French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[alpamar99]

There are still 10 more matches to be completed, the seven-point advantage is still very much in PSG favor despite losing their last game. PSG chances of winning the Ligue 1 title are still open, they will try to lock in the domestic league title after being eliminated by Bayern Munich in the Champions League. PSG only needs a few more wins to reach a safe point from the pursuit of Marseille, no one has been able to break PSG dominance in winning Ligue 1 even though they have lost points in several matches.

for the real champion I still say it's a sure thing for PSG it's not a matter of chance anymore.
Even though the previous defeat was quite surprising, but still, when talking about champions, they are definitely a team for that.
His condition will not change even if they lose this week's game.

[rahmad2nd]

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They will play with Lyon, Nice and Lens respectively in the league. After these three games, their fixtures have matches that look easy. Of course, there is no easy match, but they will enter a more comfortable tempo. I don't think they will lose much points because they will only focus on the league. I agree with you on this. However, I think Messi and Mbappe will focus on league matches and make PSG champions this season. Because they failed the Champions League and disappointed their fans. If they finish the league in second place, they will have caused another big disappointment to their fans. I don't think they would make any more mistakes.

Most likely, in the matches against Lyon, Nice and lens, Galtier will play his main starter again. in particular, a core player for the defense who was previously absent against Rennes. that is, Galtier does not want his team to lose points in the following matches. 7 points difference from Marseille, making Galtier have to be more serious to focus his team back to winning ways. if not, it will automatically provide an opportunity for Marseille to reduce the difference in points from PSG.

At least, after slipping in the Champions League the only chance for Galtier is to present the Ligue 1 trophy. because most likely, next season he will be replaced by a new coach. So, like it or not before the coaching chair moves to another coach. Galtier must present a trophy, at least he can still bring PSG to dominate Ligue 1.

[RealMalatesta]

PSG is very tired to settle them, and in fact not too much to bring PSG to the high table Europa Champions league. Maybe the PSG owner is very regretful to pay the salary, of Mbappe, Messi, and Neymar, because the trio seems like the actor on the movie. their glamour is more worthy if play in a movie or be commercial ads actors than football players. That 7 different points with Marseille is show us, PSG can be eliminated from 1st position if that Higher salary player still play like movie actor.

But for any reason, if Marseille gets itself closer to the first place on the table and replaces it with PSG, PSG can fail a lot more than failed so far. As far as I know, the most important player in Marseille is  Alexis Sánchez he is an old player and was a teammate with Messi in Barcelona and now if Marseille gets better results and takes the title at the end of this season PSG with the most valuable forwards will fail even Messi, Mbappe and Neymar.

That doesn't really look like a big possibility though. I mean even with the loss, there is still 7 points difference and PSG has nothing else to win this season, they only have the league. This is why I believe that even though they were upset about the UCL loss and that morale drop caused them to lose this one, they will not repeat this too many times in a row and they will probably get a win.

I think it is important to focus on the fact that we are talking about a situation where it is not going to be an issue for a long time, and Marseille will not be a problem for PSG, they will just keep on winning until the season is over and get the title.

[CLS63]

I must admit that it was a really amazing run by Reims in the league. But it lasted until facing Marseille home I'm afraid. I mean Reims had an unbeaten series of seventeen matches. It is never easy to do with an average team like Reims. If we call teams like Marseille, Monaco etc. as average then Reims are even below them technically.

However it is still up to how good the management of the team is at the same time. This young (30-year-old) manager Will Still has done a great job with the squad he has in his hands. Despite the loss against Marseille their performance was still very impressive. If Balogun didn't target the post in the final moments they could have even maintained this series now.

[Furious 7]

But for any reason, if Marseille gets itself closer to the first place on the table and replaces it with PSG, PSG can fail a lot more than failed so far. As far as I know, the most important player in Marseille is  Alexis Sánchez he is an old player and was a teammate with Messi in Barcelona and now if Marseille gets better results and takes the title at the end of this season PSG with the most valuable forwards will fail even Messi, Mbappe and Neymar.

it won't make much of an impact I don't think. PSG's current condition is to secure Ligue 1 quickly because they have nothing more to be proud of at the end of the season because the Ligue 1 trophy is the only thing left.
Marseille is indeed very good and their performance is actually the same as before which is very good, but that will not be enough if you want Ligue 1 competition because Marseille can only follow PSG in runner-up position.

