French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[asus09]

Neymar has been good for a long time, I was personally expecting him to be the next reign after Ronaldo and Messi. I don't known if I will say that he came at the wrong time. He came when Ronaldo and Messi was at their peak for decade plus. But currently many young players are out, you did not include Salah in the list because he is to me now like a world best. He is really good at it.

Neymar is a very talented player. I'm not saying he came at the wrong time. He would have been in the same row as Messi and Ronaldo had it not been for his injury problems. He suffered a lot of injuries and could not perform in important matches. If he haven't this problem, then he would have fought with Messi and Ronaldo to win the Ballon d'Or.

Neymar is indeed the best player after Messi and Ronaldo, but recently new young players have emerged, such as mbappe, and Moh was wrong, but unfortunately Neymar's chances of getting the Ballon Deor will be very difficult, because every year there will be talented young players.

[ILuckyGuyI]

The new week starts with a tough game like Montpellier - Rennes. This is an important game for Rennes and they would make use of a win here. Because there is a Strasbourg - Nice game too and Rennes might go one position up if Strasbourg lose points. But it is not going to be easy for Rennes to win here. Montpellier are only three points behind now. They are not much different than Rennes now. And Rennes' recent performance in away games has been terrible. They lost their last four away games. This time, I think we will see a draw.

[Shasha80]

Neymar has been good for a long time, I was personally expecting him to be the next reign after Ronaldo and Messi. I don't known if I will say that he came at the wrong time. He came when Ronaldo and Messi was at their peak for decade plus. But currently many young players are out, you did not include Salah in the list because he is to me now like a world best. He is really good at it.

Neymar is a very talented player. I'm not saying he came at the wrong time. He would have been in the same row as Messi and Ronaldo had it not been for his injury problems. He suffered a lot of injuries and could not perform in important matches. If he haven't this problem, then he would have fought with Messi and Ronaldo to win the Ballon d'Or.

Neymar is indeed the best player after Messi and Ronaldo, but recently new young players have emerged, such as mbappe, and Moh was wrong, but unfortunately Neymar's chances of getting the Ballon Deor will be very difficult, because every year there will be talented young players.

Actually Neymar is still not too old, when compared to Messi and Ronaldo. But too many injuries at PSG made his form decline. Regarding
the Ballon d'Or I doubt Neymar can win it, because there are so many rivals now. There is still Lewandowski who played amazingly with Bayern
more deserving of winning the Ballon d'Or. Then as you said every year there are always outstanding young players. I think Neymar's decision
to move to PSG was a mistake, because when he played for PSG, Neymar was prone to injury. Even though the Ligue 1 competition is not as tough
as La Liga, maybe the training method is not appropriate. I really hope Neymar can find his best form again.

[Juggy777]

Neymar has been good for a long time, I was personally expecting him to be the next reign after Ronaldo and Messi. I don't known if I will say that he came at the wrong time. He came when Ronaldo and Messi was at their peak for decade plus. But currently many young players are out, you did not include Salah in the list because he is to me now like a world best. He is really good at it.

Neymar is a very talented player. I'm not saying he came at the wrong time. He would have been in the same row as Messi and Ronaldo had it not been for his injury problems. He suffered a lot of injuries and could not perform in important matches. If he haven't this problem, then he would have fought with Messi and Ronaldo to win the Ballon d'Or.

Neymar is indeed the best player after Messi and Ronaldo, but recently new young players have emerged, such as mbappe, and Moh was wrong, but unfortunately Neymar's chances of getting the Ballon Deor will be very difficult, because every year there will be talented young players.

Actually Neymar is still not too old, when compared to Messi and Ronaldo. But too many injuries at PSG made his form decline. Regarding
the Ballon d'Or I doubt Neymar can win it, because there are so many rivals now. There is still Lewandowski who played amazingly with Bayern
more deserving of winning the Ballon d'Or. Then as you said every year there are always outstanding young players. I think Neymar's decision
to move to PSG was a mistake, because when he played for PSG, Neymar was prone to injury. Even though the Ligue 1 competition is not as tough
as La Liga, maybe the training method is not appropriate. I really hope Neymar can find his best form again.

I believe Neymar will have his shot at winning the Ballon d'Or, only when he plays a season without getting injured. Lastly it’s my personal belief that Neymar can score more goals than any other player can, but for that to happen he needs to be injury free, so let’s hope in the new season he can finally show why he deserves to win the Ballon d'Or.

