French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[MAAManda]

Not really difficult depending how Lille can destroy with PSG dominance last two season, unbelievable with Lille success defeated PSG actually when league almost finish and left few points only to be champion of Ligue 1. But last season not have any team success made PSG faced difficulty with Ligue 1 trophy, left many points from second position standing looks financial have by PSG most dominance than other team. Nowadays not any new investor coming to Ligue 1 club and looks PSG will be dominance again for next season and have better financial than other team, but will see the unbelievable mission did by Lille to destroy PSG dominance on Ligue 1 again?

I don't think they (Lille) will have another chance to win Ligue 1 next season, it will even be difficult for them to be at the top of the table. We can see their achievement last season, they can only finish in the 10th place. Even if there are teams competing with PSG next season, of course they are Marseille, AS Monaco, Olympique Lyonnais, Rennes or Nice. Do you think that any team except them can compete with PSG next season? Let me know. If anyone in this forum opens the topic of betting on which team will win Ligue 1 for next season, of course I will choose PSG, LOL .

[tulusikhlas]

Of course it isn't good to see a specific team dominating the season in the Ligue 1 all the time. But as long as the rest of the teams don't take big actions to get ahead of PSG it is difficult to see different teams making it to the championship. Lille did this yes but it was like a one-time success. They didn't have an incredible squad like PSG had. If some team revolutionize their squad and start playing big then we can start seeing some competition in the league finally.

The situation is the same as in the Bundesliga where only one team dominates the League. This is very boring, especially since Paris Saint Germain is inhabited by many star players. Of course it is difficult for other teams to surpass what Paris Saint Germain currently has. Indeed, their stable finances make them free to sign players of fantastic value. I'm not sure that other teams will displace PSG from the pinnacle of dominance.

[Zlantann]

The situation is the same as in the Bundesliga where only one team dominates the League. This is very boring, especially since Paris Saint Germain is inhabited by many star players. Of course it is difficult for other teams to surpass what Paris Saint Germain currently has. Indeed, their stable finances make them free to sign players of fantastic value. I'm not sure that other teams will displace PSG from the pinnacle of dominance.

Sometimes big players and financial strength of a team is not a criteria for winning trophies. We have seen teams with less financial backing pulling surprises and outsmarting the money bags. An example is Leicester City in the 2015-16 Premier League campaign. The team was one of the cheapest costing just £72 million far below high spending teams like Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United. But with discipline and hard-work Claudio Ranieri's men won the English Premier league for the first time in their 132-year club history. Although PSG has dominated the French League for few years now, but it would not also be a surprise to see another team winning the league this season.     

[Bobrox]

I don't think they (Lille) will have another chance to win Ligue 1 next season, it will even be difficult for them to be at the top of the table. We can see their achievement last season, they can only finish in the 10th place. Even if there are teams competing with PSG next season, of course they are Marseille, AS Monaco, Olympique Lyonnais, Rennes or Nice. Do you think that any team except them can compete with PSG next season? Let me know.

No doubt all people here will bet for PSG winning Ligue 1 again for next season, but not pessimistic about other team like Lyon, AS Monaco and Marseille become candidate winner of Ligue 1. Ligue 1 transfer player still not dominance by other team except with PSG because other team not have enough money. Last season only Marseille as competitor for PSG and at the end league have AS Monaco but almost league ended but can't give anything difficult for PSG to be the winner of Ligue 1.

If anyone in this forum opens the topic of betting on which team will win Ligue 1 for next season, of course I will choose PSG, LOL .

Exactly I will bet for PSG but I want to predict which one next team can destroy with PSG dominance for next season, will Lyon, Marseille or AS Monaco can be candidate with Ligue 1 trophy.