[Docnaster]

But for any reason, if Marseille gets itself closer to the first place on the table and replaces it with PSG, PSG can fail a lot more than failed so far. As far as I know, the most important player in Marseille is  Alexis Sánchez he is an old player and was a teammate with Messi in Barcelona and now if Marseille gets better results and takes the title at the end of this season PSG with the most valuable forwards will fail even Messi, Mbappe and Neymar.

it won't make much of an impact I don't think. PSG's current condition is to secure Ligue 1 quickly because they have nothing more to be proud of at the end of the season because the Ligue 1 trophy is the only thing left.
Marseille is indeed very good and their performance is actually the same as before which is very good, but that will not be enough if you want Ligue 1 competition because Marseille can only follow PSG in runner-up position.

Olympic Marseille's performance this season has really been great and must be complimented for being an outstanding team to challenge Paris Saint Germain for the French league title. But I don't see them aa  good enough to challenge PSG for the title despite their current form.

Paris Saint Germain are surely gonna win the league at the end of the season. Their major disappointment this season is their failure to win the Champions League and that would want to work on that by next season probably with a better manager than their current manager

[terrorJR]

Reims have had good conditions in the last few games, it's just that Marseille are clearly better than them.
The match here was also quite interesting because Reims did score the first goal, it's just that Brace Alexis with a beautiful freekick and good use of momentum from a clear long cross made them unable to continue Reims' positive trend which was very good in the last few matches they played. .

Marseille won the game and their Chilean player Alexis Sánchez performed very well because he scored both goals for Marseille while he is 34 and far from his young days but this player is shining at this age, he scored 12 goals for his team so far. The interesting thing is currently Marseille needs only seven points to reach PSG even with all the stars PSG has with the money they spent for them.

In terms of spending it is huge but in this case the conditions are the same I think when talking about the opportunities from Marseille and PSG. This is still not comparable even though PSG is still having a little trouble in making domination in Ligue 1.
7 points remain a big wall and even very difficult to reach even though Marseille continues to play well.

[kro55]

Paris Saint Germain are surely gonna win the league at the end of the season. Their major disappointment this season is their failure to win the Champions League and that would want to work on that by next season probably with a better manager than their current manager

PSG changed their coach this season. But the new coach Galtier could not improve the team. Rather, the team's performance has further deteriorated. Despite having a lot of star players on the team, PSG's performance has been disappointing. PSG's match strategy is not good. Galtier also experimented with changing PSG's formation in various important matches. As a result, PSG lost points in several matches. We may not see Galtier as PSG coach next season. As PSG wants to win the Champions League, they need a more experienced coach.

[X-ray]

PSG changed their coach this season. But the new coach Galtier could not improve the team. Rather, the team's performance has further deteriorated. Despite having a lot of star players on the team, PSG's performance has been disappointing. PSG's match strategy is not good. Galtier also experimented with changing PSG's formation in various important matches. As a result, PSG lost points in several matches. We may not see Galtier as PSG coach next season. As PSG wants to win the Champions League, they need a more experienced coach.

PSG has not changed its coach nor has the intention to change him. Despite the bad result that was achieved by PSG when it was against rennes and there's no further information regarding what's gonna be the future of galtier in PSG. Some media might have rumored if galtier potentially to be sacked by PSG but the fact that if PSG is still sitting at the first position in the french league. I think that just because it was performing bad against rennes will make PSG be sacked.

Im thinking about galtier may have prepared something for the next season. As you can see PSG may lose some star players and that will be greatly affecting the performance of the club. Galtier signed by PSG july last year.

