French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[SOKO-DEKE]

Monaco vs Brest

Monaco possible starting lineup:
Majecki; Singo, Kehrer, Salisu, Caio Henrique; Magassa, Camara; Akliouche, Ilenikhena, Ben Seghir; Embolo

Brest possible starting lineup:
Bizot; Zogbe, Chardonnet, Ndiaye, Amavi; Magnetti, Lees-Melou, Martin; Faivre, Ajorque, Mama Balde

Monaco is to begin the league against Brest at Stade Louis II; both teams are starting the league after the international break. Monaco has shown an excellent performance since the start of the season. Currently, they occupy second place with 23 points. Monaco has had 6 games at Stade Louis II, in which they recorded 3 wins, two draws and one loss, while Brests are so very poor when playing away games; they have poor performance; out of five away matches played, they only managed to win a game. With my assessment, I will have strong feelings that Monaco has a chance of winning due to poor Brest performance.

The match have started and they are currently in halftime and currently Monaco is leading with two goals, and I am expecting more goals in second half from Monaco again because Brest is not really performing poorly,and Monaco is the team that in control of the pitch, Monaco was the favorite team to win the game and that was what many people was expecting, but I don't know Monaco may found the same so easy like this, Brest have not make any good chances of scoring, so i am not not expecting any miracle to happen in the second half,so i have some confidence that Monaco will win three points. Infact even from their head to head statistics Monaco have the higher winning recently.

[Ondekinecakabilirim]

After the UEFA Nations League matches, the league matches start again. Paris Saint Germain will play Toulouse at home tonight. Paris Saint Germain have also had a comfortable season this season. They don't have stars on the level of Messi, Neymar and Mbappé. But they still manage to dominate the French Ligue 1. They have 9 wins and 2 draws in 11 matches this season. There is no team in the league that can stop them this season. The odds on Paris Saint Germain to win are a bit low. But I think it's a guaranteed result.

[hahay]

For the match between Monaco vs Brest and also PSG vs Toulouse I believe, this will be a definite victory for Monaco and PSG. Because after all, matches after a break like this certainly provide very good morale for them, moreover they will also play at home. Thus, I personally do not hesitate to include Monaco and PSG in the parlay bet, because I am personally  very confident at this moment they will play optimally to get three points at home.

Also, currently Monaco is still leading the match with a score of 2-1, two goals for Monaco occurred in the first half but even so, Brest is still quite good because it managed to make a return goal in the  second half. Currently the match is in the 65nd minute and I think, the score and position like this is still not safe enough, and Monaco should still be able to make another goal because Brest also still has a chance to end  the match with a draw.

[fullhdpixel]

Everything changed when Monaco lost 8 points from the last 5 matches they played. Yes, they received 2 defeats and 1 draw so that after they were in front of Paris Saint Germain, now they have to be behind Paris Saint Germain with a fairly large gap. In Ligue 1, 6 points is a gap that will be very difficult to catch up with, especially if the one being chased is Paris Saint Germain. Now I agree that at least Monaco can maintain the existing gap by winning the match. besides that, of course they will hope that Paris Saint Germain will have bad luck this week by losing points, either a draw or a defeat.

Monaco, who are doing very well in the Champions League, unfortunately cannot show the same performance in the French league. When this is the case, it is very normal for them to fall behind Paris Saint-Germain. I thought they had a very good squad this year. They were also going well on the way to the championship with this squad, but they have started to stumble recently. They will not be able to replace the points they have lost in a row. Paris Saint-Germain, on the other hand, continues without mistakes and if they continue like this until the end of the league, they will be champions this year as they do every year.

To be fair they must be putting different approach to each of them. I am not saying this is going to be all that clear to anyone, not really looking like Monaco cares about league as much as they care about UCL, but also we should be considering how this is also very good for them since they will go to UCL next season too, that has to be the most important part.

I am guessing we are going to see Monaco end up with top four so it shouldn't really be a bad situation for them. Think about them reaching to last sixteen as well so we shouldn't really be considering them doing bad in either of them so we need to consider this to be a big deal. At the end of the day we are not going to speak on either of them being bad at all.

[ShowOff]

For the match between Monaco vs Brest and also PSG vs Toulouse I believe, this will be a definite victory for Monaco and PSG. Because after all, matches after a break like this certainly provide very good morale for them, moreover they will also play at home. Thus, I personally do not hesitate to include Monaco and PSG in the parlay bet, because I am personally  very confident at this moment they will play optimally to get three points at home.

