French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[imamusma]

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I also would like to see a different team becoming the champions more often. However this is the bitter truth in the Ligue 1.    The gap is just huge. Not every team is owned by sheikhs you know. It is too difficult for the others to compete with PSG at the same level because of money problems. This is a thing I don't like in football honestly. If you are lucky, you get bought by rich people like them and you can build a dream team easily.

Of course it is entertaining to watch teams with great squads. But it isn't fair. Life isn't fair in general though.    Anyways coming back to the Ligue 1, PSG are really comfortable after Marseille lost points last week. The gap is 9 points now.

Ligue 1 is not competitive and that's why it hasn't attracted big investors to think of buying any of the clubs for them to pump funds into the club for transformation. Only PSG is rich and that gives them a upper hand to be the title winners every season. This is why PSG is finding it difficult to put the team standard to that of UCL, because they don't have competitors.

That's right, that's why many people consider Ligue 1 as a farmer league, where PSG dominates too easily without getting pressure from its competitors. We hope that in the future there will be a rich investor who dares to acquire one of the Ligue 1 clubs, so that PSG has a rival in the competition for the trophy, it will make Ligue 1 more competitive. Besides, PSG position in the current Champions League standings, in my opinion, gives a complete picture of how difficult it is for them to compete with elite European teams.

[bitgolden]

I get that not wanting to see PSG win every single year makes sense, that's understandable and all, but we are talking about a situation where PSG is the only team good enough to win the league right now, so I understand why they keep getting it. We had the same thing at bundesliga for a long time too, Bayern Munich kept winning for a decade, and that made sense because they were the best team and that's why they won so many times in a row.

For another team to win, we do not need PSG to get worse, that would make the league bad, we need another team to get better, that's the only logical way that the league would be fun. If PSG gets much worse, and that's why someone else wins, that would be a horrible thing for the league.

[Akbarkoe]

I get that not wanting to see PSG win every single year makes sense, that's understandable and all, but we are talking about a situation where PSG is the only team good enough to win the league right now, so I understand why they keep getting it. We had the same thing at bundesliga for a long time too, Bayern Munich kept winning for a decade, and that made sense because they were the best team and that's why they won so many times in a row.

which is worthy of being called the Farmer's League is not only the French league, but for some reason people always associate the farmer league with the French league 1. and of course this is not without reason, this is because the clubs playing in the French league have not been able to perform well in higher competitions such as the UCL. and the highest achievement ever achieved by PSG in the top competition, the Champions League, was only able to reach the semi-finals, and even this season they are threatened with being eliminated early in the qualifying round,

For another team to win, we do not need PSG to get worse, that would make the league bad, we need another team to get better, that's the only logical way that the league would be fun. If PSG gets much worse, and that's why someone else wins, that would be a horrible thing for the league.

This is quite difficult because the financial conditions of other clubs are not as good as PSG's financial conditions. and even other clubs such as AS Monaco, Lille and others, they have to sell their best players to be able to save the club's finances.
Like the English league, we see that the league can be very competitive because the financial conditions of several English league clubs are much better.

[mammusu]

I get that not wanting to see PSG win every single year makes sense, that's understandable and all, but we are talking about a situation where PSG is the only team good enough to win the league right now, so I understand why they keep getting it. We had the same thing at bundesliga for a long time too, Bayern Munich kept winning for a decade, and that made sense because they were the best team and that's why they won so many times in a row.

For another team to win, we do not need PSG to get worse, that would make the league bad, we need another team to get better, that's the only logical way that the league would be fun. If PSG gets much worse, and that's why someone else wins, that would be a horrible thing for the league.

PSG dominance in ligue 1 so far has made the league uncompetitive and even very boring for us to see, actually in this case it is very difficult to see the league can run competitively if there is no other team that can keep up with their mentality, squad and performance in the current league, I actually see that the gap that occurs between PSG and other teams in ligue 1 today is not only because of the quality of the team and also financially, because if we pay attention to the fact that at this time Marseille and Monaco have actually improved the quality of their squads, but in fact this season they are still not able to beat and break the dominance of PSG, so I think mentality is also an important factor that makes it difficult for them for now.