[Slow death]

Neymar has been good for a long time, I was personally expecting him to be the next reign after Ronaldo and Messi. I don't known if I will say that he came at the wrong time. He came when Ronaldo and Messi was at their peak for decade plus. But currently many young players are out, you did not include Salah in the list because he is to me now like a world best. He is really good at it.

Neymar is a very talented player. I'm not saying he came at the wrong time. He would have been in the same row as Messi and Ronaldo had it not been for his injury problems. He suffered a lot of injuries and could not perform in important matches. If he haven't this problem, then he would have fought with Messi and Ronaldo to win the Ballon d'Or.

Neymar is indeed the best player after Messi and Ronaldo, but recently new young players have emerged, such as mbappe, and Moh was wrong, but unfortunately Neymar's chances of getting the Ballon Deor will be very difficult, because every year there will be talented young players.

Actually Neymar is still not too old, when compared to Messi and Ronaldo. But too many injuries at PSG made his form decline. Regarding
the Ballon d'Or I doubt Neymar can win it, because there are so many rivals now. There is still Lewandowski who played amazingly with Bayern
more deserving of winning the Ballon d'Or. Then as you said every year there are always outstanding young players. I think Neymar's decision
to move to PSG was a mistake, because when he played for PSG, Neymar was prone to injury. Even though the Ligue 1 competition is not as tough
as La Liga, maybe the training method is not appropriate. I really hope Neymar can find his best form again.

I believe Neymar will have his shot at winning the Ballon d'Or, only when he plays a season without getting injured. Lastly it’s my personal belief that Neymar can score more goals than any other player can, but for that to happen he needs to be injury free, so let’s hope in the new season he can finally show why he deserves to win the Ballon d'Or.

as long as neymar remains at psg they will be out and will not win any individual prize as has happened with ronaldo and messi just observe the following:

let's see the example of cristiano ronaldo, he plays well but he is in manchester which is a club that is out due to not having a good coach and players and cristiano ronaldo is out, he has not been that cristiano ronaldo who saved the team in the last few minutes

this happens with neymar, psg has good players are so good that neymar is off and his style of play is not very suitable for league 1 if neymar were to play in real madrid or city? he would be a brilliant player and would get a lot of media attention

[KTChampions]

Yes, he still has about 5 years of peak form ahead of him, but I doubt that he has a chance to dominate like other great players did before him. Plus, there are already a number of young players who claim to be top 1 - Mbappe, Haaland, maybe Vinicius. It is far from certain that they will be able to do this, maybe they will face the same problems as Neymar, but I would rather bet on them than on him.

Neymar has been good for a long time, I was personally expecting him to be the next reign after Ronaldo and Messi. I don't known if I will say that he came at the wrong time. He came when Ronaldo and Messi was at their peak for decade plus. But currently many young players are out, you did not include Salah in the list because he is to me now like a world best. He is really good at it.

Salah clearly does not belong to the young and promising - he is 29 years old, perhaps he has not yet reached his peak, but I cannot call him young. It's not about Ronaldo or Messi as Neymar looks like he would have lost to any other opponent for the top 1: Lewandowski, Xavi, Iniesta, Ribery and many other players were better or certainly not worse than Neymar. We can say that Neymar has not fully revealed his potential.

[LUCKMCFLY]

But PSG's poor results will not cost them the title this season as PSG still lead the Ligue 1 standings with a 13-point advantage over other competitors.

Maybe you are right because I believe Marseille and some other teams will not be able to make PSG lose the title this season even though PSG can still drop a few more points in the remaining 13 match this season.

I believe PSG can lock up the title sooner this season if they are able to win the remaining 8/13 match remaining in the season because other teams will also drop points in the rest of the season in my opinion. So far, PSG seems to be still focusing on the Champions League and this is a mandatory target this season in addition to the Ligue 1 title.

I have weighed the strength of the other teams in ligue 1, no one is showing sign to contend with PSG. Then, PSG is too relaxed and very sure they have won the league. Their only target which has been their target from onset is Champions league.
They spent much for Neymar because of it and yet didn't get it. They spent for Mbappe to synergise with Neymar but to no avail. Finally, they bought arguably the world best player. Let us see how the trio will fair.

I think that even if they have the best trident in the world, they are still very relaxed, I know that Messi has been criticized a lot, especially when Mbappé gave up the penalty kick that Messi missed, this has caused a lot of controversy, especially for PSG fans who have been lately very demanding, the French League has already been practically won, but when Mbappé leaves, which is a fact, will there be other repercussions for PSG?