Also, currently Monaco is still leading the match with a score of 2-1, two goals for Monaco occurred in the first half but even so, Brest is still quite good because it managed to make a return goal in the  second half. Currently the match is in the 65nd minute and I think, the score and position like this is still not safe enough, and Monaco should still be able to make another goal because Brest also still has a chance to end  the match with a draw.

As expected, AS Monaco managed to win dramatically, they beat Brest with a score of 3-2. The additional three points further confirmed their position in second place in the standings, and closely followed PSG who currently occupy the top of the points table. I think the score of 2-1 will last until the end of the match, two more goals were scored in the extra time. The match between PSG and Toulouse seems not much different, Luis Enrique team is also likely to be able to secure three points.

PSG seems to be targeting to win quickly, so Luis Enrique can rotate players and save his key players for important matches in the Champions League. Toulouse should be easily defeated, but it is possible, they could create a surprise by beating PSG. The match has been going on for 15 minutes, let's see how the match ends.

[Pandu Geddon]

PSG seems to be targeting to win quickly, so Luis Enrique can rotate players and save his key players for important matches in the Champions League. Toulouse should be easily defeated, but it is possible, they could create a surprise by beating PSG. The match has been going on for 15 minutes, let's see how the match ends.

35' the score is still 0-0. Toulouse is not in good condition, PSG has possession of the ball. Toulouse only got a few chances and if they continue to be under pressure PSG could have scored.
PSG may not be able to score a quick goal, they have had several chances but still haven't scored a goal. What the PSG players showed was quite positive. They were aggressive in making attacks. I just don't expect Toulouse to be able to hold PSG to a draw in this match.

[Egii Nna]

PSG seems to be targeting to win quickly, so Luis Enrique can rotate players and save his key players for important matches in the Champions League. Toulouse should be easily defeated, but it is possible, they could create a surprise by beating PSG. The match has been going on for 15 minutes, let's see how the match ends.

35' the score is still 0-0. Toulouse is not in good condition, PSG has possession of the ball. Toulouse only got a few chances and if they continue to be under pressure PSG could have scored.
PSG may not be able to score a quick goal, they have had several chances but still haven't scored a goal. What the PSG players showed was quite positive. They were aggressive in making attacks. I just don't expect Toulouse to be able to hold PSG to a draw in this match.

PSG has successfully scored 2 goals in the game. Because if the game ended in a draw, it would not have been a good record for PSG, because I had that hope in PSG that they would not have any challenge that would stop them from going with the title this season. Although even from the start of the game PSG has been getting good attacks, which they ended up getting their first goal at 35 min of the game and got their second goal at 84 min after a lot of struggles. But still there are the winners. 

[GiftedMAN]

PSG seems to be targeting to win quickly, so Luis Enrique can rotate players and save his key players for important matches in the Champions League. Toulouse should be easily defeated, but it is possible, they could create a surprise by beating PSG. The match has been going on for 15 minutes, let's see how the match ends.

35' the score is still 0-0. Toulouse is not in good condition, PSG has possession of the ball. Toulouse only got a few chances and if they continue to be under pressure PSG could have scored.
PSG may not be able to score a quick goal, they have had several chances but still haven't scored a goal. What the PSG players showed was quite positive. They were aggressive in making attacks. I just don't expect Toulouse to be able to hold PSG to a draw in this match.

The match is 90+4 right now and PSG has done is needed in the game by hitting the back of the net 3 times, PSG wasted a lot of scoring opportunities and the away team managed to defend very still PSG managed to break the defense and score goals before the end of first half. The game was all about PSG because Toulouse is not a club that is strong enough to calm PSG down I believe PSG won very well and they didn't conceed goals so they have recorded same score line with Bayern Munich was unable to score goals initially but finally scored goals before the end of the game.

[Velvet78]

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It was so close. I said Monaco were having a good season in terms of defending. But this game didn't reflect that at all... They got ahead by 2 goals 2 times but still won by 3-2. Brest's second goal came literally in the last moments. Other than that PSG didn't surprise me by a 3-0 win. The last 2 goals came quite late though but it doesn't matter at the end.

Like I said it was a fun bet but it makes one sad after losing by only one goal. 

