French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[imamusma]

Winning the Champions League next season is definitely Luis Enrique's target next season, but things won't be that easy. The competition will definitely be different. PSG also needs to strengthen the squad and, of course, deepen the game strategy. The teams that will compete in the Champions League must have prepared themselves. Because PSG won the trophy last season, of course, they are also favored to get it again. It just might not be easier than before.

The big loss to Chelsea in the FIFA World Club tournament should be a warning to Luis Enrique and his side that there are some new sheriffs on the block. Many clubs have strengthened their squad, so the French champions will not have an easy run in their bid to defend the title.

Maybe they might continue their dominance of the Ligue One because I have not seen any improvement in any club such as buying or quality players or signing of a good coach.

I think Luis Enrique will re evaluate his squad and look for weaknesses after the defeat in the Club World Cup final. That's something he'll definitely do. As for next season competition, I agree that the atmosphere will be very different from last season. PSG will easily retain the Ligue 1 trophy, but defending the Champions League trophy is a very difficult task.
Marseille, AS Monaco, Nice, and Lille seem only able to put temporary pressure on PSG in Ligue 1, nothing has changed, PSG dominance is still very hard to break. Meanwhile, in the Champions League, the dynamic of the competition will be very different. There are many strong teams that will put pressure on PSG. It would be amazing if PSG could defend their title next season, that would again be a historic record.

[ITExpert]

One thing about football is that, once the opposition team can be able to find a strategy to use in penetrating your defence, such team will surely be the winner of that particular match, that was the case of Chelsea vs Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea was able to identify the strategy to be penetrating the defense of Paris Saint-Germain on time that is why Chelsea was able to dominating from the first half to the end of the match, it was a great surprise to me because i was supporting Paris Saint-Germain to be victorious over Chelsea but it was shock to me when the match ended in favor of Chelsea. Football is always a game of love that every matches there must be a team to be victorious over one.

There is no doubt that paris Saint-Germain is a strong team. And there is a perception about them that this team is difficult to defeat in fact the success will always be in the bowl of Paris Saint-Germain. But i think in game anything can happen It's the game that will decide not the perception which is already made. This result is shocking news for the fans of PSG as they did not imagine the failure of their squad. But at the same time this game gives a new angel of thought to the Chelsea fan . They feel confident about the team as they have the potential to do their best  and defeat even the strongest team. The  PSG team has the strongest and capable players and more over this the strategy matters a lot. Because things are interlinked to each other and the way of playing has significant importance to make the win possible.

[Mate2237]

Winning the Champions League next season is definitely Luis Enrique's target next season, but things won't be that easy. The competition will definitely be different. PSG also needs to strengthen the squad and, of course, deepen the game strategy. The teams that will compete in the Champions League must have prepared themselves. Because PSG won the trophy last season, of course, they are also favored to get it again. It just might not be easier than before.

The big loss to Chelsea in the FIFA World Club tournament should be a warning to Luis Enrique and his side that there are some new sheriffs on the block. Many clubs have strengthened their squad, so the French champions will not have an easy run in their bid to defend the title.

Maybe they might continue their dominance of the Ligue One because I have not seen any improvement in any club such as buying or quality players or signing of a good coach.

I think Luis Enrique will re evaluate his squad and look for weaknesses after the defeat in the Club World Cup final. That's something he'll definitely do. As for next season competition, I agree that the atmosphere will be very different from last season. PSG will easily retain the Ligue 1 trophy, but defending the Champions League trophy is a very difficult task.
Marseille, AS Monaco, Nice, and Lille seem only able to put temporary pressure on PSG in Ligue 1, nothing has changed, PSG dominance is still very hard to break. Meanwhile, in the Champions League, the dynamic of the competition will be very different. There are many strong teams that will put pressure on PSG. It would be amazing if PSG could defend their title next season, that would again be a historic record.

For now there is no team that can challenge PSG as far as the French ligue 1 is concerned because the gulf between PSG and the other teams is very wide but going into the next season this defeat to Chelsea has shown areas that PSG should improve on so that they can maintain this top form the coach has already stated after the game that they where going to review the game and look at areas where they got it wrong.



So far it's only madrid that has won the champions League back to back in this era so it will be difficult for PSG to replicate that

[qurbanshah02]

For now there is no team that can challenge PSG as far as the French ligue 1 is concerned because the gulf between PSG and the other teams is very wide but going into the next season this defeat to Chelsea has shown areas that PSG should improve on so that they can maintain this top form the coach has already stated after the game that they where going to review the game and look at areas where they got it wrong.

