French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[indah rezqi]

PSG situation is very serious, despite them having a difference of 10 points in the table, they have serious problems such as:

1 - PSG has serious problems in defense, which makes it difficult for the team to play without conceding goals, to get an idea of the seriousness of what I'm talking about

PSG 2 - 1 Brestois

in this game, PSG conceded a goal, but if we look at this goal that PSG conceded, we can see that it was a serious mistake in PSG's defense, and to add that PSG is not managing to play well against brestois, which are a team that are competing with teams from the relegation zone

PSG 4 - 2 Nantes

PSG conceded 2 goals in this game

I'm not going to post more games, but the most important thing is to show that PSG's defense is not good in certain games, of course if we look globally we will see that in 27 games they conceded 26 goals, and that's a good thing. but in the last few games they have conceded a lot of goals sometimes

2 - PSG will no longer have neymar this season, it is safe to say that PSG's attack is already weakened, so it is possible that even their opponents will be able to win the Ligue 1 this season

I agree that in conclusion it can be said that PSG's defense this season has not been as good as expected. PSG conceded 26 goals in 27 Ligue 1 matches, while PSG conceded 10 goals in 8 Champions League matches this season. I don't get much other data about PSG's poor defense in other competitions, but it's true that the fact is that PSG's defense this season has been problematic.

Next season PSG must be able to improve its defense and also its midfield. They have to sign some new players to improve their chances in the Champions League. This season Ligue 1 is theirs because they really excel.

[Jody.Drummer]

Passing week 27 and currently Paris Saint Germain is 10 points ahead of second place which is now occupied by Marseille. With a difference of 10 points, it will be very easy for Paris Saint Germain to finish this season by becoming champions. And indeed they will definitely focus more on Ligue 1 now that they were knocked out by Bayern Munich in the Champions League.


Turning to the bottom of the standings, in my opinion, Angers will be the first club to be relegated. They are at the bottom of the standings by collecting only 10 points, 13 points behind from the safety zone. For Ajacio, Troyes and Auxerre they still have very big hopes of being able to stay in Ligue 1 next season. The competition is still very interesting to watch in that position.

[rahmad2nd]

1 - PSG has serious problems in defense, which makes it difficult for the team to play without conceding goals, to get an idea of the seriousness of what I'm talking about

That's a good point, actually, I think the reason why PSG could beat Bayern Munich and lost the Champions League this season is the weakness in the defensive line where they even have good players there but still, there is a weakness of PSG, maybe the reason of this weeks is their coach because he doesn't know how to manage the player to have and stronger defensive line otherwise Brestois could's score a goal against them.

IMO, actually the defense line is the last wall that a team has before the goalkeeper. before the opposing team penetrates the defense, at the very least, they have to get past the midfield players first. plus, the role of the pivot is as an attack breaker that is being built by the opposing team.

In the case of PSG, as far as I understand, the fault was not genuine on the part of the defensive line. however, the team as a whole.  because PSG has enough quality defenders. IMO, the problem is the system. yes, the system built by Galtier. I don't blame it purely on Galtier, but sometimes he tends to always change his patterns and strategies in every game. apparently, Galtier doesn't have a pattern on which to rely. most likely, PSG players are not always ready for what the coach wants. as a result, their performance tends to be poor. if, we refer to the match versus Bayern Munich. there are many mistakes made by PSG defenders, why, because midfield players don't provide good support when PSG will build attacks from the defensive line. as a result, Bayern succeeded in carrying out tight marking and high presing.

Apart from that i agree. so, yes, PSG has a lot of problems. in particular, midfield players. however, PSG's dominance in this competition will be difficult for their rivals to break and they will still win the Ligue 1 trophy.

[Docnaster]

Marseille 2-2 Strasbourg. Marseille should have got three points after they led 2-0, but Strasbourg was able to make a quick goal and success equal the score, even in the last minutes Strasbourg almost got the win this team have a golden opportunity at home of Marseille. With this result, Marseille can only get one point and now Lens which will definitely be very happy with that result, because the gap between the both is not too far.

playing with 10 players was really hard for marseille, and to be honest the 2 goals made by aholou were really extraordinary goals, only 1 minute later. the point difference between Marseille and Lens is currently quite thin and the opportunity for Lens to shift the position of Marseille will be quite easy.

