French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[ILuckyGuyI]

Nice should count themselves very lucky against Montpellier today. Because they got an early red card and it was the start of horrible things for Nice. Montpellier missed a penalty four minutes after that. And they did everything they could to score a goal by not giving any proper chance to Nice. But still the game ended in a draw by 0-0. However, there is an opportunity for Marseille to take the second place back from Nice now. They are playing against Brest away tomorrow. If they get a win by at least three goals, they can make it there.

[Doell]

Nantes struggled a bit at the moment against Troyes, Half a minute from Half Time Nantes still couldn't get into Troyes defense and shoot the ball at their keeper. Nantes will have to get a win and earn points to sit at least in the top 5 to get rid of Starsbourg who are just a point away, this match is still on, will Nantes win this time?

[Ratash]

Nice should count themselves very lucky against Montpellier today. Because they got an early red card and it was the start of horrible things for Nice. Montpellier missed a penalty four minutes after that. And they did everything they could to score a goal by not giving any proper chance to Nice. But still the game ended in a draw by 0-0. However, there is an opportunity for Marseille to take the second place back from Nice now. They are playing against Brest away tomorrow. If they get a win by at least three goals, they can make it there.

Your right nice team was lucky dante mistake could've cost them the game its his 2 red card in 3 games and they both managed to not lose on them despite being dominated by the home team i think marseille will take this opportunity and get the second place, brest team is a bit unconsistent and marseille play better away they have a high chance of winning tomorrow.

[snipie]

Nice should count themselves very lucky against Montpellier today. Because they got an early red card and it was the start of horrible things for Nice. Montpellier missed a penalty four minutes after that. And they did everything they could to score a goal by not giving any proper chance to Nice. But still the game ended in a draw by 0-0. However, there is an opportunity for Marseille to take the second place back from Nice now. They are playing against Brest away tomorrow. If they get a win by at least three goals, they can make it there.

Marseille could catch Nice and get the same number of points, otherwise playing most of the game with 10 players and getting a draw is something positive for Nice tho. For the other games played, Lille and Nantes losing vs +15 teams in the table was curious.
I am waiting for PSG match against Bordeaux, the first and the last teams of the table. PSG isn't concentrating and their defeat against Real Madrid will remain quite long time in their minds.

[Distraction]

Nice had a really bad day against Montpellier today. Nice got a red card and this started bad things for them. Montpellier were already a dangerous opponent and this incident helped them get stronger in this match. And they really could have won the match too if they weren't too bad at scoring. Nice still secured one point in this bad situation. And now Marseille will be targeting to have the second position in the standings. But they will have to defeat Brest by a big goal difference to do this.

[sayaya17]

Nantes struggled a bit at the moment against Troyes, Half a minute from Half Time Nantes still couldn't get into Troyes defense and shoot the ball at their keeper. Nantes will have to get a win and earn points to sit at least in the top 5 to get rid of Starsbourg who are just a point away, this match is still on, will Nantes win this time?

It's a shame Nantes had to accept defeat, having previously managed to go unbeaten in 4 consecutive matches in Ligue 1. Even Nantes managed
to surprise many people when they beat PSG with a very convincing score, but facing Troyes which is a weaker team than Nantes, Nantes seems
to have difficulty scoring goals. Even though Nantes really need a win to be in the top 5, so that next season they can play in European competition.
But this season, Nantes has actually played very well, experiencing an increase in performance compared to the previous season, which was almost
relegated. But since there are still 10 more games left this season for Nantes to play, so their chances are still open to enter the top 5 this season.
Hopefully Nantes can learn from the defeat against Troyes, and improve their performance so that in the next match they can win. Although their
next opponent wasn't easy, because Nantes had to face Lille who the previous season were winners of the Ligue 1 trophy.

[EdenHazard]

Nice had a really bad day against Montpellier today. Nice got a red card and this started bad things for them. Montpellier were already a dangerous opponent and this incident helped them get stronger in this match. And they really could have won the match too if they weren't too bad at scoring. Nice still secured one point in this bad situation. And now Marseille will be targeting to have the second position in the standings. But they will have to defeat Brest by a big goal difference to do this.

Despite the red card bad luck for nice and a draw result as they failed to keep up with psg at the top two , they are not losing the three points and earned one at least.
They defend it very well and make it goalless as montpellier desperate to move up into the european competition zone.

Still .. marseille haunting them to drag them down to 3rd as they had 1 game advantage.

[jakdanyel]

It looks like the fight for the second position will go on till the end of the season. Because both of Nice and Marseille teams are prone to losing points in various matches in the league. And this causes none of them to pull away from the other one. For example, Nice drew with Montpellier and this is a good opportunity for Marseille to equalize the points. And they can even take the second position too if they have the needed goal gap in the Brest match. And there is a feeling in me like that Marseille will be the 2nd team at the end of the season.

[Woodie]

playing with ten players turned out to be really hard for NICE. after dante was hit with a red card, NICE's midfield was slightly open, montpellier must be able to win in this match, the pressure they gave was already very good, only luck was not on montpellier's side.

Nice were actually the favorite of this fixture and playing with a man down mearnt that there was going to be less of the attacking and likely more of the defending to be done. I think montpellier should be angry with themselves for not taking this chance especially that they were playing from their home turf....but then again it becomes more tougher to break a teams defense when they are a player down as everyone now has double duties.