[skarais]

I think that even if they have the best trident in the world, they are still very relaxed, I know that Messi has been criticized a lot, especially when Mbappé gave up the penalty kick that Messi missed, this has caused a lot of controversy, especially for PSG fans who have been lately very demanding, the French League has already been practically won, but when Mbappé leaves, which is a fact, will there be other repercussions for PSG?

Of course the impact for PSG when they lost Mbappe was to lose their goalscorer. PSG have sufficient financial means to get another player but maybe they will not get a player equal to Mbappe. He is a long-term project for any team that manages to sign him but PSG must be prepared to let him go before the season end if they fail to progress to the next round in the Champions League.

About Messi I feel he is still doing well with PSG even though on many occasions he has failed to score against the opponent. Finally, Messi failed to execute a penalty against Real Madrid because his shot was easily read by Courtois. But it's not a big problem because to be honest Neymar, Mbappe also failed to do so.

[Spack17]

We really clearly see how unqualified the rest of the teams in the Ligue 1 are compared to PSG. Because PSG are still leading by a very far point gap although they make some mistakes and lose two or three points. It is like there is no team to put up a great fight against them. Marseille seem to be the second best team this season but even they are getting poor results. The Clermont match should be enough for a good example I guess.    PSG will always dominate the league as long as this huge gap between the teams is maintained.

[lixer]

Neymar has been good for a long time, I was personally expecting him to be the next reign after Ronaldo and Messi. I don't known if I will say that he came at the wrong time. He came when Ronaldo and Messi was at their peak for decade plus. But currently many young players are out, you did not include Salah in the list because he is to me now like a world best. He is really good at it.

Neymar still best forward for PSG and I think he can playing well depending can take his performance and keep his body balance keep consistent, usually many Brazil player can't keep their body balance how to be good athlete with keep healthy, but I see still have potential for Neymar going on his career with PSG for several years later, I see will give many advantage for PSG keep ask Neymar stay on PSG for Ligue 1 trophy and will have several trophy for next year I think will give by Neymar.

Neymar will definitely going to end up being in PSG until his retirement. He has no problems staying like Mbappe has, and he is getting to 30 as well so he has like maybe 3-5 years to play on his peak, after that he is going to start to slowly go lower in talent, not directly, people like Lewa still plays amazingly at 33-34 so there is still some time for Neymar but I do not see why he should leave.

Obviously if he wants to play until 40, then he could be sent to some other team, something like what happened to Ronaldo could happen as well. I believe that in that case I believe he could be in some other team, but aside from that I do not think that he would leave.

[bekti3]

Neymar has been good for a long time, I was personally expecting him to be the next reign after Ronaldo and Messi. I don't known if I will say that he came at the wrong time. He came when Ronaldo and Messi was at their peak for decade plus. But currently many young players are out, you did not include Salah in the list because he is to me now like a world best. He is really good at it.

It will be very difficult because after Ronaldo and Messi it is certain that their replacement will be the new wonderkids and now it can be said that the most potential is Haaland and Mbappe.
Neymar is a pretty good player but won't be able to take the lead going forward.
Now Neymar is 30 years old and I think it's too late if he is said to be the Next of Ronaldo and Messi

[Maidak]

Neymar has been good for a long time, I was personally expecting him to be the next reign after Ronaldo and Messi. I don't known if I will say that he came at the wrong time. He came when Ronaldo and Messi was at their peak for decade plus. But currently many young players are out, you did not include Salah in the list because he is to me now like a world best. He is really good at it.

Neymar still best forward for PSG and I think he can playing well depending can take his performance and keep his body balance keep consistent, usually many Brazil player can't keep their body balance how to be good athlete with keep healthy, but I see still have potential for Neymar going on his career with PSG for several years later, I see will give many advantage for PSG keep ask Neymar stay on PSG for Ligue 1 trophy and will have several trophy for next year I think will give by Neymar.

Neymar will definitely going to end up being in PSG until his retirement. He has no problems staying like Mbappe has, and he is getting to 30 as well so he has like maybe 3-5 years to play on his peak, after that he is going to start to slowly go lower in talent, not directly, people like Lewa still plays amazingly at 33-34 so there is still some time for Neymar but I do not see why he should leave.

Obviously if he wants to play until 40, then he could be sent to some other team, something like what happened to Ronaldo could happen as well. I believe that in that case I believe he could be in some other team, but aside from that I do not think that he would leave.

I think Neymar is not going to play for that long period of time because we have already heard a lot of news about him retiring from the international scene.

so, I don't think he will be a player who is going to play till the age of 40. so, I think it is quite possible in his case to end his career in PSG. He is still a great player no doubt about that. and I think he still has a lot to give to PSG. And along with his fast partner from Barcelona, Lionel Messi, I think he can achieve a lot of great things.

