French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

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PSG has been doing very well in the Champions League this season. Coach Galtier has managed to stabilize the team's performance by solving the internal problems of the team. And more importantly, Neymar has not suffered any injuries this season. The trio of Messi, Neymar, and Mbappe are playing very well. Hence, PSG's chances of winning the Champions League title this season are higher than in any previous season. Messi, Mbappe, and Neymar are in great form. It will be challenging for any team in the Champions League to beat PSG without these three players facing injuries.

I don't really believe that Christophe Galtier can repay Nasser Al-Khelaifi's faith this season by winning the Champions League title. But I don't doubt the quality of PSG's current players even though they have always failed in the previous few seasons. Galtier needs to convince Nasser Al-Khelaifi by qualifying for the quarter-finals and so on where in the round of 16 the toughest challenge is beating Bayern Munich.

Their attacking trio has played well this season, they are also in top form even though the oblique issue after the World Cup continues to stir up the media about the relationship between Mbappe and Messi. Galtier as the current coach also denied rumors stating that the relationship between the two superstars was fine. The media must be more credible in reporting something, those are rumors that really don't matter.

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[LUCKMCFLY]

But if PSG this season might be able to get to the Champions League final match, then I'm sure Mbappe will stay at PSG. Because moving to Real Madrid too I think the competition in La Liga is the same, because Real Madrid is also always the favorite and it's the same situation with PSG in Ligue 1.
Although indeed, in La Liga there are opponents who at least have the same quality as Barcelona. Meanwhile, at this moment for PSG in Ligue 1, even though sometimes PSG also only gets draws and also loses, in the end PSG will still be at the top of the Ligue 1 standings.

The situation is at least the same as Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga and therefore, if Mbappe can take PSG further in the Champions League then I'm pretty sure Mbappe will stay at PSG maybe for a longer time.
Because the benchmark right now is only about the Champions League, because their target of being strong in the local league has at least been achieved. Also, if Mbappe can lead PSG to win the Champions League title too then it is very possible for Mbappe to get the Ballon d'Or and therefore, basically the potential for achievement for Mbappe at PSG is very big if he can get many top achievements.

Winning the Champions League will not stop Mbappe from leaving if he is bent on saying goodbye to ligue 1. Madrid almost finalized the deal of bringing him over to  laliga before he got a mouth watering offer from PSG to extend his contract. Mbappe is one player who loves good football, which made him consider the initial offer from Madrid. If he fails to win the CL in PSG for two years consecutive, he might decide to go on loan to PSG since his contract extends till 2025 at PSG.

I know we are almost certain that Mbappé is not intending to stay at PSG. But what happens if PSG just offers him another stupid contract which will give him a stupid amount of money and he decides to stay, again?

Because at this point, I am not convinced that the target of Mbappé is to have a legacy. I honestly think that money is more important for him. I am quite certain that PSG will be able to have a respectable result in the Champions League. And obviously, PSG will also win the Ligue-1 title. These are going to be enough for Mbappé to stay in the PSG squad.

Real Madrid are not interested in Mbappé at this moment as far as I know. At this point, it is also not going to be surprising if he stays in the PSG squad or leaves. And I will have to disagree on one thing which is I don’t see Mbappé winning too many things with PSG. At least he is not looking to leave a legacy behind, that’s for sure.

I think that Mbappé should mature even more, yes, he is a very good player, young and has a very exquisite football technique, but he has to be more humble, there is no team called Mbappé, he cannot choose who to play with and With whom not, that's what the managers and the technical director are for, where would the player go? They don't want him in Madrid, he rejected the offer and Floretino is not a man who is characterized by giving second chances, for me he stays at PSG, there is no other way, and if Argentina wins he has to see everything they will do to him to Messi in his honor for having won, I think that because he is like that, things are not going well for Mbappé.

PSG will be able to win their matche against Strasbourg whether they play with Messi and Mbappe or not. PSg has quality players which Strasbourg doesn't have.
The Epl started today and big clubs won their first match, it is expected that when legue 1 resumes, PSG should also be able to win their first match.

