French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[skarais]

With PSG losing points and Marseille winning away, the gap between them is down to 5 points. This week was a very important week for the title race. Monaco also won and it must be said that they also caught a good series.
At the moment, Lens, one of the teams in the race, continues to play. The situation is 1-1 in Lyon away. They will not want to lose points in the week PSG lost. They will put more effort to win in the second half.

In the end PSG did not pass the test when two of their superstars were injured and were not involved in a game. That clearly shows how weak PSG are without Messi and Mbappe. Now 5 points is a safe distance, but the competition will be even tougher.

I tend not to believe PSG can withstand such a tough challenge in the Champions League against Bayern Munich if two or more of their main players are injured. Neymar can't do much on his own while the substitutes don't really prove what they are capable of. Aside from the attackers, PSG are quite weak in the midfield area where they are not creative enough to gain control and support many goal chances without Messi and Mbappe.

[borovichok]

Alexis Sanchez was the hero of Marseille against Clermont this week. His two goals helped the team get a comfortable win and catch up with PSG by three points again. There was a solid game by Marseille just as I expected. Seeing them so desperate against Nice in a home match wasn't expected at all. But it looks like this heavy loss didn't affect their morale much. They maintained a dominant performance against Clermont and deserved the victory at the end.

Now Lens are the losing side by 2-1 against Lyon. Their form is in decrease still and this makes them even get away from the Champions League area. It looks like they have lost their concentration for some weeks.

Marseille can move further in closing the hugh points difference between the Ligue one giant. Hopefully, they might catch up with PSG only if they start losing points in games, thereby leading them to also drop from top of the table. Alexis Sanchez is having one of the remarkable moments in Marseille after trebling two goals in their previous game with high rating of 7.6 in the match. The club is ranked second on the table with good results from the club in general. Definitely a tough competition for the parisians who lost 3-1 to Monaco.

[swogerino]

With PSG losing points and Marseille winning away, the gap between them is down to 5 points. This week was a very important week for the title race. Monaco also won and it must be said that they also caught a good series.
At the moment, Lens, one of the teams in the race, continues to play. The situation is 1-1 in Lyon away. They will not want to lose points in the week PSG lost. They will put more effort to win in the second half.

I think that PSG losing in such times is not their main concern.They have as the primary objective going as further as possible in the Champions League and winning it,they have this as their main objectives from many years now and they sure have super star players able to win every game against every opponent.I think that is the main reason that they have lost against Monaco,they think that their supremacy in Ligue 1 cannot be discussed and most likely they are going to win this season too but they can afford to lose a game or two and still be at the top while their full focus is on the upcoming Champions League encounter.

[BitcoinAccepted]

With PSG losing points and Marseille winning away, the gap between them is down to 5 points. This week was a very important week for the title race. Monaco also won and it must be said that they also caught a good series.
At the moment, Lens, one of the teams in the race, continues to play. The situation is 1-1 in Lyon away. They will not want to lose points in the week PSG lost. They will put more effort to win in the second half.

I think that PSG losing in such times is not their main concern.They have as the primary objective going as further as possible in the Champions League and winning it,they have this as their main objectives from many years now and they sure have super star players able to win every game against every opponent.I think that is the main reason that they have lost against Monaco,they think that their supremacy in Ligue 1 cannot be discussed and most likely they are going to win this season too but they can afford to lose a game or two and still be at the top while their full focus is on the upcoming Champions League encounter.

I also think that PSG doesn't really care how things go in the league. If they give their best for 10 games, that's just an easy 30 points, and it doesn't even matter who they all play against. They have been busy for a long time with the CL match against Bayern Munich next week. National titles are of no importance, but they would like to exchange them all for the cup in the CL in recent years. And I have no doubt at all whether PSG will become national champions, the only question is when they will do their best again in the competition, because that is the only reason that they are not much more points apart from the competition. Cup defeat can happen once, Marseille is also one of the better teams behind PSG.