So far it's only madrid that has won the champions League back to back in this era so it will be difficult for PSG to replicate that

We all know how strong PSG was this season and compared to them, the strength of the other team seemed mostly weak, due to which they can be called a failure in the next season as well, but the way Chelsea is taking good decisions to improve themselves, PSG should not be weakened by this, but they should play with more effort and struggle than Chelsea. This is a very responsible thing and if they succeed in this, then all their weaknesses can be converted into strengths, that's why I hope they will not be weak and will not give anyone a chance. With the effort and performance of Real Madrid that they were seen playing the match, they have succeeded in their goal. But they can try to make it successful like Real Madrid's victory.

[Cossyblack]

IN the FIFA Club world Cup final,
well, yeah..
PSG not only lost to Chelsea and failed to win the Club World Cup, but they were also humiliated by Chelsea, a club considered unlikely to reach the final. And to make matters worse, Luis Enrique hit Joao Pedro during the chaos surrounding PSG's defeat. This was truly unfortunate. It was a blunder for PSG.

Source: Luis Enrique swiped at Joao Pedro after Paris Saint-Germain's defeat

Luis Enrique could have display some sense of maturity,I knew he wasn't happy with the outcome of the match but that feeling of loosing such an important game is the same everywhere. I wasn't expecting him to be happy but his actions wasn't impressed either at least he could have ignored Joao Pedro by walking away with that's, all of this embarrassment would never have happened in the first place. Luis Enrique might be going through a lot when PSG was loosing against Chelsea but assaulting Joao Pedro was too extreme from a respected coach like Enrique. I have never seen Luis Enrique this emotional before ,since he couldn't hold it any longer maybe he felt it was the best thing to do by attacking a respected player Joao Pedro which was wrong. I hope he finds time to apologize to Chelsea for assaulting one of her players

[Mayor of ogba]

It's obvious that they wouldn't be able to achieve similar performance next year, because Chelsea have shown other clubs PSG flaws. For Chelsea to humiliate PSG in such a shameful way, it means that PSG is no longer the strongest. They can win Ligue 1 as many times as they want but not UCL.

Even though it was PSG that defeated Chelsea in the Club World Cup final, it's not certain PSG will win the UEFA Champions League trophy next season because the UEFA Champions League competition is a difficult competition for a team to win the trophy back-to-back. PSG has no rival for the Ligue 1 title; they will win it before the next season ends.

[Gost ms]

IN the FIFA Club world Cup final,
well, yeah..
PSG not only lost to Chelsea and failed to win the Club World Cup, but they were also humiliated by Chelsea, a club considered unlikely to reach the final. And to make matters worse, Luis Enrique hit Joao Pedro during the chaos surrounding PSG's defeat. This was truly unfortunate. It was a blunder for PSG.

Source: Luis Enrique swiped at Joao Pedro after Paris Saint-Germain's defeat

Luis Enrique could have display some sense of maturity,I knew he wasn't happy with the outcome of the match but that feeling of loosing such an important game is the same everywhere. I wasn't expecting him to be happy but his actions wasn't impressed either at least he could have ignored Joao Pedro by walking away with that's, all of this embarrassment would never have happened in the first place. Luis Enrique might be going through a lot when PSG was loosing against Chelsea but assaulting Joao Pedro was too extreme from a respected coach like Enrique. I have never seen Luis Enrique this emotional before ,since he couldn't hold it any longer maybe he felt it was the best thing to do by attacking a respected player Joao Pedro which was wrong. I hope he finds time to apologize to Chelsea for assaulting one of her players

I find Luis Enrique's actions very bad. He is a coach, he will always be calm and if someone in the team makes a mistake, he will fix it. If he does it himself, is it very respectful? Players sometimes do it. You can see such scenes in the game suddenly. But it was not seen that the coach himself would go on the field and do it. But later he said in a news conference that I wanted to grab him from there and remove him. We had no intention of attacking him. But we could clearly see that it was done intentionally.

[ancafe]

I find Luis Enrique's actions very bad. He is a coach, he will always be calm and if someone in the team makes a mistake, he will fix it. If he does it himself, is it very respectful? Players sometimes do it. You can see such scenes in the game suddenly. But it was not seen that the coach himself would go on the field and do it. But later he said in a news conference that I wanted to grab him from there and remove him. We had no intention of attacking him. But we could clearly see that it was done intentionally.

That's what happens when someone loses control, and it's not just players who can do such things, coaches can also be involved in much worse situations when they can't control their emotions. The defeat suffered by PSG was so painful that Luis Enrique couldn't control his emotions after the match, and this is unacceptable under any circumstances.