Strasbourg is weak this season and it is unlikely to see them competing PSG even without its stars. The odds are way in favour of PSG which is playing home in Parc des Princes. BTW, It is hard to compare EPL teams with teams in the other leagues.

Strasbourg had an interesting match against Marseille though, they were losing 2-0 and equalized in the 2nd half, but I still can't see PSG not winning this match, but probably not with a big score, both teams to score is good but PSG's defense is decent this season in ligue 1, so I would avoid it especially because it's after a long break.

Well I don't know if they can win or not, what became clear to me after the World Cup is that I couldn't call any team weak for now because they could surprise you, now Messi will miss 3 games with PSG because according to what he would stay in Rosario, because having won the mjundial because Messi is still partying, and I think he will have those well-deserved vacations, Mbappé will play for sure, I don't think the player has any problem being able to put any "but" to say no, yes He went to train after losing the cup, I think he is very committed to his career and his team in that aspect, not bad, it's a very professional attitude.

As it stands, Lionel Messi is the lone Paris Saint-Germain player who featured at the 2022 FIFA World Cup who has not yet returned to the club to begin preparations for the second half of the season. Since the 2022 World Cup Final, Messi has spent nearly every day celebrating the dramatic win over France, and he also spent Christmas Day with his family back home in Argentina.

Source: https://psgtalk.com/2022/12/report-pinpoints-just-when-messi-will-return-to-psg-after-the-2022-world-cup/

[W Jr.]

PSG vs Strasbourg is playing tomorrow. After the break of the world cup in 2022, Mbappe, Neymar, Hakimi, and Messi come back to be friends again together fight in the club. Maybe they have still a bit stiff after be against each other, but we know they are professional which care more than club. So, Vs Strasbourg, I believe they can not have problem to win at least 2 goals, because when we look how hard Strasbourg fight on degradation zone, PSG squad will not difficult to win again in a row while Strasbourg will have problem on official.

This is a competition that requires them to cooperate with each other, unlike before in the World Cup where they had to beat each other to win the title. Certainly this match looks like it will be very easy for Paris Saint Germain, I even see that in this match they will win with a fairly crushing score. It's not an exaggeration to say that because the difference between the two teams is very clear.

I'm almost certain they'll win the 3 points tonight. Strasbourg is one of the last teams in the league and they don't want to be the league's top scorer against Paris SG. That's why I think they're going to play defensively. Maybe they will want to achieve a miracle with counter attacks. After all, Paris SG is a “dream team” made up of the most successful players in the world cup.

[mvdheuvel1983]

I'm almost certain they'll win the 3 points tonight. Strasbourg is one of the last teams in the league and they don't want to be the league's top scorer against Paris SG. That's why I think they're going to play defensively. Maybe they will want to achieve a miracle with counter attacks. After all, Paris SG is a “dream team” made up of the most successful players in the world cup.

PSG will certainly trash Strasbourg tonight. This is because the best footballers in the world are in PSG.
Despite the fact that the greatest footballer in the history of the game is yet to arrive, yet they have the quality to dominate and win the game. Because Kylian Mbappé, Achraf Hakimi, Sergio Ramos will be feature in the game. This is going to be the proverbial David and Goliath match; however, we know that this is football, and anything is bound to happen.
Still, I am tipping PSG to win.

[Jody.Drummer]

I think the media just want to massively exaggerate the rumors of Mbappe going to Real Madrid and they only want to make money from this news. The problem is that Mbappe and Real Madrid are interested in each other, it could happen, but most likely it will also be another big news in the future and the rumors that have been circulating will be closed either by Real Madrid.

after all which media doesn't want to make the news exaggerated, just like the media keeps talking about ronaldo and others to make money especially with news about mbappe and real madrid of course it's all to make money and that's how the media works 

Any news that has the potential to become big news, the media will report it even though there is no valid news related to the news they convey. Things like this will continue to happen in the world of football, especially news about potential young players who have very good abilities who are associated with big clubs and can even be said to be the best clubs in Europe right now, if you look at their achievements.
This news is not new, in fact we have heard this news since last season, long before the winter transfer window opened. But the fact is that the media continues to report about Mbappe and Real Madrid until now, even giving the impression that they are not interested in other news. 