[herurist]

I also think that PSG doesn't really care how things go in the league. If they give their best for 10 games, that's just an easy 30 points, and it doesn't even matter who they all play against. They have been busy for a long time with the CL match against Bayern Munich next week. National titles are of no importance, but they would like to exchange them all for the cup in the CL in recent years. And I have no doubt at all whether PSG will become national champions, the only question is when they will do their best again in the competition, because that is the only reason that they are not much more points apart from the competition. Cup defeat can happen once, Marseille is also one of the better teams behind PSG.

2 Matches without their star players made it very difficult for them to develop a pattern of play. Regardless of whether they care or not they are clearly in trouble now.
Not to mention that going against Bayern is something that is becoming more and more difficult now.
Reflecting on the defeats against Marseille and Monaco, we should have realized that even though their dominance in possession was good, they still lacked opportunities.

[GxSTxV]

With PSG losing points and Marseille winning away, the gap between them is down to 5 points. This week was a very important week for the title race. Monaco also won and it must be said that they also caught a good series.
At the moment, Lens, one of the teams in the race, continues to play. The situation is 1-1 in Lyon away. They will not want to lose points in the week PSG lost. They will put more effort to win in the second half.

All teams are taking this advantage with PSG weakness since the start of 2023 we didn't see good performance and the good game play we use to see. Now it's even worse with the absence of Mbappé and Messi now we can say that PSG needs a total different structure and new strategy in order to save this season with less damage and at least one trophy with all the stars they have .

[makishart]

With PSG losing points and Marseille winning away, the gap between them is down to 5 points. This week was a very important week for the title race. Monaco also won and it must be said that they also caught a good series.
At the moment, Lens, one of the teams in the race, continues to play. The situation is 1-1 in Lyon away. They will not want to lose points in the week PSG lost. They will put more effort to win in the second half.

that's very sad to say that if lens was losing against lyon. Lens didn't use this best opportunity to win the game and become even closer with PSG. PSG may also lose against in the upcoming match against LOSC. This time PSG is putting all of its focus into the match against bayern. Messi that has been rumored to be injured will be coming back again against bayern. Bayern is known as a strong team in UCL. PSG will be focusing to the french league again after it was able to beat bayern but it's not as easy as people said.
Bayern has so many advantage here to see PSG will be playing without mbappe. That's one of main reason im not even prefer taking PSG as my bet for UCL.

[Velvet78]

Lens are experiencing a really bad time period now. This was their fourth week in a row that they lose points. This horrible form has thrown them by two positions in the standings as a result.

I had my doubts about Lens to maintain their title run or even the second position until the end. They didn't prove me wrong as it seems. This time they lost to Lyon despite showing a good performance actually. They just couldn't hold onto one point at least. Marseille and Monaco are benefiting from the situation very nicely of course.

[MoonOfLife]

Lens are experiencing a really bad time period now. This was their fourth week in a row that they lose points. This horrible form has thrown them by two positions in the standings as a result.

I had my doubts about Lens to maintain their title run or even the second position until the end. They didn't prove me wrong as it seems. This time they lost to Lyon despite showing a good performance actually. They just couldn't hold onto one point at least. Marseille and Monaco are benefiting from the situation very nicely of course.

I thought only Lens would compete with PSG for the Ligue 1 title this season. But they proved me wrong. And now Lens' position is fourth in the points table. They have lost points in four matches in a row. Lens is 3 points behind Marseille. I don't think Lens will compete for the title anymore. Lens's performance has deteriorated due to lack of performance from forward players. We look forward to seeing what steps Lens coach Franck Haise takes to strengthen his team.

[shogun47]

League 1 as a business is much worse than the Premier League and no sheikhs and artificial infusions of money can change this. As far as I heard, tickets for League 1 games are several times cheaper than for Premier League games, and everyone knows that TV rights to show EPL games bring record amounts. League 1 needs to develop as a business, then over time they will be able to reach the level of the EPL, all other artificial methods are nonsense.

