French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[kro55]

Firstly, PSG's defense is not in a good position now. Secondly, I am not happy with the performance of their goalkeeper Navas. I saw two goals from Brest in yesterday’s match. If the goalkeeper had been a little more aware, opponent would not have scored from these shots. Hopefully Ramos and Donnarumma will improve their overall situation. 

PSG defenders are never at top level. They can play well in Ligue I but in Champions League, they bring uncertainty when opponents are top clubs. It is abnormal to see PSG conceded many goals from French clubs. You are right that Donnarumma and Ramos will help them when they are in the squad.

We know their defense is weak. Coach Pochettino himself knows better that their defense is weak so they have taken Ramos to the team to strengthen the defense. On the other hand, Donnarumma has been included in the team to protect the goal post. Moreover, we all know, attacking is the best defense. If PSG's forward lineup can play well, then the opposing players will not get much chance to counter-attack.

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[suzanne5223]

Until now there is no single official source indicating that Messi or Neymar will play that game against Brest. Pochettino already indicated that he is studying whether to include Messi or not in that game. Comparing to the previous match and for the moment, only Di Maria, Verratti, Donnarumma, Marquinhos will be additionall ypresent with the team in Brest.

Brest is not a big club in Lique I so PSG can beat them without those stars. Messi just came back after a long vacation and he needs one month of training to play in real matches. PSG are powerful and they don't need Messi only for Lique I. They need a healthy Messi for Champions League.

You're right with what you said but Brest did play well in today's game and looking at the game stats they conceived just 8 fouls while PSG conceived 7 despite their leading which means we should expect a lot of good playing from Brest this season.
Having said that, I don't know if it is me alone, why do you guys only believe the Champion league is the only reason PSG signed Messi?

This is a good question for those thinking that Messi is the only Key to Champion league or that Paris SG is weak without the last contract signed contract with Messi.
And from what i can see, even Pochettino follow the mess by keep talking about Messi and the Champions League. I find it useless to keep talking about Messi even when we discuss games he wasn't present !
I think this not a good sign for other PSG players in terms of enthousiasm and psychology when they feel that their strong team as always used to be, becomes in potential fearness without Messi .

I'm unaware that Pochettino also speaks about Messi being their key to win the Champion league but I understand their position about winning the Champion league and why Pochettino also wants it so bad.
The club hasn't won a single Champion since 1982 and their hope to won it was lost when they lost to Bayern Munich in the last Champion league.

[Joca97]

Monaco are going to be after their first win of the season in the league. They couldn't start with decent results. And they got another hit against Shakhtar in the Champions League. It is time for them to gather themselves up I believe. Otherwise, the rest of the season wouldn't be so good for them.

Today, they're going to host Lens and they will want to get a clear victory. And I believe that they will manage to do it.

They were like trash, controlled more than 70% of the game against Lens but they lost by a pretty score 0 - 2 , especially the match was held in Monaco (Stade Louis II).

Maybe they want to prepare their greatest players for the match against Shakhtar Donetsk, given that they are still losing on aggregate 1 - 0, it makes sense for that reason.

Monaco is currently playing really bad and i think if they continue losing like this they will probobly sack their manager. Also they had most of the game a player advantage and couldnt do anything with that and ended up losing 2-0

[blackened515]

Monaco are going to be after their first win of the season in the league. They couldn't start with decent results. And they got another hit against Shakhtar in the Champions League. It is time for them to gather themselves up I believe. Otherwise, the rest of the season wouldn't be so good for them.

Today, they're going to host Lens and they will want to get a clear victory. And I believe that they will manage to do it.

I was expecting them to win against Lens, but unfortunately, they got beaten in their home. The match was a tough one, but Lens manage to win. However, the both teams got a red card. Lens got a one man down 61 minutes in the second half, and Monaco couldn't take advantage of the situation. While Monaco also got theirs 86 minutes. Monaco's performance was great last season, they ended in 3rd position on the table. And needs to work on their squad this season, they have played 3 matches so far this season, but couldn't win any.