This is an important lesson for PSG because feeling like the favorite doesn't necessarily guarantee a good result. Luis Enrique can evaluate his performance when facing crucial matches like this next season, especially in the French League and Champions League.

[Velvet78]

Isn't there anyone interested in Gonçalo Ramos or Kolo Muani recently? Even on loan.

Luis Enrique is using Dembele as the main CF from now on you know. They are both backup strikers as a result. I don't know about Ramos but I believe Kolo Muani would be loaned again at least. But it might not be Juventus this time as they got Jonathan David. 

Oops I forget about him.

Why there's no big team interested with him? his performance in Getafe was good, his performance in Marseille was also good. He can play in big teams, I believe since he's still 23 years old.

I don't think there's need to prove from Greenwood, he has a quality.

As he has left some bad things behind him (related to a case about sexual assault which dropped later on), I would also like to see him playing for bigger teams. But for now I haven't heard of any interest. It is good news for Marseille though! 

[Majestic-milf]

 For me it doesn't matter how experienced and mature you are, when emotions rise, it makes you lose all manner of reasoning and you tend to act upon those feelings. In Luiz Enrique's case, I feel that proper action needs to be taken on him because as far as I'm concerned, he verbally assaulted Joao Pedro that made the man react the way he did. Maybe he thought his boys could handle the issue and get back on track but after the third goal came in, Luis Enrique could not take it anymore.
 My question is, why take a swipe at Pedro when it was actually Cole Palmer that scored two goals? Why take out your frustrations on the lady who just wanted to prove to his new club the stuff he's made of, cause I don't get it. It's not like Joao Pedro made any funny or mocking gestures so why lash out? I listened on the news when he was asked what caused the altercation and the coach couldn't give an adequate answer, just skirting round the truth. Guess PSG could not accept the defeat to Chelsea properly that's why he felt he could hurt a player with his words.
 

[Frankolala]

IN the FIFA Club world Cup final,
well, yeah..
PSG not only lost to Chelsea and failed to win the Club World Cup, but they were also humiliated by Chelsea, a club considered unlikely to reach the final. And to make matters worse, Luis Enrique hit Joao Pedro during the chaos surrounding PSG's defeat. This was truly unfortunate. It was a blunder for PSG.

Source: Luis Enrique swiped at Joao Pedro after Paris Saint-Germain's defeat

Luis Enrique could have display some sense of maturity,I knew he wasn't happy with the outcome of the match but that feeling of loosing such an important game is the same everywhere. I wasn't expecting him to be happy but his actions wasn't impressed either at least he could have ignored Joao Pedro by walking away with that's, all of this embarrassment would never have happened in the first place. Luis Enrique might be going through a lot when PSG was loosing against Chelsea but assaulting Joao Pedro was too extreme from a respected coach like Enrique. I have never seen Luis Enrique this emotional before ,since he couldn't hold it any longer maybe he felt it was the best thing to do by attacking a respected player Joao Pedro which was wrong. I hope he finds time to apologize to Chelsea for assaulting one of her players

It looks like you haven't felt the heat of losing when you have the full confidence that you will win the match. PSG didn't just lost but they were embarrassed in front of their coach. Automatically, it was Luis Enrique that was embarrassed indirectly, because he thought that his squad was the best and didn't expect any surprises. Enrique Lius owes nobody any official apology.

[dezoel]

For me it doesn't matter how experienced and mature you are, when emotions rise, it makes you lose all manner of reasoning and you tend to act upon those feelings. In Luiz Enrique's case, I feel that proper action needs to be taken on him because as far as I'm concerned, he verbally assaulted Joao Pedro that made the man react the way he did. Maybe he thought his boys could handle the issue and get back on track but after the third goal came in, Luis Enrique could not take it anymore.
 My question is, why take a swipe at Pedro when it was actually Cole Palmer that scored two goals? Why take out your frustrations on the lady who just wanted to prove to his new club the stuff he's made of, cause I don't get it. It's not like Joao Pedro made any funny or mocking gestures so why lash out? I listened on the news when he was asked what caused the altercation and the coach couldn't give an adequate answer, just skirting round the truth. Guess PSG could not accept the defeat to Chelsea properly that's why he felt he could hurt a player with his words.

I disagree, that is exactly when the real person inside you comes out. When you are winning, being noble and elite is easy, because you won and when you win then you will do a great job. However, if you fail and lose, then acting as if you are not like that, and showing your true colours can make people see the real you.

Lots of people are acting as if this was normal and one time thing, but that is the one time he lost like this when he was the heavy favourites, so we saw what happens then. I am sure he will not do this for a long time again, because he will probably not be in the same position again, like if PSG loses the league title this year on the last game? Surely we may see the same guy, but he won't because they will win the title easily.

