French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[Awaklara]

Rennes vs PSG
Rennes is ranked fourth. A difference of 13 points. PSG are number one with 47 points and still quite comfortable with a six-point gap with Lens at number 2.
But PSG must win, although they must go to Rennes' home ground at Roazhon Park. This is to keep a safe distance of points. Perhaps this will also be the first time in the World Cup that Messi, Neymar and Mbappe have played in an official match. At full strength, I think PSG can win. But they have to be wary Rennes is not a weak club.

despite playing at home, Rennes is not in good shape after the previous game they lost against Clermont 2-1. what's worse, it was two of their players received red cards.
against PSG, it will be quite difficult for Rennes. even though they are not a weak team when some of their main players can't play. it was a loss that would seriously affect their game.
if PSG will come with their best squad, this could be a nightmare for Rennes.

[darewaller]

People expecting Mbappe and Messi to have a problem with each other are making nonsense out of nothing. I mean this is a duo that earns more than 100 million euros a year together, that should tell you how much professional they are, and they make nearly 10 million a month, meaning about 2 or so million a week, and hundreds of thousands of dollars per day, tens of thousands of dollars per hour they are alive. If we look at it as just the games? Millions of dollars per game they play.

How could you expect such professionals to be like high school kid drama? Of course that won't happen, of course they will be fine with each other, they know this is just business.

[maju69]

Rennes vs PSG
Rennes is ranked fourth. A difference of 13 points. PSG are number one with 47 points and still quite comfortable with a six-point gap with Lens at number 2.
But PSG must win, although they must go to Rennes' home ground at Roazhon Park. This is to keep a safe distance of points. Perhaps this will also be the first time in the World Cup that Messi, Neymar and Mbappe have played in an official match. At full strength, I think PSG can win. But they have to be wary Rennes is not a weak club.

Rennes can put Paris Saint Germain in danger, as when Lens beat them with a crushing score. In the match this time they must win because their competitors are slowly starting to approach them. But it will be even more interesting if Paris Saint Germain loses again, it will make the competition at the top even more interesting and hotter. That's what I really hope for the league to run more competitively than usual. But Rennes will determine what I expect in this game.

[RaltcoinsB]

Rennes vs PSG
Rennes is ranked fourth. A difference of 13 points. PSG are number one with 47 points and still quite comfortable with a six-point gap with Lens at number 2.
But PSG must win, although they must go to Rennes' home ground at Roazhon Park. This is to keep a safe distance of points. Perhaps this will also be the first time in the World Cup that Messi, Neymar and Mbappe have played in an official match. At full strength, I think PSG can win. But they have to be wary Rennes is not a weak club.

Messi, Mbappe and Neymar are the best frontlines any club could possibly hope for, they are good pairing on the pitch. PSG at the top spot with consistent wins in games, stats from their last five games WWLWW and their opposition Rennes ranked 4th on the table with stats in their last five games WLWWL. With good records, PSG are on the lead to win Rennes, not an easy win because Rennes new head coach, Bruno Génésio impacting new game plans in the minds of the players unlike the former coach who was reluctant in his actions.

The result of the Rennes-Psg match is very important.  In France, the league race is not easily concluded against Psg.  They dominate the league very easily.  I guess Rennes will resist a lot in the match.  It will be a tough match for psg.  On the other hand, Lens, which is close to the top of the league, won the match and continues its race for the top.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Lens will fight against another team who in the relegation zone Auxerre and actually Auxerre statistics was more worst than Strasbourg so this is should be easy match for Lens and currently Auxerre has conceded 40 goals which makes them as the team with the worst defense in France league and i think it's not so hard to scoring at least 2 goals or more if Lens can performing well today especially Lens has Lois Openda who on fire with 9 goals during this season but i wish Lens will be more pay attention to their defense because lately their defense were quite poor and 2 goals from Strasbourg proven Lens have to improved their defensive lines however i think Lens win still the best option for this match

Lens clearly excelled in the match against Auxerre, but sometimes Lens has a pretty bad record against weak teams. Lens must be able to give their best performance so that every opportunity they have can result in a goal and Auxerre I don't know for sure when they will get another victory when what they face in the match will be the team in 2nd place in the standings. I hope it will be an easy game for Lens to continue to keep PSG at the top of the standings.

Well, it's a shame that a team like Lens is in these instances, especially after beating a PSG that took it as it was, I think they won't go down any further, they have a mental commitment to themselves and their fans, I don't I think they are going to be disappointed, this is where a battle for the teams is quite strong, I would not like to be in their place, because every move they make in the game may require being out of Ligue 1, and the truth is not it's that fair of course Nothing is fair in football, only those who manage to score the goals are determined to win, that's how it works, and Lens have earned a lot of respect from others.

Franck Haise confirms Adrien Thomasson set to feature against Auxerre for Lens

Speaking to L’Équipe, Lens general manager Franck Haise has confirmed that new signing Adrien Thomasson should be set to be involved in the Sang & Or’s clash against Auxerre, being eligible to be  picked by the boss for the Ligue 1 fixture. “He should be eligible to play,” said Haise, “He’s already played a lot this season with Strasbourg so he is in good shape”. 

