French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[W Jr.]

In my opinion, the French League is one of the weakest leagues among the European leagues. The quality of football in this league is not very high, the players and teams are below the Champions League level.
For a few seasons PSG performed well, among the other teams there was no team that had a chance of winning the title, perhaps they have not been very successful in the last 20 years. The 3rd and 4th teams in the Champions League will be easy opponents for other teams

The French League is absolutely nothing compared to other standard league with fierce competitive race amongst themselves. Ligue One have only entertaining features but when it comes to the real deal, they snapped out of it because they're incompetent to face major clubs. For instance, in the UEFA Champions League, we all know what always happen to Paris Saint-Germain failed attempts in numerous times.  They've tried and tried until they get no hope left. Perhaps it doesn't mean they will give up but continue to make attempts because winning is sure.

In fact, I don't see Ligue One as one of Europe's top five leagues if only one team completely dominates each season. Ligue One is just being overly exaggerated because there are starting to change with the arrival of new stars who were at PSG previously and I'm sure that after this this league will no longer be so interesting in the future.

Apart from that, PSG is indeed an icon for this league, but overall they are not much different from other teams from the Portuguese or Turkish leagues who always suffer the same fate of being eliminated in the Champions League and not achieving anything they want. So Ligue One is nothing more than a decoration that is too forced.

I have an opinion that Portuguese league teams are better than other teams in France except PSG. Paris SG is very good, the others are average teams. That's why there is very little competition and the second place teams change from time to time. Competition is at a high level in the Portuguese league. That's why I must add that it is even more exciting than the French league. Portuguese league teams also have success in the European league. It seems like there is less success in France than the teams other than PSG.

[Leviathan.007]

Money isn't the issue here to be fair, they have teams worth of hundreds of millions of euros, which is more than a lot of teams who wins the Europa or conference, so they could have a team win.

PSG is also good enough to win the UCL, a huge club with an owner that has deep pockets, so they built many good teams over the years, and spent a lot of money on the club as well. What they are lacking is experience in tournament schedule, they are just not experienced in it which shows itself during the European competitions. Too many teams go up and down, and not a lot of them joins the same competition every year, aside from PSG that goes to UCL, and I think they need to learn to be better at tournaments, which will help them on the long term.

If they  want to win the Champions League title, they  definitely need an experienced coach. Sustaining consistent good performances in both Ligue 1 and Champions League is no easy task. Good performance should be continued in busy schedule. At the same time, the fitness of the players should also be good.

The last few years have seen PSG's owner spend a lot of money and build a strong squad. Despite PSG's strong squad, the team could not do well in the Champions League. Because they did not have an experienced coach. But now PSG has got an experienced coach like Luis Enrique. If Luis Enrique is able to build a squad to his liking, I believe PSG can perform even better on the Champions League platform.

PSG already got what they needed to have. In the last season, they had superstar players but they didn't have a coach like Enrique in this team to help players have better teamwork and they have it. Also, Enrique is experienced enough to make PSgeven win the Champions League title.
But other than this, they have to give Enrique some more time and provide him the players he needs, Mbappe leaving PSG was harmful for them.