French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[RealMalatesta]

Lionel Messi have more contribution this season and helped PSG win on several crucial games but he can't give PSG fans more expected like winning Champion League. For winning Ligue 1 seems is not matter has Lionel Messi or not I think PSG always dominance with domestic league but fans expected with Lionel Messi can get better achievement in Champion League. If PSG can't extended for Lionel Messi contract I don't sure will bigger loss because still have Neymar and Mbappe.

But PSG have few weeks for discussing back with Lionel Messi contract and accepted his offering salary, but depend on PSG or Lionel Messi its self will accept with new offering from PSG or returning back to Barcelona next season.

UCL was something they didn't get before Messi, and didn't get later on neither, that means that Messi is not the reason why they failed to win it, but they didn't win thanks to him neither, that's the difference. I feel like that means we can't blame him for not winning it, but we can't thank him for winning neither since they didn't really have much change since he arrived.

Aside from that one Lille year, they won the league and lost UCL before messi, and since then they won the league and lost UCL since he arrived, so he didn't really had a huge change in the team neither. This is why he is a great player but they need something else. I keep saying that it is manager that they need, a proper one that had UCL experience before, and I mean a lot of experience there.

[indah rezqi]

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That's really simple, the team is not in a good situation and they can't get the result they want also they don't know the reason for these results they get and since they have no idea about it, the fans are looking for someone to blame, they just blame Messi because they don't know the reason for the poor performance they have while in fact, Messi's performance was not bad to blame him for the results they got.

Not all fans are like that, for me it's just some or some fans who basically don't like Messi. France's failure in the World Cup final to Argentina is something that can be taken as an excuse, but it's clear they are very immature about how football is.

Messi has actually poured everything in his power to help the team win all the match, but he can't do it even if he plays with Neymar and Mbappe without the best qualities of the other players behind them. Messi's contribution at PSG is very clear, even Messi was able to prove that he was the creator of 15 goals to other PSG players in Ligue 1 besides having scored 15 goals on his own behalf this season. It's too ridiculous to whistle at Messi and blame him when PSG lose, it's the childish attitude of some PSG supporters.

[slapper]

After suffering defeat last week against Marseille, Lyon will now play an away game at home to Strasbourg this week. In depth the squads of the two teams are clearly different, Lyon is superior but Strasbourg can sometimes make it difficult with the current quality of its players. It is surprising that last week Strasbourg managed to beat Reims, we know that Reims was so strong when they hosted their opponents at home.

Of course, with these various considerations, Lyon must be wary of Strasbourg and Lyon might fail to steal points away from home later. But I'm pretty sure that Lyon will win even by a narrow score, Lyon have to win if they want to have the same number of points as Rennes.

Strasbourg is not better than Lyon in terms of strength, this is their chance to win again after their defeat last week. On the other hand, Strasbourg is also on a positive trend with the consecutive wins they got in their last 2 matches. Another advantage that Strasbourg gets is that they will play a home game in this match. Even though on paper Lyon are still better, that doesn't mean they will be able to win the game comfortably.

They got a morale boost after the 2 consecutive victories created when defeating Ajaccio and Reims and of course the home competition will be something more for Strasbourg at the moment.
In terms of strength, Lyon is still superior, but it is not impossible for Strasbourg at the moment, especially if their goal is a draw, it will be very good for them.

On their stomping grounds, Strasbourg's adrenaline soars. Yet, don't brush off Lyon—despite their misstep facing Marseille.

It's gonna be a slugfest for Strasbourg, but shrewd moves might just land 'em a deadlock. Dare I say, an upset victory? Mind you, Lyon's got an ace up their sleeve—a star-studded roster, and they're the odds-on faves

[terrorJR]

Taking league 1 as the trophy that PSG can win is more than enough this time. I don't expect more than it. PSG was even feeling so difficult to win any matches. If it's not messi who always been helping the club to win any matches.
PSG will be losing messi next season. This gonna another disaster for PSG caused by we do know how big the contribution that already made by messi to the PSG. as a player with the highest rating in the club. Messi's role is very important for PSG but that's sad messi decides to leave from PSG and move back to the barcelona again. Messi and neymar will find its new club again soon.

