French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[mrongoz_imut]

The only way for PSG to win the UCL title is to change the coach, because in terms of the squad, basically PSG are already extraordinary but unfortunately they don't have the right coach. I personally hope that the rumors about Zidane being signed by PSG as a replacement for Pochettino are true, so I believe that PSG will be able to penetrate the UCL even further.

I think realistic ideas with PSG for possibility to champion league trophy by change coach and let give chance for getting Zidane as new coach for PSG, I think need coach with a lot experience and know how to make team keep working together without any individual skill showed, Pochettino not have any character how to change PSG will be better although have potential on Ligue 1 but also he was got many time loss on domestic league and eliminating from champion league on 16 round.

[arallmuus]

I totally agree with you. The main reason for PSG's poor performance is their coaches. PSG's squad had a lot of experienced players from Forward, Midfield and Defense 3 places. But the coach's match strategy was very weak.

I kinda love it when people just goes straight and blame the manager for all these. What were you guys expecting anyway? PSG literally played in Ligue 1 and they have it the easy way though. They just lose 3 games out of the last 5 games and they are still 12 points ahead of the 2nd position so its kinda understandable that they are getting it rough on the UCL but they are still going to win the Ligue 1 anyway so thats atleast something this season rather than getting none I guess

[fullhdpixel]

PSG could not have been in the top 4 if they had been in the Premier League and would not have qualified for the Champions League. They may have a lot of money. The squad has a lot of star players. But still their match strategy and style of play is very weak. PSG's management should hire experienced coaches before spending money on star players. If the coach is not experienced enough, no matter how much money they spend, they will not get the desired result.

I disagree, you are thinking the top teams of premier league and can name some good teams, but we are talking about PSG playing against Everton, Norwich, Watford and so forth as well, so they would be doing fine for sure. They could be in top 4, looking at it right now, do you really think that they are worse than Arsenal? I mean even Chelsea wouldn't have this easy time.

The only two teams I would put ahead of PSG would be LFC and City easily, but aside from those two, I would guess that with enough money like this, they would be doing fine. You want proof? Newcastle was nearly the last in the league and spent 100 million and they became better overnight and just kept on winning games.

[bering]

The only way for PSG to win the UCL title is to change the coach, because in terms of the squad, basically PSG are already extraordinary but unfortunately they don't have the right coach. I personally hope that the rumors about Zidane being signed by PSG as a replacement for Pochettino are true, so I believe that PSG will be able to penetrate the UCL even further.

Change the manager won't solved the issue because PSG already did this several times but until now their highest achievement on UCL was only final match on 2019 and in my view the current issue from PSG is they were ignoring the process to build good team because they want instantly and as you can see from PSG players that mostly star players only available for forward players but for position defenders or midfielders mostly available for mediocre players so PSG won't get champion league trophy only rely on the forward players

[sayaya17]

The only way for PSG to win the UCL title is to change the coach, because in terms of the squad, basically PSG are already extraordinary but unfortunately they don't have the right coach. I personally hope that the rumors about Zidane being signed by PSG as a replacement for Pochettino are true, so I believe that PSG will be able to penetrate the UCL even further.

Change the manager won't solved the issue because PSG already did this several times but until now their highest achievement on UCL was only final match on 2019 and in my view the current issue from PSG is they were ignoring the process to build good team because they want instantly and as you can see from PSG players that mostly star players only available for forward players but for position defenders or midfielders mostly available for mediocre players so PSG won't get champion league trophy only rely on the forward players

I agree with you, changing coaches will not make PSG win the Champions League. Because PSG since 2012 have tried to replace their coach
with a popular coach. But none of the coaches have succeeded in making PSG win the Champions League trophy, when Laurent Blanc was PSG
coach from 2013 to 2016, he managed to give 11 trophies and became the most successful PSG coach. Of the 11 trophies there is no Champions
League trophy, so it's not because of a coach problem that made PSG fail to win the Champions League trophy. But as you said PSG brought in
too many forwards, even though their midfield and defender are too many mediocre players. PSG's midfield was only Verratti who in my opinion
played quite well, then their left wing back didn't play well. And for the central defenders they rely too much on Kimpembe and Marquinhos.
PSG must strengthen their midfield and defender, because a good team is not enough to have good strikers, but must also have quality midfielders
and defenders as well.