[MAAManda]

Monaco are going to be after their first win of the season in the league. They couldn't start with decent results. And they got another hit against Shakhtar in the Champions League. It is time for them to gather themselves up I believe. Otherwise, the rest of the season wouldn't be so good for them.

Today, they're going to host Lens and they will want to get a clear victory. And I believe that they will manage to do it.

They were like trash, controlled more than 70% of the game against Lens but they lost by a pretty score 0 - 2 , especially the match was held in Monaco (Stade Louis II).

Maybe they want to prepare their greatest players for the match against Shakhtar Donetsk, given that they are still losing on aggregate 1 - 0, it makes sense for that reason.

Monaco is currently playing really bad and i think if they continue losing like this they will probobly sack their manager. Also they had most of the game a player advantage and couldnt do anything with that and ended up losing 2-0

Did you pay attention to the last message on my post? They Most Likely Lose To Lens Because They Retained And Tried To Prepare Their Best Players To Play Against Shakhtar Donetsk, As You Know That They (Monaco) Lost to Shakhtar Donetsk at Stade Louis II, Their Next Match Will Be Held in Donetsk, Ukraine (National Sports Complex "Olympiyskiy")

Most likely too, it looks like Monaco can turn things around as they have already prepared their greatest players

[snipie]

For the second game in a row, Psg conceded two goals from not very strong teams.

Am not a PSG fan but am worried for them because if a team that is considered strong is failing to keep clean sheets against weaker teams, then what will happen will the face tougher opponents?? PSG needs to fix their defense asap!

Offensively, everything is in order, even in the absence of Messi and Neymar. .

I think we won't even notice the absence or presence of Messi because PSG is an attack minded team. I don't expect anything extraordinary from him

Indeed there was defensive mistakes so we shouldn't blame all on Navas but that's mean that Donnarumma will take his chance probably soon.
Messi will be crucial whenever PSG attack fails to score. There is many combination which will confuse opponents plan.
For the goals, I liked Gueye's one in particular although Di Maria which is good too is way popular in social media!
St-Etienne 1 - 1 Lille, what a failure..

[Cafex]

Monaco got another loss this time against Lens 0-2. And they lost in their home stadium also. There have been three matches and Monaco still haven't got their first win of the season. This is really alarming for Monaco. They are playing way different comparing to the last season. They should immediately find the main problem and solve it as quick as possible. Otherwise, they are going to have a terrible season seemingly.

[mv1986]

For the second game in a row, Psg conceded two goals from not very strong teams.

Am not a PSG fan but am worried for them because if a team that is considered strong is failing to keep clean sheets against weaker teams, then what will happen will the face tougher opponents?? PSG needs to fix their defense asap!

Offensively, everything is in order, even in the absence of Messi and Neymar. .

I think we won't even notice the absence or presence of Messi because PSG is an attack minded team. I don't expect anything extraordinary from him

Indeed there was defensive mistakes so we shouldn't blame all on Navas but that's mean that Donnarumma will take his chance probably soon.
Messi will be crucial whenever PSG attack fails to score. There is many combination which will confuse opponents plan.
For the goals, I liked Gueye's one in particular although Di Maria which is good too is way popular in social media!
St-Etienne 1 - 1 Lille, what a failure..

When will Messi join the squad? Donnarumma and Navas, one is going to be a big loser this season or they share the games like one plays in the Champions league and the other guy the Ligue 1. Both will be unsatisfied with such a solution though.

Could also be that it will still take some time before Messi joins as he got some extra time off I believe. It's time to see him join, not so much fun to watch without him playing.

[barbara44]

The amazing part is that they are still lacking so many players that they got, I think Wijnaldum is the only player they got that they are playing right now? I mean I do not think that we will really see anything that would be interesting right away from the first games that other players play too, so it is going to be a few months for us to see the big change with all those awesome players but they haven't even started.