[Akbarkoe]

For the match between Monaco vs Brest and also PSG vs Toulouse I believe, this will be a definite victory for Monaco and PSG. Because after all, matches after a break like this certainly provide very good morale for them, moreover they will also play at home. Thus, I personally do not hesitate to include Monaco and PSG in the parlay bet, because I am personally  very confident at this moment they will play optimally to get three points at home.

Also, currently Monaco is still leading the match with a score of 2-1, two goals for Monaco occurred in the first half but even so, Brest is still quite good because it managed to make a return goal in the  second half. Currently the match is in the 65nd minute and I think, the score and position like this is still not safe enough, and Monaco should still be able to make another goal because Brest also still has a chance to end  the match with a draw.

Your prediction is correct, AS Monaco and PSG will be the winners in this match. AS Monaco who faced Brest won with a score of 3-2, and did not expect this match to be tight, attacking each other continuously by both teams. and if only in this match did not increase its advantage through M. Akliouche's second goal, maybe the match would end in a draw. Because unexpectedly in the 90+6 minute Brest managed to score another goal against AS Monaco.

Meanwhile, regarding the match between PSG and Toulouse. as previously predicted, PSG will dominate the game more, they really dominate the match with possession of the ball reaching 70% more, and three goals nested in Toulouse's goal, PSG won by a landslide in this match. and under PSG's dominance, Toulouce could not move, had time to attack and shoot several times, but PSG's defense was strong enough so that Toulouse could not score a single goal in this match

[Weawant]

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It was so close. I said Monaco were having a good season in terms of defending. But this game didn't reflect that at all... They got ahead by 2 goals 2 times but still won by 3-2. Brest's second goal came literally in the last moments. Other than that PSG didn't surprise me by a 3-0 win. The last 2 goals came quite late though but it doesn't matter at the end.

Like I said it was a fun bet but it makes one sad after losing by only one goal.  

Rhia prediction is one I wouldn't risk not when PSG is playing from home after the international break, at this point, winning is definitely att he to of their priority a d just like I did expected, they were able to win by three goals which was a very impressive one for them and the position on the table. In the game, PSG literally dominated and were able to win  having a flawless victory, Monaco was at the very of a draw, although they were  one team I didn't expect much from but I was certain about them scoring more than a goal so if I was to make a pick, I will give home over 1.5.

[Leviathan.007]

On paper, AS Monaco and PSG are likely to be able to secure full points. Brest has experienced a significant decline in performance this season, AS Monaco acting as the host is clearly very advantaged. While the PSG versus Toulouse match is actually quite easy to predict, even though Luis Enrique rotates a number of his key players, they will still be favored to secure full points. Brest and Toulouse need a lot of luck to cause an upset.

Logically and quickly predicting, we will say Monaco and PSG win. I agree with this prediction and it will come true for PSG.
However, in the Monaco match against Brest, I am not sure if this will end with a perfect result.
Now let's look back that Brest has played against PSG and Brest as an away team can put up a fight. On the one hand, Monaco was once defeated by Angers whose condition is much worse than Brest.
So I will remain careful and analyze more deeply the Monaco match which I think can give a painful surprise.

There is indeed potential for Brest to make a surprise when visiting Monaco's headquarters, but I think it is very small, in the last 5 meetings Brest has always lost to Monaco so that can also be used as a reference for the match later.
Monaco is currently in its best form, they are in 2nd place in the standings so I think there is no reason not to bet on Monaco's victory in the match against Brest later.
Odds @ 1.53 will be quite worth it with the possibility of Monaco winning the match is very big, I will bet big on this match.

I think Monaco's performance was much better than we could have imagined so far during this season. They were having the best performance we could see from this team. Unlike PSG, they didn't spend a huge amount of money in Monaco but still, they had a good performance they could even race with PSG for the title of the French League.
However and regardless of the performance of Monaco they had so far I think they won't have the enoguh potential to race with a team like PSG and in the end they will lose it to PSG even if there is a chance for Marseille to take their place.

[Pokapoka124]

Mbappe was an important player for League 1, but we see that he can also fill the gap. In the French League, other teams than Paris Saint-Germain should strive more for the championship because Paris Saint-Germain has very talented and experienced people both as a squad and as a coach. If you are going to beat such a squad, you also need to have a squad consisting of very good players. For now, Monaco and Marseille are still in the race, but I think Marseille will be out of the race in the future.

