French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[borovichok]

PSG don't have superstars like last season anymore and they don't have the strongest forwards in the world in the other hand, instead of working with Galtier they are working on Enrique and this can maybe help PSG to have a more balanced team for the next season, however finding good forwards to fill Mbappe and Messi's place can't be easy for PSG.

The board sacking Christophe Galtier and replacing him with Luis Enrique, we all know that the possibilities of the new boss to survive in the club is 50/50, there's absolutely no two ways about it. I'm still keen on watching the parisians performance next season. PSG seems to appear more weaker compared to last season, they got everything they were looking for, still yet they couldn't lift their ultimate target. It's really a tragedy for the club, to lost most their crucial players, it's high time they kicks back to form and make good plans on bringing excellent winning results to Parc des Princes stadium next season.

[rendravolt]

PSG surprisingly lost from Japan club Cerezo Osaka and playing at Yanmar Field Nagai Stadium PSG has been leading the game at 17 minutes in the first half by Ekitike goal but it took only 5 minutes after that goal Cerezo Osaka can able to equalized the score by Jordy Croux and in the second half PSG has been dominate the game with 72% ball possesions but their defender still hasn't displayed solid defense and which make Cerezo Osaka can added 2 more goals and PSG have to give up with final scores 3-2 and this is poor result from PSG because on the paper they should be able to win easily from Cerezo Osaka and besides that i don't know why seem Luis Enrique didn't played Neymar on that match because in my opinion if Neymar played since the beginning of match probably the result will be different

For a team like PSG they should be able to win this match with certainty and I will also not make a statement that even though this is only a pre-season match, they cannot fully accept defeat. I understand PSG are currently trying a new method for next season's competition because so many new players have joined, so coach Luis Enrique must be able to give the right direction to his players so they can adapt quickly.

Not playing Neymar from the start was also part of the strategy implemented by Luis Enrique and if Neymar has such an important impact on official matches then surely Luis Enrique will do it. I think this is just an experiment conducted by PSG and then they will evaluate all existing performance to get better results.

[makishart]

Another bad result from PSG. It was losing against cerezo ozaka.



I saw that if PSG has been using all of its new players. The team was dominating the match but it keeps lose against CRZ. CRZ was only able doing counter attack but i must admit that if almost all of counter attacks made by CRZ has very high accuracy.
So many shoots on target being made by CRZ unlike PSG which is only a few from so many shoots. The performance from PSG is still far from what i have expected.

Ugarte, asensio, and so many great players already played against CRZ but the result was still the same. CRZ was beating PSG. So many people were also showing their disappointed in various online media like youtube.
This is only a friendly match but it means a lot for me. A big team like PSG might able to beat CRZ easily but it does nothing against CRZ.

PSG loses its souls in the attacking lines.

[Litzki1990]

It is not true that a team will perform well if it has a lot of star players in the squad. The bond between the players must be good. If the chemistry between the players is not good, the overall performance of the team is unlikely to improve. PSG had a strong squad. But the understanding between the squad players was not good. PSG have now appointed an experienced coach Luis Enrique to stabilize their squad. If PSG had hired an experienced coach earlier instead of wasting money on star players, we could have seen a better performance from this team last season.

a team having star players will not guarantee if it will be successful like PSG in the previous season had 3 very good players like Messi, Neymar and Mbappe but in reality they always failed to get the champions league title and could only get the title in League 1 .
if you say PSG will be luckier when it is faster to get Enrique than just buying star players that will also not give guarantees and in my opinion comparing Enrique is no better than Galtier as PSG coach and all this in my opinion PSG failure in the champions league is just less solid between players with their coach so that the chemistry you mention won't appear between them.

PSG don't have superstars like last season anymore and they don't have the strongest forwards in the world in the other hand, instead of working with Galtier they are working on Enrique and this can maybe help PSG to have a more balanced team for the next season, however finding good forwards to fill Mbappe and Messi's place can't be easy for PSG.

At one time PSG had one of the strongest attacking divisions in the world but now they lack that balance. Messi has already left, Mbappe may leave this season or next, the forward or midfielder is not experienced enough in this case, the club has to plan a lot with this club. Luis Enrique took charge of PSG, he can only make some changes in the team's plan and strategy but if he is not given the freedom to buy the players he wants, he cannot change the state of the team with his plan and strategy alone. Since Mbappe has the possibility of staying at PSG for one more season, the PSG president may not be planning so much for this team this season as well. But when Mbappé leaves, maybe those same stars will re-plan this team.

[marcous]

Another bad result from PSG. It was losing against cerezo ozaka.