[indah rezqi]

I'm almost certain they'll win the 3 points tonight. Strasbourg is one of the last teams in the league and they don't want to be the league's top scorer against Paris SG. That's why I think they're going to play defensively. Maybe they will want to achieve a miracle with counter attacks. After all, Paris SG is a “dream team” made up of the most successful players in the world cup.

PSG was not reinforced by Messi in today's match. Messi is still on vacation following his first World Cup title win and it is likely he will return to the team in early January. For this match PSG will be strengthened by two attackers Neymar and Mbappe, both of whom have also performed well for PSG this season so I don't think PSG will be overwhelmed by beating Strasbourg. Even though victory is not guaranteed, I think it's hard to expect PSG to lose this match.

This match might be easy for the PSG team where Strasbourg is one of the teams that are in the relegation zone this season with only 1 win in their last 15 matches. Meanwhile, PSG has a great opportunity to widen the gap with Lens even higher than now, and Mbappe also has the opportunity to record more goals this season. Mbappe has scored 12 goals so far, and today his tally is likely to increase.

[Docnaster]

PSG vs Strasbourg is playing tomorrow. After the break of the world cup in 2022, Mbappe, Neymar, Hakimi, and Messi come back to be friends again together fight in the club. Maybe they have still a bit stiff after be against each other, but we know they are professional which care more than club. So, Vs Strasbourg, I believe they can not have problem to win at least 2 goals, because when we look how hard Strasbourg fight on degradation zone, PSG squad will not difficult to win again in a row while Strasbourg will have problem on official.

Mbappe and Messi were enemies at the World Cup. But now they are teammates. They will play in the same team. And if Messi, Neymar, Mbappe and Ramos continue to perform well, PSG have the ability to win against any team. Strasbourg is a very weak team. They have won just one match this season. My guess PSG team will win against Strasbourg by at least 3 goals. Both Messi and Mbappe will score.

I understand that Mbappe is not a lover of Messi and he was able to show it obviously in the world cup finals after Argentina was able to win  the World Cup.  Mbappe didn't bother to go greet or celebrate with his senior colleague.
This is something that Neymar will not do.
But in PSG they will manage to play together for the victory of the club that pay them so much amount of money.

[sana54210]

Mbappe and Messi were enemies at the World Cup. But now they are teammates. They will play in the same team. And if Messi, Neymar, Mbappe and Ramos continue to perform well, PSG have the ability to win against any team. Strasbourg is a very weak team. They have won just one match this season. My guess PSG team will win against Strasbourg by at least 3 goals. Both Messi and Mbappe will score.

in the French Ligue 1, I wouldn't look at any other team than PSG. although sometimes they perform badly, in the end, the champion is PSG. no other club is as powerful as PSG in Ligue 1. as long as other clubs don't have enough money like PSG. it will be hard to compete within the league. the others would probably only be fighting for second and third place.

Wouldn't it be a shocker if somehow they just blow up? I mean think about it, if Neymar wants out because of some issues with Mbappe, and then Mbappe wants Messi to be gone because of world cup situation, and he gets an offer from Real that he accepts and leaves as soon as he is capable, suddenly in a year they are all gone and PSG is left with nothing. That would bring some justice and equality to Ligue 1, but knowing how rich they are, if those players were gone, they would just spend a few hundred million on some other players and become great again. Ligue 1 needs to find a non-psg payment clause so that other teams could get some money, this way just doesn't work.

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Although indeed, Monaco can turn things around so that they can win the match, but if I consider from the existing statistics where Monaco is a team that is in a higher standing area then I think that is a statistic that is not good for Monaco. Indeed, statistics are not something that is important because the most important thing is the full points obtained, but as a top team against a bottom team then I think at least Monaco can get good statistics too.
Because Auxerre is currently in the relegation zone or at least a team that is at the bottom of the Ligue 1 standings, but in reality Auxerre was able to score first and almost won at half time.