Lionel Messi have more contribution this season and helped PSG win on several crucial games but he can't give PSG fans more expected like winning Champion League. For winning Ligue 1 seems is not matter has Lionel Messi or not I think PSG always dominance with domestic league but fans expected with Lionel Messi can get better achievement in Champion League. If PSG can't extended for Lionel Messi contract I don't sure will bigger loss because still have Neymar and Mbappe.

But PSG have few weeks for discussing back with Lionel Messi contract and accepted his offering salary, but depend on PSG or Lionel Messi its self will accept with new offering from PSG or returning back to Barcelona next season.

The Champions League can't just depend on one player. even though messi is a sensational player but depending on Messi in the Champions League and blaming him when he fails is a condition that is quite childish I think.
This requires team harmony and not just an individual thing when it comes to bigger competitions.

[snipie]

Strasbourg - Lyon will be played tomorrow with odds that aren't that far so quite interesting. Lyon are favourite and Strasbourg have the home advantage.
Clermont - Reims is the second game that seems to be quite difficult to guess in Ligue 1 this round. Reims are slightly advantageous otherwise in the other matches there is a clear favourite as I see.

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The Champions League can't just depend on one player. even though messi is a sensational player but depending on Messi in the Champions League and blaming him when he fails is a condition that is quite childish I think.
This requires team harmony and not just an individual thing when it comes to bigger competitions.

A team must work together which will produce perfect results.  relying on one player is not very good let alone blaming him when he fails to advance to the next round. lionel messi has given all his best strength for psg this season and failure in the champions league certainly can't blame him.

psg must try to be even better next season in the champions league they need performance and coaches who have long experience in the champions league so that when they meet a strong team in the champions league they can cope with a strategy from a coach who is able to give tough resistance to his opponents.

[alpamar99]

Strasbourg - Lyon will be played tomorrow with odds that aren't that far so quite interesting. Lyon are favourite and Strasbourg have the home advantage.

The performance of the two teams made the city not too aggressive in determining the odds and indeed that is quite reasonable because even though Lyon can be said to be better than Strasbourg but Strasbourg's performance in the last few matches is also quite good and of course they play at home which could bite in this match.
But despite being in Lyon with odds of 2.41 I think it's worth doing.

[Docnaster]

The Champions League can't just depend on one player. even though messi is a sensational player but depending on Messi in the Champions League and blaming him when he fails is a condition that is quite childish I think.
This requires team harmony and not just an individual thing when it comes to bigger competitions.

A team must work together which will produce perfect results.  relying on one player is not very good let alone blaming him when he fails to advance to the next round. lionel messi has given all his best strength for psg this season and failure in the champions league certainly can't blame him.

psg must try to be even better next season in the champions league they need performance and coaches who have long experience in the champions league so that when they meet a strong team in the champions league they can cope with a strategy from a coach who is able to give tough resistance to his opponents.

It is not ideal to rely on one player to win the Champions league and even if you want to rely on a particular player it should not be Messi at his age. Neymar Jr even made better efforts than what is happening presently when he was signed as the hit man for PSG. Again I believe the ability of Mbappe to pull a solo effort in the Champions league than Messi.
Nature cannot be cheated. Messi ha played his prime and he is not much hungry to win any more thing because he has won all already.

[LUCKMCFLY]

The club already expected to have a new coach in upcoming season. PSG will be making some movements during the summer transfer season. PSG just let galtier to end this season in PSG. Galtier is not as good as people think.

Hiring another coach is not enough for PSG. They must to rebuild their squad and make it more balanced between attacking and defense. If their squad continues to be not balanced, no coach can help them to win Champions League.

PSG already bought some world class players and that's not enough to win UCL PSG. To be honest if the performance from PSG this season is disappointing for PSG fans. Galtier will be sacked or he must be leaving the club by himself. I would not be surprised to see that PSG has been offering some good coaches to join the club.

They have world class players but their squad are imbalanced that makes them weak when they play with big clubs in Champions League. Such imbalance is not a big issue in Ligue 1 but in Champions League, it is their dead weakness.