[LUCKMCFLY]

PSG has successfully get Vitinha from Porto with 40 millions euro and he was officially announced to the public yesterday and Vitinha will get long term duration contract 5 years until 2027 this is good for PSG because they really need new player on midfield position and he can be good choice as the substitute of Idrissa Gueye or Marco Verratti especially last season he is one of the key player who help Porto get Portugal league title

Well, hopefully Vitinha can really contribute to PSG because even though he's one of the good Porto players, he's not that great at making goals and assists. Because for the central midfield position of course it would be better to have a good collection of assists, but not for Vitinha and moreover Ligue 1 will certainly be more difficult. I personally can't expect too much with statistics like this, but let's look forward to his performance next season with PSG.

Well, for me, the role that Vitinha will play is very important, since I am one of those who think that by dominating the midfield you have a won game, of course, very different from Italian soccer, who are experts in defense, in the case of the French I think the team is very well balanced, they could need to strengthen the defense, they have a good midfield, very good forwards and recoverers, but I don't see the center backs as very complete, it's strange to see a center back like Canavaro was in Italy, or as he was a full-back like Roberto Carlos or Paolo Maldini, if PSG are looking for a good full-back and central defender, I think they would be consecrating themselves as one of the best in the world.

I don't think they (Lille) will have another chance to win Ligue 1 next season, it will even be difficult for them to be at the top of the table. We can see their achievement last season, they can only finish in the 10th place. Even if there are teams competing with PSG next season, of course they are Marseille, AS Monaco, Olympique Lyonnais, Rennes or Nice. Do you think that any team except them can compete with PSG next season? Let me know.

No doubt all people here will bet for PSG winning Ligue 1 again for next season, but not pessimistic about other team like Lyon, AS Monaco and Marseille become candidate winner of Ligue 1. Ligue 1 transfer player still not dominance by other team except with PSG because other team not have enough money. Last season only Marseille as competitor for PSG and at the end league have AS Monaco but almost league ended but can't give anything difficult for PSG to be the winner of Ligue 1.

If anyone in this forum opens the topic of betting on which team will win Ligue 1 for next season, of course I will choose PSG, LOL .

Exactly I will bet for PSG but I want to predict which one next team can destroy with PSG dominance for next season, will Lyon, Marseille or AS Monaco can be candidate with Ligue 1 trophy.

Well clearly PSG is a team that is undoubtedly the best candidate to win the French League, even though they had problems at the end in the UCL I think they can overcome and win everything, if they continue to have level 1 players it's obvious , but I think that to ensure they need to have another coach, one like Zidane. In the end, I don't know what happened with the Zidane case, there was speculation that he could go to PSG and at the same time be the technical director of France in the World Cup.

[el kaka22]

I think Messi is staying and there is no merit to any other things. Sure he may make a longer contract eventually but there is a long time until his current one ends, so he could just take his time and the team could take their time as well. I still think him going back to Barcelona to play under Xavi would be very good, he would retire while playing for his old buddy and that would be a much better deal for them.

But, if he is not going back to Barcelona, then he should probably stay with PSG who will be the only team willing to pay that much for him. Famous players who end up leaving their teams start to tour around teams because once you sell a ton of jerseys, you don't do that every single year.

[terrorJR]

If anyone in this forum opens the topic of betting on which team will win Ligue 1 for next season, of course I will choose PSG, LOL .

Exactly I will bet for PSG but I want to predict which one next team can destroy with PSG dominance for next season, will Lyon, Marseille or AS Monaco can be candidate with Ligue 1 trophy.

It will obviously be difficult and I wouldn't even dare to predict anything about who will be able to tackle PSG next season but I might see a better competition in the bottom 2 position next season. Actually this season is also quite good but maybe next season will be even better, especially with some clubs who are now strengthening by adding some players who are considered suitable.

[Kayeshlyn]

Paris Saint-Germain is a club that has invested a lot of cash to build a competitive squad in Europe. Even though Les Parisiens finished second in the 2019–2020 Champions League, they only made it as far as the semifinals the following year.
Paris Saint-Germain performance declined in the 2021/2022 Champions League when Lionel Messi was there, and PSG even lost in the round of 16 after being eliminated by Real Madrid.
Paris Saint-Germain actually had a chance to go further in the Champions League last season. However, Gianluigi Donnarumma's mistake against Real Madrid was a disaster.