I see no reason to sack or replace him with new coach. PSG may give him another season to be tried. Galtier is not even worrying about his future in PSG. It's not even reached 1 season since he was become a coach of PSG.
I may ignore any rumors related to him to be sacked by PSG

[Jody.Drummer]

Paris Saint Germain are surely gonna win the league at the end of the season. Their major disappointment this season is their failure to win the Champions League and that would want to work on that by next season probably with a better manager than their current manager

PSG changed their coach this season. But the new coach Galtier could not improve the team. Rather, the team's performance has further deteriorated. Despite having a lot of star players on the team, PSG's performance has been disappointing. PSG's match strategy is not good. Galtier also experimented with changing PSG's formation in various important matches. As a result, PSG lost points in several matches. We may not see Galtier as PSG coach next season. As PSG wants to win the Champions League, they need a more experienced coach.

In my opinion, rather than say their performance has decreased, I prefer to say that there has been no change.
Their positions as well as their achievements up until now could be said to be the same when currently the Galtier Era and the Poche Era were nothing to excel at.

PSG still lacks spirit in football and I think as long as they are still with a coach who can be said to be "ordinary" I don't think the conditions will change much because the conditions will still be the same even if the renewal of great players continues.

[Cryptmuster]

PSG changed their coach this season. But the new coach Galtier could not improve the team. Rather, the team's performance has further deteriorated. Despite having a lot of star players on the team, PSG's performance has been disappointing. PSG's match strategy is not good. Galtier also experimented with changing PSG's formation in various important matches. As a result, PSG lost points in several matches. We may not see Galtier as PSG coach next season. As PSG wants to win the Champions League, they need a more experienced coach.

As soon as Galtier came to the team, the results of PSG were much better, but it was not his merit, I'm sure we saw the results of Pochattino's work. But gradually the results worsened, I agree, there were more conflicts in the team, in general, I would say that Galte could not control good discipline in the team, and for PSG this is very important. All he can achieve this season is to win Ligue 1, but for PSG this result can be considered bad.

[Juggy777]

Paris Saint Germain are surely gonna win the league at the end of the season. Their major disappointment this season is their failure to win the Champions League and that would want to work on that by next season probably with a better manager than their current manager

PSG changed their coach this season. But the new coach Galtier could not improve the team. Rather, the team's performance has further deteriorated. Despite having a lot of star players on the team, PSG's performance has been disappointing. PSG's match strategy is not good. Galtier also experimented with changing PSG's formation in various important matches. As a result, PSG lost points in several matches. We may not see Galtier as PSG coach next season. As PSG wants to win the Champions League, they need a more experienced coach.

In my opinion, rather than say their performance has decreased, I prefer to say that there has been no change.
Their positions as well as their achievements up until now could be said to be the same when currently the Galtier Era and the Poche Era were nothing to excel at.

PSG still lacks spirit in football and I think as long as they are still with a coach who can be said to be "ordinary" I don't think the conditions will change much because the conditions will still be the same even if the renewal of great players continues.

@Kro55 the head coach of PSG will definitely be sacked once the season ends, because not only did PSG exit the champions league but on and off the pitch also it’s clear to see that he’s failed to unite the player’s hence his sacking is inevitable. Lastly for the next season I feel that PSG should hire a more experienced coach, and trim down their star player’s squad and retain only those that actually want to play for PSG and not be there for just collecting large sum of money.

[tulusikhlas]

PSG changed their coach this season. But the new coach Galtier could not improve the team. Rather, the team's performance has further deteriorated. Despite having a lot of star players on the team, PSG's performance has been disappointing. PSG's match strategy is not good. Galtier also experimented with changing PSG's formation in various important matches. As a result, PSG lost points in several matches. We may not see Galtier as PSG coach next season. As PSG wants to win the Champions League, they need a more experienced coach.

As soon as Galtier came to the team, the results of PSG were much better, but it was not his merit, I'm sure we saw the results of Pochattino's work. But gradually the results worsened, I agree, there were more conflicts in the team, in general, I would say that Galte could not control good discipline in the team, and for PSG this is very important. All he can achieve this season is to win Ligue 1, but for PSG this result can be considered bad.

Maybe coaches are a problem for Paris Saint-Germain right now, I want to see how if they had a better coach would they be able to become a very scary team especially in the Champions League. Why do I say in the Champions league, because in Ligue 1 they are already superior even in these circumstances. I can't say they are good in Ligue 1 because the opponents here are unbalanced.