[Phoenix Anka]

IN the FIFA Club world Cup final,
well, yeah..
PSG not only lost to Chelsea and failed to win the Club World Cup, but they were also humiliated by Chelsea, a club considered unlikely to reach the final. And to make matters worse, Luis Enrique hit Joao Pedro during the chaos surrounding PSG's defeat. This was truly unfortunate. It was a blunder for PSG.

Source: Luis Enrique swiped at Joao Pedro after Paris Saint-Germain's defeat

Luis Enrique could have display some sense of maturity,I knew he wasn't happy with the outcome of the match but that feeling of loosing such an important game is the same everywhere. I wasn't expecting him to be happy but his actions wasn't impressed either at least he could have ignored Joao Pedro by walking away with that's, all of this embarrassment would never have happened in the first place. Luis Enrique might be going through a lot when PSG was loosing against Chelsea but assaulting Joao Pedro was too extreme from a respected coach like Enrique. I have never seen Luis Enrique this emotional before ,since he couldn't hold it any longer maybe he felt it was the best thing to do by attacking a respected player Joao Pedro which was wrong. I hope he finds time to apologize to Chelsea for assaulting one of her players

It looks like you haven't felt the heat of losing when you have the full confidence that you will win the match. PSG didn't just lost but they were embarrassed in front of their coach. Automatically, it was Luis Enrique that was embarrassed indirectly, because he thought that his squad was the best and didn't expect any surprises. Enrique Lius owes nobody any official apology.

Before the match, everyone expected Paris Saint-Germain to be clearly superior to Chelsea, even expecting them to score a lot of goals. However, the match went the other way, with Chelsea scoring three goals and devastating Paris Saint-Germain. Paris Saint-Germain must now forget this and focus on the French league. Furthermore, they will face difficult Champions League matches. Of course, there may have been some difficulties, and they lost the final. Let's not forget that they will also be competing in the Super Cup. Therefore, Luis Enrique must quickly rally his team, win the upcoming final, and win the championship.

[sana54210]

Having this type of "brawl" or whatever you want to call it, is not acceptable in a football game. These players are making millions a year, including the manager, so they should be able to react to a loss, more elegantly and they can do a better job. I am sure they will face a lot more trouble with time.

Because they can't always be a great team and win everything, they can't react like this every time they lose. They had a great season and won everything so this was a special loss, when the odds were 4.00+ or even worse for Chelsea, they ended up being a lot worse, and that is why we need to consider how this could be a trouble for them. They were literally humiliated for losing a game like this when they were very heavy favourites.

[AirtelBuzz]

I find Luis Enrique's actions very bad. He is a coach, he will always be calm and if someone in the team makes a mistake, he will fix it. If he does it himself, is it very respectful? Players sometimes do it. You can see such scenes in the game suddenly. But it was not seen that the coach himself would go on the field and do it. But later he said in a news conference that I wanted to grab him from there and remove him. We had no intention of attacking him. But we could clearly see that it was done intentionally.

It is entirely certain that the bitterness of defeat may have made him suddenly violent but your contradictory comment about him may not be correct because he didn't do it intentionally. It's hard for us to understand what really happened in that match because we saw a great team get defeated. But you are right that as a manager, such actions may not be legitimate or appropriate. In fact in that Club World Cup match  the current Blues player scored two goals in a final match, just like their former player, meaning he reminded them of the EPL cup final in 2007. Which was the biggest blow to the French club manager's ego to be honest initially in that match Donnarumma and Achraf Hakimi got into heated arguments with the English club's players.

[Silence Scream]

IN the FIFA Club world Cup final,
well, yeah..
PSG not only lost to Chelsea and failed to win the Club World Cup, but they were also humiliated by Chelsea, a club considered unlikely to reach the final. And to make matters worse, Luis Enrique hit Joao Pedro during the chaos surrounding PSG's defeat. This was truly unfortunate. It was a blunder for PSG.

Source: Luis Enrique swiped at Joao Pedro after Paris Saint-Germain's defeat

Luis Enrique could have display some sense of maturity,I knew he wasn't happy with the outcome of the match but that feeling of loosing such an important game is the same everywhere. I wasn't expecting him to be happy but his actions wasn't impressed either at least he could have ignored Joao Pedro by walking away with that's, all of this embarrassment would never have happened in the first place. Luis Enrique might be going through a lot when PSG was loosing against Chelsea but assaulting Joao Pedro was too extreme from a respected coach like Enrique. I have never seen Luis Enrique this emotional before ,since he couldn't hold it any longer maybe he felt it was the best thing to do by attacking a respected player Joao Pedro which was wrong. I hope he finds time to apologize to Chelsea for assaulting one of her players

I find Luis Enrique's actions very bad. He is a coach, he will always be calm and if someone in the team makes a mistake, he will fix it. If he does it himself, is it very respectful? Players sometimes do it. You can see such scenes in the game suddenly. But it was not seen that the coach himself would go on the field and do it. But later he said in a news conference that I wanted to grab him from there and remove him. We had no intention of attacking him. But we could clearly see that it was done intentionally.