Yes that is what I meant. Ligue 1 as a commercial product will probably never even get close to what the EPL is today. I can't really recall what the EPL was like decades ago, but if my feeling is right here I think the EPL has always been on top of things along with the Primera Division? Is that about right?

The EPL has so many top clubs with a long established history. Well, it might not be impossible to turn a club like Olympique Marseille into a huge club with sheikh money. There is a little number of clubs with a long and well known history as well in Ligue 1 if I am not mistaken, but still the effort to elevate Ligue 1 to EPL levels is just outrageous I would imagine.

For now they can be happy to have at least PSG in order to be perceived on international stages as well. But that might be over against Bayern Munich already. Looking forward to those games as well!

I remember when Serie A was top 1, hehe. But the Premier League has always been >> than Ligue 1. In fact, Ligue 1 is closer to the weaker championships than to the big four (although this is subjective and I may be wrong).

In any case, reform processes are underway and we will see the struggle between two projects - the Super League and the Super League from UEFA (the new format of the Champions League). Whoever wins, everything is going to be something like a single European league and no doubt several teams from France will get there. Perhaps this will smooth out the differences between countries (although it is likely that smaller clubs will suffer).

I admit that I kind of lost track of the most recent news regarding the reform processes. Just looked it up and yes, I recall that the competitions is going to be increased significantly. For me personally, that's no good news. I found the UEFA Nations League already lead to an inflationary number of soccer games on the international level. I don't even watch those games.

Now they say that the number of games will be increased from 125 to up to 225 for the newly created Champions League competition. Seriously... Even as a big soccer fan, I still like the idea of having exclusive events that take place only so often in a year.

Sheikhs and business man are conquering the sports markets right now. The only way to attract new audience to a league is through signing the world elite like Messi, Mbappe and so on. But that's only possible when more big money enters those leagues and I don't know if all of that will ultimately be to the detriment of the fans, for instance, in terms of ticketing prices.

I would say that even the players themselves suffer from imbalances within their national competitions. Under normal circumstances, PSG would probably have at least 10 points more now, but you can see that guys like Messi can't take that competition as seriously because they don't have to. There is no need to perform every single game as if you were just facing Manchester City in the Champions League final and you can't even blame them. Those guys decided to haunt the money, that's true, but those players benefit from fierce competition like Messi benefited from Ronaldo and vice versa in La Liga.

Ligue 1 is totally imbalanced right now and even PSG management itself subordinates all national competition to the Champions League because that is what the world is watching.

[Sirait]

I thought only Lens would compete with PSG for the Ligue 1 title this season. But they proved me wrong. And now Lens' position is fourth in the points table. They have lost points in four matches in a row. Lens is 3 points behind Marseille. I don't think Lens will compete for the title anymore. Lens's performance has deteriorated due to lack of performance from forward players. We look forward to seeing what steps Lens coach Franck Haise takes to strengthen his team.

Lens was unable to face Lyon, even though in the first half they seemed convinced they could keep up with Lyon but in the second half their luck ended and in the end they had to be willing to lose 2-1. there were a lot of lens opportunities created but their attackers seemed unable to take advantage of them well, even I saw marseille, much better than Lens.

[slaman29]

League 1 as a business is much worse than the Premier League and no sheikhs and artificial infusions of money can change this. As far as I heard, tickets for League 1 games are several times cheaper than for Premier League games, and everyone knows that TV rights to show EPL games bring record amounts. League 1 needs to develop as a business, then over time they will be able to reach the level of the EPL, all other artificial methods are nonsense.

I think it's more about quality. Before EPL got all their money they attracted a lot of quality and wanted to play very good football. Exciting football. Plus a lot of people everywhere they wanted to show it spoke English. I think English as a language was the key secret.