I saw that if PSG has been using all of its new players. The team was dominating the match but it keeps lose against CRZ. CRZ was only able doing counter attack but i must admit that if almost all of counter attacks made by CRZ has very high accuracy.
So many shoots on target being made by CRZ unlike PSG which is only a few from so many shoots. The performance from PSG is still far from what i have expected.

Ugarte, asensio, and so many great players already played against CRZ but the result was still the same. CRZ was beating PSG. So many people were also showing their disappointed in various online media like youtube.
This is only a friendly match but it means a lot for me. A big team like PSG might able to beat CRZ easily but it does nothing against CRZ.

PSG loses its souls in the attacking lines.

It was really disappointing to see this defeat, even though when referring to PSG possession of the ball, Cerezo Osaka really dominated. 72 percent versus 28 percent but Cerezo managed to come out victorious in this fight. It looks like Luis Enrique really needs to work harder to raise the spirits of his players. Especially with the various issues of moving players, it will make the PSG squad not focus on the match even though this is only a friendly match.

Without strengthening Mbappe PSG should still be able to beat Cerezo Osaka easily, because they have many other star players. The results of this match can be a lesson for Enrique to improve his game scheme in the future.

[BlackBoss_]

It was really disappointing to see this defeat, even though when referring to PSG possession of the ball, Cerezo Osaka really dominated.

PSG did not use all star players in this summer pre-season matches and they accept bad results with alternative and young players. Osaka won with a goal from Kagawa, a former player of Manchester United. He is old but can still play well enough in the match with PSG.

72 percent versus 28 percent but Cerezo managed to come out victorious in this fight. It looks like Luis Enrique really needs to work harder to raise the spirits of his players. Especially with the various issues of moving players, it will make the PSG squad not focus on the match even though this is only a friendly match.

Ball possession is not enough to help you winning a match. Luis Enrique should know about this with his experience in Roma, Barcelona and Spain so I believe he is not surprised with the defeat. He just came to Paris and PSG recent weeks and let's give him more patience and time which he surely needs to get acquainted with his new players.

Without strengthening Mbappe PSG should still be able to beat Cerezo Osaka easily, because they have many other star players. The results of this match can be a lesson for Enrique to improve his game scheme in the future.

I agree with you that even with alternative players, PSG should beat Cerezo Osaka but their players did played a bad match. I don't think their alternative players played the match with lack of ambition because they must play well to show up their capability with a new coach. If they have good performance during a pre-season friendly tournament, they will have better chance to be used in a coming season.

[len01]

It is not true that a team will perform well if it has a lot of star players in the squad. The bond between the players must be good. If the chemistry between the players is not good, the overall performance of the team is unlikely to improve. PSG had a strong squad. But the understanding between the squad players was not good. PSG have now appointed an experienced coach Luis Enrique to stabilize their squad. If PSG had hired an experienced coach earlier instead of wasting money on star players, we could have seen a better performance from this team last season.

a team having star players will not guarantee if it will be successful like PSG in the previous season had 3 very good players like Messi, Neymar and Mbappe but in reality they always failed to get the champions league title and could only get the title in League 1 .
if you say PSG will be luckier when it is faster to get Enrique than just buying star players that will also not give guarantees and in my opinion comparing Enrique is no better than Galtier as PSG coach and all this in my opinion PSG failure in the champions league is just less solid between players with their coach so that the chemistry you mention won't appear between them.

PSG don't have superstars like last season anymore and they don't have the strongest forwards in the world in the other hand, instead of working with Galtier they are working on Enrique and this can maybe help PSG to have a more balanced team for the next season, however finding good forwards to fill Mbappe and Messi's place can't be easy for PSG.

yes indeed this will be a tough job for Enrique because he has to overhaul players who have been neatly arranged by Galtier and also some people still recognize that Enrique performance is very good to build PSG stronger but I still doubt it because in reality Enrique will not easily find a replacement the star players are in this team as you said and only got some not so quality players added to the PSG line-up.
just imagine like Galtier who has been around for a long time and has more experience than Enrique and managed to get players like Mbappe and Messi still failing to reach the UCL cup and now Enrique only relies on ordinary players it will be much more difficult.
once again I dont doubt but just a little dont believe whether I can reach the top of the UCL or will only win League 1 like the previous season.

