French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[Litzki1990]

PSG failed heavily because of Mbappe's super contract. It seemed like PSG had caught the chicken that laid golden eggs, Which would have only received bitter fruit. They spent heavily when successfully recruiting him from Monaco and continued to spend heavily to prevent him from going to Real Madrid. Now they want to sell him immediately.
Maybe they will not earn a dime after this striker leaves free. Not only that, PSG also has to pay a huge amount for Mbappe (salary, bonus, loyalty fee). And there are further rumors that this season will likely be without his dedication to the club.

Where other clubs earn a lot of money through a quality player, PSG is now in a financial loss due to the amount of money the club has spent on one of the best stars in the current football world. It was the wrong decision for PSG not to let Mbappe go to Real Madrid last season. If PSG had let Mbappe go to Real Madrid last season, then PSG could have received a huge transfer fee from Real Madrid for Mbappe, but instead of letting Mbappe go, they kept him in the team with a larger amount of financial support. Not only financial support but he was given separate powers and he also accepted from PSG the power to change managers including changing any player in the club if he wanted. Despite doing so much for Mbappe, PSG is unable to keep Mbappe in the team. If Mbappe cannot be transferred to any club for a year before the transfer window, PSG's financial loss will be greater.

[Jody.Drummer]

There is a PSG - Lorient game today and I'm quite curious about it. Because Mbappe isn't expected to play and the reason is being inactive. Will PSG really leave him out of squad? Or it is just until his situation gets clear until the end of this transfer window maybe. Neymar is also not expected to play as he will be leaving this summer.

Therefore PSG are going to play with a completely new trio in the attacking line which will be quite interesting to watch. Because it has been a long time since we didn't see any of players like Mbappe, Messi and Neymar on the pitch at the same time.

Honestly watching PSG with Mbappe,  Neymar and Messi will be interesting,  but even without this big players I'm still believing PSG can still try to be the winner of the game. PSG still have talented players that can still perform well without Neymar,  Mbappe and Messi.  The performance PSG will show in their game against lorient will tell if they will be able to perform this season without having any star players. It sad PSG is not prepared about how the team should be in this season for the home league and champions league.

We'll see what they can do without the players who have left the squad this season. And indeed, bad news always comes to them, and now we know how their relationship with young star players, yes they are not so harmonious.
I will put that aside, I now want to see how they perform in this match, whether they will look promising for the next match or just cause concern. I also won't jump to conclusions because this is the first match in official competition. There will definitely be a lot of evaluation seen in this match.

The new coach and some of the new players will also definitely give a different color to the appearance of Paris Siant Germain.

[Mame89]

I think the future of PSG team is very bad. If you think about it, this team is financially very self-sufficient, but despite adding some of the best players in the world, they have not been able to achieve their goals in the Champions League. It remains to be seen what the club plans next.

I also predict PSG this season is the worst. Actually there are a number of things that PSG must do so that something like this doesn't happen, one of which is that the club president shouldn't get too involved in the needs of players and managers, besides that in Europe where football club managers regulate the purchase of players by club presidents? the existing management needs to support the trainers.

Evidently, PSG two seasons earlier were still able to win a trophy when there was still the MNM trio. And it's strange that PSG's toxic fans make the player with the best rating and one of the players with the most goal contributions at the club make them uncomfortable at PSG. But now that Enrique has become PSG's new coach, several big players have been dropped from his ranks. Of course, this will be a serious problem for PSG to win the trophy this season.

[hahay]

PSG failed heavily because of Mbappe's super contract. It seemed like PSG had caught the chicken that laid golden eggs, Which would have only received bitter fruit. They spent heavily when successfully recruiting him from Monaco and continued to spend heavily to prevent him from going to Real Madrid. Now they want to sell him immediately.
Maybe they will not earn a dime after this striker leaves free. Not only that, PSG also has to pay a huge amount for Mbappe (salary, bonus, loyalty fee). And there are further rumors that this season will likely be without his dedication to the club.

I think the future of PSG team is very bad. If you think about it, this team is financially very self-sufficient, but despite adding some of the best players in the world, they have not been able to achieve their goals in the Champions League. It remains to be seen what the club plans next.

Yes, it is unfortunate, PSG has good finances but PSG still fails to have a great team that can dominate the Champion League. Because anyway, even without Mbappe at least PSG will still be fine in Ligue 1 but the mistake of PSG is, giving Mbappe an expensive salary with all the privileges given. Because after all, Mbappe is a young player who certainly still has greater ambitions and is very likely, his emotions are still unstable. Thus, then at least PSG is also wrong with everything it has given Mbappe, because over time of course Mbappe will also have a strong desire to play in a more certain and better team like Real Madrid.