PSG have started to get used to the absence of Mbappe in the team who moved to Real Madrid even though overall his loss has made the front line a little affected. In Ligue 1 PSG is still the strongest team that is very difficult to beat by any team and we can see how PSG's dominance is still quite strong until now. Monaco tries to do their best to compete but to what extent they are able to survive and remain consistent until the end of the season.

If they want to compete with PSG, then Monaco or other clubs must have the same quality of players as PSG because otherwise it will be difficult for any team to compete for the title because PSG will definitely be the favorite.

Surely, by now PSG should have adjusted to the fact that Kylian Mbappe is no longer part of their squad. PSG has been the dominant force in Ligue 1 for many years, with other team often struggling to keep up with them. If any club aspires to match PSG standards in the league, they need to invest more money in their team. This includes signing top and talented players with proven track success in the game, hiring experienced and tactically sound coaches. That is the only way the league can become competitive.

[Slow death]

For the match between Monaco vs Brest and also PSG vs Toulouse I believe, this will be a definite victory for Monaco and PSG. Because after all, matches after a break like this certainly provide very good morale for them, moreover they will also play at home. Thus, I personally do not hesitate to include Monaco and PSG in the parlay bet, because I am personally  very confident at this moment they will play optimally to get three points at home.

Also, currently Monaco is still leading the match with a score of 2-1, two goals for Monaco occurred in the first half but even so, Brest is still quite good because it managed to make a return goal in the  second half. Currently the match is in the 65nd minute and I think, the score and position like this is still not safe enough, and Monaco should still be able to make another goal because Brest also still has a chance to end  the match with a draw.

The game ended with PSG and Monaco winning. If you managed to place a multi bet before the game, then you managed to make a good profit because the odds were good. However, if you placed a live bet, you may not have been able to get decent odds. In any case, congratulations if you placed a bet on these two teams. Speaking as a PSG fan, I was rooting for Monaco to lose this game because it could open up space for PSG to lead the table with 9 points. However, with Monaco winning, things don't look very comfortable for PSG because PSG's lead in points is only 6 points. Regardless, Monaco's next game will be a very difficult game and I believe they will drop points, while PSG's next game will be against a very weak opponent.

[Hirose UK]

Result was the same as I expected, Monaco managed to beat Brest with score of 3 - 2 and in this match both team actually looked very careful and they preferred to increase the defensive game but Monaco was able to create some good chances that were really unexpected.
I got win from the betting slip for two match today, PSG win and of course in the future we can see both team chasing each other to compete for the top position until the competition is really over and determines who wins the title.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Lyon has been given until the end of the season by the Direction Nationale du Controle de Gestion (DNCG) to sort out their financial mess including the club debts, failing which they are threatened with relegation to Ligue 2. It seems that John Textor as the majority shareholder, must sell the club to a Middle Eastern businessman, as a step to save Lyon from bankruptcy and relegation. It is not as easy as it sounds, but if Lyon is acquired by a Middle Eastern businessman, they can recover quickly and will be like PSG.

The truth is I didn't know that Lyon was in such a bad state as to think about all those psychiatric problems, and since what you say is very true , a sheikh could make the difference , well it wouldn't be bad, I would like this team to survive and they could make the difference , maybe with a higher budget they could get players who want to Stay in Europe and get a very good pay, that's not bad at all, what I can say is that this team should not be relegated to 2nd Division for these problems, it's a bit unfair, but here the problem with money comes up again, money is honestly sorely needed even in the big stages.

[Mustang Shelby]

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It was so close. I said Monaco were having a good season in terms of defending. But this game didn't reflect that at all... They got ahead by 2 goals 2 times but still won by 3-2. Brest's second goal came literally in the last moments. Other than that PSG didn't surprise me by a 3-0 win. The last 2 goals came quite late though but it doesn't matter at the end.

Like I said it was a fun bet but it makes one sad after losing by only one goal. 

Everyone was probably expecting a Paris Saint-Germain victory. However, no one knew how the match between Monaco and Brest would end. Both teams continue to perform at their best in the Champions League. That's why their match in the league was a remarkable match. The match ended with five goals in an enjoyable way. Monaco left the match victorious and prevented a possible loss of points. They are still following Paris Saint-Germain at the moment.

