French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[junder]

There is no game to be played until the new year. PSG are about to enter 2025 with a really big lead by 10 points. 

They beat Monaco by 4-2 away the last time you know. That was a great effort to show their strength. This was also signaling one thing that they would win the Ligue 1 this season again as usual.

I wish Marseille won on the same week at least. But they lost 2 points.    There is literally nobody who can keep up with PSG recently. But I understand of course because of the big strength gap between PSG and the rest of the teams.

PSG ended the year impressively, now they are 10 points ahead of their rivals below them, the gap will not be able to be caught up in a short time maybe Marseille can catch up a little if in January they can beat Le Havre, assuming they get 3 points the gap will be 7 points but as I said it is still too far, maybe it's time to say PSG will be the champions of league 1 this season.

[Hyphen(-)]

There is no game to be played until the new year. PSG are about to enter 2025 with a really big lead by 10 points. 

They beat Monaco by 4-2 away the last time you know. That was a great effort to show their strength. This was also signaling one thing that they would win the Ligue 1 this season again as usual.

I wish Marseille won on the same week at least. But they lost 2 points.    There is literally nobody who can keep up with PSG recently. But I understand of course because of the big strength gap between PSG and the rest of the teams.

PSG keeps dominating the League with no strong opposition, they are always going Scot free in the League1 because they don’t have competitors that is why they are try to go for Christmas brake with 10 points above any other team in the league which is never done somewhere around top leagues in Europe.

In the likes of Laliga, Bundesliga, Seria A, Premier League, and others, none of them have such points gap between the team at the top and the second team behind them; and with this points difference, PSG is still not doing very well in the Champions League which means that they are not good enough to compete among other teams outside the League1, but since the likes of Monaco, Marseille, Lyon, and Lille are not doing really well, I was expecting Monaco to be well competitive due to how well they start the season, but they lack consistency which is why they never get close to PSG despite their inconsistency either.

Other teams in the League 1 need to be serious so as to give PSG a tough competition against other season because it’s sad for one team to dominate league for more than 10 years.

[Weawant]

Paris Saint Germain is the best team, we have seen this many times. There is no better team in the French league. Lille won the championship in the past years, but PSG never gave this title to another team after that. This team is perfect for young players. This team will be a good place for them to complete their development in the best way. I am sure they will win League 1 this year too.

Well this is a very true fact going by recent records at least for the longest of time, it's been true how PSG has continued to be even stronger and better in the French league, nit allowing anyone strip them of their dominance but it still doesn't mean some day they may like it as it happened the time lille dis, in the whole of the French league, it's actually the best recommendation to helping the career of Young Stars looking to shine and make the difference in their career but it's not the best place for career advancement as they don't have what it takes to get young lads the kind of advancement they can peak in their career.

[BITCOIN4X]

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Well this is a very true fact going by recent records at least for the longest of time, it's been true how PSG has continued to be even stronger and better in the French league, nit allowing anyone strip them of their dominance but it still doesn't mean some day they may like it as it happened the time lille dis, in the whole of the French league, it's actually the best recommendation to helping the career of Young Stars looking to shine and make the difference in their career but it's not the best place for career advancement as they don't have what it takes to get young lads the kind of advancement they can peak in their career.

The use of young players really depends on the coach and the performance of the players themselves. I'm not sure Luis Enrique is very interested in playing a lot of young players and making them important players, but he seems to have more confidence in experienced players who have proven their performance. Luis Enrique can certainly rotate some of his main players with young players, but he still has to make adjustments so that the team's performance is not disrupted.

Important matches are not a place to test the courage of young players, but young players must be able to maximize the opportunities they get even if they only play as substitutes. Ligue 1 is dominated by PSG, but on average their players are experienced players or even stars brought in from other teams.

[Majestic-milf]

We have seen PSG win in the last four matches against Lens. PSG's past record against Lens is very good. Although it is Lens' home match, I cannot consider Lens as a favorite. However, in the last three matches we have seen good performance from Lens players. Lens won against Reims and Montpellier and drew with Auxxere.

I don't think it will be very difficult for PSG to win today's match. However, Lens' defense is quite strong. If PSG's attack does not play well, PSG team will not be able to secure 3 points from this match. I think Lens players will want to share points in this match. So PSG players will have to play very carefully from the beginning of the match and attack a lot.

Lens are like every other small teams that meet bigger clubs and  have the desire to rise to the top but might not be able to so they settle for frustrating the bigger teams if not on a normal day, I think PSG would have them for dinner but since this is their coupe de France competition, virtually every teams participating would try to give it their best shot and Lens really gave it their all only they couldn't move to the next round because they were defeated on penalties by PSG.

