French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[KTChampions]

I hope there will be some improvement in PSG defense until their Bayern Munich matches.

Because I don't like their defending style for some weeks. They concede goals really easily against capable teams. This even leads to point losses for them in the league. Bayern Munich is a much bigger challenge for them obviously. Maybe they are very strong in offense thanks to the great trio. But they need to strengthen their defending at the same time. Otherwise they can have big problems in that matchup. Bayern Munich haven't lost much from their productivity after selling Lewandowski.

If Bayern use the high pressure they know how to do, and PSG have all of the trio on the field, then I'm sure the outcome will be favorable for Bayern. At a minimum, Neymar and Messi like to play on clean balls (Mbappe is less concerned about this since he is initially far from the main events on the field and has to wait for passes) and do not really like dirty fights in the center of the field, so Bayern will have an advantage in the most important area. Even from the games with Benfica and Juventus (although PSG won both matches with Juventus), it was clear that PSG was very awkward to play in this format.

[posi]

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Lens' efforts this season have made an impact on everyone, I absolutely concur. They are undoubtedly a Ligue 1 club to watch. There is no disputing that PSG is a good team, but Lens has demonstrated that they can compete with them. It's amazing to see a team like Lens, who aren't one of the league's traditional powerhouses, competing for the title.

Lens seems to function effectively as a team. They work well together as a team, which is critical in a league with the level of competition witnessed in Ligue 1. As you have previously said, their defense has been superb, which has greatly contributed to their success. With their excellent play, their attackers and midfielders have contributed to multiple scoring opportunities. With the confidence they currently have, I feel they can prolong their winning streak and win the title. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the season goes for them.

Lens is a good team. But I do not agree that they are actually at the level of PSG. PSG is actually on another level by themselves. But right now PSG has only three points lead. I believe that is within touching distance for Lens. And if we compare the last 5 matches of both teams, we will see that Lens is actually in a better form compared to PSG. But does it mean that PSG is going to lose the title to Lens? I do not think so. Sooner or later Lens is going to make a mistake of losing a match which is going to benefit PSG a lot because they already have a lead of 3 points.

[beerlover]

There are a few matches that I think are worth watching this week because apart from Monaco against Marseille there are other matches like Lorient against Rennes and Nice will host Lille.
I think these 3 matches will be quite tight. but for Marseille I think I already feel they have won even though Monaco have been quite strong this season as well.

I think that the match between merseille against monaco will be the most interesting match compared with rennes vs lorient and nice vs lilla. Marseilel has been placing in the top 3 which was under Lens while monaco was under Marseille. Marseille will able to surpass lens if it will able to win against monaco. Lens itself will be facing a weak team. I expect lens to get full points and there will be no change in the position of french league. I have picked Marseille. Bookies were giving 2.25 for Marseille which is a very good odd for me.
Marseille has more than 60% probability to win the game against monaco.

I would agree with that too. This week looks like a good time to bet, it's definitely one of those weeks that made some good money and I think it will go on like that. I am not entirely sure if I will get them right again, but ligue 1 has been looking a bit more top heavy these days and for the past 5 years or so the top teams changed too much, and this time around the teams that are not PSG ended up being a little bit better and that is the reason why it's easier to wager on the games.

For some reason or another before this season there were like 10-12 teams that could beat each other, and that wasn't really good, but this year there are like 3-4 teams that could beat everyone else and that's great.

[fullhdpixel]

If Bayern use the high pressure they know how to do, and PSG have all of the trio on the field, then I'm sure the outcome will be favorable for Bayern. At a minimum, Neymar and Messi like to play on clean balls (Mbappe is less concerned about this since he is initially far from the main events on the field and has to wait for passes) and do not really like dirty fights in the center of the field, so Bayern will have an advantage in the most important area. Even from the games with Benfica and Juventus (although PSG won both matches with Juventus), it was clear that PSG was very awkward to play in this format.