French football outside the big teams is nowhere as good as Italian or Spanish or English, so it needs to change that first, at least this is how I see it.

Saw that you tied the Monaco game with Barca, good luck, didn't believe in Marseille enough?

I thought it was itself a big risk in its own already! So yes Barca won the second game on my multibet, so I won it back happily. And to make it even better I put something pretty big on single ticket and that also converted, so I'm a happy guy this weekend.

Funny that it wasn't I made profit, but I made back money on losses and that makes me happy lol.

[Jossque]

Yesterday we watched lyon-lens in the last match. We can say that Lens slowly started to break away from the championship race with the draws and defeats in the last 4 weeks. Yesterday, he lost 3 more points in this important match and fell 8 points behind PSG. Lens, who spent the week in which PSG was defeated, must now put an end to the point losses. Otherwise I don't think this point difference will close. Lens didn't play badly, but it must be said that he couldn't evaluate the positions he found.

[hahay]

Yesterday we watched lyon-lens in the last match. We can say that Lens slowly started to break away from the championship race with the draws and defeats in the last 4 weeks. Yesterday, he lost 3 more points in this important match and fell 8 points behind PSG. Lens, who spent the week in which PSG was defeated, must now put an end to the point losses. Otherwise I don't think this point difference will close. Lens didn't play badly, but it must be said that he couldn't evaluate the positions he found.

Yes, basically Lens can still play well even though Lens is playing away but unfortunately, Lens is difficult to convert every opportunity it gets to convert into a goal. Maybe Lens is currently in a stalemate, because supposedly with gameplay like that, Lens should still be able to win or maybe draw.
But yes, after all, Lyon is indeed not a team that Lens can easily beat, so this home match made Lyon gain the advantage so that they finally won and managed to beat Lens.

[fzkto]

Yesterday we watched lyon-lens in the last match. We can say that Lens slowly started to break away from the championship race with the draws and defeats in the last 4 weeks. Yesterday, he lost 3 more points in this important match and fell 8 points behind PSG. Lens, who spent the week in which PSG was defeated, must now put an end to the point losses. Otherwise I don't think this point difference will close. Lens didn't play badly, but it must be said that he couldn't evaluate the positions he found.

Lens has long since given way to Marseille and Monaco, although they have fewer games lost. Only three, same as PSG, but like you said, they have more draws and have been losing points to outsiders recently. I think they will have a hard time scoring points now to get ahead of Marseille and Monaco again. The main thing is to stop losing so they don't get relegated from the European zone.

[Minecache]

League 1 as a business is much worse than the Premier League and no sheikhs and artificial infusions of money can change this. As far as I heard, tickets for League 1 games are several times cheaper than for Premier League games, and everyone knows that TV rights to show EPL games bring record amounts. League 1 needs to develop as a business, then over time they will be able to reach the level of the EPL, all other artificial methods are nonsense.

I think it's more about quality. Before EPL got all their money they attracted a lot of quality and wanted to play very good football. Exciting football. Plus a lot of people everywhere they wanted to show it spoke English. I think English as a language was the key secret.

French football outside the big teams is nowhere as good as Italian or Spanish or English, so it needs to change that first, at least this is how I see it.

But of course, the owners and investors are going to think about benefits. And right now I do not think that Ligue 1 is actually doing well in terms of benefits. Teams like Barcelona and Real Madrid are always going to make money regardless of the situation. However, that is not the case with Ligue 1.

We saw a lot of very popular players go to PSG. But still, the popularity did not skyrocket as people probably expected. So, if I had to invest, I would have thought about a lot of other clubs and leagues instead of Ligue 1 right now.

[maju69]

Yesterday we watched lyon-lens in the last match. We can say that Lens slowly started to break away from the championship race with the draws and defeats in the last 4 weeks. Yesterday, he lost 3 more points in this important match and fell 8 points behind PSG. Lens, who spent the week in which PSG was defeated, must now put an end to the point losses. Otherwise I don't think this point difference will close. Lens didn't play badly, but it must be said that he couldn't evaluate the positions he found.