[LittleBitFunny]

PSG surprisingly lost from Japan club Cerezo Osaka and playing at Yanmar Field Nagai Stadium PSG has been leading the game at 17 minutes in the first half by Ekitike goal but it took only 5 minutes after that goal Cerezo Osaka can able to equalized the score by Jordy Croux and in the second half PSG has been dominate the game with 72% ball possesions but their defender still hasn't displayed solid defense and which make Cerezo Osaka can added 2 more goals and PSG have to give up with final scores 3-2 and this is poor result from PSG because on the paper they should be able to win easily from Cerezo Osaka and besides that i don't know why seem Luis Enrique didn't played Neymar on that match because in my opinion if Neymar played since the beginning of match probably the result will be different

I was very disappointed with PSG's performance. They gave more emphasis on ball possession in this match. They also had some good attacks. But the attacking players were quite inexperienced. And so the team could not score more than 2 goals despite getting several easy chances. However, the performance of PSG's defenders in this match was very annoying to me. They played very badly. Although Osaka's players attacked relatively little, PSG conceded three goals due to poor performances from PSG's defenders. PSG won't even win the Ligue 1 title if they perform like this. Luis Enrique should try to rebuild this team completely.

I'm also disappointed, but with PSG striker I mean Asensio. That man still couldn't show his best performance, although it was a friendly match but at least he could scored. But I still believe Luis Enrique can get the League 1 title Sir, even though the defenders performance in the friendly match vs Cerezo Osaka was very bad, but I think Enrique can definitely improve them. After all, Enrique shouldn't be too serious in the match vs Cerezo Osaka, because he also must to be maintain the fitness of PSG players.

I know Luis Enrique is quite an experienced coach. And I believe if PSG management gives Luis Enrique enough time, opportunity, money and freedom then Luis Enrique will be able to stabilize this team. But Luis Enrique must be given sufficient funds and freedom.

A number of important changes have taken place within the PSG squad. Two of the team's players, Mbappe and Messi, will not be with the team next season. And so the team's performance is more likely to be erratic. Luis Enrique should make a new plan with this team. Adding experienced players to the forwards. If there are no experienced players in the forward, they will not be able to maintain the consistency of performance.

[tusandii]

It was really disappointing to see this defeat, even though when referring to PSG possession of the ball, Cerezo Osaka really dominated.

PSG did not use all star players in this summer pre-season matches and they accept bad results with alternative and young players. Osaka won with a goal from Kagawa, a former player of Manchester United. He is old but can still play well enough in the match with PSG.

Luis Enrique definitely has reasons for this but this defeat doesn't need to be regretted and of course in the future PSG can still play with their main players.
At least in this match PSG can still compete by scoring 2 goals even though they had to concede 3 goals until the round 2 finished.
I also salute Shinji Kagawa for managing to play well enough to even contribute 1 goal and at the age of 34, Shinji Kagawa can still keep up with the games of other young players.

[shinratensei_]

Luis Enrique definitely has reasons for this but this defeat doesn't need to be regretted and of course in the future PSG can still play with their main players.
At least in this match PSG can still compete by scoring 2 goals even though they had to concede 3 goals until the round 2 finished.
I also salute Shinji Kagawa for managing to play well enough to even contribute 1 goal and at the age of 34, Shinji Kagawa can still keep up with the games of other young players.

Enrique must be solving the problems in the club as soon as possible. I meant if we must aware of how bad the performance from PSG during the pre season. PSG has been using a lot of its main players in the match against japanese team.
The problem is i have seen so many non synchronized pass in the PSG. The club needs more time to build its chemistry. I guess that if everything will be fine but it may take more time for PSG to build its momentum.
The fact that if PSG's attacking line looked so weak without mbappe. PSG must be thinking again before try to sell mbappe.
The club has proven if mbappe's performance is very important for PSG at this moment.

[Docnaster]

It was really disappointing to see this defeat, even though when referring to PSG possession of the ball, Cerezo Osaka really dominated.

PSG did not use all star players in this summer pre-season matches and they accept bad results with alternative and young players. Osaka won with a goal from Kagawa, a former player of Manchester United. He is old but can still play well enough in the match with PSG.

Luis Enrique definitely has reasons for this but this defeat doesn't need to be regretted and of course in the future PSG can still play with their main players.
At least in this match PSG can still compete by scoring 2 goals even though they had to concede 3 goals until the round 2 finished.
I also salute Shinji Kagawa for managing to play well enough to even contribute 1 goal and at the age of 34, Shinji Kagawa can still keep up with the games of other young players.

I think Luis Enrique's decision to not start star players of Paris Saint Germaine in their preseason matches is because of the fact that he wants pick the best players from the younger members of the team.
Enrique surely knows what he's doing and would definitely be successful in his time at the French capital. He's simply applying his personal football philosophy and hopefully it'll yield great results

[Jody.Drummer]

It was really disappointing to see this defeat, even though when referring to PSG possession of the ball, Cerezo Osaka really dominated.

