that PSG are very highly dominant against them. PSG just won all the time against Angers no matter what. And they can do this again easily without caring about Angers' good form.

Angers is doing good so far with losing only 1 time in 9 games although facing some respectable opponents. They are sitting in the 4th place right now in the table. When it comes to odds, I think most will be perplexed after knowing that Angers are @10 while PSG odds are @1.27. Bookies are almost sure about Angers defeat, they even doubt it can manage a draw (Angers or draw @3.9)!

[TheGreatPython]

This time peoples may be wrong because Rennes and Angers are completely different clubs and Angers never been threat for PSG in last few years even Rennes have different history they beat them many times just because of this PSG lost against them but Angers never been good team but this year they are performing good usually they lost very badly against PSG but now this year they will fight and give them good resistance but still they are not able to defeat them. Now, players coming after good rest and have some better strategy, so it could be one-sided game for the giants.

^ I don't know who is saying that Angers will give a hard time to PSG. Just look at the history between them for the past few years and PSG now is stronger than ever. Even if Mess, Neymar, Mbappe - one of them plays their game good enough, Angers will concede at least more than 2 or 3 goals. But also a thing to note is that Football is a very unpredictable game and we have already seen Real Madrid lose to Sheriff with a full squad so if PSG doesn't make any blunder, it should be their game.

I am also feeling in this way there is no competition in these two teams as history is heavily favoring PSG even Angers current forum is good but still there never been threat for them. Even we have some very unpredictable results, but still PSG is too good for them. In Rennes case they have some good rivalry, but as in case of Angers it's never been tough for them. I can go with handicap like this -1.5 or -2 because it's very clear they will be back with nearly 3 or 4 goals. In some cases, this can happen like this, 2 - 0 or 3 - 0.

[Pulsar77]

In five days, PSG are going to have a home game against Angers. Some people think like that this is going to be a quite competitive game for PSG and they might have a difficulty in winning here. But I think the opposite way. Because PSG have always been very dominant against Angers. If I didn't see wrong, PSG won all of their games against Angers so far. Maybe Angers started to the season nicely but I don't see any chance for them to have even one point at the end of this game.