Why the French giants haven't won the Champions League, despite having a star-studded team.

[Sirait]

Paris Saint-Germain is a club that has invested a lot of cash to build a competitive squad in Europe. Even though Les Parisiens finished second in the 2019–2020 Champions League, they only made it as far as the semifinals the following year.
Paris Saint-Germain performance declined in the 2021/2022 Champions League when Lionel Messi was there, and PSG even lost in the round of 16 after being eliminated by Real Madrid.
Paris Saint-Germain actually had a chance to go further in the Champions League last season. However, Gianluigi Donnarumma's mistake against Real Madrid was a disaster.

Why the French giants haven't won the Champions League, despite having a star-studded team.

This has been discussed previously, what causes a club as rich as PSG until now to not be able to get the champion's league trophy, the reason is only one, that's because PSG is a less compact team (between players), This has been proven with PSG training videos, where Neymar seems to reject mbappe and Neymar only focuses on Messi, and vice versa. here we already know that the big job that galtier has to do is to improve the prestige between these star players.

[snipie]

Why the French giants haven't won the Champions League, despite having a star-studded team.

I can answer that with a question: why Manchester City didn't win Champions League although they have one of the best squad? Why Bayern didn't make it so far in CL although dominating Bundesliga by far and having many stars?
It isn't a matter of how much good players you have, it is a matter of how coherent is the players in every game, how tactically good is the coach and how much injuries they have in addition to how many mistakes were made especially in case of lack of concentration due to exhaustion.
Real Madrid won its game although being behind thanks to the lack of vigilance of their opponents when facing the dangerous offence of RM.. Ancelotti made mistakes but their rivals did worst. That's football after all.

[BALIK]

Obviously, Neymar is not leaving PSG now, the luxury that PSG offers is hard to come by with other clubs. One of the reasons Neymar moved from Barcelona ​​because PSG offered double the salary he received at Barcelona. PSG ambition to win the title on the Europa stage is no joke, PSG are willing to spend large sums of money to achieve their dreams, including extending the contract of Neymar who does not always appear consistent as the most expensive player PSG has ever had.

Right now situation is not clear as most chances PSG management wants Neymar to leave this club with mutual understanding but no club is going to offer salary like PSG is giving right now, and he is not accepting cut in this, so this all is interested but most chances he is going to stay here for another season if PSG have no good offer.
But, we can expect one thing if Newcastle United having some good improvement in this season then surely they are going to have him in their team because here again one biggest player from Gulf is involved, and he wants few start players in his team, but they are going to do this all in installments as any quick big investments can create problems for them, so hopefully his next destination could be Premier League.

If I am not mistaken, I thought Neymar was also going to leave the club. But they came to a mutual understanding that he is going to stay at PSG. And before Neymar signed any contract with PSG there were a lot of rumors about him winning the club.

A lot of people said that Neymar wanted to leave the club but PSG urged him to stay. Many people said that Neymar preferred to stay in the club and PSG wanted him to leave.

In the end, he will stay with the club, and PSG is currently offering much more money than any other club. And that type of money is not easy to come by at all. And his performance hasn't been the best in recent times. So not a lot of teams would be likely to be interested in him at this stage of his career.

[wiss19]

I think Messi is staying and there is no merit to any other things. Sure he may make a longer contract eventually but there is a long time until his current one ends, so he could just take his time and the team could take their time as well. I still think him going back to Barcelona to play under Xavi would be very good, he would retire while playing for his old buddy and that would be a much better deal for them.

But, if he is not going back to Barcelona, then he should probably stay with PSG who will be the only team willing to pay that much for him. Famous players who end up leaving their teams start to tour around teams because once you sell a ton of jerseys, you don't do that every single year.