There were clear signs both teams are having issues like Bayern Munich is now facing few injuries which can prevent them from having good performance in this round against PSG but on other hand we also have news about Neymar is also not 100% fit after the world cup and this is the biggest concern for them with this Mbappé is also not effective like he needs to be for the toughest games which is clearly signalling Bayern Munich can do better performance and steal the show despite all rumors which are going against them due to Neuer and Sadio Mané as these both were main players for them in this season but right now these both are out of the game with most chances Neuer is unlikely to join again Bayern Munich with is broken leg in off the field accident.

[dezoel]

I think that Marseille will be winning against monaco too.

Marseille may be more favored when facing Monaco. but at the moment Monaco is also not a weak team. they are just below Marseille.
Monaco also got some positive results in the last few matches. I don't think they will be very easy to beat by Marseille.
after a pretty big win against a team in the relegation zone, I think Monaco has good confidence going into the game against Marseille.

Clearly Monaco having better record against Marseille in their games but with current form there is no doubt this could be not easy game for the both clubs because right now these both are having good performance in their games and quality is also at his best which is surely good for the both teams but in case Marseille won this match points gape could be widened from third to fourth spot and this could be not good for the Monaco because they need to be in touch for the higher rank and this is possible only in case of having good results against Marseille in this game.

Marseille is surely giving their best after the break and with this performance now they are at the third spot and Monaco which was struggling now having fourth spot but in case of lost they can drop and Rennes can replace them at the fourth spot which could be not good for them.

[skarais]

I hope there will be some improvement in PSG defense until their Bayern Munich matches.

Because I don't like their defending style for some weeks. They concede goals really easily against capable teams. This even leads to point losses for them in the league. Bayern Munich is a much bigger challenge for them obviously. Maybe they are very strong in offense thanks to the great trio. But they need to strengthen their defending at the same time. Otherwise they can have big problems in that matchup. Bayern Munich haven't lost much from their productivity after selling Lewandowski.

Conseder that Bayern Munich's goal productivity is really high, then of course it's only natural that you expect Christophe Galtier to be able to review and improve his team's defense. PSG are easy to concede because of their lack of anticipation in defence, but I think that's the case at the moment. Not only can PSG hope for their trio's performance to win while they are weak defensively, it must be difficult to maintain victory even if they score goals.

So far PSG have relied on Juan Bernat as left back because Nuno Mendes is still injured. It is expected that Nuno Mendes will be able to start against Bayern Munich in mid-February, and that is possibility. Marquinhos, Ramos, Nuno Mendes and Achraf Hakimi are the best defense in my opinion, but unfortunately Mendes has not recovered where he is expected to be at the end of January.

[herurist]

Marseille vs Monaco seems to be worthy of watching next week. Marseille are obviously the favourite team to win the match @2.12.

There are a few matches that I think are worth watching this week because apart from Monaco against Marseille there are other matches like Lorient against Rennes and Nice will host Lille.
I think these 3 matches will be quite tight. but for Marseille I think I already feel they have won even though Monaco have been quite strong this season as well.

Monaro placed under Marseille. Possible draw as the result of the match. Marseille was able beating rennes in the french cup. The performance from monaro was quite good. Marseille itself always win during its last 5 matches. I think that Marseille is far better in this match. 2-0 is enough for Marseille to make sure if it can try to go up to compete with lens and PSG to be a champion at the end of season. The odds given by bookies to the Marseille looks good enough. I will go in to it.
It seems promising at this moment to pick Marseille in that match.

Marseille is currently on fire and they have never even lost since they last lost to Tottenham in the Champions League group phase.
Currently they are gaining momentum again after several matches at the start of the season did not go well and of course this is the right injection for them to be able to continue to fight for the same position as the previous season.
Only 2 points behind Lens obviously this makes them more confident especially they will be playing at home.

[Velvet78]

Lens are really doing great and their next opponent is not a challenging one for them actually. Troyes are close to the relegation zone now and I think they have a very difficult job against this much powerful Lens.