[sana54210]

There is a PSG - Lorient game today and I'm quite curious about it. Because Mbappe isn't expected to play and the reason is being inactive. Will PSG really leave him out of squad? Or it is just until his situation gets clear until the end of this transfer window maybe. Neymar is also not expected to play as he will be leaving this summer.

Therefore PSG are going to play with a completely new trio in the attacking line which will be quite interesting to watch. Because it has been a long time since we didn't see any of players like Mbappe, Messi and Neymar on the pitch at the same time.

If this keeps up and Mbappe doesn't get to play for like another 10 or so games at the start, even if he doesn't play for 5 games, I am guessing that some things will change. The transfer window is closed, so it is not like they can sell him after a while, it is still open right now but after 5-10 games it will not be open. So what will they do? Ronaldo was able to move after a long period because he was bought out, and then went to another team, Mbappe doesn't have that chance because PSG will want "some" money when they sell him.

The two of them (psg and mbappe) needs to sit down and explain the situation, if he is not going to be played because of this, Mbappe should realize it is a wrong thing to sit out a whole year and just leave.

[JeffBrad12]

PSG failed heavily because of Mbappe's super contract. It seemed like PSG had caught the chicken that laid golden eggs, Which would have only received bitter fruit. They spent heavily when successfully recruiting him from Monaco and continued to spend heavily to prevent him from going to Real Madrid. Now they want to sell him immediately.
Maybe they will not earn a dime after this striker leaves free. Not only that, PSG also has to pay a huge amount for Mbappe (salary, bonus, loyalty fee). And there are further rumors that this season will likely be without his dedication to the club.

I think the future of PSG team is very bad. If you think about it, this team is financially very self-sufficient, but despite adding some of the best players in the world, they have not been able to achieve their goals in the Champions League. It remains to be seen what the club plans next.

It's too early to say that. I meant let's try to reallize the fact that if PSG will perform far from last season. I have no faith in PSG with the new players. It's caused by the chemistry is far from being connected between each to each other.
UCL is very far away from PSG at this moment. PSG needs to make sure if the club will able to perform better but enrique is still confusing due to the problem with mbappe. Im not sure whether goncalo ramos gonna play in the first game against lorient.

PSG is starting from zero again. We must wait it even longer to see the impact from enrique. Many people are feeling doubt caused by they have seen the result from pre season far from their expectations.
I feel if PSG may not able to win the league easily this season. It's caused by the players need to rebuild everything from the bottom again. The team will play without mbappe as the top scorer in the previous season.
Winning champion league is the most difficult task. Even pep needs so many years in city to make the club able to win its UCL trophy.

[bering]

There is a PSG - Lorient game today and I'm quite curious about it. Because Mbappe isn't expected to play and the reason is being inactive. Will PSG really leave him out of squad? Or it is just until his situation gets clear until the end of this transfer window maybe. Neymar is also not expected to play as he will be leaving this summer.

Therefore PSG are going to play with a completely new trio in the attacking line which will be quite interesting to watch. Because it has been a long time since we didn't see any of players like Mbappe, Messi and Neymar on the pitch at the same time.

Mbappe most likely will not be played even so with Neymar that according to PSG update line up for this match Neymar will not be available because he got light injured and me too personally curious who is the names of players who played in the front lines because after the trio Messi, Mbappe and Neymar ended Luis Enrique had several times to played the players such as Ekitike or Asensio but i have to says the result is far from Enrique expected because these players were unable to performing well

Lorient indeed is not easy opponent for PSG but during playing at their home ground PSG had good results against this team so if PSG can able to performing well i think beating Lorient is not hard task for them but indeed playing without Neymar and Mbappe will be so difficult for them because so far these players always be helps PSG to gets the winning results but lets see it later that whether Luis Enrique can able to bringing PSG to gets 3 points or PSG even will lost so this is very interesting to know

[longyenthanh]

PSG failed heavily because of Mbappe's super contract. It seemed like PSG had caught the chicken that laid golden eggs, Which would have only received bitter fruit. They spent heavily when successfully recruiting him from Monaco and continued to spend heavily to prevent him from going to Real Madrid. Now they want to sell him immediately.
Maybe they will not earn a dime after this striker leaves free. Not only that, PSG also has to pay a huge amount for Mbappe (salary, bonus, loyalty fee). And there are further rumors that this season will likely be without his dedication to the club.

Haha I had a lot of fun with your first two lines. Indeed, PSG are very attached to Mbappe. Because PSG understands that if Mbappe leaves the team at this moment, the situation of the team will be very bad and the season will go very badly for this team.

[Republikcoin.com]

I think the future of PSG team is very bad. If you think about it, this team is financially very self-sufficient, but despite adding some of the best players in the world, they have not been able to achieve their goals in the Champions League. It remains to be seen what the club plans next.