In current situation, most chances he is going to stay here at PSG because there is no chance for returning to Barcelona they are not going to accept him with his current salary, and he is not going to have cut with most chances if PSG is going to work on few things then surely they can afford him here for long time, and they can produce good results for club as well he is having good combination with Mbappé but here Neymar is not having any good chance which is surely currently big issue for PSG with new coach is trying to settle him in team for next season.

Messi has very long time in Barcelona, and surely he loves this club and fans also love him but right now as they are in trouble it's never been ideal situation to join again even Xavi is doing good but still they need some more time for having better results.

[BitcoinAccepted]

PSG could easily become champions with their reserve players. It's not really interesting to have a discussion about it. I was also surprised that PSG had decided to let Xavi Simons go to PSV. There is only 1 letter difference in a team, maybe that was it. The big question is what will happen to Messi, Mbappe and Neymar. Could those 3 just attack each other and want to keep playing? It's really time for them to win the CL. The public is no longer satisfied with a national title. That has become too obvious.

[alpamar99]

Why the French giants haven't won the Champions League, despite having a star-studded team.

I can answer that with a question: why Manchester City didn't win Champions League although they have one of the best squad? Why Bayern didn't make it so far in CL although dominating Bundesliga by far and having many stars?
It isn't a matter of how much good players you have, it is a matter of how coherent is the players in every game, how tactically good is the coach and how much injuries they have in addition to how many mistakes were made especially in case of lack of concentration due to exhaustion.
Real Madrid won its game although being behind thanks to the lack of vigilance of their opponents when facing the dangerous offence of RM.. Ancelotti made mistakes but their rivals did worst. That's football after all.

On the other hand, apart from the factors you mentioned, there is a word that is left behind, namely experience.
In terms of performance and players, it is clear that City, Bayern and PSG have advantages in all aspects, but their experience to feel the title is quite minimal in the Champions League. On the other hand, the coach does play an important role as well because the coach is also required to be able to lift not only from the performance but the mentality of the players.

[Prince Malik]

PSG could easily become champions with their reserve players. It's not really interesting to have a discussion about it. I was also surprised that PSG had decided to let Xavi Simons go to PSV. There is only 1 letter difference in a team, maybe that was it. The big question is what will happen to Messi, Mbappe and Neymar. Could those 3 just attack each other and want to keep playing? It's really time for them to win the CL. The public is no longer satisfied with a national title. That has become too obvious.

That's right, next year will absolutely be a big chance for psg to get the title because they have a terrible squad and the majority of the players really want to get the ucl title no matter the cost, Players will be very determined in my opinion and they will make their best

[Tony116]

PSG could easily become champions with their reserve players. It's not really interesting to have a discussion about it. I was also surprised that PSG had decided to let Xavi Simons go to PSV. There is only 1 letter difference in a team, maybe that was it. The big question is what will happen to Messi, Mbappe and Neymar. Could those 3 just attack each other and want to keep playing? It's really time for them to win the CL. The public is no longer satisfied with a national title. That has become too obvious.

That's right, next year will absolutely be a big chance for psg to get the title because they have a terrible squad and the majority of the players really want to get the ucl title no matter the cost, Players will be very determined in my opinion and they will make their best

I would say the players must be determined. The bond between each other should be strengthened. It is foolish to expect good performance from the team if the understanding between the players is not good. PSG had plenty of talented players last season too. But coach Mauricio Pochettino could not strengthen the bond between the players. Also the match strategy was weak. And so there was no consistency in PSG's performance. New coach Christophe Galtier must be tactical.

