French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[rendravolt]

Half time from the match between auxerre vs lille. Lille was dominating the match since the first minute. As i predicted if lille will able to win against auxerre. Auxerre was getting positive trends after it was able beating some clubs that placed below it.
Lille was in the different level compared with auxerre. We can also compare how many shots on target being made and ball possessions.

Lille gonna win the match against auxerre. I can say that's an easy match for lille. that's why the smart people should pick lille. The current standing has been telling us about how strong auxerrer and lille is right now.
Lille has bigger win probability compared with auxerre. it looks so good to see that how dominance lille in this match.

Three points look so easy for lille in this match.

It is true that it was an easy game for Lille to steal 3 points at home to Auxerre. However, with a 1 goal advantage it is still not safe enough for Lille, as we know Auxerre also has a good record in several of their matches and they have even been able to win consecutively in the last 3 matches. Maybe I don't fully favor Lille in this match to win and I have another view that Auxerre is able to hold Lille to a draw in this match later. The game has been running for 67 minutes and just now the score changed to 1-1 after Niang equalized through the penalty spot, it is likely that the two teams will still exchange goals in the remaining time.

[hahay]

Current standing, PSG seems waiting moment for winning Ligue 1 tittle in this season behind 11 points remaining but Marseille have one match next tomorrow against Lyon. Have six matches left for PSG and seems not for winning two or three matches later if want get Ligue 1 tittle back to back after success winning last season. Indeed PSG success with Ligue 1 seems management unhappy with head coach Christophe Galtier after failure in Champion League.

Will PSG sack Christophe Galtier although success give Ligue 1 tittle or keep extended him until next season and waiting his reputation for Champion League success or not.

Yes, it will be easy for PSG to fire Christophe Galtier, because Christophe Galtier does not have a long-term contract at PSG and Christophe Galtier only has a contract until June 2024. So yes, I think it would be better for PSG to immediately find a new coach to replace Christophe Galtier this season future, but I hope PSG will be able to sign a well-known coach who is used to coaching star squads and or big clubs.

Because, what seems to be a concern, PSG still hasn't got the criteria for a proper coach or the right one to train PSG to date. Therefore, it doesn't look like Christophe Galtier will be fired right away or maybe PSG will let him until his contract expires.

[Ratash]

It seems that the spots from two to four are still open and there are three teams able to compete for them and they are marseille lens and monaco and today two of them will face each other and lens vs monaco should be the highlight of this round lens has the home advantage and i like their performance better this season compared to monaco i pick them to win the game but i won't be surprised if they lose either that's how good monaco team sometimes is.

[hahay]

It seems that the spots from two to four are still open and there are three teams able to compete for them and they are marseille lens and monaco and today two of them will face each other and lens vs monaco should be the highlight of this round lens has the home advantage and i like their performance better this season compared to monaco i pick them to win the game but i won't be surprised if they lose either that's how good monaco team sometimes is.

If Monaco wins, then Monaco will have the same points as Marseille, but if Marseille also manages to get points on this matchday against Lyon then Marseille will still be in second place. But regarding the match between Lens against Monaco, basically so far this season Lens has been very well dominated when Lens is playing at home.

So yes, this factor means that of course Lens has a good chance of winning this match. But for my personal prediction it looks like Monaco will not give up easily either, because after all this match is an important match for Monaco to be able to compete to finish in second or third position. Therefore, I personally don't have a strong choice of which team will win this match, because Lens and Monaco have opportunities that can get them three points.

[Leviathan.007]

It seems that the spots from two to four are still open and there are three teams able to compete for them and they are marseille lens and monaco and today two of them will face each other and lens vs monaco should be the highlight of this round lens has the home advantage and i like their performance better this season compared to monaco i pick them to win the game but i won't be surprised if they lose either that's how good monaco team sometimes is.

If Monaco wins, then Monaco will have the same points as Marseille, but if Marseille also manages to get points on this matchday against Lyon then Marseille will still be in second place. But regarding the match between Lens against Monaco, basically so far this season Lens has been very well dominated when Lens is playing at home.