[onetwostep]

PSG could not have been in the top 4 if they had been in the Premier League and would not have qualified for the Champions League. They may have a lot of money. The squad has a lot of star players. But still their match strategy and style of play is very weak. PSG's management should hire experienced coaches before spending money on star players. If the coach is not experienced enough, no matter how much money they spend, they will not get the desired result.

I disagree, you are thinking the top teams of premier league and can name some good teams, but we are talking about PSG playing against Everton, Norwich, Watford and so forth as well, so they would be doing fine for sure. They could be in top 4, looking at it right now, do you really think that they are worse than Arsenal? I mean even Chelsea wouldn't have this easy time.

The only two teams I would put ahead of PSG would be LFC and City easily, but aside from those two, I would guess that with enough money like this, they would be doing fine. You want proof? Newcastle was nearly the last in the league and spent 100 million and they became better overnight and just kept on winning games.

We all know that there is a serious quality difference between the French League and the Premier League. But I also do not allow PSG not to make it to the top four. It could have been behind City and Liverpool, but we would have seen it in the top 4 for sure.
Although we have seen PSG playing weaker than we thought in European games, things are a little different in league games and I think they are a good team

[bekti3]

The only way for PSG to win the UCL title is to change the coach, because in terms of the squad, basically PSG are already extraordinary but unfortunately they don't have the right coach. I personally hope that the rumors about Zidane being signed by PSG as a replacement for Pochettino are true, so I believe that PSG will be able to penetrate the UCL even further.

I would rather call the squad of City or Liverpool (and Real Madrid next season) extraordinary. PSG are strong on paper, but in fact Neymar played average (injuries can be taken into account here), Messi is old and also plays average, Donnarumma also plays poorly - he has failures. Next season, the situation will get worse - Mbappe will leave, Messi will age even more, what will happen to Neymar is unknown, but it is unlikely that he will change for the better. In fact, the new coach will build a team almost from scratch.

Even if you look at the rumors currently circulating Messi and Neymar will leave because Neymar is being targeted by an English club and Messi is likely to leave because of his contract.
PSG's performance is still more or less the same as before, both individually and not as a team.
It's very difficult to unite great players with so many egos out of them and this happened to PSG.
Speaking of Donaruma, I even prefer Navas' performances in goal from PSG

[sana54210]

changing coaches will not make PSG win the Champions League. Because PSG since 2012 have tried to replace their coach with a popular coach. But none of the coaches have succeeded in making PSG win the Champions League trophy, when Laurent Blanc was PSG coach from 2013 to 2016, he managed to give 11 trophies and became the most successful PSG coach. Of the 11 trophies there is no Champions League trophy, so it's not because of a coach problem that made PSG fail to win the Champions League trophy.

I am not entirely sure. Of course just one coach would not change a lot, they need to retain Mbappe or get someone at that level. The talks have been about Salah, and truth be told they could pay for Salah for sure, they have that much money without a doubt. If they could Salah, and maybe like one scorer, that would be insane for them.

At left wing Neymar, at right win Salah, at behind striker Messi, and a decent level striker (not even like Haaland, just a good one is enough) would mean that they would be able to use Zidane to win UCL. I know it wouldn't be easy, but they will certainly be doing better under Zidane than how they did with Pochettino.

[xmonkeyx]

changing coaches will not make PSG win the Champions League. Because PSG since 2012 have tried to replace their coach with a popular coach. But none of the coaches have succeeded in making PSG win the Champions League trophy, when Laurent Blanc was PSG coach from 2013 to 2016, he managed to give 11 trophies and became the most successful PSG coach. Of the 11 trophies there is no Champions League trophy, so it's not because of a coach problem that made PSG fail to win the Champions League trophy.