There is a month for them all to get in and get in shape, which will be awesome. The fact that they are still dominating even before they started playing shows you how awesome they are. The only bad outcome right now would be if the team doesn't end up jelling well together, if they lose a lot of chemistry and they start playing bad then they will have to handle that very carefully because it will make or break this team.

[snipie]

When will Messi join the squad? Donnarumma and Navas, one is going to be a big loser this season or they share the games like one plays in the Champions league and the other guy the Ligue 1. Both will be unsatisfied with such a solution though.

Could also be that it will still take some time before Messi joins as he got some extra time off I believe. It's time to see him join, not so much fun to watch without him playing.

I am not aware of any specific information regarding when Messi will join the squad in the field but I suppose he might play a part of the next game vs Reims then I am pretty sure he will play vs Clermont and Lyon! He has to get used a bit with the squad and the gameplay of PSG. They have just to announce that Messi is playing and electricity will shut during that game in France

[judas]

We didn't watch Messi playing in the Brest match also. But PSG still won 4-2 of course. Messi is expected to play in PSG's next match against Reims. As he is lacking match fitness, it is still unknown whether he will be able to play. If this goes on like this, we may even see Messi starting to play as of the Champions League group matches.

[Saint-loup]

Messi has been with Barcelona for a long time, he will have trouble adapting to the new team. There are many differences between the strategy of Barcelona and the strategy of PSG. However, since Messi has played with Neymar before, I believe it will not take long for Messi to adapt to PSG. Moreover, all the players of PSG are experienced enough. It shouldn't be too much of a problem to adapt to such an experienced squad.

It will not be hard for a good player to get adaped, if Messi adapt, it is not because he has played with Neymar before in Barcelona, it is normal for players to adapt, players like Messi should give up to standard, but what I am thinking about is that he has never played before in any league or any club, he has been in Barcelona still his childhood, but I know he should be professional and good enough to play better in PSG or any other strong club, all I can say is for us to expect the best of Messi this season, we should expect the best of PSG.

Brest is a small team and this match is not really important for PSG so I think that Mauricio Pochettino doesn't need to use his super star players for this match. Moreover Lionel Messi would certainly want to make his debut with a good performance therefore he needs to be as trained as possible.

The match is definitely important. But Brest is the easy opponent. So even if PSG forms a slightly weaker squad, they will win. Because even though the squad is a bit weak, but this squad is capable of defeating any strong team. It is certain that Mbappe will be on the team. He alone can knock down Brest's defense.

Why do you say this match was important for PSG? I don't understand. As I said above Brest is small team and PSG doesn't care about them. They easily won the first half 2-1 with one goal from Ander Herrera and another from Kylian Mbappe and another time 2-1 the second half with one goal from Idrissa Gueye and one from Angel di Maria. It had been a very easy victory.

[Turbolinea]

Lyon are going to play a home match vs Clermont. It is tomorrow afternoon. Clermont have got 2 wins in 2 league matches so far. But Lyon couldn't get any win so far. They want to get the first one in this match. But their opponent is in-form. Hence, they will need to play extra careful. Normally, Lyon are a much better team than Clermont. They have sold Memphis Depay to Barcelona but they are still quite powerful. I expect them to win.

[nelson4lov]

Monaco got another loss this time against Lens 0-2. And they lost in their home stadium also. There have been three matches and Monaco still haven't got their first win of the season. This is really alarming for Monaco. They are playing way different comparing to the last season. They should immediately find the main problem and solve it as quick as possible. Otherwise, they are going to have a terrible season seemingly.

Maybe, they're not performing well because theyfeel intimidated by the kind of squad that PSG boosts of this season. PSG's second team is literally better that most if not all of the first team of other ligue 1 teams so it's very intimidating. But that might be far from Monaco's current season problems. I've recalled them being this bad few years ago but that was after they sold some of their top players. I don't know if it's the same case now since I didn't track their activities in the transfer window.