I'm aware of what happened in the Strasbourg game. Lens lost points very unexpectedly. But I don't expect to see this again in a short time. Troyes are not a very capable team and they lose some big games recently. This should be another game they are losing. After even beating PSG, Lens should be able to keep up a solid form against teams like Troyes.

[kotwica666]

I hope there will be some improvement in PSG defense until their Bayern Munich matches.

Because I don't like their defending style for some weeks. They concede goals really easily against capable teams. This even leads to point losses for them in the league. Bayern Munich is a much bigger challenge for them obviously. Maybe they are very strong in offense thanks to the great trio. But they need to strengthen their defending at the same time. Otherwise they can have big problems in that matchup. Bayern Munich haven't lost much from their productivity after selling Lewandowski.

Conseder that Bayern Munich's goal productivity is really high, then of course it's only natural that you expect Christophe Galtier to be able to review and improve his team's defense. PSG are easy to concede because of their lack of anticipation in defence, but I think that's the case at the moment. Not only can PSG hope for their trio's performance to win while they are weak defensively, it must be difficult to maintain victory even if they score goals.

So far PSG have relied on Juan Bernat as left back because Nuno Mendes is still injured. It is expected that Nuno Mendes will be able to start against Bayern Munich in mid-February, and that is possibility. Marquinhos, Ramos, Nuno Mendes and Achraf Hakimi are the best defense in my opinion, but unfortunately Mendes has not recovered where he is expected to be at the end of January.

PSG team is currently the best team in League One It is expected that they will be champions again like every time. PSG's attack is currently the most expensive. However, PSG could not improve much by arranging the attack with three star players.

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The match between Marseille against rennes was pretty interesting thing but Marseille was able to win against rennes. I think that Marseille will be winning against monaco too. Lens is facing an easy opponent. The match didn't look interesting for me. Brest was at the bottom while lens was at the second position. The result from the match is so easy to predict if lens will be winning the game. Lens didn't need to go all in against brest.

Indeed Lens won with 3 goals to 1 vs Brest. No surprise
In the other games played today, Lille, Nantes and Auxerre all won. Only Nantes has to go through penalties to win.
Tomorrow, there is a match between PSG and Pays de Cassel. No need to mention that all substitutes in PSG side will play in that game

[ilovealtcoins]

Lens are really doing great and their next opponent is not a challenging one for them actually. Troyes are close to the relegation zone now and I think they have a very difficult job against this much powerful Lens.

The lens is in very good form now and is second in the points table. They are only 3 points behind PSG. And with the way they have performed in the past matches, it is easy to assume that Lens will get the full 3 points against Troyes. Lens team to compete for the title with PSG. I think they will try to win the title till the end of the season.

[X-ray]

PSG is one of the best teams in League One. Currently, PSG team's attack is fantastic. Three of the best players in the world are in PSG's attack. They can be expected to be champions this season as well.

TBH, those great players were useless if PSG will not able to win the game. You're overreacteing those players. The season is still a long way to go and some competitors like Marseille and Lens have small gaps the PSG. I hope that PSG will be facing another loss and then Lens can have same points as PSG. I think that the result between lens and brest has proven that PSG was getting the pressure right now. Its competitors become even closer from any week. I wanna see french league will be winning by lens or Marseille.
A bit bored to see that if french league always dominated by PSG.

[S A KHAIR]

I don't think like you. PSG is undoubtedly a strong team. But I can't accept that they have no rival. PSG is only 4 points behind the second-placed team in the table. PSG are likely to lose the top spot in the table if they fail to perform consistently well. They have lost 2 of their last 3 matches. Their performance needs further improvement.

It's impossible for PSG not to have rivals in Ligue 1, but you will keep hearing such assumptions because PSG is the single biggest team in France by financial strength. I don't agree either, but that's how some people think about PSG.

I watched PSG's performance in the 2020-21 season. PSG had a strong squad. Even then they could not win the title. They were 1 point behind Lille at the top of the table. If PSG can't get back on track this season too, they will lose the top spot in the table.