I am not entirely sure. Of course just one coach would not change a lot, they need to retain Mbappe or get someone at that level. The talks have been about Salah, and truth be told they could pay for Salah for sure, they have that much money without a doubt. If they could Salah, and maybe like one scorer, that would be insane for them.

At left wing Neymar, at right win Salah, at behind striker Messi, and a decent level striker (not even like Haaland, just a good one is enough) would mean that they would be able to use Zidane to win UCL. I know it wouldn't be easy, but they will certainly be doing better under Zidane than how they did with Pochettino.

Pochettino is not an experienced coach in fact he never won the league trophy when he coached Tottenham, I think it was a mistake PSG still kept Pochettino while many star players previously Pochettino had never coached a big team that was inhabited by star players.
yes of course Zidane is PSG's main target next season because Zinade is very experienced on the UCL stage even Zinade is the UCL record holder who won successively while coaching Real Madrid.

[Zilon]

changing coaches will not make PSG win the Champions League. Because PSG since 2012 have tried to replace their coach with a popular coach. But none of the coaches have succeeded in making PSG win the Champions League trophy, when Laurent Blanc was PSG coach from 2013 to 2016, he managed to give 11 trophies and became the most successful PSG coach. Of the 11 trophies there is no Champions League trophy, so it's not because of a coach problem that made PSG fail to win the Champions League trophy.

I am not entirely sure. Of course just one coach would not change a lot, they need to retain Mbappe or get someone at that level. The talks have been about Salah, and truth be told they could pay for Salah for sure, they have that much money without a doubt. If they could Salah, and maybe like one scorer, that would be insane for them.

At left wing Neymar, at right win Salah, at behind striker Messi, and a decent level striker (not even like Haaland, just a good one is enough) would mean that they would be able to use Zidane to win UCL. I know it wouldn't be easy, but they will certainly be doing better under Zidane than how they did with Pochettino.

Pochettino is not an experienced coach in fact he never won the league trophy when he coached Tottenham, I think it was a mistake PSG still kept Pochettino while many star players previously Pochettino had never coached a big team that was inhabited by star players.
yes of course Zidane is PSG's main target next season because Zinade is very experienced on the UCL stage even Zinade is the UCL record holder who won successively while coaching Real Madrid.

Changing Pochettino might change a lot who knows. Not just because we feel he is inexperienced enough to handle PSG but for the fact that he doesn't know whom to bench in a match and whom to start with. One biggest issue with PSG at the moment is the number of quality players the have and it takes stepping on toes to make the best out of the team. Zidane is experienced but will he create a chance for PSG to get to the finals of next years champions league?

[Mr.Scott]

changing coaches will not make PSG win the Champions League. Because PSG since 2012 have tried to replace their coach with a popular coach. But none of the coaches have succeeded in making PSG win the Champions League trophy, when Laurent Blanc was PSG coach from 2013 to 2016, he managed to give 11 trophies and became the most successful PSG coach. Of the 11 trophies there is no Champions League trophy, so it's not because of a coach problem that made PSG fail to win the Champions League trophy.

I am not entirely sure. Of course just one coach would not change a lot, they need to retain Mbappe or get someone at that level. The talks have been about Salah, and truth be told they could pay for Salah for sure, they have that much money without a doubt. If they could Salah, and maybe like one scorer, that would be insane for them.

At left wing Neymar, at right win Salah, at behind striker Messi, and a decent level striker (not even like Haaland, just a good one is enough) would mean that they would be able to use Zidane to win UCL. I know it wouldn't be easy, but they will certainly be doing better under Zidane than how they did with Pochettino.

They have money, they have highest paid players in French Ligue 1. Top most are Neymar, Messi and Mbappe respectively. Mbappe is the third most highest player at PSG, however he is the most focused among them. Waste off money exception of Mbappe is worth it, but can they retain him? He can be paid more only if stay at PSG however nothing is permanent. He could leave, yet they should need to supplant him with a quality striker. Till now, all that money for nothing. Recently lost at Bernabéu and their dreams to win Champions League trophy disappear. Best substitution is here the only solution, under best coach. Pochettino have not any more opportunity.