[bering]

Messi reported has refuse to talking about new contract although PSG offering him extended contract and Messi said he want to focus on world cup first because this will be his last appearance to this competition but the speculation appears regarding his future that probably he will leave PSG after his contract ended and some rumours said next destination from him is MLS league but not impossible to him will went to Barcelona again to ended his career at there

[BuNga_cute]

PSG could easily become champions with their reserve players. It's not really interesting to have a discussion about it. I was also surprised that PSG had decided to let Xavi Simons go to PSV. There is only 1 letter difference in a team, maybe that was it. The big question is what will happen to Messi, Mbappe and Neymar. Could those 3 just attack each other and want to keep playing? It's really time for them to win the CL. The public is no longer satisfied with a national title. That has become too obvious.

That's right, next year will absolutely be a big chance for psg to get the title because they have a terrible squad and the majority of the players really want to get the ucl title no matter the cost, Players will be very determined in my opinion and they will make their best

I would say the players must be determined. The bond between each other should be strengthened. It is foolish to expect good performance from the team if the understanding between the players is not good. PSG had plenty of talented players last season too. But coach Mauricio Pochettino could not strengthen the bond between the players. Also the match strategy was weak. And so there was no consistency in PSG's performance. New coach Christophe Galtier must be tactical.

It is true that the most important thing that PSG must have is good cooperation between players, because the previous season it was very clear
that PSG players were too concerned with their egos over the interests of the team. It is a tough task for Galtier as PSG coach, he must be able
to make PSG players work well together. Especially for Neymar, Messi and Mbappe will be very difficult to control, I became curious about
how Galtier's leadership was when he was PSG coach. Moreover, Galtier has no experience being a coach of a large team before, so I doubt Galtier
can make PSG win the Champions League trophy. If PSG only won the Ligue 1 trophy, whoever the coach was, it would not be too difficult to get
the Ligue 1 trophy. PSG supporters and also PSG management next season want PSG to win the Champions League trophy, but I am pessimistic
that Galtier can make it happen.

[RealMalatesta]

Paris Saint-Germain is a club that has invested a lot of cash to build a competitive squad in Europe. Even though Les Parisiens finished second in the 2019–2020 Champions League, they only made it as far as the semifinals the following year.
Paris Saint-Germain performance declined in the 2021/2022 Champions League when Lionel Messi was there, and PSG even lost in the round of 16 after being eliminated by Real Madrid.
Paris Saint-Germain actually had a chance to go further in the Champions League last season. However, Gianluigi Donnarumma's mistake against Real Madrid was a disaster.

Why the French giants haven't won the Champions League, despite having a star-studded team.

I would guess that the biggest reason why they fail is that they are not used to the tournament style all that much. They are amazing in the league because even if they lose a few, they win more than enough. But, when it's tournament style, you can't make a comeback with a small time left if you are not used to it.

Plus, Real keeps playing against decent opponents, and there are some other teams like that too, but PSG keeps playing against teams that are much worse than them, which makes them a bit more lazy when playing because they are used to winning anyway. Same goes for City as well, so many years of dominating EPL and yet they fail in UCL so far.

[rahmad2nd]

It is true that the most important thing that PSG must have is good cooperation between players, because the previous season it was very clear
that PSG players were too concerned with their egos over the interests of the team. It is a tough task for Galtier as PSG coach, he must be able
to make PSG players work well together. Especially for Neymar, Messi and Mbappe will be very difficult to control, I became curious about
how Galtier's leadership was when he was PSG coach. Moreover, Galtier has no experience being a coach of a large team before, so I doubt Galtier
can make PSG win the Champions League trophy. If PSG only won the Ligue 1 trophy, whoever the coach was, it would not be too difficult to get
the Ligue 1 trophy. PSG supporters and also PSG management next season want PSG to win the Champions League trophy, but I am pessimistic
that Galtier can make it happen.

I think we all agree with the current turbulent problems within the PSG squad, mbappe is a very good talented player but his character is hard on and selfish, IMO. if these three PSG stars can work well together I think a smooth road to reach the champions league title is not impossible to achieve next season. Galtier's role will be quite heavy considering the egos of PSG star players are difficult to manage, I think Galtier must be able to resolve the dispute between his star players, otherwise I doubt PSG can win the champions cup league.