Messi is already rumored to go back again to the barcelona.

I believe he won't. Barcelona current president Laporta treated Messi badly and he has no reason to rejoin them. Moving to Saudi Arabia Professional League and grab huge salary in a last few years of his career is more interesting for him and his family. In addition, returning to Barcelona might not bring more happiness to Messi and he will get more pressure there.

What you say is very real, and I really agree with what you say about Messi, apart from the fact that a few months ago Messi's brother revealed in an interview that Messi would never return to Barcelona, and it seems to me a very good thing, because they took him out As if it was already destroyed, I don't understand it, maybe they want to do like Real Madrid that they only want to keep young players? I don't know, but I didn't like that gesture at all from Barcelona, plus I still remember that Messi was willing to lower his salary in order to stay at Barcelona, that's something you should never do and be an example of the things that a person should never do for a job.

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The ill treatment that Lionel Messi got from Barcelona's president and some members of the the club's is still unbelievable and embarrassing many football fans and to the greatest footballer to have ever graced the  beautiful of game of football. Messi left the spanish giants when he least expected to leave and that's why I think it'll be very difficult to convince him and bring Messi back to the Camp Nou again.
But that being said, there's possibility to lie him back to Barcelona and that's because of his love for Barcelona and fans of the football club. The PSG fans in recent times has criticised Messi because of the club's performances this season.

For this reason, Messi should be in another team, he should leave PSG, and not exactly PSG, otherwise I would say that in Saudi fútbol he would have a great chance to succeed, he removes all the haters, the case of CR7, he is going well, be very loved at Al Nassr, at PSG they don't respect the trajectory of a player like Messi as it should be, so the best Option that Messi has would be to go to that type of football, where as I said he will be treated as King, In the case of the MLS,I only see it as a retirement, something that is quite sad for a player like him.

Looking at the current conditions I think Lens is still quite better so far.
Indeed, currently their position is below Marseille, but from the statistics they lost, they are better than Marseille, even though there were indeed a number of draws that were far more numerous. Apart from that, looking at their defense they are also quite good and have even been the club that has conceded the fewest goals so far.
The defeat against PSG started with a red card so it was difficult even though they worked really hard during that game.

Marseille will face Lens next week and that game will be very important for their conquest for the remaining Champions League spot. They will face Lille also in a month so I expect them to collect many points for their remaining games.
Lens have Reims and Lorient that might be challenging a bit, otherwise I expect them to collect many points too. That's why the game between them will be very important!

Without a doubt, these games will be very exciting, we cannot forget the fact that Marseille had everything in their hands to leave PSG behind and they did not want to Because they had defeats that I did not understand, however I think that Marseille and Lens will have a quota Guaranteed, I like these teams because they have given PSG something to talk about and all the teams in Ligue 1 are leveled up in an impressive way, for me Sanchez must give everything, from the beginning to the end, not to go out badly They have done on Previous occasions that I do not Understand their game.

The Champions League can't just depend on one player. even though messi is a sensational player but depending on Messi in the Champions League and blaming him when he fails is a condition that is quite childish I think.
This requires team harmony and not just an individual thing when it comes to bigger competitions.

A team must work together which will produce perfect results.  relying on one player is not very good let alone blaming him when he fails to advance to the next round. lionel messi has given all his best strength for psg this season and failure in the champions league certainly can't blame him.

psg must try to be even better next season in the champions league they need performance and coaches who have long experience in the champions league so that when they meet a strong team in the champions league they can cope with a strategy from a coach who is able to give tough resistance to his opponents.

It is not ideal to rely on one player to win the Champions league and even if you want to rely on a particular player it should not be Messi at his age. Neymar Jr even made better efforts than what is happening presently when he was signed as the hit man for PSG. Again I believe the ability of Mbappe to pull a solo effort in the Champions league than Messi.
Nature cannot be cheated. Messi ha played his prime and he is not much hungry to win any more thing because he has won all already.