The club's next plan is to try to be better this season in the Champions League and also Ligue 1 because the aim of adding some of the best players to the squad is to improve their performance in the Champions League and also Ligue 1. I won't immediately say that PSG's future will be very bad because they are still trying and haven't shown their performance this season because this season has just started so it is necessary to see some of the matches they have played to be able to draw a few more precise conclusions.

[Blitzboy]

This is not confirmed yet but it seems he is again trying to put more pressure on Mbappe and after the meeting Mbappe had with the PSG owner, Mbappe didn't accept leaving or extending his offer with PSG and now before the game with Lorient, Mbappe is banned from going to Princes Park and even watch the games which can show us they want to watch the game at home as another pressure on this player.

PSG seems weak in their performance, they wants the best from the players. PSG has made several additions this season in an attempt to outpace the hole left when Kylian Mbappe would leaves Parc des Princes. PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi has the authority to take any step he deems necessary for placing pressure on the Frenchman this season. Kylian Mbappe has already decided to leave and will not extend his contract with the club; it is about time he begins a new chapter in his career. Banning Kylian Mbappe will not address the problem; rather, it would exacerbate it.

The way PSG is treating Mbappe now seems, well, pointless! Word on the football street is that Mbappe and Real Madrid might have a quiet deal. So, why would PSG want to cut him off by keeping him off the field during preseason games, stopping the sales of his jerseys, and even removing his face from club branding? Its quite a puzzle! Mbappe is not a product; he is a genius at football. Putting him in a tight spot doesnt sound like the best plan. If the rumors are true and he is going to Madrid, putting him on the bench for the whole season might be the best way to lose money. How do clubs even get around in these dark waters? PSG could be setting a bad example for how to deal with a star leaving.

[klidex]

In the first match of the season, we watched Nice-Lille match.Lille team played a more dominant game and both teams scored mutual goals and the match ended in a 1-1 draw.Nice team, which was ahead in the first half with Laborde's goal in the 18th minute, could not prevent Diakite's goal in the last minutes.For Lille, we can say that it was not a bad start for them to get at least a draw away from home with a goal scored in the last minute in a match that Lille did not play badly. Today we will watch the matches of 2 teams that were in the championship race last season.First Marseille-Reims and then PSG-Lorient.I think these matches will be challenging for both teams.Reims had a nice unbeaten streak last season and they had a very good season.I think Marseille's morale is a bit down with the defeat in Europe during the week.

In today's game Nice are lucky to play at their own turf otherwise Lille will definitely beat with even more scores and if we look at Nice it seems a little difficult to find the net for Lille because of a very strong defense and other problems Nice possession is also a little bad and I imagining if maybe Lille will play again at home I'm sure Nice will lose if it still has this kind of performance.
Paris SG vs Lorient is a little difficult to predict because even though the match will take place at the Parc des Princes it will not guarantee Paris SG will win this match because in the last match it also took place at home to Paris SG but Lorient was able to beat with a score of 1-3 and also another problem Paris SG seems to be performing without Kylian Mbappe even though he has always been the scorer for Paris SG but it is very bad Paris SG's policy of sacrificing club performance to punish players like Mbappe.

[hahay]

There is a PSG - Lorient game today and I'm quite curious about it. Because Mbappe isn't expected to play and the reason is being inactive. Will PSG really leave him out of squad? Or it is just until his situation gets clear until the end of this transfer window maybe. Neymar is also not expected to play as he will be leaving this summer.

Therefore PSG are going to play with a completely new trio in the attacking line which will be quite interesting to watch. Because it has been a long time since we didn't see any of players like Mbappe, Messi and Neymar on the pitch at the same time.

Mbappe most likely will not be played even so with Neymar that according to PSG update line up for this match Neymar will not be available because he got light injured and me too personally curious who is the names of players who played in the front lines because after the trio Messi, Mbappe and Neymar ended Luis Enrique had several times to played the players such as Ekitike or Asensio but i have to says the result is far from Enrique expected because these players were unable to performing well

Lorient indeed is not easy opponent for PSG but during playing at their home ground PSG had good results against this team so if PSG can able to performing well i think beating Lorient is not hard task for them but indeed playing without Neymar and Mbappe will be so difficult for them because so far these players always be helps PSG to gets the winning results but lets see it later that whether Luis Enrique can able to bringing PSG to gets 3 points or PSG even will lost so this is very interesting to know

It seems that Luis Enrique task is very difficult, because his arrival looks like he is faced with a complicated problem to solve, especially the case regarding Mbappe. Because of course, if at this moment Neymar and Mbappe are still available to play in the starting lineup, then it looks like it will be easy for Luis Enrique to guarantee PSG have a good performance in this match. But yes, because Mbappe and Neymar were not included in the list of players in this match, so I believe this condition might be bad for Luis Enrique who has to try even harder to keep PSG getting full points on this first matchday.