Lens has long since given way to Marseille and Monaco, although they have fewer games lost. Only three, same as PSG, but like you said, they have more draws and have been losing points to outsiders recently. I think they will have a hard time scoring points now to get ahead of Marseille and Monaco again. The main thing is to stop losing so they don't get relegated from the European zone.

Yes, Lens is slowly moving away from competition for the title, from 4 total matches they lost 10 very valuable points. Their point difference with the leaders of the standings is now 8, and even though it is 8 points away, in Ligue 1 it will be very difficult to approach, especially if Paris Saint Germain has the strength of luxury. It's really unfortunate when you see them declining when they should be able to compete even tighter.

[rahmad2nd]

Yesterday we watched lyon-lens in the last match. We can say that Lens slowly started to break away from the championship race with the draws and defeats in the last 4 weeks. Yesterday, he lost 3 more points in this important match and fell 8 points behind PSG. Lens, who spent the week in which PSG was defeated, must now put an end to the point losses. Otherwise I don't think this point difference will close. Lens didn't play badly, but it must be said that he couldn't evaluate the positions he found.

Lens has long since given way to Marseille and Monaco, although they have fewer games lost. Only three, same as PSG, but like you said, they have more draws and have been losing points to outsiders recently. I think they will have a hard time scoring points now to get ahead of Marseille and Monaco again. The main thing is to stop losing so they don't get relegated from the European zone.

As I said before, Lens will experience a decrease in performance. and yes, in the end Lens' ranking has been taken over by Marseille and shifted by AS Monaco. Lens has had unsatisfactory results in its last four matches, with two defeats and two draws. This decline could have an impact on their next matches.

Meanwhile, Marseille has the potential to reduce the difference in points with the top standings. the reason is, Marseille still has one meeting with PSG at the Orange Velodrome, their own headquarters. although it is difficult to topple PSG, especially if PSG play at full strength. however, Igor Tudor's squad will play all out to get full points in the match against PSG later. conversely, PSG will not let Marseille and Monaco shift their ranking at the top of the Ligue 1 standings. Although PSG is in a downward trend phase, PSG is still too strong for its competitors in Ligue 1.

[Masplanc]

Yesterday we watched lyon-lens in the last match. We can say that Lens slowly started to break away from the championship race with the draws and defeats in the last 4 weeks. Yesterday, he lost 3 more points in this important match and fell 8 points behind PSG. Lens, who spent the week in which PSG was defeated, must now put an end to the point losses. Otherwise I don't think this point difference will close. Lens didn't play badly, but it must be said that he couldn't evaluate the positions he found.

Lens has long since given way to Marseille and Monaco, although they have fewer games lost. Only three, same as PSG, but like you said, they have more draws and have been losing points to outsiders recently. I think they will have a hard time scoring points now to get ahead of Marseille and Monaco again. The main thing is to stop losing so they don't get relegated from the European zone.

Yes, Lens is slowly moving away from competition for the title, from 4 total matches they lost 10 very valuable points. Their point difference with the leaders of the standings is now 8, and even though it is 8 points away, in Ligue 1 it will be very difficult to approach, especially if Paris Saint Germain has the strength of luxury. It's really unfortunate when you see them declining when they should be able to compete even tighter.

The race is getting very interesting,  lens started very well with good performance but they are unable to maintain their performance after the good effort they made . The struggle of lens in performance will be advantage for PSG because then it was as if lens is tough to challenge PSG.

[Alanaz]

One of the matches with unexpected results this week is Lorient. They lost to Nantes which I think actually Lorient should be able to win in this game. However, Lorient's recent poor performance has also had a huge impact on this match, so they have to go home empty-handed. A single goal from Blass in the 66th minute was decisive for Nantes' victory and succeeded in making Lorient feel disappointed.