It was quite unprofessional for Masseille. Just under 30 minutes of starting a game a player is red carded. This can even change the whole game plan, the coach himself will be confused of what to do. Concceding two goals at that time was quite too sudden but I wouldn't blame them.
Strasbourg in other hand made a good impression I would say.   At least they were able to utilise the privilege of playing against 10 men.

[alpamar99]

Marseille 2-2 Strasbourg. Marseille should have got three points after they led 2-0, but Strasbourg was able to make a quick goal and success equal the score, even in the last minutes Strasbourg almost got the win this team have a golden opportunity at home of Marseille. With this result, Marseille can only get one point and now Lens which will definitely be very happy with that result, because the gap between the both is not too far.

playing with 10 players was really hard for marseille, and to be honest the 2 goals made by aholou were really extraordinary goals, only 1 minute later. the point difference between Marseille and Lens is currently quite thin and the opportunity for Lens to shift the position of Marseille will be quite easy.

It was quite unprofessional for Masseille. Just under 30 minutes of starting a game a player is red carded. This can even change the whole game plan, the coach himself will be confused of what to do. Concceding two goals at that time was quite too sudden but I wouldn't blame them.
Strasbourg in other hand made a good impression I would say.   At least they were able to utilise the privilege of playing against 10 men.

2 goals in one minute by the same player also makes this a bit unbelievable.
Even though he still brought 1 point at the end of the match, it was clear that in this condition, Marseille was a loss in my opinion because this should have been a win.
But on the other hand Aholou is definitely the MOTM in this match with his 2 goals for Strasbourg and 1 good point against a big club.

[KTChampions]

PSG situation is very serious, despite them having a difference of 10 points in the table, they have serious problems such as:
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I agree with everything you have listed, but I don’t understand why this is important for PSG this season? They have already been knocked out in the cup and in the Champions League. Bookmakers estimate the chances of a Ligue 1 title as 1.01 (lol I wonder if someone will bet on such a negligible odds).
In fact, PSG should already be preparing for the next season, everything else is trifles.

[execijutiere]

I was really surprised that Marseille got this result. In fact, they were down to 10 men early on, but they still did enough to score. They scored at the beginning of the second half despite being down to 10 men. In minute 76 they increased the difference to 2 but they couldn't keep this score. In the 88th and 89th they had to settle for a draw with 2 goals one minute apart. With this point loss, the point difference with psg increased to 10 and we can say that the possibility of the championship has started to diminish.

[Tumanggor]

If you look at PSG's defense it's a complete mess, first I think that the players are not up to standard but when I think about it I start to think that they are disorganized and I think that also goes down to the manager who is like you said. PSG's defense isn't the best but it's far from bad if the Manager can't manage it properly. With proof PSG had to be eliminated in the UCL and in Ligue 1 conceded a lot.

PSG has so far only focused on investing on the front lines, but they have forgotten about the back line which is in chaos

galtier must seek major improvements to PSG's back line otherwise next season PSG will always be eliminated from the champions league and may not be able to become champions of ligue 1 again

[EdenHazard]

PSG situation is very serious, despite them having a difference of 10 points in the table, they have serious problems such as:
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I agree with everything you have listed, but I don’t understand why this is important for PSG this season? They have already been knocked out in the cup and in the Champions League. Bookmakers estimate the chances of a Ligue 1 title as 1.01 (lol I wonder if someone will bet on such a negligible odds).
In fact, PSG should already be preparing for the next season, everything else is trifles.

Such a bad joke ...

It's like a routine for each season at ligue 1 to have psg odds to win the league at very low one even at the beginning of the season , not worth a penny to me , rather bet on the opponent of psg so you can get way better odds.

[Rabi3]

PSG situation is very serious, despite them having a difference of 10 points in the table, they have serious problems such as:
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I agree with everything you have listed, but I don’t understand why this is important for PSG this season? They have already been knocked out in the cup and in the Champions League. Bookmakers estimate the chances of a Ligue 1 title as 1.01 (lol I wonder if someone will bet on such a negligible odds).
In fact, PSG should already be preparing for the next season, everything else is trifles.

I don't think people would bet on PSG to win or even other teams like Marseille, it's too obvious who the winner is so there is barely profit to bet on it, and yes, PSG's season is done for, no CL and no French cup, I don't think players and fans are going to be that happy by winning the league, they got used to it.