PSG did not use all star players in this summer pre-season matches and they accept bad results with alternative and young players. Osaka won with a goal from Kagawa, a former player of Manchester United. He is old but can still play well enough in the match with PSG.

Luis Enrique definitely has reasons for this but this defeat doesn't need to be regretted and of course in the future PSG can still play with their main players.
At least in this match PSG can still compete by scoring 2 goals even though they had to concede 3 goals until the round 2 finished.
I also salute Shinji Kagawa for managing to play well enough to even contribute 1 goal and at the age of 34, Shinji Kagawa can still keep up with the games of other young players.

Yes I agree with what you said, that this defeat shouldn't be overly regretted, because if they do that I don't think it will be good for the development of the squad. They can look at this result with the reasoning that they will make it a motivation so that they can play better in the future.
I understand this is unexpected, and surely for their fans who want to always see their proud club win in every match will definitely be disappointed. But this is just a pre-season match, there is still time for them to improve what is lacking from what they have at the moment.

[Despairo]

It was really disappointing to see this defeat, even though when referring to PSG possession of the ball, Cerezo Osaka really dominated. 72 percent versus 28 percent but Cerezo managed to come out victorious in this fight. It looks like Luis Enrique really needs to work harder to raise the spirits of his players. Especially with the various issues of moving players, it will make the PSG squad not focus on the match even though this is only a friendly match.

Without strengthening Mbappe PSG should still be able to beat Cerezo Osaka easily, because they have many other star players. The results of this match can be a lesson for Enrique to improve his game scheme in the future.

PSG domination will come to end if they don't have any star players, the current squad is the real PSG's players without star players and they get beaten by Cerezo Osaka aka a weak club in Japan League which never become a champion.

Mbappe is high likely will leave, so there's only Neymar, Ramos and Hakimi. This is the good time to bet on PSG's opponent club because most of people always overrating PSG and that's make the odds always favor on PSG.

[fzkto]

It is not true that a team will perform well if it has a lot of star players in the squad. The bond between the players must be good. If the chemistry between the players is not good, the overall performance of the team is unlikely to improve. PSG had a strong squad. But the understanding between the squad players was not good. PSG have now appointed an experienced coach Luis Enrique to stabilize their squad. If PSG had hired an experienced coach earlier instead of wasting money on star players, we could have seen a better performance from this team last season.

a team having star players will not guarantee if it will be successful like PSG in the previous season had 3 very good players like Messi, Neymar and Mbappe but in reality they always failed to get the champions league title and could only get the title in League 1 .
if you say PSG will be luckier when it is faster to get Enrique than just buying star players that will also not give guarantees and in my opinion comparing Enrique is no better than Galtier as PSG coach and all this in my opinion PSG failure in the champions league is just less solid between players with their coach so that the chemistry you mention won't appear between them.

PSG don't have superstars like last season anymore and they don't have the strongest forwards in the world in the other hand, instead of working with Galtier they are working on Enrique and this can maybe help PSG to have a more balanced team for the next season, however finding good forwards to fill Mbappe and Messi's place can't be easy for PSG.

Maybe PSG will have a crisis next season and it could even happen that some other club will become champions in the League. Last season PSG had trouble to stay in first place, but they had super stars. I think that next season we will finally see a normal competition in the French League.

[Litzki1990]

Maybe PSG will have a crisis next season and it could even happen that some other club will become champions in the League. Last season PSG had trouble to stay in first place, but they had super stars. I think that next season we will finally see a normal competition in the French League.

PSG has the most achievements in France league and the most successful and favorite team in terms of league titles is PSG but the way they have started losing players, they may not be able to retain the France league title for long. PSG won the French League last season but several stars left PSG this season and there are rumors that Mbappe will leave PSG, if all the star players leave the club at the same time then this team will not be able to win the league title next season. Marseille and Lens, who performed well last season, will have the potential to do well in the France league in the coming seasons. If this group is planned from now then this group will become a concern of the management in the future.

[JeffBrad12]

I think Luis Enrique's decision to not start star players of Paris Saint Germaine in their preseason matches is because of the fact that he wants pick the best players from the younger members of the team.
Enrique surely knows what he's doing and would definitely be successful in his time at the French capital. He's simply applying his personal football philosophy and hopefully it'll yield great results

Enrique was still using the main squad at the second half but it was not changing the result. It doesn't matter how many young players used by the club but the fact that if it was getting bad result during several pre matches.
The first was drawn against al nassr and then PSG loses against japanese club. That proves if there are still many things that need to be evaluated by enrique. The new players are not showing good performance during the match against japan club.
PSG shall not continue the bad trend till the start of french league. PSG gonna face intermilan as next opponent. It will become a good match to test PSG's performance.
My guess if intermilan gonna use PSG as important test for the club as well. PSG shall not repeat the bad result in the previous matches.