PSG can loss points at any time during the competition, and the fact is that PSG have lost 6 points from their last 5 matches where Rennes and Lens are the two teams that beat them recently. Sometimes people are just cynical, but PSG are the dominant one.

I would like to say this from a different point of you. What I think is that PSG do not have a direct rival but what makes the Ligue-1 less uninteresting is the fact that even though PSG have a world-class squad on paper, they are unable to use that advantage. If you look at the score table, you can clearly see that even with that expensive and start a stacked team, PSG are only four points ahead of the second-placed team which is pretty unfortunate in my opinion.

[Awaklara]

PSG is one of the best teams in League One. Currently, PSG team's attack is fantastic. Three of the best players in the world are in PSG's attack. They can be expected to be champions this season as well.

TBH, those great players were useless if PSG will not able to win the game. You're overreacteing those players. The season is still a long way to go and some competitors like Marseille and Lens have small gaps the PSG. I hope that PSG will be facing another loss and then Lens can have same points as PSG. I think that the result between lens and brest has proven that PSG was getting the pressure right now. Its competitors become even closer from any week. I wanna see french league will be winning by lens or Marseille.
A bit bored to see that if french league always dominated by PSG.

PSG's next match will face Reims, the quality is slightly different from Rennes. I don't know what's wrong with PSG, their performance looks unstable. now the points difference is getting closer. and this is an opportunity for Lens to continue to stick to PSG.
maybe next week is not the right time for Lens to chase PSG. PSG has a high probability of winning against Reims. but if Lens can stay consistent with winning points, it could just make Lens reach the top faster.

[Zlantann]

PSG is one of the best teams in League One. Currently, PSG team's attack is fantastic. Three of the best players in the world are in PSG's attack. They can be expected to be champions this season as well.

TBH, those great players were useless if PSG will not able to win the game. You're overreacteing those players. The season is still a long way to go and some competitors like Marseille and Lens have small gaps the PSG. I hope that PSG will be facing another loss and then Lens can have same points as PSG. I think that the result between lens and brest has proven that PSG was getting the pressure right now. Its competitors become even closer from any week. I wanna see french league will be winning by lens or Marseille.
A bit bored to see that if french league always dominated by PSG.

I can't wait to see the French league become competitive. The over-dominance of PSG is making the league very boring.  Am glad just like the World Cup in Qatar which was filled with surprise, the French league is gradually doing the same. I don't hate PSG but it would be good to see the same intrigues and suspense we are experiencing currently in the German, English, and Italian league in the French league. Team's like Eintracht Frankfurt, Arsenal and Napoli are gradually changing the dominance of some well-known teams in their various league. It is good that Lens and Marseille are closing up the gap by PSG so that there would no longer be a cheap winner that would have to spare up to three marches.

[X-ray]

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The match between Marseille against rennes was pretty interesting thing but Marseille was able to win against rennes. I think that Marseille will be winning against monaco too. Lens is facing an easy opponent. The match didn't look interesting for me. Brest was at the bottom while lens was at the second position. The result from the match is so easy to predict if lens will be winning the game. Lens didn't need to go all in against brest.

Indeed Lens won with 3 goals to 1 vs Brest. No surprise
In the other games played today, Lille, Nantes and Auxerre all won. Only Nantes has to go through penalties to win.
Tomorrow, there is a match between PSG and Pays de Cassel. No need to mention that all substitutes in PSG side will play in that game

Yeah, got decent amounts of money from there. I guess that lens is too strong to be beaten by brest. Brest is just like easy points for lens. PSG will be actually winning the match easily. I meant Pays de cassel has been making controversial statement about the club would be so glad to lose against PSG when messi, neymar and mbappe played together rather than winning against PSG without them all. It seems like that pays de cassel knows that if it has a small chance to win against PSG.
It seems like that pays de cassel has zero chance to win against PSG but its luck can help the team to win against PSG.