[mia_houston]

Neymar has been good for a long time, I was personally expecting him to be the next reign after Ronaldo and Messi. I don't known if I will say that he came at the wrong time. He came when Ronaldo and Messi was at their peak for decade plus. But currently many young players are out, you did not include Salah in the list because he is to me now like a world best. He is really good at it.

It will be very difficult because after Ronaldo and Messi it is certain that their replacement will be the new wonderkids and now it can be said that the most potential is Haaland and Mbappe.
Neymar is a pretty good player but won't be able to take the lead going forward.
Now Neymar is 30 years old and I think it's too late if he is said to be the Next of Ronaldo and Messi

Neymar for now may be too old to be said to be the successor to ronaldo or messi, I agree that mbappe and haalaand are indeed worthy of being called wonderkids as the best players in the future, but apart from those two players, haalaand or mbappe, of course there are many wonderkids other who have the potential to become the best players in the future such as vlanhovic, Vinicius Junior, Joao Felix and even ansu fati are also worth considering in my opinion, so far I see their are quite talented players and it is likely that some of them will be one deserves to be the best player in the world in future.

[Swordsoffreedom]

We really clearly see how unqualified the rest of the teams in the Ligue 1 are compared to PSG. Because PSG are still leading by a very far point gap although they make some mistakes and lose two or three points. It is like there is no team to put up a great fight against them. Marseille seem to be the second best team this season but even they are getting poor results. The Clermont match should be enough for a good example I guess.    PSG will always dominate the league as long as this huge gap between the teams is maintained.

Actually, it is quite obvious that without PSG there is no good team in this League. and PSG are easily able to run over almost all the teams in this League. The amount of competition in this League is really minimal and it is not that enjoyable in my opinion. It might be great from a PSG fan's point of view but from a neutral perspective, I think it is absolutely boring. I would have liked to see some more competition and how Lionel Messi performs under that type of pressure in his new team. but I don't think I am going to be able to see that.

[DU18]

Neymar has been good for a long time, I was personally expecting him to be the next reign after Ronaldo and Messi. I don't known if I will say that he came at the wrong time. He came when Ronaldo and Messi was at their peak for decade plus. But currently many young players are out, you did not include Salah in the list because he is to me now like a world best. He is really good at it.

It will be very difficult because after Ronaldo and Messi it is certain that their replacement will be the new wonderkids and now it can be said that the most potential is Haaland and Mbappe.
Neymar is a pretty good player but won't be able to take the lead going forward.
Now Neymar is 30 years old and I think it's too late if he is said to be the Next of Ronaldo and Messi

Neymar for now may be too old to be said to be the successor to ronaldo or messi, I agree that mbappe and haalaand are indeed worthy of being called wonderkids as the best players in the future, but apart from those two players, haalaand or mbappe, of course there are many wonderkids other who have the potential to become the best players in the future such as vlanhovic, Vinicius Junior, Joao Felix and even ansu fati are also worth considering in my opinion, so far I see their are quite talented players and it is likely that some of them will be one deserves to be the best player in the world in future.

I think Neymar still not looks old for PSG because Ligue 1 is not really competitive like Primer League, Serie A or La Liga, still have very different financial between PSG and other Ligue 1 participants team and I think Neymar is still good player for PSG depending not really special if moving to other league right now. I think about two or three years still competitive for Neymar on Ligue 1 and he can show his magic with PSG and bring team keep reach with Ligue 1 trophy but not any good achievement with UEFA Champion League.

[Minecache]

I think that even if they have the best trident in the world, they are still very relaxed, I know that Messi has been criticized a lot, especially when Mbappé gave up the penalty kick that Messi missed, this has caused a lot of controversy, especially for PSG fans who have been lately very demanding, the French League has already been practically won, but when Mbappé leaves, which is a fact, will there be other repercussions for PSG?

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Of course the impact for PSG when they lost Mbappe was to lose their goalscorer. PSG have sufficient financial means to get another player but maybe they will not get a player equal to Mbappe. He is a long-term project for any team that manages to sign him but PSG must be prepared to let him go before the season end if they fail to progress to the next round in the Champions League.

About Messi I feel he is still doing well with PSG even though on many occasions he has failed to score against the opponent. Finally, Messi failed to execute a penalty against Real Madrid because his shot was easily read by Courtois. But it's not a big problem because to be honest Neymar, Mbappe also failed to do so.