[Swordsoffreedom]

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I also would like to see a different team becoming the champions more often. However this is the bitter truth in the Ligue 1.    The gap is just huge. Not every team is owned by sheikhs you know. It is too difficult for the others to compete with PSG at the same level because of money problems. This is a thing I don't like in football honestly. If you are lucky, you get bought by rich people like them and you can build a dream team easily.

Of course it is entertaining to watch teams with great squads. But it isn't fair. Life isn't fair in general though.    Anyways coming back to the Ligue 1, PSG are really comfortable after Marseille lost points last week. The gap is 9 points now.

PSG management is ready to spend a lot of money for good results. A few years ago we saw that PSG spent a lot of money to win the Champions League title by adding three of the best strikers in the world like Messi, Neymar and Mbappe to the squad. But even then, PSG could not succeed in the end.

However, Ligue 1 teams are not very rich. At the same time, they have no interest in spending a lot of money to build a squad. So no team is able to compete with PSG for the title. However, PSG is now trying to add young players to the squad. Maybe with the help of Luis Enrique, PSG will be able to form a strong squad within the next 2/3 years and will be able to compete for the Champions League title.

[tusandii]

All the ligue one games yesterday were literally draws except for the Angers who won against their opponents who played from away and had a red card, interestingly all the scores were 1-1 and Angers had 2-0. I was just wondering why exactly it happened that all the fixtures of yesterday went that way, I hope to see some other better results.

Why should you be surprised by yesterday's draw when there were only 4 matches that resulted in a draw, the rest were the results of wins and losses of several clubs, but from several draws, the most regrettable was the result of Marseille's match where they could not beat Strasbourg at home even though I hope Marseille can get 3 points to continue chasing PSG if Marseille continues to lose points, they have no hope of putting pressure on PSG.

[Farma]

I get that not wanting to see PSG win every single year makes sense, that's understandable and all, but we are talking about a situation where PSG is the only team good enough to win the league right now, so I understand why they keep getting it. We had the same thing at bundesliga for a long time too, Bayern Munich kept winning for a decade, and that made sense because they were the best team and that's why they won so many times in a row.

For another team to win, we do not need PSG to get worse, that would make the league bad, we need another team to get better, that's the only logical way that the league would be fun. If PSG gets much worse, and that's why someone else wins, that would be a horrible thing for the league.

Agree that what must develop are teams that want trophies and have good goals or visions and missions to be able to compete with PSG, and in my opinion PSG is currently not that good in terms of performance and is also not bad but the teams in the French League 1 seem quite weak both Monaco and Marseille, even though if we see PSG playing with other teams like in the Champions League they are indeed too bad at the moment but the fact is that the teams in this league do not have more motivation than just being under PSG, currently PSG is in a safe position in the standings and in my opinion this league seems to be over and I also hoped at the beginning of the season that Marseille could compete for the league trophy but it turns out they are not as I imagined, this league is too dead if there are no other rich people who want to invest in French clubs.

But it seems like there is a little fresh air that there are rich people who want to buy Paris FC to compete with PSG. Hopefully it will come true and bring new colors and also make this league competitive because if not, PSG will forever dominate this league because their financial power is quite good under the sway of rich people or people who have good finances.

[Hirose UK]

Marseille had to fail to reduce their gap with Paris Saint Germain after they suffered a draw in this match. They played more aggressively but they could not create many goals. Luckily they were still able to equalize so they could avoid defeat. This result makes Paris Saint Germain more comfortable at the top of the standings, because it is certain that their points difference will widen after passing the 18th week. Paris Saint Germain is a team that does not struggle too much to create a points gap, because their competitors themselves often slip so that the distance is getting further.

