French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[CLS63]

Tonight, Lens are going to play a home game against Angers and it is the first game of the weekend at the same time. Lens are one of the great teams of this season. They are at the 4th place now but the point difference with the 2nd team is only 2 points. If they maintain a really good performance like now, they may even end the season at the 2nd place and join the CL group stage directly. And Angers also are doing very good as they are only 3 points behind Lens. But the recent form of each team hasn't been very good. They both lost many points recently. And Angers won against them here in their last game by 3-1. But I feel like Lens will be the victorious team this time.

[blackened515]

I won't be surprise if Lille lost in their match tomorrow against Nantes. They are a point behind Nantes on the standings, and their performance lately have been terrible.  They played their last 5 matches in the Ligue 1 without winning any. However, It seems their focus mainly are on the Champion League, because they are presently leading in the Group G with 8 points.

My predictions for this weekend league 1 matches

Lens Vs Angers 1-2

This match between Lens vs. Angers is more likely to be a draw cause both teams are equal strength. It is sure Lens now does not want to go further back in the points table.
On the other hand, you know, Angers is not a weak team. I think Lens will try their best to win the match at any cost, But somehow if they can't win against them.
My prediction is that the match will be drawn at 1-1.

The first half of this game just ended. And Angers are leading with a goal. Boufal score the goal with the assistant of Ounahi. The match is an interesting one, and  I think Angers have to play more defensively in the second half if they want to end up achieving 3 winning points. Because, Lens will try to equalize the match in the second half.

[Joca97]

Tonight, Lens are going to play a home game against Angers and it is the first game of the weekend at the same time. Lens are one of the great teams of this season. They are at the 4th place now but the point difference with the 2nd team is only 2 points. If they maintain a really good performance like now, they may even end the season at the 2nd place and join the CL group stage directly. And Angers also are doing very good as they are only 3 points behind Lens. But the recent form of each team hasn't been very good. They both lost many points recently. And Angers won against them here in their last game by 3-1. But I feel like Lens will be the victorious team this time.

The match between these two teams just ended 2-2 and it was full of turnarounds. Angers leaded 0-1 then Lens turned around 2-1 and in the end Angers was able to score and get somehow a draw. Fofana for Lens missed a really good chance in the 93th minute for the win. Really good match between this two teams.

[Ratash]

My predictions for this weekend league 1 matches

Lens Vs Angers 1-2

This match between Lens vs. Angers is more likely to be a draw cause both teams are equal strength. It is sure Lens now does not want to go further back in the points table.
On the other hand, you know, Angers is not a weak team. I think Lens will try their best to win the match at any cost, But somehow if they can't win against them.
My prediction is that the match will be drawn at 1-1.

Looks like you were right the game ended with a 2 2 draw it was a fun game to watch and it was an equal game angers dominated the first half and they managed to take the lead but lens team made a decent comeback in the second half but it was not a good result for them since they can lose the fourth position if marseille team manage to win home against troyes which seem likely.

[Juggy777]

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Saint Etienne Vs PSG 1-2
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It can be assumed that despite the status of the playing clubs PSG will be losing 0-1 during the match, but will score a couple of goals at the very end of the match  If this pattern repeats itself, it will already be a complete mockery of PSG fans. But if Saint-Etienne comes out ahead in this match, then I will bet on PSG 100%.

@KTChampions PSG has conceded in their last 3 fixtures, hence I too feel that they’ll concede again, but will they lose that’s difficult to answer. Furthermore Poch will have to prove how good he is and that he really wants to stay at PSG by comprehensively winning this fixture, and if he doesn’t then I expect PSG fans to turn on him.

[BALIK]

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Saint Etienne Vs PSG 1-2
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It can be assumed that despite the status of the playing clubs PSG will be losing 0-1 during the match, but will score a couple of goals at the very end of the match  If this pattern repeats itself, it will already be a complete mockery of PSG fans. But if Saint-Etienne comes out ahead in this match, then I will bet on PSG 100%.

@KTChampions PSG has conceded in their last 3 fixtures, hence I too feel that they’ll concede again, but will they lose that’s difficult to answer. Furthermore Poch will have to prove how good he is and that he really wants to stay at PSG by comprehensively winning this fixture, and if he doesn’t then I expect PSG fans to turn on him.

If a weaker team like Saint-Etienne can score against PSG then PSG's defense will definitely be questionable. PSG management spends a lot of money to bus star players, If they concede goal against a team like Saint-Etienne, so what is the benefit of having so many star players in the team? Poch's experience will also be questioned. Despite having a good number of star players in the team, we are not seeing the expected good performance from PSG. They should perform better. PSG should win at least 2-0 in this match.