[tygeade]

changing coaches will not make PSG win the Champions League. Because PSG since 2012 have tried to replace their coach with a popular coach. But none of the coaches have succeeded in making PSG win the Champions League trophy, when Laurent Blanc was PSG coach from 2013 to 2016, he managed to give 11 trophies and became the most successful PSG coach. Of the 11 trophies there is no Champions League trophy, so it's not because of a coach problem that made PSG fail to win the Champions League trophy.

I am not entirely sure. Of course just one coach would not change a lot, they need to retain Mbappe or get someone at that level. The talks have been about Salah, and truth be told they could pay for Salah for sure, they have that much money without a doubt. If they could Salah, and maybe like one scorer, that would be insane for them.

At left wing Neymar, at right win Salah, at behind striker Messi, and a decent level striker (not even like Haaland, just a good one is enough) would mean that they would be able to use Zidane to win UCL. I know it wouldn't be easy, but they will certainly be doing better under Zidane than how they did with Pochettino.

Zidane managed to win like 1-2 la liga titles, super cup of spain, 3 UCL!! cups, uefa super cup and fifa club world cup twice. I mean we are talking about "a manager change" of course but at the same time there is a good amount of difference between the two coaches. What does pochettino have? Sure a few ligue 1 titles and all but that is really not good enough, not good enough at all.

Zidane is both french, so that should help, and one of the best managers with that much little games played. Unless that was just pure luck for him, then he would be insanely well here. The difference is big enough that just one manager change could make a big difference.

[Sirait]

to win the French league title for PSG is a very easy thing to reach where in recent years they have always won League 1 but their target is the European Champions league which until now they have not been able to realize including this year they were eliminated by real Madrid in the round of 16, maybe PSG should be more patient in order to become king of Europe in an indefinite period of time, considering the quality of the French league and the Champions League is certainly much different where many big teams take part in the competition

did you forget that last year Lille was the champion of the Francis league. PSG being the leader of the standings in the francis league is not easy either, they fought a lot so they could be in first place, indeed the target of PSG is to win the champions league but they still don't deserve to be champions of the UCL.

[ILuckyGuyI]

I think that it is going to be great to open the coming match week with a game that is very important for the second place in the league table. And although the game is going to be played in Nice, Rennes are favoured to win this game. It is like Rennes have a 2.25 winning odd while Nice are having around 3.20. Rennes are already two points ahead of Nice and they are at the third place too. Moreover, Nice beat them once in this season away by a score like 2-1. If we take all of these into account here, I don't expect Nice to lose.

[uchegod-21]

I feel that one reason for their sudden decline is the uncertainty whether Poch is staying or going, and unless that’s resolved I expect them to suffer few more shock defeats till the end of the season. Lastly PSG needs to trim their squad and only then will they start playing well, because currently their squad is too big and that’s clearly holding them back.

looks like it would be a good choice for PSG. when some of their players who still have very few opportunities to play must be cut off from the squad.
PSG's management is too crazy to spend big money on many star players. they should focus on selecting the best squads and backup squads. those who don't get much of a chance would be better off being let in on the transfers for next season.

Honestly psg has a too big squad. Big names in psg and the big names is like they are bigger than the club or the coach or both put together. When these big names meet they do not deliver what everyone is expecting them to deliver. When you take last season champions league, it was only Neymar that acted as Mbappe was hidden in the match. This year's own, only Mbappe delivered while Neymar and Messi couldn't. This means they only need one strong man and many normal men.

[hahay]

I think that it is going to be great to open the coming match week with a game that is very important for the second place in the league table. And although the game is going to be played in Nice, Rennes are favoured to win this game. It is like Rennes have a 2.25 winning odd while Nice are having around 3.20. Rennes are already two points ahead of Nice and they are at the third place too. Moreover, Nice beat them once in this season away by a score like 2-1. If we take all of these into account here, I don't expect Nice to lose.