This has been the reason i have said Marseille has not been able to stay consistent for the longest enough to get them the position that keeps them in the title race but i still believe they have got a chance as time is still on their side based on league fixtures for the season, PSG just got only but a very few edge over them of which they too can be able to work hard enough to not allow the edge be a barrier enough at this time of the league.

Isn't it happening since some time ago, Marseille has been considered as team that shows improvement in playing quality after making various successful player transfers but they are still considered unstable, real fact that has been recognized by everyone that it is difficult to stop PSG dominance here.
Difference between PSG and Marseille is 9 points which means Marseille must wait for PSG to experience 3 defeats and Marseille on the other side must also get more win so that they can be equal, there seems to be chance for Marseille but they are really unpredictable because this is not the first time Marseille has lost the opportunity to get an additional 3 full points.

[Palakka]

Injuries to several Monaco players are the reason for their poor consistency at the moment, I see that Monaco actually had outstanding performance and consistency at the start of the season, but when they started facing a busy schedule and their players like Wilfried singo, golovin, zakaria and balogun injured precisely  made them experience a decline in performance at the moment, but even so, facing Montpellier who are currently in the relegation zone should be the beginning of their revival after failing to win in the last 3 matches, a victory over Montpellier in my opinion can rebuild the confidence and mentality of their players later.

Player injuries are always the cause of a setback for a team when competing, but it needs to be prepared carefully so that it does not have much effect on the competition. Squad depth is something that is quite important so that when this happens the coach has the option to rotate the players needed. The beginning of the season was better because Monaco appeared very promising, but as the competition progressed they began to have problems achieving victory.

If they could lose against Montpellier then everyone would definitely doubt Monaco and the defeat was beyond our predictions because Montpellier is not a tough opponent. Lecomte was impressive in goal as he made a number of saves as Monaco lost the match.

I previously hoped that Monaco could rise when facing a team that was in the relegation zone at this time, but in fact what we saw was very sad after they were helpless when Montpellier managed to comeback in the match, the defeat of Montpellier in that match further made their position drop at this time in the standings and for now we can say if they has out from the championship path, if Monaco does not immediately rise in the next match, even to end the season in the UCL zone will be a difficult mission for them, especially now that teams like Nice, Lyon and Lille are actually in positive form and are ready to put strong pressure on Monaco.

[eightdots]

Injuries to several Monaco players are the reason for their poor consistency at the moment, I see that Monaco actually had outstanding performance and consistency at the start of the season, but when they started facing a busy schedule and their players like Wilfried singo, golovin, zakaria and balogun injured precisely  made them experience a decline in performance at the moment, but even so, facing Montpellier who are currently in the relegation zone should be the beginning of their revival after failing to win in the last 3 matches, a victory over Montpellier in my opinion can rebuild the confidence and mentality of their players later.

Player injuries are always the cause of a setback for a team when competing, but it needs to be prepared carefully so that it does not have much effect on the competition. Squad depth is something that is quite important so that when this happens the coach has the option to rotate the players needed. The beginning of the season was better because Monaco appeared very promising, but as the competition progressed they began to have problems achieving victory.

If they could lose against Montpellier then everyone would definitely doubt Monaco and the defeat was beyond our predictions because Montpellier is not a tough opponent. Lecomte was impressive in goal as he made a number of saves as Monaco lost the match.

I previously hoped that Monaco could rise when facing a team that was in the relegation zone at this time, but in fact what we saw was very sad after they were helpless when Montpellier managed to comeback in the match, the defeat of Montpellier in that match further made their position drop at this time in the standings and for now we can say if they has out from the championship path, if Monaco does not immediately rise in the next match, even to end the season in the UCL zone will be a difficult mission for them, especially now that teams like Nice, Lyon and Lille are actually in positive form and are ready to put strong pressure on Monaco.

Teams' training can sometimes tire players too much. Players can get injured during matches because training is tiring. The technical team should take precautions against such problems in advance because injuries to two first 11 players in a team can disrupt the entire balance.