But for the next match between PSG v Strasbourg, I personally am very sure that PSG will be able to win, even I am sure that PSG can win with a wide goal difference. What's more, if PSG can win big with clean sheets, then of course that will be a very good result in this match.
Indeed, Messi was not played in this match because he was still given more time to rest. But even though there is no Messi in the PSG squad in this match, I personally feel that this will not be an obstacle for PSG to be able to win with a big score. Because yes, basically PSG still has other players and also, PSG still has other goalscoring players who can still play very well.

[Ludmilla_rose1995]

in the French Ligue 1, I wouldn't look at any other team than PSG. although sometimes they perform badly, in the end, the champion is PSG. no other club is as powerful as PSG in Ligue 1. as long as other clubs don't have enough money like PSG. it will be hard to compete within the league. the others would probably only be fighting for second and third place.

money can arrange everything,, PSG is very lucky to be owned by a conglomerate that is not stingy with buying players and it's proven, just look at the composition of the PSG squad, it really is a dream team, if only Haaland moved to PSG then PSG would have been the perfect team.

Wouldn't it be a shocker if somehow they just blow up? I mean think about it, if Neymar wants out because of some issues with Mbappe, and then Mbappe wants Messi to be gone because of world cup situation, and he gets an offer from Real that he accepts and leaves as soon as he is capable, suddenly in a year they are all gone and PSG is left with nothing. That would bring some justice and equality to Ligue 1, but knowing how rich they are, if those players were gone, they would just spend a few hundred million on some other players and become great again. Ligue 1 needs to find a non-psg payment clause so that other teams could get some money, this way just doesn't work.

these three players will definitely not do anything rash, their goal is of course money and only PSG are able to pay their salaries even though the MNM trio are the world's most expensive footballers. madrid is still really able to pay mbappe's salary, and I also see mbappe's great interest in madrid because madrid always wins UCL trophies, very different from PSG, who are still struggling to get UCL trophies.

[Sterbens]

I'm almost certain they'll win the 3 points tonight. Strasbourg is one of the last teams in the league and they don't want to be the league's top scorer against Paris SG. That's why I think they're going to play defensively. Maybe they will want to achieve a miracle with counter attacks. After all, Paris SG is a “dream team” made up of the most successful players in the world cup.

I am also very sure that they will win easily in this match, yes that belief is natural because the two teams also play at different levels. Paris Saint Germain with world-class players, even with extraordinary individual achievements. Meanwhile, Strasbourg is a team that can be said to be sober when compared to Paris Siant Germain.
In another match, Monaco made it into the top 5 after beating Auxerre with a final score of 2-3. The two teams exchanged goals, and Monaco managed to secure 3 points from the hosts.

[MAAManda]

In about 1 hour we'll see the PSG Vs Strasbourg match, this match will be a very important match for both teams. PSG wants 3 points so they can be further away from Lens who is in second place and secure their position at the top of the standings. And Strasbourg wants those 3 points so they can escape the relegation zone. Even though the handicap in this match is very large, I'm sure that PSG will win with a small score in this match.

[Velvet78]

It wasn't an easy game at all for Monaco today. Auxerre resisted them really well and Monaco barely scored the winning goal in the last minutes and won by 3-2. Ben Seghir was amazing even though it was his first appearance with Monaco in the league this season. He entered the game at the beginning of the second half and scored 2 goals.

He is only 17 years old and this must be a really specialy moment for the youngster. He has drawn all the attention to himself already.

[snipie]

It wasn't an easy game at all for Monaco today. Auxerre resisted them really well and Monaco barely scored the winning goal in the last minutes and won by 3-2. Ben Seghir was amazing even though it was his first appearance with Monaco in the league this season. He entered the game at the beginning of the second half and scored 2 goals.

He is only 17 years old and this must be a really specialy moment for the youngster. He has drawn all the attention to himself already.

Monaco managed to get 3 points hardly thanks to a player in his debut, hopefully he will be a player to count on to push the team back to the first positions
Lille is leading right now vs Clermont with 1 goal with few minutes left from the end of the game.
PSG game will start in 15 minutes and I assume it will be easy for them.