[X-ray]

I was really surprised that Marseille got this result. In fact, they were down to 10 men early on, but they still did enough to score.

Why? Playing with 10 players didn't always mean if the club will be losing instantly against its opponent. The draw was good enough for marseille. I meant let's say that with 10 players and marseille was still able making two goals against strasbourg. That being said that even though marseille was losing 1 of its players and it's not giving big impact to the capability for the club to make goals.
The saddest part is about two goals in a row that has already been made by eudes aholou which was surprising me. it needs only two 1 minutes to create second goal for strasbourg.

They scored at the beginning of the second half despite being down to 10 men. In minute 76 they increased the difference to 2 but they couldn't keep this score. In the 88th and 89th they had to settle for a draw with 2 goals one minute apart. With this point loss, the point difference with psg increased to 10 and we can say that the possibility of the championship has started to diminish.

The impact of losing L balerdi as CB was making the defense of mallorca quite weak at that match. I meant aholou has free space to do some shots to scores two goals. It seems like that marseille has no chance to compete with PSG for trophy.

[hd49728]

PSG situation is very serious, despite them having a difference of 10 points in the table, they have serious problems such as:

1 - PSG has serious problems in defense, which makes it difficult for the team to play without conceding goals

What you told is true but it is not big matter for PSG in Ligue 1. Having many conceded goals does not cause them to lose many points and it is a matter for other clubs like how they can score goals against PSG and get points from PSG. Scoring goals and end a match with a lose does not mean anything for their club and for Ligue 1 in general.

If they can't beat PSG in a match, how could they beat PSG in a long battle?

I agree with everything you have listed, but I don’t understand why this is important for PSG this season? They have already been knocked out in the cup and in the Champions League. Bookmakers estimate the chances of a Ligue 1 title as 1.01 (lol I wonder if someone will bet on such a negligible odds).
In fact, PSG should already be preparing for the next season, everything else is trifles.

Again they were knocked out in the Champions League too early but it does not wipe out their chance in Ligue 1. Weeks ago, other clubs have very close gaps with PSG but now it has become 10 point gap to a second club. That is impossible for those clubs to close those big gaps and beat PSG when the season is no longer long time left.

Problems with PSG defense is clear that makes them weak in Champions League but in Ligue 1, it does not mean a lot for them. Their attacking system can cover weakness of their defense and they are still a strongest club there. 10 point gap is a solid evidence of their domination in Ligue 1 even they have not too strong defense and spent their focus on Champions League in many weeks.

[rendravolt]

One of the matches this week will bring Lyon vs Nantes. As we know, Lyon in the previous two matches always won a draw and made their position stuck in 10th place in the standings. Lyon will be the host, for sure they will try to win this match so they can shift Lorient's position in the standings and for Nantes who will play Lyon's home game, they are currently in 14th place in the standings and it looks so bad because they only won one victory in the last 5 matches of ligue 1.

[W Jr.]

PSG situation is very serious, despite them having a difference of 10 points in the table, they have serious problems such as:
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I agree with everything you have listed, but I don’t understand why this is important for PSG this season? They have already been knocked out in the cup and in the Champions League. Bookmakers estimate the chances of a Ligue 1 title as 1.01 (lol I wonder if someone will bet on such a negligible odds).
In fact, PSG should already be preparing for the next season, everything else is trifles.

I don't think people would bet on PSG to win or even other teams like Marseille, it's too obvious who the winner is so there is barely profit to bet on it, and yes, PSG's season is done for, no CL and no French cup, I don't think players and fans are going to be that happy by winning the league, they got used to it.

I think it is obvious that they will be champions of the league as the league is now the only focus success for Paris SG. Especially considering that Marseille drew 2 goals in the last 2 minutes against Strasbourg in the last match, their chances of becoming champions with these points losses are very low. We can say that Paris SG is the champion of this year as well.

[Leviathan.007]

One of the matches this week will bring Lyon vs Nantes. As we know, Lyon in the previous two matches always won a draw and made their position stuck in 10th place in the standings. Lyon will be the host, for sure they will try to win this match so they can shift Lorient's position in the standings and for Nantes who will play Lyon's home game, they are currently in 14th place in the standings and it looks so bad because they only won one victory in the last 5 matches of ligue 1.