Teams at the bottom of the league can get surprise points in some matches. The reason for this is that the teams at the top are too confident. Underestimating the opponent is one of the mistakes made in football and many teams do this. Monaco has lost 2 and drawn 2 in the last 4 league matches. The team should think about the mistakes they made and try to play better football.

[junder]

All the ligue one games yesterday were literally draws except for the Angers who won against their opponents who played from away and had a red card, interestingly all the scores were 1-1 and Angers had 2-0. I was just wondering why exactly it happened that all the fixtures of yesterday went that way, I hope to see some other better results.

Why should you be surprised by yesterday's draw when there were only 4 matches that resulted in a draw, the rest were the results of wins and losses of several clubs, but from several draws, the most regrettable was the result of Marseille's match where they could not beat Strasbourg at home even though I hope Marseille can get 3 points to continue chasing PSG if Marseille continues to lose points, they have no hope of putting pressure on PSG.

With Marseille result yesterday, we still have to question how ready they are to be a tough competitor because they did not play as expected, inconsistency is still a problem for them at the moment. I saw their game against Strasbourg yesterday, their attack was not organized, too many chances were wasted and the thing that disappointed me from them was getting a goal from the penalty spot. I would say Marseille were lucky to get that one point. What do we expect from them now in the future? Nothing. PSG are uncatchable, and the title is certainly theirs again.

[Die_empty]

I previously hoped that Monaco could rise when facing a team that was in the relegation zone at this time, but in fact what we saw was very sad after they were helpless when Montpellier managed to comeback in the match, the defeat of Montpellier in that match further made their position drop at this time in the standings and for now we can say if they has out from the championship path, if Monaco does not immediately rise in the next match, even to end the season in the UCL zone will be a difficult mission for them, especially now that teams like Nice, Lyon and Lille are actually in positive form and are ready to put strong pressure on Monaco.

Monaco lost the game because of defensive errors. It is very painful to concede two cheap goals caused by the poor judgment of defenders. Monaco also tried to get a few goals but they were denied by the spectacular display of Montpellier goalkeeper Lecomte. Al-Taamari was always available to capitalize on the blunders of Monaco to score a brace. This is Montpellier's third win for the season and it will be cherished since it was against a top club Ligue One. With this poor display, Monaco might end up losing the UCL match against Aston Villa.

[Black Mbaye]

All the ligue one games yesterday were literally draws except for the Angers who won against their opponents who played from away and had a red card, interestingly all the scores were 1-1 and Angers had 2-0. I was just wondering why exactly it happened that all the fixtures of yesterday went that way, I hope to see some other better results.

Why should you be surprised by yesterday's draw when there were only 4 matches that resulted in a draw, the rest were the results of wins and losses of several clubs, but from several draws, the most regrettable was the result of Marseille's match where they could not beat Strasbourg at home even though I hope Marseille can get 3 points to continue chasing PSG if Marseille continues to lose points, they have no hope of putting pressure on PSG.

With Marseille result yesterday, we still have to question how ready they are to be a tough competitor because they did not play as expected, inconsistency is still a problem for them at the moment. I saw their game against Strasbourg yesterday, their attack was not organized, too many chances were wasted and the thing that disappointed me from them was getting a goal from the penalty spot. I would say Marseille were lucky to get that one point. What do we expect from them now in the future? Nothing. PSG are uncatchable, and the title is certainly theirs again.

Although Marseille was a much more effective team in the match, the match ended in a draw. This was a disappointing result for many Marseille fans. Many people thought they could compete with Paris Saint-Germain, but if they lose points like this, they will never be able to compete with Paris Saint-Germain. Paris Saint-Germain is the most successful team in the French League, playing without mistakes. Marseille cannot compete with them, in fact, no team in France can compete with them.

[Richbased]

Maybe no team can stop this team from winning the League One title. PSG they are the strongest team in that league even they perform consistently in every match. If any team wants to compete properly with this team then maybe that team has to have many best players like PSG club. And if those clubs want to buy the best players they have to spend a lot of money like PSG then maybe they will be a strong team. A few days ago in a match PSG faced against Lens, they won that match by 2-1. Moreover, they are yet to lose a match this season, so it proves that they are currently a very strong team and it is not easy for other teams to compete against them.