[ancafe]

I think PSG's condition and performance doesn't seem to warrant it being number one. If you look at their record, their upcoming matches will be difficult which will make their record worse.I would put Monaco and PSG on equal footing as they both have similar records. Because of which I will not give the right to call PSG a strong team.But in the upcoming matches of both the teams, one of the two teams can go up, in which I think PSG will perform better and improve the position.

PSG is not a team capable enough to beat every team.  If you look at their record, Alt Madrid  has beaten PSG by 1 goal. Also, there are enough matches where PSG are not good so I wouldn't call them the best team.If they play the best they will be favourites, not so good record compared to Monaco who are not so special.

I still consider PSG as a strong candidate in Ligue 1 and that can be seen so far in the matches that have taken place and PSG's strength is much better compared to some of the other challengers. The 3-0 win over Toulouse made PSG even further in the first place of the standings so they can focus more on facing the Champions League for the upcoming matches. Facing Bayern Munich in the Champions League is not easy even though in the previous match they were defeated by Barcelona with a fairly embarrassing score.

Both teams are in good form in their respective leagues but it will be very difficult to predict the match in the Champions League. I am more confident about PSG in this match even though Bayern Munich has the advantage of playing at home.

[Smack That Ace]

For the match between Monaco vs Brest and also PSG vs Toulouse I believe, this will be a definite victory for Monaco and PSG. Because after all, matches after a break like this certainly provide very good morale for them, moreover they will also play at home. Thus, I personally do not hesitate to include Monaco and PSG in the parlay bet, because I am personally  very confident at this moment they will play optimally to get three points at home.
Also, currently Monaco is still leading the match with a score of 2-1, two goals for Monaco occurred in the first half but even so, Brest is still quite good because it managed to make a return goal in the  second half. Currently the match is in the 65nd minute and I think, the score and position like this is still not safe enough, and Monaco should still be able to make another goal because Brest also still has a chance to end  the match with a draw.

The game ended with PSG and Monaco winning. If you managed to place a multi bet before the game, then you managed to make a good profit because the odds were good. However, if you placed a live bet, you may not have been able to get decent odds. In any case, congratulations if you placed a bet on these two teams. Speaking as a PSG fan, I was rooting for Monaco to lose this game because it could open up space for PSG to lead the table with 9 points. However, with Monaco winning, things don't look very comfortable for PSG because PSG's lead in points is only 6 points. Regardless, Monaco's next game will be a very difficult game and I believe they will drop points, while PSG's next game will be against a very weak opponent.

There is no doubt that PSG played very well against Toulouse. I have seen Toulouse perform well in the last few matches. Toulouse has won the last three matches. So I thought that it will not be easy for PSG to win the match. But I was wrong. PSG won this match very easily.

PSG dominated from the beginning of the match. Toulouse players tried a lot to score goals. However, PSG's defenders were also able to perform well in this match. That is why despite some strong attacks by Toulouse players, they could not score any goals. PSG won this match 3-0.

Although Monaco won their match, PSG is not under any pressure. PSG is ahead of Monaco by a huge margin of 6 points. I think Monaco will not be able to reduce this 6-point gap.

[beerlover]

Every season we can see a other team that has been able to surprise us in ligue 1, but their consistency was only at the beginning of the season when PSG still did not find their best form, but slowly they began to be eliminated from the championship with PSG again taking over the top of the standings, what we has seen this season shows how a big challenge must be faced by a ligue 1 other team to end PSG dominance in the league, monaco was able to surprise us with their outstanding performance at the beginning of the season, but when the season started they started to be inconsistent and left them far behind PSG at the moment, PSG have a very strong and consistent squad, whileMonaco I think need to improve their performance significantly and maintain consistency in every game to be able to continue to provide competition for PSG later.

This is true, PSG is always consistent at the top but we are looking at this from the wrong way because being at the top is not the most important thing for the teams, they know that financially they can't be considering how to beat PSG, since that would not be possible, they are not financially similar. But at the same time, I believe we are going to see other teams just try to be consistent instead of win anything.

Imagine being a second place for five years in a row, you never win the league, PSG always wins, even maybe some other team wins, but you are second for five years in a row, that would be more than enough for any team to have a bright future after that. So it is not the win that we are going to see, it's the fact that consistency makes the teams better and we can definitely make this work one way or another. Things aren't always all about winning the league, shouldn't really considered to win but having a good consistency will make a big improvement at all.