[KTChampions]

It is naive to believe any public statements when it comes to such big things. I think the "leak" from Marca which is pro-Real media can be considered as a public statement. I'm sure Real Madrid have an interest in Mbappe but they try not to show it as Mbappe is also interested in Real Madrid so it's better to look indifferent in order to reach a favorable agreement.

I think the media just want to massively exaggerate the rumors of Mbappe going to Real Madrid and they only want to make money from this news. The problem is that Mbappe and Real Madrid are interested in each other, it could happen, but most likely it will also be another big news in the future and the rumors that have been circulating will be closed either by Real Madrid.

If you remember how much news we saw during the epic when Mbappe either wanted to go to Real or wanted to stay at PSG, we should be patient  We will see many more news on this topic, both true and fictional. But I think all this news can not be taken seriously until the summer, since the main trading will not begin until the summer transfer window.

[Docnaster]

It is naive to believe any public statements when it comes to such big things. I think the "leak" from Marca which is pro-Real media can be considered as a public statement. I'm sure Real Madrid have an interest in Mbappe but they try not to show it as Mbappe is also interested in Real Madrid so it's better to look indifferent in order to reach a favorable agreement.

I think the media just want to massively exaggerate the rumors of Mbappe going to Real Madrid and they only want to make money from this news. The problem is that Mbappe and Real Madrid are interested in each other, it could happen, but most likely it will also be another big news in the future and the rumors that have been circulating will be closed either by Real Madrid.

If you remember how much news we saw during the epic when Mbappe either wanted to go to Real or wanted to stay at PSG, we should be patient  We will see many more news on this topic, both true and fictional. But I think all this news can not be taken seriously until the summer, since the main trading will not begin until the summer transfer window.

Lol. But I think we are already having more fiction than the truth. the last one I saw was about how Mbappe's clash with Messi will make him leave PSG very quickly, meanwhile, Mbappe never had any misunderstandings with Messi. Considering mbappe's statement after the last world cup in Qatar, I think Mpappe is happy to play alongside Messi, with this he can grow to any height he wishes if he submissively plays for Paris Saint-German, therefor I consider all this Real Madrid news to be mere rants. It is not yet time for mbappe to move to any other club.

[maju69]

Paris Saint Germain has a 1 goal lead from the guest with a goal created in the 14th minute. As many have predicted, Paris Siant Germain will be very dominant in this match. Look at the mastery of the match they showed, it really shows two different teams. I wouldn't expect much from Strasbourg to surprise this game. Paris Saint Germain would absolutely pull off a comfortable victory at the end of the game.

[ilovealtcoins]

PSG   vs   Strasbourg

PSG is now playing against Strasbourg. PSG is leading 1-0 at the end of the first half. While Mbappe, Neymar and Ramos are in the starting XI, Messi remains absent. Messi will probably not play in this match. Defense Marquinhos scored the first goal for PSG. Neymar and Mbappe performed well but failed to score. Expect Mbappe to score in the second half and increase the goal gap with Strasbourg.

[bekti3]

PSG   vs   Strasbourg

PSG is now playing against Strasbourg. PSG is leading 1-0 at the end of the first half. While Mbappe, Neymar and Ramos are in the starting XI, Messi remains absent. Messi will probably not play in this match. Defense Marquinhos scored the first goal for PSG. Neymar and Mbappe performed well but failed to score. Expect Mbappe to score in the second half and increase the goal gap with Strasbourg.

Marquinhos scored the opener as well as the equalizer in this game
Neymar's absence due to the red card he received is clearly having an impact now, even though PSG still maintain their possession of the ball they are having a little trouble converting it into goals.
Now is a pretty crucial minute because it's the last minutes. This can be a surprise because sometimes in minutes like this the players lose concentration.

[eaLiTy]

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 I wouldn't expect much from Strasbourg to surprise this game. Paris Saint Germain would absolutely pull off a comfortable victory at the end of the game.

I was also not expecting any surprised from Strasbourg but Paris Saint Germain had some surprise in stores with their own goal which equalized the match and then Neymar got his second yellow card and was sent out and for the past 25 minutes i am struggling to make a decision on what will happen again during the final minutes and i wanted to see PSG scoring another goal and seal the deal.

Edit: Kylian Mbappé you beauty