[Slow death]

Lens are like every other small teams that meet bigger clubs and  have the desire to rise to the top but might not be able to so they settle for frustrating the bigger teams if not on a normal day, I think PSG would have them for dinner but since this is their coupe de France competition, virtually every teams participating would try to give it their best shot and Lens really gave it their all only they couldn't move to the next round because they were defeated on penalties by PSG.

Speaking about the results of the French Cup games, most Ligue 1 teams had difficulties to win, for example: PSG, Lille, Brestois, Le Havre, Toulouse, Nice, Montpellier, Lyon, Auxerre, Anger. It seems that all Ligue 1 teams are not taking this competition very seriously at this stage, perhaps if it were a final game they would take it very seriously. But the fact that they had so many difficulties shows that most Ligue 1 teams do not have a good quality B team.

[Sexylizzy2813]

Lens are like every other small teams that meet bigger clubs and  have the desire to rise to the top but might not be able to so they settle for frustrating the bigger teams if not on a normal day, I think PSG would have them for dinner but since this is their coupe de France competition, virtually every teams participating would try to give it their best shot and Lens really gave it their all only they couldn't move to the next round because they were defeated on penalties by PSG.

I agree with you but if you look at it on the other side, the smaller teams are trying to make a statement and they can't do that if is not PSG they're playing against and the PSG in question have a way of letting the smaller teams to humiliate them before you see them start struggling to gain dominance. This game between Len and PSG was suppose to end at FT without going to Penalty shootout but PSG as we know them don't know when to act as the bigger team in these domestic competition, how I wish Lens was a bit stronger than what we saw to eliminate PSG from the competition.

[shogun47]

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Well this is a very true fact going by recent records at least for the longest of time, it's been true how PSG has continued to be even stronger and better in the French league, nit allowing anyone strip them of their dominance but it still doesn't mean some day they may like it as it happened the time lille dis, in the whole of the French league, it's actually the best recommendation to helping the career of Young Stars looking to shine and make the difference in their career but it's not the best place for career advancement as they don't have what it takes to get young lads the kind of advancement they can peak in their career.

The use of young players really depends on the coach and the performance of the players themselves. I'm not sure Luis Enrique is very interested in playing a lot of young players and making them important players, but he seems to have more confidence in experienced players who have proven their performance. Luis Enrique can certainly rotate some of his main players with young players, but he still has to make adjustments so that the team's performance is not disrupted.

Important matches are not a place to test the courage of young players, but young players must be able to maximize the opportunities they get even if they only play as substitutes. Ligue 1 is dominated by PSG, but on average their players are experienced players or even stars brought in from other teams.

I think Enrique tends to give younger players a chance every now and then, but of course it ultimately depends on the players themselves. If they have the quality to use any opportunity given to them, then I think chances are not too bad if Enrique is the one in charge. But if he doesn't see the potential, then he can be a tough guy to deal with.

But I think it is also possible that the further PSG gets away in the table, the more likely it is that Enrique gives younger players their chances.

It is now 10 points, but Marseille has to play one more game. But he may consider rotating more now since they have the most important game of the season against Manchester City and he would definitely want all the best and most experienced players for that game, so maybe there is less to gain by not rotating during league games.

[TelolettOm]

I think Enrique tends to give younger players a chance every now and then, but of course it ultimately depends on the players themselves. If they have the quality to use any opportunity given to them, then I think chances are not too bad if Enrique is the one in charge. But if he doesn't see the potential, then he can be a tough guy to deal with.

Yes, it seems like that, but it all also has to be considered and I'm sure Enruqie knows more about this. But in this match, indeed, unfortunately their performance was not that good, and even almost did not win, it was too difficult for them to achieve victory, and even only drew 1 - 1. even though they had:
- 68% ball possession
- 18 Shots
- 6 Shots on target
But only 1 goal. and fortunately, they were able to win with a very tight number of goals in penalty shootouts.

[LUCKMCFLY]

By the way, Enrique rotated players again, this time Dembele became the center forward on paper in the formation that Enrique applied. Sometimes I wonder, what does Luis Enrique want even though he has Ramos who has recovered and also Kolo Muani. It seems that he is not satisfied with the players available, I conclude that is why Enrique always changes some of his players almost every match. I wonder in this transfer window whether Erique will target the center forward he wants, but it seems he will target several names for his team's needs. By the way, PSG has widened the points gap from the team below them again and it seems it will be quite difficult for Monaco and Marseille to overtake them.