So yes, this factor means that of course Lens has a good chance of winning this match. But for my personal prediction it looks like Monaco will not give up easily either, because after all this match is an important match for Monaco to be able to compete to finish in second or third position. Therefore, I personally don't have a strong choice of which team will win this match, because Lens and Monaco have opportunities that can get them three points.

Lens had a hard game recently against PSG and they were unlucky during that game in which they could decrease the gap between themselves and PSG and increase their chance to be the first team in the table while they are going to have another hard game in a few minutes and in they lose this game against Monaco they may even lose their place on the third position of the table.

[RealMalatesta]

Currently, there is a race to go to the Champions league between Lens, Monaco and Marseille.  That's why the Monaco-Lens match turns into something more valuable than ever.  While waiting for Marseille to lose points, when one of these two teams wins, it will automatically push the other team out of the race.  A critical match awaits us, where the winner decides his fate.  I still expect a balanced match with a high probability of a draw.

Lens do seem like the better team usually, they may have lost their last game but that was against PSG so that was an expected loss, aside from that the last game they lost was in 12th February against Lyon. This proves that they have been very good team for a while as well. By comparison Monaco ain't that bad neither, just a month later, they lost a game all the way last month, and it has been a while so I guess they are good too but they got a draw and a loss in the last 5 games so they do "look" worse.

I think this is a game between two very good teams and should probably change something in the long run as well. I think the loser of this game will be out of the UCL discussion and I hope that there will be a winner, because a draw would mean not a good result for both teams at the same time. Marseille would be the only team that would cheer a draw between these two teams because they would be that much closer for sure.

[rozak]

Lens had a hard game recently against PSG and they were unlucky during that game in which they could decrease the gap between themselves and PSG and increase their chance to be the first team in the table while they are going to have another hard game in a few minutes and in they lose this game against Monaco they may even lose their place on the third position of the table.

Marseille, Lens, and Monaco will fight for 1 ticket to the Champions League next season. against Monaco will indeed be quite tough. but Lens has also beaten Monaco 1-4 in the previous meeting. this will probably be a very interesting match because both of them will appear determined to fight for a ticket to the Champions League. and now that Lens are playing at home, of course they are currently preparing a lot.

[Z-tight]

It seems that the spots from two to four are still open and there are three teams able to compete for them and they are marseille lens and monaco and today two of them will face each other and lens vs monaco should be the highlight of this round lens has the home advantage and i like their performance better this season compared to monaco i pick them to win the game but i won't be surprised if they lose either that's how good monaco team sometimes is.

I feel Lens, Marseille and Monaco are all going to be in the top four, though i don't know in which order it is going to be, but i can't see any of them falling out of the top four in the Ligue 1 table. Psg have not been too good, but they are going to win the Ligue 1, all because of the other 3 teams in the top four were so inconsistent this season. Lille is the club in 5th and closest to the top four, but they are not going to break into it, the best they can get this season is to end in 5th and qualify for the Europa league, i hope next season other big teams challenge psg for the Ligue 1 title, they cannot continue to win it every season.

[ginsan]

Lens had a hard game recently against PSG and they were unlucky during that game in which they could decrease the gap between themselves and PSG and increase their chance to be the first team in the table while they are going to have another hard game in a few minutes and in they lose this game against Monaco they may even lose their place on the third position of the table.

Lens is still not strong enough to compete with PSG in the competition for the Ligue 1 title. I see that after PSG beat Lens in the previous match, PSG returned to winning ways, even PSG were able to show their strength when they beat Angres, which made PSG able to widen the gap to 9 points from  second ranked team.

PSG are getting ahead of themselves to win the Ligue 1 trophy because this season leaves only 6 more matches for PSG which allows them to be in a fairly safe position at the moment. Lens currently leads with a score of 2-0 over Monaco and if Lens closes this match with a win then they will be back in 2nd place in the standings this week.

[DanWalker]

Currently, there is a race to go to the Champions league between Lens, Monaco and Marseille.  That's why the Monaco-Lens match turns into something more valuable than ever.  While waiting for Marseille to lose points, when one of these two teams wins, it will automatically push the other team out of the race.  A critical match awaits us, where the winner decides his fate.  I still expect a balanced match with a high probability of a draw.