Both teams are in the middle of the table and that's a bit hard to say which is going to win the game but we take a look at the previous games they game against each other during the five last games they had from 2020 until this time Nantes could never beat Lyon in a game and they lost all the games except for the last game with a 0-0 result they had in this season so I see more chance for Lyon.

[Docnaster]

If you look at PSG's defense it's a complete mess, first I think that the players are not up to standard but when I think about it I start to think that they are disorganized and I think that also goes down to the manager who is like you said. PSG's defense isn't the best but it's far from bad if the Manager can't manage it properly. With proof PSG had to be eliminated in the UCL and in Ligue 1 conceded a lot.

PSG has so far only focused on investing on the front lines, but they have forgotten about the back line which is in chaos

galtier must seek major improvements to PSG's back line otherwise next season PSG will always be eliminated from the champions league and may not be able to become champions of ligue 1 again

A defense line that consists the likes of Sergio Ramos, Marquinhos, Presnel Kimpembe, Achraf Hakimi, Juan Bernat and other top quality player shouldn't be seen as a week defense because these are few of the the best defenders in the world. Though injury crises might play some parts in PSG's poor defensive performance this season but I still think the main problem of the club since Thomas Tuchel left is the managers that's been handling the team. Their tactical approaches especially in the Champions League has been short of excellent and that has cost the team the opportunities of lifting the trophy that has eluded them. Thomas Tuchel is free at the moment and I will be happy if the club management will see him worthy again to train the team

[fadhilz123]

If you look at PSG's defense it's a complete mess, first I think that the players are not up to standard but when I think about it I start to think that they are disorganized and I think that also goes down to the manager who is like you said. PSG's defense isn't the best but it's far from bad if the Manager can't manage it properly. With proof PSG had to be eliminated in the UCL and in Ligue 1 conceded a lot.

When PSG were knocked out in the UCL and conceded a lot in Ligue1, who is to be blamed other than the players who always try to be better in every game? Is it really worth blaming the coach in this case who may not be so consistent in managing every player in the team's back line, because the defense in a team is a very important thing to fix if it still looks messy.

PSG has so far only focused on investing on the front lines, but they have forgotten about the back line which is in chaos

galtier must seek major improvements to PSG's back line otherwise next season PSG will always be eliminated from the champions league and may not be able to become champions of ligue 1 again

The coach should have seen every weak line in the team so that it can be fixed immediately so that he can always compete in big competitions like in the UCL apart from Ligue 1, because it would be very wrong if the coach only relied on the front lines without considering other lines such as the midfield and back to better team strength.

[rahmad2nd]

One of the matches this week will bring Lyon vs Nantes. As we know, Lyon in the previous two matches always won a draw and made their position stuck in 10th place in the standings. Lyon will be the host, for sure they will try to win this match so they can shift Lorient's position in the standings and for Nantes who will play Lyon's home game, they are currently in 14th place in the standings and it looks so bad because they only won one victory in the last 5 matches of ligue 1.

This fight will be held next week. To be honest, I can't speculate too far. because, if you refer to some of the media that I read. Looks like this fight will be pretty tough. even so, on paper this fight should belong to Lyon. although in its last two matches, Lyon was only able to play with a draw. because, Lyon will play as the home team. plus, the two teams have quite a gap based on points. and if we refer to the history of the H2H meetings of these two teams, in 5 meetings, Lyon has always dominated wins and only one draw. so, Lyon should be able to take advantage of the momentum to get full points in this match.

On the other hand, Nantes' performance is not that impressive and they are ranked 14th in the standings. in the last 5 matches in this competition, Nantes was only able to win 1 match, three defeats, one draw. Most likely, Nastes will find it difficult when they have an away match at Lyon headquarters. That said, I won't speculate too far before I get the information I need from these two teams.

[rby]

PSG situation is very serious, despite them having a difference of 10 points in the table, they have serious problems such as:
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I agree with everything you have listed, but I don’t understand why this is important for PSG this season? They have already been knocked out in the cup and in the Champions League. Bookmakers estimate the chances of a Ligue 1 title as 1.01 (lol I wonder if someone will bet on such a negligible odds).
In fact, PSG should already be preparing for the next season, everything else is trifles.