[Bobrox]

Since PSG still failure in Champion League there are not guarantee with their position keep existing as PSG manager, have been changed with several manger after failure in Champion League and Thomas Tuchel success bring PSG to final stage but he can't give champion league tittle. No matter with how many time winning Ligue 1 trophy or French Cup if PSG still failure in Champion League can't guarantee about the manager career ended until their contract expiry.

Next speculation if Christophe Galtier sacked who will replace his position? so far still not have rumor about new manager position filling place from Christophe Galtier.

[MusaMohamed]

Since PSG still failure in Champion League there are not guarantee with their position keep existing as PSG manager, have been changed with several manger after failure in Champion League and Thomas Tuchel success bring PSG to final stage but he can't give champion league tittle. No matter with how many time winning Ligue 1 trophy or French Cup if PSG still failure in Champion League can't guarantee about the manager career ended until their contract expiry.

PSG failed in Champions League that is a big minus for Galtier to keep his job. Worse than that, PSG did have a few months of bad performance after World Cup 2022 that raised fear that they could even lose Ligue 1 in this season. Things are improving gradually and becoming better lately but that impression is bad for Galtier chance to be kept by PSG.

Even if PSG actually well dominate Ligue 1, it's already hard for Galtier to be kept but in fact he failed to do that so it's nearly impossible for him to continue working for PSG in a next season. If PSG spend more money to buy new star players in the summer, they will not want to bet another season with Galiter.

Next speculation if Christophe Galtier sacked who will replace his position? so far still not have rumor about new manager position filling place from Christophe Galtier.

Carlo Ancelotti is in my mind because he and Real Madrid have bad season in La Liga but his management capability is very great. It's only a matter of Carlo that will he retire after leaving Real Madrid or will accept to take a new job at another big club.

the head coach of PSG will definitely be sacked once the season ends, because not only did PSG exit the champions league but on and off the pitch also it’s clear to see that he’s failed to unite the player’s hence his sacking is inevitable.

I agree that Galtier will fail to convince PSG owner to continue using him in a next season even they will have to pay compensation fee for Galtier to sack him and find a new coach for PSG.

They are rich and don't have patience for their coaches especially they already realized that Galtier did not have enough experience in Champions League.

[G_Besar]

Since PSG still failure in Champion League there are not guarantee with their position keep existing as PSG manager, have been changed with several manger after failure in Champion League and Thomas Tuchel success bring PSG to final stage but he can't give champion league tittle. No matter with how many time winning Ligue 1 trophy or French Cup if PSG still failure in Champion League can't guarantee about the manager career ended until their contract expiry.

Next speculation if Christophe Galtier sacked who will replace his position? so far still not have rumor about new manager position filling place from Christophe Galtier.

Yes, the problem at PSG at the moment is the coach. I don't think Galtier deserves to be in charge of a team like PSG which has a lot of star players and also has big targets in Europe. Apart from the coach, PSG officials must also evaluate all managerial aspects because failing to target winning the champions league and bad management of the team will be a very big loss for PSG.

In my opinion, the right person to coach PSG is someone who has a brilliant career history in football and also in coaching like Zidane.

[ILuckyGuyI]

Monaco are still trying to stand their ground about joining the Champions League once again. They are very close to Lens and I can't say that the point gap with Marseille is too high either.

Monaco's problem in the recent times has been with their form. They were quite vulnerable in defense for a couple of weeks and this caused them to lose points three weeks in a row. Finally they were able to react to this bad form by a win over Ajaccio last week. Their next game is a home one against Strasbourg. Technically Monaco are the favourite side but still they need to watch out for offensive threats of their competitor. Because Strasbourg started to get a little better results lately and they are climbing slowly. Monaco should be winning this game to maintain a winning streak.

[zuzie]

Reims have had good conditions in the last few games, it's just that Marseille are clearly better than them.
The match here was also quite interesting because Reims did score the first goal, it's just that Brace Alexis with a beautiful freekick and good use of momentum from a clear long cross made them unable to continue Reims' positive trend which was very good in the last few matches they played. .