Lens do seem like the better team usually, they may have lost their last game but that was against PSG so that was an expected loss, aside from that the last game they lost was in 12th February against Lyon. This proves that they have been very good team for a while as well. By comparison Monaco ain't that bad neither, just a month later, they lost a game all the way last month, and it has been a while so I guess they are good too but they got a draw and a loss in the last 5 games so they do "look" worse.
I think this is a game between two very good teams and should probably change something in the long run as well. I think the loser of this game will be out of the UCL discussion and I hope that there will be a winner, because a draw would mean not a good result for both teams at the same time. Marseille would be the only team that would cheer a draw between these two teams because they would be that much closer for sure.

Lens vs Monaco

Only 38 minutes have been played in this match and Lens is already ahead by two goals. This is certainly not very good from Monaco. Being down by two goals is something that is really hard to come back from.

I am not saying that Monaco is not going to be able to make a comeback. But it is certainly going to be very hard. The halftime team talk is going to be really inspiring from the coach. The tactics will also have to change from Monaco. Otherwise, I don’t see a comeback from them.

[judas]

It seems like Lens have captured a big level of psychological advantage over Monaco by scoring two goals in the first 16 minutes already. Openda is doing really great things for his team these days. He scored both goals in this match as well. He has reached his 17th goal in his 32nd match in the league this season. This contribution is going to be really important for Lens to defend the second place against Marseille.

Besides they will have opened the point gap with Monaco at the same time. You know that they have been under the threat of Monaco too on one hand. I would never think that Lens would be this much competitive this season but here we are. If they didn't lose to PSG recently maybe they would have even still been in the league title race as well.

[execijutiere]

A draw in an important match for both teams. Auxerre hosted Lille. Lille played a dominant game in the first half. Lille scored a goal in the first half and led at half time. They played a dominant game from the beginning to the end but didn't have many shots on target. Despite playing so well, it didn't help them to play with too much pressure. Lille deserved to win the game but they couldn't do it. Both goals came from penalties.

[rendravolt]

I think the Lens vs Monaco match will be very fierce so that in the first half there will be no goals scored. But in reality Lens excelled quickly through two goals scored by Openda in minutes 9 and 16. While the victory is still in Lens' hands, I'm still not 100% sure that Lens will be able to win this match and Monaco will definitely try to equalize in the second half Later. But if Lens uses a defensive strategy in the second half, Monaco's chances of sharing points or turning things around will disappear.

[klidex]

It seems like Lens have captured a big level of psychological advantage over Monaco by scoring two goals in the first 16 minutes already. Openda is doing really great things for his team these days. He scored both goals in this match as well. He has reached his 17th goal in his 32nd match in the league this season. This contribution is going to be really important for Lens to defend the second place against Marseille.

Besides they will have opened the point gap with Monaco at the same time. You know that they have been under the threat of Monaco too on one hand. I would never think that Lens would be this much competitive this season but here we are. If they didn't lose to PSG recently maybe they would have even still been in the league title race as well.

It's impressive that Lens could do so much better scoring 2 goals in the first half.
Actually, this Lens has the potential to catch up with PSG's points, but it's just that Lens is sometimes inconsistent with their own matches when sometimes they lose several matches and sometimes surprisingly improve their performance.
Monaco I think will not be able to fight Lens in this match and there will still be more goals scored by Lens players.

[harapan]

It seems that the spots from two to four are still open and there are three teams able to compete for them and they are marseille lens and monaco and today two of them will face each other and lens vs monaco should be the highlight of this round lens has the home advantage and i like their performance better this season compared to monaco i pick them to win the game but i won't be surprised if they lose either that's how good monaco team sometimes is.

Lens is currently winning and that puts them on 2nd position for now. Lens have been good this season so I don't find it surprising that they are 2nd on the table, although Marseille have not played yet.
Marseille will play Lyon tomorrow and that can be a pretty difficult match for both teams. Lyon is struggling to make it to the Europa league while Marseille is fighting to maintain their second position. No matter the outcome of tomorrows match, I still think Lens will finish the table on 2nd while Marseille and Monaco will finish at 3rd and 4th respectively.