Thomasson, who was recently acquired by RC Lens for €3.9m from Strasbourg, should be expecting a debut with his new team in the match against Auxerre on Saturday at 5pm. Despite only participating in a few collective training sessions, Haise says that Thomasson is familiar with the game plan and is ready to contribute to the team.

Source: https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2023/franck-haise-confirms-adrien-thomasson-set-to-feature-against-auxerre-for-lens/

[Ratash]

Lens with another win today against Auxere, it was a tough one and it was thanks to a penalty but the most important thing in these type of games are the three points, i did not expect auxere to put up this much resistance especially after seeing their poor performance and how fragile their defense is.

[CLS63]

Lens had a pretty interesting match against Auxerre to be honest. I would have expected a much more comfortable win by a big score difference. But instead they didn't even have goal attempts that were close to the number of chances they had in the first half after Auxerre got that red card. Lens should be more productive in such easy matches to prove themselves worthy for a title race.

For now it still feels like Marseille can get past them soon and finish the season ahead of them as well. It depends on how effective Marseille will use their squad quality.

[terrorJR]

Lens with another win today against Auxere, it was a tough one and it was thanks to a penalty but the most important thing in these type of games are the three points, i did not expect auxere to put up this much resistance especially after seeing their poor performance and how fragile their defense is.

The very hard match of the 2 teams made it very difficult for them and 1 Penalty goal managed to make Lens bring 3 points when playing at home in this match.
I was really worried because in this match I bet quite a lot but fortunately the Penalties made this an advantage for Lens. On the other hand Isaak Toure's red card also made it more difficult for Auxerre in this match and I was pretty sure after that with my bet.

[Raflesia]

Rennes vs PSG
Rennes is ranked fourth. A difference of 13 points. PSG are number one with 47 points and still quite comfortable with a six-point gap with Lens at number 2.
But PSG must win, although they must go to Rennes' home ground at Roazhon Park. This is to keep a safe distance of points. Perhaps this will also be the first time in the World Cup that Messi, Neymar and Mbappe have played in an official match. At full strength, I think PSG can win. But they have to be wary Rennes is not a weak club.

Rennes are playing at home but this doesn't make them excel like that.
We know apart from their loss to Clermont Foot last week their opponents PSG will play with a full squad I think because there really is no reason for them to hold back players in this game.
PSG are clearly superior in every way and I don't think Rennes will get a chance apart from them defending continuously while hoping to maximize a draw.

[Velvet78]

Marseille continue to win in the league. With this victory they have made their winning streak six games now and they haven't been losing a game for seven weeks as well. Their performance against Lorient today was really lovely. Especially the first half was very impressive for them. Lorient tried to balance the game in the second half but Marseille still managed to score two more goals and finished them off by 3-1.

This wasn't a very easy game for them normally because Lorient are one of the decent teams of the season now. After stealing a point from Monaco, Marseille needed to be careful. They really did it and just played their usual game.

[execijutiere]

The seemingly easy game of the day was the tough match of the day between Lens and Auxerre. Auxerre, who are in the relegation zone, struggled against championship candidate Lens. Lens won the game, albeit hard, and reduced the points difference with PSG to 3.
Marseille will have made good use of the break in the league, I can say that they put themselves back in the race with their 4th win in a row. They have recovered and I would like to say that they are back in form. The league starts again now and I think it will be more competitive.

[swogerino]

I don't know but lately many games here are coming as true both teams to score yes and this league has been historically on the low side of goals and this was not commonly found here.I placed a bet on both teams to score to Lyon vs Strasbourg as I thought Lyon would win with a huge difference in goals because they are better ranked and has the better players,I never expected them to lose yet I expected at least a goal from Strasbourg who in their latest games has been able to score goals,last time around they stopped the title runners up of Lens at a 2-2 draw at home.

[Doell]

Marseille continue to win in the league. With this victory they have made their winning streak six games now and they haven't been losing a game for seven weeks as well. Their performance against Lorient today was really lovely. Especially the first half was very impressive for them. Lorient tried to balance the game in the second half but Marseille still managed to score two more goals and finished them off by 3-1.

This wasn't a very easy game for them normally because Lorient are one of the decent teams of the season now. After stealing a point from Monaco, Marseille needed to be careful. They really did it and just played their usual game.

Marseille squad doing a very good job, it seems like have a six win streak will be a positive trend for them, and they still possible have a chance to take second place because they are only two points different with Lens. Meanwhile for Lorient didn't get a point in this match, it will make their point gap with Monaco will widen, because Monaco it seems like they also will be able to get a win in tomorrow match against Ajaccio.

[alpamar99]

Forget the first position because all the teams in Ligue 1 will not be able to take it from PSG, but in terms of competition for position 2, I think they can still do it, even though in the last 3 matches they got 2 draws and under these conditions, Marseille is slowly catching up.