But still, it's not easy money because after all, Nice has a chance to be able to take over the position of Rennes. Having a gap of only 2 points is not that much of a difference, so this home match is certainly the right moment for Nice to beat Rennes again for the 2nd time this season. Indeed, Rennes can be said to be the favorite team in this match and that is only because the results obtained by Rennes are indeed better recently than Nice, but that is still not a guarantee because they will be fighting for third place in the standings.

[emrecemsan]

As we are talking about the Nice - Rennes match, I also think that it is a really tight one. We can't say anything for sure about these teams. Maybe there won't be even a winner at the end of the match. Because this is one of the matches between very close teams in strength. And in the recent times, Rennes have been more attention getting than Nice in the league. This is the main reason they have got the third position now. Nice found themselves in the fourth position suddenly and they will want to win this. Maybe a double chance for Nice would be a nice choice to give a chance.

[AndySt]

I feel that one reason for their sudden decline is the uncertainty whether Poch is staying or going, and unless that’s resolved I expect them to suffer few more shock defeats till the end of the season. Lastly PSG needs to trim their squad and only then will they start playing well, because currently their squad is too big and that’s clearly holding them back.

looks like it would be a good choice for PSG. when some of their players who still have very few opportunities to play must be cut off from the squad.
PSG's management is too crazy to spend big money on many star players. they should focus on selecting the best squads and backup squads. those who don't get much of a chance would be better off being let in on the transfers for next season.

Honestly psg has a too big squad. Big names in psg and the big names is like they are bigger than the club or the coach or both put together. When these big names meet they do not deliver what everyone is expecting them to deliver. When you take last season champions league, it was only Neymar that acted as Mbappe was hidden in the match. This year's own, only Mbappe delivered while Neymar and Messi couldn't. This means they only need one strong man and many normal men.

There is nothing wrong with having a squad that is made up of great players. The most important thing is to properly dispose of the capabilities of this composition. But about this, Paris Saint Germain constantly has problems from time to time. Specifically about Mauricio Pochettino, I would like to say the following: there is a certain feeling that the head coach would leave the club even if he won the Champions League, because he was mentally and mentally tired of the current situation both in terms of team management and in the everyday sense, when his family stayed in England. Just winning the Champions League would greatly raise the coach's stakes and expand the list of clubs where Pochettino could go. No wonder there were rumors that the president of Real Madrid was thinking about the possibility of signing a contract with Pochettino after the first match, but I don't think there would be specifics on this issue in the end. But a defeat happened and Benzema's three goals turned the situation upside down.

[Ratash]

As we are talking about the Nice - Rennes match, I also think that it is a really tight one. We can't say anything for sure about these teams. Maybe there won't be even a winner at the end of the match. Because this is one of the matches between very close teams in strength. And in the recent times, Rennes have been more attention getting than Nice in the league. This is the main reason they have got the third position now. Nice found themselves in the fourth position suddenly and they will want to win this. Maybe a double chance for Nice would be a nice choice to give a chance.

It seems rennes team is slightly favourite to win the game for the bookies i think its fair since they did win and dominate against lyon not to mention that they scored 10 goals in the last 2 games in the league one i think nice team will have to be carefull to atleast not lose and let them get further from them.

[mrongoz_imut]

As we are talking about the Nice - Rennes match, I also think that it is a really tight one. We can't say anything for sure about these teams. Maybe there won't be even a winner at the end of the match. Because this is one of the matches between very close teams in strength. And in the recent times, Rennes have been more attention getting than Nice in the league. This is the main reason they have got the third position now. Nice found themselves in the fourth position suddenly and they will want to win this. Maybe a double chance for Nice would be a nice choice to give a chance.

Important match for both team exactly Nice have chance back to 3rd position as latest spot for champion league if success defeated Rennes, have been 29 games so far and Rennes lead 3rd position standing with 2 points left from Nice, but have good result if Nice could success get 3 points and have possibility make Marseille position drop but depend with can defeat St Etienne on next match, most competitive to see who will success lead on 2nd position between Marseille, Rennes and Nice have little different points right now on the fixture awhile standing place.