Paris Saint German has always been very famous in the France Ligue one and they have dominated the league since 2012/2013 season as they have won the title 10 times and if they win this current season, it make it 13 overall Ligue 1 title since the establishment of the club. In the past before PSG came in the limelight of the France ligue 1 trophy, clubs like Saint Etienne, Olympic Marseille, Monaco, Nantes and even Olympic Lyon that won the title for straight seven season which was between 2001/2002 season to 2007/2008 season, they all used to be dominant teams but PSG have now humbled all of them in recent years as none of them could challenge PSG again due to how strong they have become.

It also surprised me that PSG are yet to lose a match in the Ligue 1 because they don't have a very active defense that is why they concede goals in most of their games but to see that they haven't lost a single game after playing 18 matches shows that they can probably end the season in an unbeaten record but it will depend on how consistent and determined they are before they can keep such a record. Though Olympic Marseille who are second in the league are 9 points behind PSG which doesn't seem like a much gap because if PSG can lose 3 matches why Marseille wins theirs, they can level up points with PSG and may have an opportunity to top the league table and maybe win the title.

[MAAManda]

I get that not wanting to see PSG win every single year makes sense, that's understandable and all, but we are talking about a situation where PSG is the only team good enough to win the league right now, so I understand why they keep getting it. We had the same thing at bundesliga for a long time too, Bayern Munich kept winning for a decade, and that made sense because they were the best team and that's why they won so many times in a row.

For another team to win, we do not need PSG to get worse, that would make the league bad, we need another team to get better, that's the only logical way that the league would be fun. If PSG gets much worse, and that's why someone else wins, that would be a horrible thing for the league.

I'm tired of seeing discussions about PSG or Bayern Munich turning their league into a farmers league for both of them. It's a fact that there's no team that's better than them, I see other teams only focus on making money, just look at how every good player every season will be bought by Bayern Munich, as well as PSG who buys every great player who makes them unbeatable in the league. For Ligue 1 & Bundesliga, I consider the real league winner is the team in second place .

[Iranus]

Although Marseille was a much more effective team in the match, the match ended in a draw. This was a disappointing result for many Marseille fans. Many people thought they could compete with Paris Saint-Germain, but if they lose points like this, they will never be able to compete with Paris Saint-Germain. Paris Saint-Germain is the most successful team in the French League, playing without mistakes. Marseille cannot compete with them, in fact, no team in France can compete with them.

The top 3 in the points table are PSG, Marseille and Lille. However, I don't think any team can compete with PSG for the title. Marseille's performance was very good at the beginning of the season. Marseille and Monaco played well at the beginning of the season. But gradually both of these teams have fallen behind. And now the performance of both of these teams is irregular. It is very difficult for Marseille to occupy the top position of the table.

Marseille is 9 points behind PSG. And Lille is 14 points behind. The performance of both of these teams is quite irregular. On the other hand, PSG is a very strong team in Ligue 1. And PSG has continued to perform well consistently. So this season too, PSG is almost certain to be the champions of Ligue 1.

[Silence Scream]

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This has been the reason i have said Marseille has not been able to stay consistent for the longest enough to get them the position that keeps them in the title race but i still believe they have got a chance as time is still on their side based on league fixtures for the season, PSG just got only but a very few edge over them of which they too can be able to work hard enough to not allow the edge be a barrier enough at this time of the league.

Marseille are better than last season if you look at the chances of the rankings this season. Marseille's consistency has not been consistent in positioning themselves as a team that can be a serious competitor for PSG. It seems that position is with Monaco who are slightly better than Marseille because for several seasons Monaco have been the team that can make PSG compete even though in the end PSG are superior as the team that lifts the trophy.
This season Marseille has a big gap in points with PSG.