Luis Enrique, I believe, lost control of his anger and attacked the player. The players and manager were already on edge after Paris Saint-Germain, the favorites, failed to win the trophy. This situation became evident at the end, and neither team finished the match well. In my opinion, things that should not have happened and are completely unbecoming of football. I hope Paris Saint-Germain and its manager never display such a behavior again.

[Fuso.hp]

For now there is no team that can challenge PSG as far as the French ligue 1 is concerned because the gulf between PSG and the other teams is very wide but going into the next season this defeat to Chelsea has shown areas that PSG should improve on so that they can maintain this top form the coach has already stated after the game that they where going to review the game and look at areas where they got it wrong.

So far it's only madrid that has won the champions League back to back in this era so it will be difficult for PSG to replicate that

We all know how strong PSG was this season and compared to them, the strength of the other team seemed mostly weak, due to which they can be called a failure in the next season as well, but the way Chelsea is taking good decisions to improve themselves, PSG should not be weakened by this, but they should play with more effort and struggle than Chelsea. This is a very responsible thing and if they succeed in this, then all their weaknesses can be converted into strengths, that's why I hope they will not be weak and will not give anyone a chance. With the effort and performance of Real Madrid that they were seen playing the match, they have succeeded in their goal. But they can try to make it successful like Real Madrid's victory.

PSG defeated Real Madrid badly and they confirmed the Club World Cup final with a big win and their opponent in the final was Chelsea who did not perform significantly in the last season and all the teams that Chelsea defeated to confirm the Club World Cup final were not very strong so we thought Chelsea would lose to PSG by a big margin. The result of the final match really surprised us. Not only the result of the final match surprised us but the way they performed in the final match also surprised us. There we expected a better performance from PSG's defense and a better performance from their attacking midfield but nothing like that happened. Still, no big club will take PSG lightly next season and it is true that PSG is still a strong club.

[RaltcoinsB]

The Club World Cup is now behind us. There's little point in discussing it. Therefore, Paris Saint-Germain needs to focus on winning the French league and competing for a second consecutive Champions League title. They need to focus on this and prepare their players for it. That final against Chelsea is now behind them. First and foremost, they have a Super Cup match ahead of them. If they put in a good performance in the friendly matches, they'll likely win it.

[Agbe]

The Club World Cup is now behind us. There's little point in discussing it. Therefore, Paris Saint-Germain needs to focus on winning the French league and competing for a second consecutive Champions League title. They need to focus on this and prepare their players for it. That final against Chelsea is now behind them. First and foremost, they have a Super Cup match ahead of them. If they put in a good performance in the friendly matches, they'll likely win it.

True the club world cup is over the focus of every team is to see how they will get their team tomorrow and face the challenge that is ahead of them especially the champions League that PSG will be defending it will not be an easy one for PSG because every team has their eyes on the champions League so they will have to be in the best of forms going into this season campaign but PSG has been quite silent in the market they need to bring in some quality players to strengthen their squad before the season starts

[Slow death]

The Club World Cup is now behind us. There's little point in discussing it. Therefore, Paris Saint-Germain needs to focus on winning the French league and competing for a second consecutive Champions League title. They need to focus on this and prepare their players for it. That final against Chelsea is now behind them. First and foremost, they have a Super Cup match ahead of them. If they put in a good performance in the friendly matches, they'll likely win it.

I don't understand why people are talking so much about the Club World Cup in this thread, which is supposed to be about Ligue 1. There are already many pages just talking about Chelsea and the Club World Cup, something that happened many days ago. It also doesn't make any difference to PSG that they suffered that defeat. It won't hurt PSG in the future.

People forget things very quickly. Last season, PSG lost to: Atlético Madrid, Bayern, Arsenal, and Liverpool in European Champions League matches. But PSG still reached the final and won. So, for all those with short memories: Chelsea wasn't the only team to beat PSG. The fact that Chelsea beat PSG doesn't make Chelsea invincible.


PSG wants to sign Bournemouth defender Ilya Zabarny. I don't know if he would be a better option at this point, but the fact is that PSG needs to be stronger in defense. Last season they showed great strength in defense, but they need to improve even more.



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