What happened is that everything comes down to Mssi for being the player who has stood out the most, both in the World Cup and in the games, for this it is Easier to blame Messi, Mbappé, Neymar, because they are the most famous players, the PSG has always been one of the teams that stands out the most in Ligue 1,UCL and in any competition, so don't be Surprised that Messi doesn't want to be there anymore because of how uncomfortable his last games have been, especially for his own fans.

and:

Lionel Messi transfer takes fresh twist as Barcelona make desperate move to fund deal.

Barcelona are hoping to re-sign Lionel Messi this summer and the La Liga giants are making huge cuts in an attempt to comply with the league's strict Financial Fair Play rules.



Due to Barcelona's financial struggles, La Liga rejected their attempt to register new contracts for the likes of Gavi, Ronald Araujo and Marcos Alonso and the club are desperately looking to cut back on expenditure.

Gerard Pique's decision to retire in November and the sale of Memphis Depay to Atletico Madrid in January have helped matters, but La Liga president Javier Tebas has repeatedly warned Barcelona they need to save an additional €200m (£176m) before they can even consider signing new players.

When asked if Barcelona would be able to re-sign Messi, Tebas admitted they would not be allowed to under current circumstances before adding: "I hope they can make the necessary moves to make space for Messi to come in."

Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/barcelona-lionel-messi-transfer-psg-29832052

[Leviathan.007]

Taking league 1 as the trophy that PSG can win is more than enough this time. I don't expect more than it. PSG was even feeling so difficult to win any matches. If it's not messi who always been helping the club to win any matches.
PSG will be losing messi next season. This gonna another disaster for PSG caused by we do know how big the contribution that already made by messi to the PSG. as a player with the highest rating in the club. Messi's role is very important for PSG but that's sad messi decides to leave from PSG and move back to the barcelona again. Messi and neymar will find its new club again soon.

Lionel Messi have more contribution this season and helped PSG win on several crucial games but he can't give PSG fans more expected like winning Champion League. For winning Ligue 1 seems is not matter has Lionel Messi or not I think PSG always dominance with domestic league but fans expected with Lionel Messi can get better achievement in Champion League. If PSG can't extended for Lionel Messi contract I don't sure will bigger loss because still have Neymar and Mbappe.

But PSG have few weeks for discussing back with Lionel Messi contract and accepted his offering salary, but depend on PSG or Lionel Messi its self will accept with new offering from PSG or returning back to Barcelona next season.

Messi's performance this season was not bad at all and considering the current situation of his team where they are unhappy with players and their coach, still, Messi's performance was well enough for PSG but the problem with PSG fans in they are expecting to see Messi performing much better than this and for any mistake from their team they just blame Messi.

[fadhilz123]

Messi's performance this season was not bad at all and considering the current situation of his team where they are unhappy with players and their coach, still, Messi's performance was well enough for PSG but the problem with PSG fans in they are expecting to see Messi performing much better than this and for any mistake from their team they just blame Messi.

What's the point of blaming a Messi, and I think it's a very funny thing if the fans only blame a Messi who basically always plays pretty well in the team he's defending now. Because the good and bad of a team depends on whether or not the people in the team are solid and that also includes the coach, so it is very inappropriate and very funny to only blame one person whose profession is a player.

[JeffBrad12]

What's the point of blaming a Messi, and I think it's a very funny thing if the fans only blame a Messi who basically always plays pretty well in the team he's defending now. Because the good and bad of a team depends on whether or not the people in the team are solid and that also includes the coach, so it is very inappropriate and very funny to only blame one person whose profession is a player.

I think that he doesn't even wanna try to blame messi but he was only pointing out how good the performance from messi. PSG fans booing caused by they disliking something from messi. messi already decided to leave from the club and move back to the barcelona again. That means if messi will not stay even longer in the PSG. The problem is barcelona has not finished yet with its financial problem.

Neymar had the same problem like messi which under conflict with some players even the club itself. There might be a reason why the fans of PSG were blaming him.
It may be related with something that we didn't know about.
So many negative news has been reported by france media regarding messi with PSG fans.