[crunck]

PSG is one of the best teams in League One. Currently, PSG team's attack is fantastic. Three of the best players in the world are in PSG's attack. They can be expected to be champions this season as well.

TBH, those great players were useless if PSG will not able to win the game. You're overreacteing those players. The season is still a long way to go and some competitors like Marseille and Lens have small gaps the PSG. I hope that PSG will be facing another loss and then Lens can have same points as PSG. I think that the result between lens and brest has proven that PSG was getting the pressure right now. Its competitors become even closer from any week. I wanna see french league will be winning by lens or Marseille.
A bit bored to see that if french league always dominated by PSG.

PSG's next match will face Reims, the quality is slightly different from Rennes. I don't know what's wrong with PSG, their performance looks unstable. now the points difference is getting closer. and this is an opportunity for Lens to continue to stick to PSG.
maybe next week is not the right time for Lens to chase PSG. PSG has a high probability of winning against Reims. but if Lens can stay consistent with winning points, it could just make Lens reach the top faster.

PSG's performance has deteriorated since the World Cup break. They are not playing well. They have lost two of their last three matches. In particular, I would say the performance of their defenders has deteriorated. PSG conceded 3 goals against Lens. PSG's opponents in the next match, Reims, are not very strong. However, Reims will aim to share the points in this match. They have not lost even one of the last 5 matches. And so it won't be easy for PSG to win this match.

[Tumanggor]

PSG's performance has deteriorated since the World Cup break. They are not playing well. They have lost two of their last three matches. In particular, I would say the performance of their defenders has deteriorated. PSG conceded 3 goals against Lens. PSG's opponents in the next match, Reims, are not very strong. However, Reims will aim to share the points in this match. They have not lost even one of the last 5 matches. And so it won't be easy for PSG to win this match.

Everyone must be aware that PSG's performance has decreased since the world cup break, but that certainly won't last long because PSG has been able to grow steadily

later PSG will face de Cassel in the french cup, hopefully the PSG squad can prove their quality and win easily

[Docnaster]

PSG's performance has deteriorated since the World Cup break. They are not playing well. They have lost two of their last three matches. In particular, I would say the performance of their defenders has deteriorated. PSG conceded 3 goals against Lens. PSG's opponents in the next match, Reims, are not very strong. However, Reims will aim to share the points in this match. They have not lost even one of the last 5 matches. And so it won't be easy for PSG to win this match.

Everyone must be aware that PSG's performance has decreased since the world cup break, but that certainly won't last long because PSG has been able to grow steadily

later PSG will face de Cassel in the french cup, hopefully the PSG squad can prove their quality and win easily

Could it be that the three stars have not understood themselves very well. Messi returned to the camp late, while Mbappe and Neymar came earlier and when Messi arrived, Mbappe had already been giving a leave.
By next month all of them will play together and consistently and I hope they will return to their good form.

[rendravolt]

It turns out that this week there are no matches at all in Ligue 1 and there will be again next week. But my eyes were fixed on one of the big matches between Marseille vs Monaco, there are interesting facts that these two teams are in 3rd and 4th positions in the standings. But the distance between the two points is about 5 points and that's far enough in my opinion.

Marseille must win if they want to shift Lens in 2nd place, while Monaco even though they can win this match later they will still be in 4th place in the standings, at least they have to beat Marseille if they want to shorten the distance in points and be able to overtake 3rd in the standings.

Also Monaco must get 3 points because they are still in the shadow of Rennes who have the same points by collecting 37 points. Marseille remains the favorite in this match, I don't think both teams will be able to score a goal easily. In fact I think maybe a draw is the best result for these two teams. But we'll see, which team will be able to play better, and they will definitely be able to win, whoever it is.

True, I totally agree with your opinion. Indeed, at this time Monaco is still overshadowed by Rennes who have the same points and the possibility of the two of them fighting for position 4 is still wide open. On the other hand, I hope that Marseille and Monaco can provide exciting matches and at least there will be more than 2 goals that will be created in this match later.