What Luis Enrique did by making all these decisions is out of pure desperation, they are not getting results, the material they have at PSG is not enough to give good results, for me what he has done is good, but you can see the desperation and that is something that we always see, at least I see it, and of course now things can be changed, but what has him most frustrated is the UCL, I am sure that Ligue 1 does not affect him much, because he knows that they are leaders and that they lead the baton in that, so this is something that he is doing well, what he is settling on is in the UCL results.

[Hirose UK]

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Yes, it seems like that, but it all also has to be considered and I'm sure Enruqie knows more about this. But in this match, indeed, unfortunately their performance was not that good, and even almost did not win, it was too difficult for them to achieve victory, and even only drew 1 - 1. even though they had:
- 68% ball possession
- 18 Shots
- 6 Shots on target
But only 1 goal. and fortunately, they were able to win with a very tight number of goals in penalty shootouts.

Enrique has always been coach who is indeed difficult to predict, even every decision taken for the PSG squad often makes many people wonder.
As for today match, PSG should have won absolutely without penalty shootout, but we all saw how PSG game was quite good but failed to take advantage of several good opportunities they had created, in the penalty shootout it provided dramatic condition because it could be very possible for Lens to win it.
Quite unlucky, I had to lose the bet because I predicted PSG would be able to create at least 2 goal or more today.

[tusandii]

Paris Saint Germain is the best team, we have seen this many times. There is no better team in the French league. Lille won the championship in the past years, but PSG never gave this title to another team after that. This team is perfect for young players. This team will be a good place for them to complete their development in the best way. I am sure they will win League 1 this year too.

Indeed, the fact cannot be denied that financial balance and having quality players have indeed made PSG the best club in League 1 and it is difficult for any club to surpass them, although a few years ago Lille was able to break PSG's dominance but that only happened once and after that PSG won the title again in the following seasons and this season I think no one can stop PSG even if it is Marseille, Monaco or Lille because PSG has widened the gap of 10 points from them.

[bitgolden]

Does anyone know why they let just Monaco and PSG to have that extra game before everyone else got their game? I mean I can see that everyone else is at 15 games, and only they had their games, so they are at 16 for some reason. In any case, we could say that this put PSG up enough that they could just relax after a while.

I would say they could try to find some young players that can start and be good, usually that's the most important part, all these superstars came out from somewhere before, and that would only happen if you give them time when they are young. Giving an 18 year old Mbappe time, or 17 year old Yamal time is easy, they are super talented, but finding the role players around them is the hard part, so PSG should try to find more under 20 year old players to play since they guaranteed the league basically, maybe not mathematically, but it's obvious.

[Republikcoin.com]

Indeed, the fact cannot be denied that financial balance and having quality players have indeed made PSG the best club in League 1 and it is difficult for any club to surpass them, although a few years ago Lille was able to break PSG's dominance but that only happened once and after that PSG won the title again in the following seasons and this season I think no one can stop PSG even if it is Marseille, Monaco or Lille because PSG has widened the gap of 10 points from them.

In Ligue 1, only PSG is still consistent enough in making its squad better every season so that when PSG was left behind by other teams, PSG continued to make changes by relying on the things they had at that time. So the results we can see clearly that PSG's ability to make its squad better is very real and it cannot be matched by its other rivals. Moreover, at this time PSG is already ahead with 10 points, which will be quite difficult for any team in Ligue 1 this season to surpass, so the other teams only hope to be able to occupy second place because first place is no longer possible to achieve.

[xzone]

I would say they could try to find some young players that can start and be good, usually that's the most important part, all these superstars came out from somewhere before, and that would only happen if you give them time when they are young. Giving an 18 year old Mbappe time, or 17 year old Yamal time is easy, they are super talented, but finding the role players around them is the hard part, so PSG should try to find more under 20 year old players to play since they guaranteed the league basically, maybe not mathematically, but it's obvious.

PSG's goal should not be to be champions in the league. They do not have a rival in French football anyway, the real goal will be to approach the championship in Europe. Of course, it is very difficult for them to do this, but if they set the right goal and can discover the star players of the coming years, their chances will increase. If there is no suitable opponent for you in your league, you think you are very strong, but the truth is not like that, competition is always good

[Majestic-milf]

I agree with you but if you look at it on the other side, the smaller teams are trying to make a statement and they can't do that if is not PSG they're playing against and the PSG in question have a way of letting the smaller teams to humiliate them before you see them start struggling to gain dominance. This game between Len and PSG was suppose to end at FT without going to Penalty shootout but PSG as we know them don't know when to act as the bigger team in these domestic competition, how I wish Lens was a bit stronger than what we saw to eliminate PSG from the competition.