I don't think people would bet on PSG to win or even other teams like Marseille, it's too obvious who the winner is so there is barely profit to bet on it, and yes, PSG's season is done for, no CL and no French cup, I don't think players and fans are going to be that happy by winning the league, they got used to it.

I think it is obvious that they will be champions of the league as the league is now the only focus success for Paris SG. Especially considering that Marseille drew 2 goals in the last 2 minutes against Strasbourg in the last match, their chances of becoming champions with these points losses are very low. We can say that Paris SG is the champion of this year as well.

PSG win the champions of the France Ligue 1 is not longer any news and neither will it be an excitement or a surprise to the fans. The fans are tired of the league 1 trophy they want something like the Champions League trophy and that is where the expectation of the fan and that of the footballers and also that of the management is but it is quite unfortunate that every efforts made by the management of PSG to win the champions league has proven futile. Let me see any effort by next season.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Here is something that causes controversy and that can leave PSG in a bad light:

Report: PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi under investigation for kidnap and torture

The Ligue 1 club's president is being accused of detaining man who allegedly acquired sex tapes and documents in relation to the 2022 World Cup.

The president of Paris Saint-Germain football club, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, is facing an investigation in France over allegations of kidnapping and torture. The case relates to a complaint made by Franco-Algerian lobbyist, Tayeb Benabderrahmane, who claims he was detained in Qatar for six months in 2020 because he possessed "sensitive" documents, including a smartphone belonging to Mr Al-Khelaifi, and compromising materials.

It is alleged that Mr Benabderrahmane had documents relating to the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, as well as the awarding of the 2026 and 2030 World Cup TV rights to beIN Media, of which Mr Al-Khelaifi is president. The lobbyist claims he obtained the materials from Mr Al-Khelaifi's butler.

Source: https://www.livesoccertv.com/es/news/464180/report-psg-president-nasser-al-khelaifi-under-investigation-for-kidnap-and-torture/

Although sometimes everything can be set up to make certain people feel bad, it is a pity that problems of this nature always arise that tarnish fútbol.

I am 100% certain that certain rich people at the very top probably all have these type of tapes. In fact, when panama papers and similar things came about, where we have seen the clear corruption of the rich people, people who avoided taxes in billions of dollars, and even sex tape of so many famous people, it literally did nothing for their career at all.

I understand that you may want to hide all of this information, it's only natural to want to hide it, but when once it's out, you would just need to take it and move on, in a year it will be all gone anyway and wouldn't really matter. This response to just kidnap and torture a person in retaliation? That's sick, it's disgusting and the owner should be banned from being an owner straight up, how can we support a person who kidnapped another person and tortured him to keep being an owner?

Some things in soccer prefer to be left unmanaged, in this case, the Sheikh knows that with his money he can cover any type of accusation against him, and yes, this article came to light, but what? On sports TV channels like Espn, among others, they don't say this type of thing, the main sports channels do not focus on this type of accusation, and the big news outlets, if they do say this type of news, do not insist so much, they simply say it and Well, what is shown here is that if you have a lot of money, things flow another way, they only focus on fútbol and that's not bad, it's a way of not tarnishing fútbol further with this type of case.

1 - PSG has serious problems in defense, which makes it difficult for the team to play without conceding goals, to get an idea of the seriousness of what I'm talking about

That's a good point, actually, I think the reason why PSG could beat Bayern Munich and lost the Champions League this season is the weakness in the defensive line where they even have good players there but still, there is a weakness of PSG, maybe the reason of this weeks is their coach because he doesn't know how to manage the player to have and stronger defensive line otherwise Brestois could's score a goal against them.

This is the problem PSG has been having even before now, that is why it was easy for Bayern Munich to take advantage. PSG has good players, and if the players are not exhibiting good performance then the fault is from the coach,  he needs to change his method of formation.

I would say that PSG's problem is the technical director, it is a coach who wins leagues but does not win UCL, here the only solution is to change the technical director and not let players like Neymar and Messi go, I don't know but those players for They are the best of mine,of course Mbappé can also do it very well, but he is a player who wants to leave, he is once again knocking on doors at Real Madrid because of the rumors I have read out there, I do not know how true they are because I do not have a source reliable,but if this happens it is obvious that the others will start to leave, like Setgio Ramos, this team would be very weak.