[longyenthanh]

What's the point of blaming a Messi, and I think it's a very funny thing if the fans only blame a Messi who basically always plays pretty well in the team he's defending now. Because the good and bad of a team depends on whether or not the people in the team are solid and that also includes the coach, so it is very inappropriate and very funny to only blame one person whose profession is a player.

I think that he doesn't even wanna try to blame messi but he was only pointing out how good the performance from messi. PSG fans booing caused by they disliking something from messi. messi already decided to leave from the club and move back to the barcelona again. That means if messi will not stay even longer in the PSG. The problem is barcelona has not finished yet with its financial problem.

Neymar had the same problem like messi which under conflict with some players even the club itself. There might be a reason why the fans of PSG were blaming him.
It may be related with something that we didn't know about.
So many negative news has been reported by france media regarding messi with PSG fans.

In fact, I consider Neymar an unlucky player. Neymar is basically one of the players in the world with great skills, but a third of his football career has been spent with injuries which is very bad for his career. The current Neymar is probably injured, these days Neymar is unable to play any role in the big matches.

[Die_empty]

Messi's performance this season was not bad at all and considering the current situation of his team where they are unhappy with players and their coach, still, Messi's performance was well enough for PSG but the problem with PSG fans in they are expecting to see Messi performing much better than this and for any mistake from their team they just blame Messi.

What's the point of blaming a Messi, and I think it's a very funny thing if the fans only blame a Messi who basically always plays pretty well in the team he's defending now. Because the good and bad of a team depends on whether or not the people in the team are solid and that also includes the coach, so it is very inappropriate and very funny to only blame one person whose profession is a player.

Some club owners think that they can win trophies by buying the best players in the world. And when they do that, they expect these players to perform magic and win these competitions. Most times quality players don't guarantee success, the case of Chelsea is an example. PSG's main target is the Champions League and any top player or coach that fails to help the club to lift the trophy has failed. Messi was bought because of the Champions League and he has failed in the sight of the club management and fans. Maybe the club has now known that a team of United and diligent players is far better than a disunited team of superstars.

Messi might not also find satisfaction in Barcelona because the club has built a new empire ruled by certain key players. His coming back might bring disaffection, except he is willing to be loyal to the new order.

[barisbilgili]

Messi's performance this season was not bad at all and considering the current situation of his team where they are unhappy with players and their coach, still, Messi's performance was well enough for PSG but the problem with PSG fans in they are expecting to see Messi performing much better than this and for any mistake from their team they just blame Messi.

What's the point of blaming a Messi, and I think it's a very funny thing if the fans only blame a Messi who basically always plays pretty well in the team he's defending now. Because the good and bad of a team depends on whether or not the people in the team are solid and that also includes the coach, so it is very inappropriate and very funny to only blame one person whose profession is a player.

Fans' expectations for Messi are quite high and when he is unable to fulfill that of course there is a feeling of disappointment and in my opinion that is very natural because during his 2 seasons with PSG there was not much contribution he was able to make to improve PSG's performance on the European stage and when compared to Messi's performance With Barcelona, of course, it can be said that Messi's performance for PSG was a little bad.
I think if Messi leaves PSG then it will not have a big effect on PSG's performance, especially on the front lines.

[terrorJR]

The Champions League can't just depend on one player. even though messi is a sensational player but depending on Messi in the Champions League and blaming him when he fails is a condition that is quite childish I think.
This requires team harmony and not just an individual thing when it comes to bigger competitions.

A team must work together which will produce perfect results.  relying on one player is not very good let alone blaming him when he fails to advance to the next round. lionel messi has given all his best strength for psg this season and failure in the champions league certainly can't blame him.

psg must try to be even better next season in the champions league they need performance and coaches who have long experience in the champions league so that when they meet a strong team in the champions league they can cope with a strategy from a coach who is able to give tough resistance to his opponents.

That's an important point, but in this case the fans from PSG, some don't understand things like that, even though it can be said that this is the first thing that must be realized.
There is nothing wrong in Messi's game and it is proven now that he is the top assist for the domestic league.
Desires are higher and expectations are too high to make the fans expect too much for Messi here which makes it a little tricky when the expectations do not line up with what was expected.