[KTChampions]

It can be assumed that despite the status of the playing clubs PSG will be losing 0-1 during the match, but will score a couple of goals at the very end of the match  If this pattern repeats itself, it will already be a complete mockery of PSG fans. But if Saint-Etienne comes out ahead in this match, then I will bet on PSG 100%.

@KTChampions PSG has conceded in their last 3 fixtures, hence I too feel that they’ll concede again, but will they lose that’s difficult to answer. Furthermore Poch will have to prove how good he is and that he really wants to stay at PSG by comprehensively winning this fixture, and if he doesn’t then I expect PSG fans to turn on him.

I am sure that PSG will win this match, the question is how they will do it. To fully understand the meaning of my previous post, you need to pay attention to how PSG wins their matches - in a very tough fight and usually recouping. PSG have the best stats of any European club, but the manner in which they play leaves much to be desired.

[BALIK]

Lille, the team that won the title last season, lost their form badly. Their players are out of form and their luck is very bad. Today they are playing against Nantes. Nantes are a weaker team than Lille. Lille went ahead with a goal in just 9 minutes of the match. But Ludovic Blas' goal in the 24th minute brought the score back to 1-1. Lille had a chance to score from the penalty spot in the 80th minute but they failed to score.

[Raflesia]

Lille, the team that won the title last season, lost their form badly. Their players are out of form and their luck is very bad. Today they are playing against Nantes. Nantes are a weaker team than Lille. Lille went ahead with a goal in just 9 minutes of the match. But Ludovic Blas' goal in the 24th minute brought the score back to 1-1. Lille had a chance to score from the penalty spot in the 80th minute but they failed to score.

Having only 4 draws and one loss over the last 5 matches I don't know why the players' performance has been so bad this season, but if the player is consistent enough with the squad I'm sure he can compete again in the top flight then Lille for this season for I'm much worse.

In tomorrow's match, St-Etienne vs PSG, it will be easier for PSG to continue to be at the top with so many points, this season no one can catch up with PSG, it will definitely become champions.

[MAAManda]

Lille, the team that won the title last season, lost their form badly. Their players are out of form and their luck is very bad. Today they are playing against Nantes. Nantes are a weaker team than Lille. Lille went ahead with a goal in just 9 minutes of the match. But Ludovic Blas' goal in the 24th minute brought the score back to 1-1. Lille had a chance to score from the penalty spot in the 80th minute but they failed to score.

Nantes have had a really bad form of late, Lille should have easily won against them, but if we look at the stats, both Lille and Nantes have almost the same attack frequency. With the result of this match, Lille is in 12th position in the standings while Nantes is in 11th position.

Nice Vs Metz match is in progress, with Metz's ranking now at the bottom of the table, Nice should easily beat them, currently the score is still 0 - 0, what are your predictions?

[Pulsar77]

Wow! Lille are still maintaining their terrible performance. They played against Nantes home today. And honestly, I was seeing it for certain that Lille would defeat Nantes and get a win finally after a long break like five weeks in the league. Unfortunately, they couldn't make it again and it ended in a 1-1 draw. In fact, they scored an early goal by Burak Yilmaz and this would have helped them mentally a lot. They would have widened the score gap more in a short time and secure a nice win. But Nantes answered in the 24th minute. Nantes got a red card in the 78th minute and Lille had a golden opportunity thanks to a penalty-kick. But David J. missed it and they were devastated. Maybe Burak Yilmaz would have scored it if he wasn't replaced before. I'm sad for them really.

[Ratash]

An unexpected result so far for metz they are leading against nice 1 0 with a goal scored in the 31 minutes it is pretty much an equal game with some domination from nice but if metz team manage to win it will be their first this season but they will still remain at the bottom of the table.

[Alanaz]

An unexpected result so far for metz they are leading against nice 1 0 with a goal scored in the 31 minutes it is pretty much an equal game with some domination from nice but if metz team manage to win it will be their first this season but they will still remain at the bottom of the table.

Nice were eager to lock up the Metz defense because they wanted to equalize but Metz's defense was good enough and Nice's players could only occasionally attack on goal.
they now have to focus on moving the ball more flexibly and don't always use pace as this doesn't matter for at least 70 minutes of the game.

I think it will continue like this until the second half is over.
Metz is now focused on defending and only occasionally counterattacks

[KTChampions]

Wow! Lille are still maintaining their terrible performance. They played against Nantes home today. And honestly, I was seeing it for certain that Lille would defeat Nantes and get a win finally after a long break like five weeks in the league. Unfortunately, they couldn't make it again and it ended in a 1-1 draw. In fact, they scored an early goal by Burak Yilmaz and this would have helped them mentally a lot. They would have widened the score gap more in a short time and secure a nice win. But Nantes answered in the 24th minute. Nantes got a red card in the 78th minute and Lille had a golden opportunity thanks to a penalty-kick. But David J. missed it and they were devastated. Maybe Burak Yilmaz would have scored it if he wasn't replaced before. I'm sad for them really.