[bering]

Top 2 positions on standings league looks very tight currently because Nice, Marseille, and Rennes compete each other to finish at that position and while Nice failed to get full points yesterday i think this could be right time for Marseille to reduce gap points with Nice but i wish they will playing good against Brest today because so far the fans are not satisfied with Marseille performance lately

[hahay]

Top 2 positions on standings league looks very tight currently because Nice, Marseille, and Rennes compete each other to finish at that position and while Nice failed to get full points yesterday i think this could be right time for Marseille to reduce gap points with Nice but i wish they will playing good against Brest today because so far the fans are not satisfied with Marseille performance lately

Both Nice and Marseille are in fact like two teams that are not much different in quality, so I think the competition for positions 2 and 3 for UCL tickets can still be taken over by any team at least for positions 2, 3 and maybe 4. Also, I think Nice stay played some good football yesterday against Montpellier despite the draw, as Nice only played with 10 men. Regarding Marseille which currently only has a 3 point gap with Nice, if in today's match against Brest, Marseille can win it will be the same point. But I think the position will remain the same because it looks like Nice are leading in the number of goals but, if Marseille can win by more than 3 goals with clean sheets then Marseille will be able to overtake Nice in 2nd place.

[Woodie]

PSG seem to have recovered well after having a bad day at the office during the UEFA games against Real Madrid... they are currently in action playing Bordeaux and they lead by two goals to nil courtesy to goals coming from Mbappe and Neymar and i see another goal to come which is a good sign that they have not been derailed from their home duties in ligue 1.

Update: they got a third goal...wish they did this in the champions league

[Anguwa]

PSG seem to have recovered well after having a bad day at the office during the UEFA games against Real Madrid... they are currently in action playing Bordeaux and they lead by two goals to nil courtesy to goals coming from Mbappe and Neymar and i see another goal to come which is a good sign that they have not been derailed from their home duties in ligue 1.

Update: they got a third goal...wish they did this in the champions league

I can see there performance is very well against Bordeaux as they are already leading with three goals, they really show that they are still well and very competitive despite there defeat and elimination in UEFA Champions League. Its clear that next season they will surly do well in champions league next season. I just have the believe that what happened against Real Madrid will not repeat its self because PSG have the team that should be the Champions of Europe.

[Mr.Scott]

PSG seem to have recovered well after having a bad day at the office during the UEFA games against Real Madrid... they are currently in action playing Bordeaux and they lead by two goals to nil courtesy to goals coming from Mbappe and Neymar and i see another goal to come which is a good sign that they have not been derailed from their home duties in ligue 1.

Update: they got a third goal...wish they did this in the champions league

Kylian Mbappe once again lead his team with scoring, then Neymar and Leandro get goals equally single goal.  

However, Messi and Neymar are getting extremely clearly whistled with each touch they make against Bordeaux. It seems like supporters blew up over Messi and Neymar as both performance lead champions league dismissal somehow. Ligue 1 trophies isn't their priorities but Champions League. They sure they deserve it, they're simply waste of investment. Especially Neymar.

[_act_]

I can see there performance is very well against Bordeaux as they are already leading with three goals

Yes they are leading with 3 goals and they are the strongest in Ligue 1, but I am still always confused that Messi is not scoring, Kylian Mbappe scored the first goal, Neymar scored the second goal while Leandro Daniel Paredes scored the third goal, I am still surprise that Messi is playing in the front and yet not scoring well. Maybe it is age that is telling or maybe other players are not working well with him believing in the old players there like Mbappe and Meymar.

[judas]

We watched a match between the first and last team in the standings today. PSG hosted Bordeaux and destroyed them by a result like 3-0. Neymar and Mbappe both scored in this game but Messi didn't make any contribution to the team by a goal or an assist. He hasn't scored any goal for four weeks in the Ligue 1. This is still not the Messi we want to see. He is far away from his times at Barcelona this season. I understood in his first times here as he was trying to adapt to the team. But he is Messi and he should have started being better than this already.

[Fakhrulenclix]

We watched a match between the first and last team in the standings today. PSG hosted Bordeaux and destroyed them by a result like 3-0. Neymar and Mbappe both scored in this game but Messi didn't make any contribution to the team by a goal or an assist. He hasn't scored any goal for four weeks in the Ligue 1. This is still not the Messi we want to see. He is far away from his times at Barcelona this season. I understood in his first times here as he was trying to adapt to the team. But he is Messi and he should have started being better than this already.

PSG played very well in the match against Bordeaux and they fielded almost all of their main players, I think that makes a lot of sense with a 3-0 win.
no one understands about Messi when he was still at PSG, it's really much different when he was at Barcelona, if you look at his teammates, I don't think there is anything wrong with other PSG players who have almost the same quality as Messi's friends at Barcelona, maybe I see he didn't play with all his heart at PSG so that made his performance very bad.

[retreat]

although paredes got a yellow card but he played well by contributing 1 goal for PSG. bordeaux played quite well but Navas also protected the PSG goal well, I also pay attention to messi's performance, it seems that he doesn't show a satisfactory performance, only neymar and mbappe who showed great performance.

[Distraction]

PSG defeated Bordeaux as it was expected from them. They didn't have any difficulty against the last-placed team of the league. And among the matches that are going on right now, Strasbourg - Monaco is the interesting one to me. It is halftime now and Strasbourg are still 1-0 ahead. They are one of the attracting teams of this season as we are seeing them being close to top four now. And if they win this match, they will capture the third position in the standings transiently.

[Bloodseekers]

although paredes got a yellow card but he played well by contributing 1 goal for PSG. bordeaux played quite well but Navas also protected the PSG goal well, I also pay attention to messi's performance, it seems that he doesn't show a satisfactory performance, only neymar and mbappe who showed great performance.

PSG after being eliminated in the Champions League, managed to beat Bordeaux with a 3-0 score. although this is not a balanced opponent but this victory is a medicine for PSG players to vent their frustration after being defeated by Madrid. I think PSG for this season can be said to have won the French League even though the match is still long. PSG can focus only on the domestic league. It's a shame that they had to be eliminated from the Champions League, even though it was the Champions League that was their hope.