[Yurkov]

The Champions League can't just depend on one player. even though messi is a sensational player but depending on Messi in the Champions League and blaming him when he fails is a condition that is quite childish I think.
This requires team harmony and not just an individual thing when it comes to bigger competitions.

A team must work together which will produce perfect results.  relying on one player is not very good let alone blaming him when he fails to advance to the next round. lionel messi has given all his best strength for psg this season and failure in the champions league certainly can't blame him.

psg must try to be even better next season in the champions league they need performance and coaches who have long experience in the champions league so that when they meet a strong team in the champions league they can cope with a strategy from a coach who is able to give tough resistance to his opponents.

That's an important point, but in this case the fans from PSG, some don't understand things like that, even though it can be said that this is the first thing that must be realized.
There is nothing wrong in Messi's game and it is proven now that he is the top assist for the domestic league.
Desires are higher and expectations are too high to make the fans expect too much for Messi here which makes it a little tricky when the expectations do not line up with what was expected.

However, if we can talk about something else, do you think Lionel Messi will leave PSG in this season's transfer? Because I think Lionel Messi could not make any new records in his career after joining PSG. Besides, the teams from the big leagues have been knocked out.

[Josefjix]

The Champions League can't just depend on one player. even though messi is a sensational player but depending on Messi in the Champions League and blaming him when he fails is a condition that is quite childish I think.
This requires team harmony and not just an individual thing when it comes to bigger competitions.

Champions league is a tough competition, PSG are still yet to possess the qualities needed before they can emerge winner for the trophy. Leo Messi is big name in football and his presence on the pitch frightened his opponents, he's always one step ahead of everyone on the pitch. Pouring blames on Leo Messi whenever the Parisians get eliminated from the champions league is probably not a good idea, he's not the only player on the pitch, besides he's frontline and what happens to the defendlines? They're the ones to be blamed to defend poorly against their opponents, leading to their exits from UCL.

[len01]

Strasbourg - Lyon will be played tomorrow with odds that aren't that far so quite interesting. Lyon are favourite and Strasbourg have the home advantage.
Clermont - Reims is the second game that seems to be quite difficult to guess in Ligue 1 this round. Reims are slightly advantageous otherwise in the other matches there is a clear favourite as I see.

Strasbourg vs Lyon does have almost the same odds but for predictions it is a little difficult that Lyon has won 3 times from H2H and Strasbourg has only ever taken 1 win. but a little prediction while I Strasbourg is indeed the host in tomorrow's match but I think Strasbourg is difficult to beat Lyon with a slightly poor performance and I would prefer Lyon or draw, it's much safer for me.

for Clermont vs Reims it is more difficult to predict because they both have the same strength and these two teams are close to each other in this standings. we can see that there are several injured players from the Reims players and that is the goalkeeper as well as the injured. I am worried that the performance of the Reims goalkeeper will find it difficult to block the ball from Clermont's attack and I prefer not to bet at all in this match on the grounds that it is difficult to make a decision both teams have the same strength

[bering]

Strasbourg - Lyon will be played tomorrow with odds that aren't that far so quite interesting. Lyon are favourite and Strasbourg have the home advantage.
Clermont - Reims is the second game that seems to be quite difficult to guess in Ligue 1 this round. Reims are slightly advantageous otherwise in the other matches there is a clear favourite as I see.

The bookie provided interesting odds for the match Strasbourg vs Lyon

Strasbourg @2.65
Draw @3.10
Lyon @2.60

After seeing these odds obviously there were no favourite team in this match seems although Lyon probably stronger than Strasbourg but the bookie still give high odds for them but indeed last week Lyon weren't just lucky because if Malo Gusto wasn't made own goal in the last minutes of second half probably Lyon will be able to stole 1 point from Marseille

Strasbourg recent performance looks very impressive that 2 times streak win results were makes their chances to avoiding relegation zone is wide open and Lyon have to be careful to Strasbourg because their motivation to earn points from this match is quite good and with their conditions probably Strasbourg will be able to stole point from Lyon and seems draw result could be good picked for this match