[Doell]

As you said Auxerre has got 3 winning streak, so indeed it won't be easy for Lille although on paper Lille should be better, but this match will also be held at home of Auxerre so it's an advantage for them. But to bet on Auxerre I personally might miss this match, because this match is also an important match for Lille so they might make an effort very well to get points, even in my opinion there is a possibility this match ended will be a draw results.

I think that 3 winning streka was not giving auxerre guarantee to win the game. Auxerre was getting a win streak, but it was not against the big team. You must also remember that if auxerre was only winning three times against teams that placed below it. The match against lyon gonna be even harder than what auxerre thinks. LYON is also very consistent at this moment. This match gonna be won easily by LYON. I don't even to tell you why but you must also see the past history of lyon.
Auxerre was only winning against weak teams three times. it's still means nothing to me.

Im still feeling so confidence with LYON rather than auxerre at this moment. It's very hard to predict but for me if LYON is still leading the way compared with auxerre at this moment. it can be seen from lyon's last five matches.

Not Lyon Sir but LOSC Lille, and in the end of that match Auxerre vs Lille ended in a draw results, although the home team was behind at halftime but they got a chance to equal the score. Interestingly, their Lille has a better statistically rather than the home team and should have won but failed to get full points.

Now Lens has scored again in the second half, after leading two scores in the first half, now the score for this match Lens vs Monaco is now 3-0 and it seems ike they will win very comfortably tonight.

[alpamar99]

Lens had a hard game recently against PSG and they were unlucky during that game in which they could decrease the gap between themselves and PSG and increase their chance to be the first team in the table while they are going to have another hard game in a few minutes and in they lose this game against Monaco they may even lose their place on the third position of the table.

Their condition by losing players in the first 20 minutes slightly affected the result for Lens against PSG. But in today's match against Monaco with a complete set of players they really showed their true selves.

The score was quite striking in this match and of course this made them take back the position where Marseille, who currently haven't played.

[snipie]

It seems that the spots from two to four are still open and there are three teams able to compete for them and they are marseille lens and monaco and today two of them will face each other and lens vs monaco should be the highlight of this round lens has the home advantage and i like their performance better this season compared to monaco i pick them to win the game but i won't be surprised if they lose either that's how good monaco team sometimes is.

At the opposite of the other major leagues, there is a different between the top 4 spots here. Being second will grant direct access to Champions League next season while third rank will grant a UCL qualifiers spot, so more work to do... 4th spot is for Europa League and 5th for the Conference League qualifiers.
There is 6 rounds after that one and indeed, nothing is guaranteed in these spots apart from the first one going to PSG most likely.

[Sirait]

Lens had a hard game recently against PSG and they were unlucky during that game in which they could decrease the gap between themselves and PSG and increase their chance to be the first team in the table while they are going to have another hard game in a few minutes and in they lose this game against Monaco they may even lose their place on the third position of the table.

Marseille, Lens, and Monaco will fight for 1 ticket to the Champions League next season. against Monaco will indeed be quite tough. but Lens has also beaten Monaco 1-4 in the previous meeting. this will probably be a very interesting match because both of them will appear determined to fight for a ticket to the Champions League. and now that Lens are playing at home, of course they are currently preparing a lot.

a 3-0 win over monaco made lens return to 2nd place with 66 points (they were really competing with marseille for runner up position).  marseille will face lyon, looks like it will be a tight match for them, even so i still believe marseill can win the match.

[Velvet78]

Monaco seemed really vulnerable against Lens today. I wasn't expecting this kind of a game between these two teams honestly. I thought that we would watch a very competitive game and the result would also be a close one. However this wasn't the case at all. Lens totally dominated the first half especially and this helped them secure a 2-0 lead already there.

Monaco tried something in the second half but that was no help I'm afraid. This win was really important for Lens because there is a chance of finishing the week at the second position. Marseille's job will be quite difficult against Lyon away in my opinion.