[rahmad2nd]

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Luis Enrique definitely has reasons for this but this defeat doesn't need to be regretted and of course in the future PSG can still play with their main players.
At least in this match PSG can still compete by scoring 2 goals even though they had to concede 3 goals until the round 2 finished.
I also salute Shinji Kagawa for managing to play well enough to even contribute 1 goal and at the age of 34, Shinji Kagawa can still keep up with the games of other young players.

I think Luis Enrique's decision to not start star players of Paris Saint Germaine in their preseason matches is because of the fact that he wants pick the best players from the younger members of the team.
Enrique surely knows what he's doing and would definitely be successful in his time at the French capital. He's simply applying his personal football philosophy and hopefully it'll yield great results

As I said in several posts, this pre-season friendly match is not a reference for us to judge the strength of a team. this match was a test match for Enrique to experiment with his system, plus tinkering with some of the strategies he used. we can even refer to the three matches that PSG played in this pre-season match, Enrique always rotates his players. this aims, to try the potential of the game from his care team.
maybe because of that too, Enrique chose not to play some of his star players. so naturally, if the results are not satisfactory for a club like PSG.after all, referring to the match data and statistics. PSG really controlled the game, even though in the end they lost this match. the point is, Enrique is trying to build a system that he applies to welcome next season. So, we agree with your point, Enrique knows very well what he is doing as well as what he is planning.

[hahay]

It was really disappointing to see this defeat, even though when referring to PSG possession of the ball, Cerezo Osaka really dominated. 72 percent versus 28 percent but Cerezo managed to come out victorious in this fight. It looks like Luis Enrique really needs to work harder to raise the spirits of his players. Especially with the various issues of moving players, it will make the PSG squad not focus on the match even though this is only a friendly match.

Without strengthening Mbappe PSG should still be able to beat Cerezo Osaka easily, because they have many other star players. The results of this match can be a lesson for Enrique to improve his game scheme in the future.

PSG domination will come to end if they don't have any star players, the current squad is the real PSG's players without star players and they get beaten by Cerezo Osaka aka a weak club in Japan League which never become a champion.

Mbappe is high likely will leave, so there's only Neymar, Ramos and Hakimi. This is the good time to bet on PSG's opponent club because most of people always overrating PSG and that's make the odds always favor on PSG.

Do you still think Ramos is still in the current PSG squad?
In fact, Ramos current status is without a club because PSG also did not extend his contract. With the contract not renewed, Ramos can be owned by any club at this moment for free, but I wonder why you still think Ramos is still part of the PSG squad. Also, regarding that match it seems that PSG also only played second-tier players, so it seems natural for PSG to lose. But indeed, as a strong team in Ligue 1, it is only natural that the quality of the second tier players can also have good abilities to win in friendly matches like that.

[asriloni]

PSG domination will come to end if they don't have any star players, the current squad is the real PSG's players without star players and they get beaten by Cerezo Osaka aka a weak club in Japan League which never become a champion.

It seems true. I saw so many differences when PSG was still having mbappe and messi compared when PSG didn't have those players. The performance from the attacking lines have been dropping so hard. The ability to make goals become very small.
PSG has been making a lot of shoots but these shoots are lack of accuracy. It makes PSG was not able to compete with another big club in UCL next season. Im sure that if PSG is almost coming to its end to dominating french league.
I hope that psg will not win any trophy next season. I prefer marseille or lens to take the number 1 next season.

Mbappe is high likely will leave, so there's only Neymar, Ramos and Hakimi. This is the good time to bet on PSG's opponent club because most of people always overrating PSG and that's make the odds always favor on PSG.

It's just a matter of time till mbappe gonna leave from the club. This will be also create a lot of differences. It's caused by PSG was only relying on mbappe and messi last season.
PSG is nothing without mbappe. it's just an ordinary club without superstars. Enrique will not be able to assemble a good squad caused by that.

[zuzie]

PSG is nothing without mbappe. it's just an ordinary club without superstars. Enrique will not be able to assemble a good squad caused by that.

Really, the fact is that Paris Saint Germain already dominated the French 1 League especially before Kylian Mbappe joined, PSG was still the favorite to win even though at that time there was no Mbappe. If you trace the history of the club, PSG has always had superstars in every era such as Pauleta, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, after that there is Edinson Cavani, Neymar JR, and finally Kylian Mbappe. It will always breed new superstars for PSG because they have the money to tie up potential superstars, like you said. It's only a matter of time.