Normally, there's this morale booster these smaller teams get when they're able to beat the bigger teams and if Lens had been successful in removing PSG from the tournament, it would have pushed them to feel like they can beat them in the league and knowing how PSG can be shaky in their playing pattern like you observed, I don't think it would be a difficult thing for them to do.
 With how careless they played with Lens but we're lucky thanks to the penalty shootout, I doubt if PSG would be able to survive if they meet a bigger and stronger opponent in the next round.
 

[mammusu]

I would say they could try to find some young players that can start and be good, usually that's the most important part, all these superstars came out from somewhere before, and that would only happen if you give them time when they are young. Giving an 18 year old Mbappe time, or 17 year old Yamal time is easy, they are super talented, but finding the role players around them is the hard part, so PSG should try to find more under 20 year old players to play since they guaranteed the league basically, maybe not mathematically, but it's obvious.

PSG's goal should not be to be champions in the league. They do not have a rival in French football anyway, the real goal will be to approach the championship in Europe. Of course, it is very difficult for them to do this, but if they set the right goal and can discover the star players of the coming years, their chances will increase. If there is no suitable opponent for you in your league, you think you are very strong, but the truth is not like that, competition is always good

Ligue 1 is no different like a ladder for them to be able to play in the Champions League, so actually winning the Ligue 1 championship trophy is not their main target all along, PSG has won a lot of Ligue 1 titles in the last few seasons without any strong competition at all, so I think it has made them very comfortable and finally made their mentality untested when facing strong teams in the Champions League, We cannot deny that PSG main target so far is to achieve success in the Champions League, but they cannot realize it if they only rely on a strong squad, but do not have a champion mentality in more competitive competition

[hyudien]

Ligue 1 is no different like a ladder for them to be able to play in the Champions League, so actually winning the Ligue 1 championship trophy is not their main target all along, PSG has won a lot of Ligue 1 titles in the last few seasons without any strong competition at all, so I think it has made them very comfortable and finally made their mentality untested when facing strong teams in the Champions League, We cannot deny that PSG main target so far is to achieve success in the Champions League, but they cannot realize it if they only rely on a strong squad, but do not have a champion mentality in more competitive competition

I agree with you that the level of competition in the domestic league will affect the competition at a higher level. In Ligue 1 their mentality cannot be formed perfectly because the competition here is not as tight as the competition in other leagues such as the English League, so this is one of the reasons why Ligue 1 teams have difficulty competing in the Champions League. Mentality is very important for a team, because one of the factors that can make a team successful is mentality. If their mentality is not formed well, then it will also affect the achievements they get in big competitions. because in big competitions the pressure will be much greater too.

[Weawant]

In Ligue 1, only PSG is still consistent enough in making its squad better every season so that when PSG was left behind by other teams, PSG continued to make changes by relying on the things they had at that time. So the results we can see clearly that PSG's ability to make its squad better is very real and it cannot be matched by its other rivals. Moreover, at this time PSG is already ahead with 10 points, which will be quite difficult for any team in Ligue 1 this season to surpass, so the other teams only hope to be able to occupy second place because first place is no longer possible to achieve.

Literally PSG is one team I see puts in the effort every season to fix their squad and get it some more strength possibly better than it has been the previous season but last season Marseille did made that move against this season and literally the effort did paid off though they aren't exactly where PSG is currently but if they could continue adding some more consistency to it, maybe they would be getting so better they will be at same level soon. It's only that it may take them some more time and by then PSG may have further advanced again.

[len01]

In Ligue 1, only PSG is still consistent enough in making its squad better every season so that when PSG was left behind by other teams, PSG continued to make changes by relying on the things they had at that time. So the results we can see clearly that PSG's ability to make its squad better is very real and it cannot be matched by its other rivals. Moreover, at this time PSG is already ahead with 10 points, which will be quite difficult for any team in Ligue 1 this season to surpass, so the other teams only hope to be able to occupy second place because first place is no longer possible to achieve.

Literally PSG is one team I see puts in the effort every season to fix their squad and get it some more strength possibly better than it has been the previous season but last season Marseille did made that move against this season and literally the effort did paid off though they aren't exactly where PSG is currently but if they could continue adding some more consistency to it, maybe they would be getting so better they will be at same level soon. It's only that it may take them some more time and by then PSG may have further advanced again.

We all will not know what the future of teams other than PSG in this league 1 will be. As long as some teams are able to bring in professional players, surely competing with PSG will be an easy problem. I am sure that even though PSG dominates league 1, it does not mean that they will not experience bad times and one day PSG will definitely have problems that will have an impact on declining performance. And that's when other teams like Marseille will take over the top of the standings. Currently, there is no other way to continue to maintain consistency in the runner up position every season. And when PSG starts to make mistakes, Monaco or Marseille will find it easier to take the opportunity.