Marseille's condition is much more convince with the record that in their last five matches in Ligue 1, Marseille has successfully won all of their matches.
Lens' mistakes in recent weeks give the way for Marseille to catch up in the standings, currently the two teams are only two points apart. The competition for 2nd place will be even more exciting with the current point difference

In this condition, Lens has faltered a bit in the last few matches and in the match they are having today it is also very unfortunate that they could only score 1 goal against Auxerre and even then it was very difficult and scored a penalty.
It depends on the consistency now, whether they will still be very consistent or repeat some of the same mistakes now because if they make one mistake then position 2 seems even easier to steal, especially now that they only have 2 points gap.

[LittleBitFunny]

People expecting Mbappe and Messi to have a problem with each other are making nonsense out of nothing. I mean this is a duo that earns more than 100 million euros a year together, that should tell you how much professional they are, and they make nearly 10 million a month, meaning about 2 or so million a week, and hundreds of thousands of dollars per day, tens of thousands of dollars per hour they are alive. If we look at it as just the games? Millions of dollars per game they play.
How could you expect such professionals to be like high school kid drama? Of course that won't happen, of course they will be fine with each other, they know this is just business.

I know that after all both of them are professional footballers. And there should not be any problems between them. But Mbappe has done some dramatic and unbelievable things previously. Just like pushing Lionel Messi with his shoulder. And also stopped his run when Lionel Messi did not pass the ball to him. That was certainly unprofessional. And Lionel Messi won the world cup against France in the final. I believe these are the reasons why people think they are will be some reaction.

But after all, they are teammates. And whatever happens, they will have to play together when it comes to playing for PSG. I believe they will be able to put all the things aside and play alongside by complementing each other.

[Marvell1]

Lens was supposed to win this match quite easily. But in the end, it was not truly easy for them. I would say that Lens had control over the match. But they could not do too much with all that control. I've seen they had possession of the ball a lot. But they could not create too many good chances with that. After all the penalty was the only goal scored in this match. And after that, the red card made it very hard for Auxerre to come back in this match. In the next match, Lens will play against Troyes. I am expecting that Lens is going to win that match as well.

Lens had a pretty interesting match against Auxerre to be honest. I would have expected a much more comfortable win by a big score difference. But instead they didn't even have goal attempts that were close to the number of chances they had in the first half after Auxerre got that red card. Lens should be more productive in such easy matches to prove themselves worthy for a title race.
For now it still feels like Marseille can get past them soon and finish the season ahead of them as well. It depends on how effective Marseille will use their squad quality.

[X-ray]

Lens with another win today against Auxere, it was a tough one and it was thanks to a penalty but the most important thing in these type of games are the three points, i did not expect auxere to put up this much resistance especially after seeing their poor performance and how fragile their defense is.

Red card has been saving lens to get full points from auxerre. If there would be no red card and i think the match will be ended with draw as the result. As far as i know that if the match has been dominated by lens but all of its attacks were not able being converted into the goal. that's why lens was so lucky in this match caused by lens get a penalty. The penalty has been successfully execured by lens's player przemyslaw. Lens has a problem with the attacking line but so far lens doing so well in the match against auxerre.

[Bobrox]

Red card has been saving lens to get full points from auxerre. If there would be no red card and i think the match will be ended with draw as the result. As far as i know that if the match has been dominated by lens but all of its attacks were not able being converted into the goal. that's why lens was so lucky in this match caused by lens get a penalty. The penalty has been successfully execured by lens's player przemyslaw. Lens has a problem with the attacking line but so far lens doing so well in the match against auxerre.

Despite red card or not receiving by Auxerre player's Isaak Touré on 65th minutes actually Lens got three points and make close position standing with PSG behind 3 points left. Up coming match Rennes vs PSG and Lens want to see PSG failed get full points and standing Ligue 1 position will be excited.

Sure I can't believing with Lens won 1 goals only regarding 2nd current standing position against Auxerre as relegation team, however Lens success securing three points and keep compete with PSG for Ligue 1 tittle, although not favorite but consistency performance and points close stull not close chance for Lens with domestic tittle.

[tulusikhlas]

I don't know but lately many games here are coming as true both teams to score yes and this league has been historically on the low side of goals and this was not commonly found here.I placed a bet on both teams to score to Lyon vs Strasbourg as I thought Lyon would win with a huge difference in goals because they are better ranked and has the better players,I never expected them to lose yet I expected at least a goal from Strasbourg who in their latest games has been able to score goals,last time around they stopped the title runners up of Lens at a 2-2 draw at home.

I think they were just unlucky in this match, just imagine that out of the 28 kicks they took only 7 were on target. And the 1 goal they scored through the white point was not from a gameplay situation that they really did. The percentage is that they don't play effectively and they often waste opportunities that they should be able to convert into opportunities that end in goals. I also didn't expect that Strasbourg would be able to win in this match.

[bering]

PSG has odds @1.52 this is much better than their previous match and i don't expect PSG will able to win with big scores anymore because apparently PSG didn't too care about final scores because as long as they can earn 3 points probably that's enough for them moreover Rennes isn't weak team although lately they were showed unstable performance but i still counted them as tough team on Ligue 1 and indeed without doubt PSG will be the winner of this match but probably will not with huge scores and the options PSG win still the safest bets for this match and with the odds i mentioned above i think it deserved to try