Actually, this outcome looks quite logical - these teams are neighbors in the standings, they have almost identical indicators. In addition, in the previous round, Nantes had an excellent game with PSG, so I am not surprised that today they were drawn. But I can see that they liked playing the ending of the match in the minority 

[Rabi3]

Lens are presently 10 points behind PSG, and they have slim chances of topping the League. Although, they are in a nice position on the standings. However, they will face Breath in an away match on Sunday. While, Brest are currently at  the 17th place with 12 points, but I think Lens shouldn't expect an easy winning from this match. Because, Brest are basically improving their performance, they didn't lost in any of their last 4 matches, and probably won 2.

I think lens can even lose the match because I am expecting them to fall behind the third or even fourth spot, they don't have anlot of good players and their bench isn't good at all, I really think sooner or later they're going to fall behind after a couple more matches.

Lens started this season very well, despite not having any star players and the quality of the players that Lens has is mostly just mediocre.
But the fighting spirit of the Lens players is very high, and the cooperation between the players is very solid. So it's not surprising that Lens
managed to beat several top teams in Ligue 1. Like Marseille, Lille and Monaco were defeated by Lens. But there are still 25 games to go
for Lens and I'm not sure Lens can be consistent until the end of the season. I agree it's very likely that Lens will start dropping points
in the next few games. Moreover, if their main player is injured, it is certain that Lens performance will decline, because they do not have
good substitutes. This week Lens will face Brest whose performance is starting to improve, in the last 5 matches Brest has only lost once,
this is quite good considering that Brest is in 17th position. Meanwhile, Lens in the last 5 matches has started to be inconsistent,  in which
Lens has suffered two defeats. Even so, I still predict Lens will win the match, but Lens will definitely not easily beat Brest.

they have fell under the fourth third spot as I expected, and they are fourth and I'd Marseille wins tomorrow they will be in the 5th place, I think Lens don't have what it takes to play in a champions league qualifying spot, a good start is not enough, they need consistency, but they lack that, the first three matches in ligue 1 were bad for people who bet on the favorites, Lens and and Lille drew and nice lost.

[BALIK]

Nice Vs Metz match is in progress, with Metz's ranking now at the bottom of the table, Nice should easily beat them, currently the score is still 0 - 0, what are your predictions?

Metz wins against OGC Nice. This is incredible. I lost my money. Nice are playing very well this season and they are still second in the points table after losing yesterday's match. Metz, on the other hand, are the last team in the points table. Such a defeat of Nice is shameful. Interestingly, after Metz scored a goal, 11 of their players acted as defenders. They made only 4 shots in 90 minutes.

[LittleBitFunny]

The match between PSG and Saint-Etienne is going to be held shortly after. PSG is the strongest team in Ligue 1. On the other hand, Etienne is ranked 19th in the points table. An easy match for PSG. I hope both Messi and Neymar can score in this match. I wnat to see at least 3 goal for PSG.

[snipie]

My predictions for this weekend league 1 matches

Lens Vs Angers 1-2
Lille Vs Nantes 2-1
Nice Vs Metz 2-0

Lens got 1 point after the match finished 2-2 vs Angers.
Lille 1-1 Nantes and Nice 0-1 Metz.
So far Nice result wasn't good at all, Lens dropped 2 points making the difference with PSG quite big especially if they will win against St-Etienne which is situated in the relegation zone currently.

[Furious 7]

The match between PSG and Saint-Etienne is going to be held shortly after. PSG is the strongest team in Ligue 1. On the other hand, Etienne is ranked 19th in the points table. An easy match for PSG. I hope both Messi and Neymar can score in this match. I wnat to see at least 3 goal for PSG.

For this match the line up appeared I saw Sergio Ramos in this game but he looked healthy so this was his first match in the French league.

4 The mainstay striker has been played by Mauricio Pochettino, namely Neymar, Mbappe, Di Maria and Messi who would not be in the middle to see the striker and of course I expect more goals to see the celebration he is printing.
It will be easy for PSG to win this match.

[Woodie]

The French league champions Paris Saint-Germain face Saint-Etienne  who currently seat second last of the table and a close look at their form they have been finding form of late with two consecutive wins under their name, and a win today should take them from 19th to 15th which is something they should be desiring today.

Update: PSG is down, with less than 20 minutes to go before the end of the first half  Saint-Etienne  lead 1-0 at home, what a start of game.