About the penalty, I think it would have been better if Neymar or Mbappe Took the penalty because I think the conversion rate of Lionel Messi of penalties are white bad. And I think that Lionel Messi, after moving to PSG has certainly lost his flair, but he still has a lot to provide for PSG.

PSG should really be ready to accept that their goal scorer Mbappe can leave the team anytime. They should also make their future plans keeping that in mind. And you know, they have enough money to buy another great Striker for the team.

But, I think there really should think about which player will be the best for the team and also will have good chemistry with the rest of the squad rather than thinking about getting the most expensive or for a really famous player.

[Roidz]

We really clearly see how unqualified the rest of the teams in the Ligue 1 are compared to PSG. Because PSG are still leading by a very far point gap although they make some mistakes and lose two or three points. It is like there is no team to put up a great fight against them. Marseille seem to be the second best team this season but even they are getting poor results. The Clermont match should be enough for a good example I guess.    PSG will always dominate the league as long as this huge gap between the teams is maintained.

Actually, it is quite obvious that without PSG there is no good team in this League. and PSG are easily able to run over almost all the teams in this League. The amount of competition in this League is really minimal and it is not that enjoyable in my opinion. It might be great from a PSG fan's point of view but from a neutral perspective, I think it is absolutely boring. I would have liked to see some more competition and how Lionel Messi performs under that type of pressure in his new team. but I don't think I am going to be able to see that.

Ligue 1 is like the bundesliga where only one team has been able to dominate the league for almost many years, I think for another 3 or even 5 years we will still see PSG as the ruler of Ligue 1 and I believe a club like Lille will probably need enough time. It took a long time to get back to winning Ligue 1, I even suspect that Messi moved to PSG because of a less competitive league factor because I think he has been too comfortable playing in Barcelona, ​​and when Messi was with Barcelona, ​​of course we knew that at that time La Liga was also not It's too competitive so that the competition is only between Barcelona and Real Madrid, if Messi continued his career in the English Premier League, I think he would have a lot of difficulty in facing a tough game and often relying on physicality so far .

[snipie]

We really clearly see how unqualified the rest of the teams in the Ligue 1 are compared to PSG. Because PSG are still leading by a very far point gap although they make some mistakes and lose two or three points. It is like there is no team to put up a great fight against them. Marseille seem to be the second best team this season but even they are getting poor results. The Clermont match should be enough for a good example I guess.    PSG will always dominate the league as long as this huge gap between the teams is maintained.

Actually Ligue 1 looks quite balanced league if you take a look on the table after removing PSG. The gap between the teams is very tight, every match count since the result could flip from a round to another. Now with PSG in, the league look quite annoying with a clear winner after few rounds from the beginning since there is a huge difference between PSG and the rest. PSG has to join EPL tho

[KTChampions]

Neymar for now may be too old to be said to be the successor to ronaldo or messi, I agree that mbappe and haalaand are indeed worthy of being called wonderkids as the best players in the future, but apart from those two players, haalaand or mbappe, of course there are many wonderkids other who have the potential to become the best players in the future such as vlanhovic, Vinicius Junior, Joao Felix and even ansu fati are also worth considering in my opinion, so far I see their are quite talented players and it is likely that some of them will be one deserves to be the best player in the world in future.

Many have chances, this is true, but not everyone realizes them, someone because of lack of the motivation to persistently improve themselves from year to year, someone because of injuries. For example, I remember the magnificent Roode Van Nistelrooy - at one time he was a real contender for the top 1, but a series of injuries crippled his career. Medicine improves from year to year, but so far, injuries have a strong impact on players' careers.

[skarais]

About the penalty, I think it would have been better if Neymar or Mbappe Took the penalty because I think the conversion rate of Lionel Messi of penalties are white bad. And I think that Lionel Messi, after moving to PSG has certainly lost his flair, but he still has a lot to provide for PSG.

Maybe just because Messi was unlucky or indeed the goalkeeper's luck factor in predicting the direction of the ball. Messi, Neymar and Mbappe have their own way of turning their kicks into goals, sometimes they miss, but we shouldn't think they have lost the talent for it. I consider it normal even when the demands of the fans are much bigger than just scoring goals.

PSG should really be ready to accept that their goal scorer Mbappe can leave the team anytime. They should also make their future plans keeping that in mind. And you know, they have enough money to buy another great Striker for the team.

PSG will accept the fact that in the end Mbappe will move to another team sooner or later. Mbappe needs better experience and he also needs better achievements that will eventually make him the best player in the world. He will soon replace the dominance of Messi and Ronaldo, it will be a different era in his career.