[kayiboyu]

Monaco got another loss this time against Lens 0-2. And they lost in their home stadium also. There have been three matches and Monaco still haven't got their first win of the season. This is really alarming for Monaco. They are playing way different comparing to the last season. They should immediately find the main problem and solve it as quick as possible. Otherwise, they are going to have a terrible season seemingly.

Maybe, they're not performing well because theyfeel intimidated by the kind of squad that PSG boosts of this season. PSG's second team is literally better that most if not all of the first team of other ligue 1 teams so it's very intimidating. But that might be far from Monaco's current season problems. I've recalled them being this bad few years ago but that was after they sold some of their top players. I don't know if it's the same case now since I didn't track their activities in the transfer window.

I don't think that the main reason is that they are intimated by PSG's squad quality. Because they had a similar squad in the last season also. I know that they have Messi now but he still hasn't even played in a game.

I think the reason is that there are in-team problems. And they still aren't able to make them go away. Unless they do so, there will be nothing changing.

[Saint-loup]

When will Messi join the squad? Donnarumma and Navas, one is going to be a big loser this season or they share the games like one plays in the Champions league and the other guy the Ligue 1. Both will be unsatisfied with such a solution though.

Could also be that it will still take some time before Messi joins as he got some extra time off I believe. It's time to see him join, not so much fun to watch without him playing.

I am not aware of any specific information regarding when Messi will join the squad in the field but I suppose he might play a part of the next game vs Reims then I am pretty sure he will play vs Clermont and Lyon! He has to get used a bit with the squad and the gameplay of PSG. They have just to announce that Messi is playing and electricity will shut during that game in France

Messi will certainly play during the match against Reims next week but it's very unlikely that he will play against Clermont in 3 weeks because his national team Argentina has several matches scheduled at the beginning of September and it's the same for Neymar and Brazil, they will meet each other BTW.

[mv1986]

When will Messi join the squad? Donnarumma and Navas, one is going to be a big loser this season or they share the games like one plays in the Champions league and the other guy the Ligue 1. Both will be unsatisfied with such a solution though.

Could also be that it will still take some time before Messi joins as he got some extra time off I believe. It's time to see him join, not so much fun to watch without him playing.

I am not aware of any specific information regarding when Messi will join the squad in the field but I suppose he might play a part of the next game vs Reims then I am pretty sure he will play vs Clermont and Lyon! He has to get used a bit with the squad and the gameplay of PSG. They have just to announce that Messi is playing and electricity will shut during that game in France

Yes but to be honest I doubt Messi is the player who needs a lot of time to get used to a new squad. He has Neymar, no doubt that will work right from the start, and he knows how players like Mbappe work on the pitch. There is nothing worse for a brilliant player to have newbies surrounding you not understanding the quality of your passing and the eye for the free space. I guess with the players I just mentioned that problem won't exist.

[ziyaaa]

The Nice v Marseille match tomorrow can be fun I think. These teams both started with similar results (1 draw and 1 win). Especially Nice's victory against Lille with a 4-0 score was a surprising one. Marseille are disadvantageous here but I think that it is still hard for Nice to get a win here. So I think that both of these teams will score and the result might be a draw.

[Minor Miner]

The Nice v Marseille match tomorrow can be fun I think. These teams both started with similar results (1 draw and 1 win). Especially Nice's victory against Lille with a 4-0 score was a surprising one. Marseille are disadvantageous here but I think that it is still hard for Nice to get a win here. So I think that both of these teams will score and the result might be a draw.

I think so too. My guess is a 2-2 draw. However, the OGC Nice team seems more likely to win. Because the opponents were not weak in the previous two matches of Nice. Strong enough opponents, on the other hand, Marseille's opponents were relatively weak. Moreover, it is the home match of Nice.

[ILuckyGuyI]

Monaco are still maintaining their really bad streak in the league. After Lorient, this time they lost to Lens 0-2 home. They just don't have really good performance against their opponents. They are having big problems on scoring and they are really weak in terms of defending. And still, they can't do anything about it to eradicate this big problem. They have a tough season which is waiting for them.