Marseille won the game and their Chilean player Alexis Sánchez performed very well because he scored both goals for Marseille while he is 34 and far from his young days but this player is shining at this age, he scored 12 goals for his team so far. The interesting thing is currently Marseille needs only seven points to reach PSG even with all the stars PSG has with the money they spent for them.

In terms of spending it is huge but in this case the conditions are the same I think when talking about the opportunities from Marseille and PSG. This is still not comparable even though PSG is still having a little trouble in making domination in Ligue 1.
7 points remain a big wall and even very difficult to reach even though Marseille continues to play well.

Moreover, there is no competition other than the French 1 League which is played by Paris Saint Germain, which will make Christophe Galtier's club continue to try not to be eliminate and defend the title.
I would say there is no chance for Marseille to win the French 1 League title, because they are increasingly cornered by Lens or Monaco who are ambitious enough to play in the UCL next season.

[rendravolt]

Monaco are still trying to stand their ground about joining the Champions League once again. They are very close to Lens and I can't say that the point gap with Marseille is too high either.

Monaco's problem in the recent times has been with their form. They were quite vulnerable in defense for a couple of weeks and this caused them to lose points three weeks in a row. Finally they were able to react to this bad form by a win over Ajaccio last week. Their next game is a home one against Strasbourg. Technically Monaco are the favourite side but still they need to watch out for offensive threats of their competitor. Because Strasbourg started to get a little better results lately and they are climbing slowly. Monaco should be winning this game to maintain a winning streak.

Monaco has a distance of 3 points from Lens, I think that is still being chased by Monaco as long as they can continue to be consistent to win. It's true that lately Monaco has been performing very poorly which made them have to lose a lot of points in the previous game and against Ajaccio last week at least made them more enthusiastic about playing the next match later.

I think coach Philippe Clement must be able to coordinate his players to be more compact on the field so as to bring victory closer. But apart from that, maybe the cooperation between the attack lines and the midfield must be even more compact so that every opportunity can be a goal. I think as long as they have that they will have no trouble against Strasbourg later and at least a narrow win will secure an additional 3 points.

[rahmad2nd]

PSG changed their coach this season. But the new coach Galtier could not improve the team. Rather, the team's performance has further deteriorated. Despite having a lot of star players on the team, PSG's performance has been disappointing. PSG's match strategy is not good. Galtier also experimented with changing PSG's formation in various important matches. As a result, PSG lost points in several matches. We may not see Galtier as PSG coach next season. As PSG wants to win the Champions League, they need a more experienced coach.

As soon as Galtier came to the team, the results of PSG were much better, but it was not his merit, I'm sure we saw the results of Pochattino's work. But gradually the results worsened, I agree, there were more conflicts in the team, in general, I would say that Galte could not control good discipline in the team, and for PSG this is very important. All he can achieve this season is to win Ligue 1, but for PSG this result can be considered bad.

At the start of the season, Galtier was able to bring PSG to progress smoothly even though it was decorated with rumors of disputes between players in the locker room. in the second half of this season, PSG's pace began to decline after the world cup was over. several players were injured, plus the absence of Messi. since then, PSG's performance has gone up and down, exacerbated by Mbappe's injury. unfortunately, Neymar also had problems with his ankle which required him to be absent for a long time. as a result, PSG's front line was not as sharp as when their three star players played as the main starters. which in the end, PSG were derailed in the last 16 of the Champions League by Bayern Munich.

On the other hand, PSG does not have a midfielder who is creative when it comes to helping the front lines when building attacks, it is not uncommon for PSG to show bad games. plus, the system that Galtier employs is very complicated. not infrequently, Galtier always tweaked the formation and rotated his players.

IMO, I suspect, the factors that affect PSG's unstable performance are due to the system implemented by the coach, so that the players have difficulty following what they want. as a result, Galtier failed to bring PSG to win the Champions League trophy. even so, Galtier still has the chance to lead his team to win the Ligue 1 trophy. but after that, it is likely that Galtier's career with PSG will end only until this season.