Monaco is doing very poorly this year. They started the year very well but are currently 15 points behind Paris Saint-Germain. To be honest, the closest team to Paris Saint-Germain is Marseille, and there is a nine-point gap between them. This is not a gap that can be closed easily. I am sure that Paris Saint-Germain, who have a nine-point gap in 18 games, will win the championship at the end of the league. I don't think anyone expects a different result in the French League anyway.

[ITExpert]

All the ligue one games yesterday were literally draws except for the Angers who won against their opponents who played from away and had a red card, interestingly all the scores were 1-1 and Angers had 2-0. I was just wondering why exactly it happened that all the fixtures of yesterday went that way, I hope to see some other better results.

Almost all the matches played in this league have been weak because of the lack of interest of the teams, due to which they did not perform well in playing the matches, but they should have taken advantage of it to increase their points. The players of each team had their own thinking, due to which the players of each team played by looking at their hard work and their record. Angers have scored these 2 goals thanks to their good performance and hard work and played well in this match. I think almost all the teams in this league are weak because there are very few matches that look good on the win list.  Every team wins a few matches and focuses on draws and losses due to which draws are seen in this league.

[bitgolden]

I get that not wanting to see PSG win every single year makes sense, that's understandable and all, but we are talking about a situation where PSG is the only team good enough to win the league right now, so I understand why they keep getting it. We had the same thing at bundesliga for a long time too, Bayern Munich kept winning for a decade, and that made sense because they were the best team and that's why they won so many times in a row.

which is worthy of being called the Farmer's League is not only the French league, but for some reason people always associate the farmer league with the French league 1. and of course this is not without reason, this is because the clubs playing in the French league have not been able to perform well in higher competitions such as the UCL. and the highest achievement ever achieved by PSG in the top competition, the Champions League, was only able to reach the semi-finals, and even this season they are threatened with being eliminated early in the qualifying round,

While I understand that it's totally logical for finances to make a team win, it is not the case in every single league. Look at Napoli destroying Serie A with a much lower salary a few years ago, and doing fine this year. Look at Leverkusen getting the title last year, going unbeaten until Europa cup finals, so we can see a team doing fine without having the money in the world and battling PSG that way. Hell, we can even look at Lille, we have seen Lille win before, during PSG reign, so it's clear that a team could do a good job at beating PSG out, without PSG getting worse, so I believe that has to happen again.

Otherwise, people will keep calling it a farmers league, because things are not getting any different for the time being. PSG has the money to win, and they should stay great, and win as much as possible, but also another team, or maybe few other teams, should end up doing something better.

Most people forget, but last year Bayern Munich wasn't the second place, they were third, behind Leverkusen AND Stuttgart, nobody remembers Stuttgart, Bayern literally finished third, with 72 points, with one more point than they had previous year when they won the league. Bayern won 22-23 season with 71 points and became champions, they got 72 points and became third place a year later. Which shows you that, PSG could stay good, while other teams get better and beat them, that's what Ligue 1 needs right now.

[LUCKMCFLY]

That is the hope of most people so that Ligue 1 can be much more competitive because with the competition it will increase people's interest in following the league. PSG is very difficult to beat in Ligue 1 and even teams like Monaco or Marseille also have difficulty beating them, let alone talking about other weaker teams who rely on a number of players to compete.

Ligue 1 will be much more interesting if there are four to five strong teams that can compete with PSG so that the competition for the title will be much more interesting. If that doesn't happen then it will be difficult for PSG themselves without doing better in the Champions League because they are not used to facing the pressure in their own League.

Well I say something, I don't remember who it was that answered CR7, he told him that if he played against Marseille and Monaco he wouldn't last, he said something like that, I didn't pay much attention to him because it seemed to me that they were Comments out of place, and it's that at that moment things were very clear and for me the bug was not wrong , so for this league to become interesting a team has to appear that puts the stones in the way of a PSG, and from here on out it has been seen that it has been like that, but to be honest I like watching Ligue 1, only sometimes I find it boring for that reason, that no team can reach the level of a PSG.