[rahmad2nd]

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Also Lorient is not an easy opponent for PSG, based on head to head in 5 matches the both team are quite equally, and without Mbappe also Neymar PSG situation might not be good. But we'll see what will happen because this is also a new start for PSG with a new team that may not go well at the start, but I think there is a possibility this match will end in a draw result.

If you refer to the available odds, PSG should be able to defeat Lorient in this fight. moreover, PSG is playing as the home team. although in 5 meetings the two teams were quite even, this time PSG was different. yep without Neymad, Messi and Mbbappe. However, that doesn't mean this team can't show their toughness.
speaking of PSG at this time, as I predict that Enrique will continue to rely on his flagship pattern 4-3-3. uniquely, PSG's three front players are filled by newcomers. Asensio, Ramos and Kang-in Lee. point, I want to see how the system built by Enrique for his squad. in particular, for midfield players.

Otherwise referring to the prediction of the opposing team's line up, Lorient will apply the 3-4-2-1 pattern. if so, it seems that Regis Le Bris is quite confident with his system. that means, Lorient will provide resistance by playing offensively. well, this is a pretty confusing gamble. because, we don't know exactly how Enrique's squad played the game. but I still believe, if this game will not end in a draw and PSG will win their match against Lorient.

[ILuckyGuyI]

Aubameyang wasn't given a chance in the starting eleven today by Marcelino. Maybe the reason why is his performance against Panathinaikos. Because he wasn't able to do anything in the whole game just as the rest of the team. Marcelino preferred 4-4-2 instead of 4-2-3-1 which he used against Panathinaikos.

This really worked well Marseille as they won by 2-1. Aubameyang entered the game in the last 30-minute part of it but couldn't make any impact by a goal or assist. Marcelino preferred a Vitinha - Ndiaye duo on the front and both of them contributed really well by a goal and assist.

Aubameyang will need to make use of his chances better otherwise it wouldn't be easy for him to be a part of the starting eleven if things go like this.

[fuguebtc]

There is a PSG - Lorient game today and I'm quite curious about it. Because Mbappe isn't expected to play and the reason is being inactive. Will PSG really leave him out of squad? Or it is just until his situation gets clear until the end of this transfer window maybe. Neymar is also not expected to play as he will be leaving this summer.

Therefore PSG are going to play with a completely new trio in the attacking line which will be quite interesting to watch. Because it has been a long time since we didn't see any of players like Mbappe, Messi and Neymar on the pitch at the same time.

If this keeps up and Mbappe doesn't get to play for like another 10 or so games at the start, even if he doesn't play for 5 games, I am guessing that some things will change. The transfer window is closed, so it is not like they can sell him after a while, it is still open right now but after 5-10 games it will not be open. So what will they do? Ronaldo was able to move after a long period because he was bought out, and then went to another team, Mbappe doesn't have that chance because PSG will want "some" money when they sell him.

The two of them (psg and mbappe) needs to sit down and explain the situation, if he is not going to be played because of this, Mbappe should realize it is a wrong thing to sit out a whole year and just leave.

Actually, I'm really really not confident about the current situation of PSG, you know they have a lot of unnecessary problems going into the club right now. PSG must have to solve all of these unnecessary problems that currently head up now if they really want to do a successful result at the end of season.

It seems like the biggest problem for them right now is Mbappé. The player who was supposed to be the biggest asset for them has turned out to be the biggest problem for them right now. Now if they play him, they are risking losing him for free in the next season. They are trying to sell him but Mbappé has told PSG that he wants to play this season. So a very interesting situation going on right now.

And I can tell you for a fact that PSG do not want "some" money for him. They definitely want at least 150 million.

[Sexylizzy2813]

Was wondering how the PSG team would be like without Mbappe starting or not playing for the team again. This season they are without Messi and now Mbappe, is really going to be worrisome because I don't see anybody to fit in those positions of Messi and Mbappe, even if the have, they can't play like those two. With Neymar Jr in the team with him always on the injury list I don't see this team doing well at all, they can do well in the league but outside this France ligue 1 it would be hard, and now they can't score a goal against Lorient, this game might even end in a draw.

[Falconer]

Was wondering how the PSG team would be like without Mbappe starting or not playing for the team again.

The team's goal stats have fallen drastically, but only if PSG don't have another striker who is qualified and has good finishing. But I don't see that there so far especially after their first match which ended goalless. Everyone failed to score against Lorient although some of them had good chances to break the deadlock.

This season they are without Messi and now Mbappe, is really going to be worrisome because I don't see anybody to fit in those positions of Messi and Mbappe, even if the have, they can't play like those two. With Neymar Jr in the team with him always on the injury list I don't see this team doing well at all, they can do well in the league but outside this France ligue 1 it would be hard, and now they can't score a goal against Lorient, this game might even end in a draw.

I wouldn't be surprised if in the end PSG failed to win any titles this season if they didn't have great strikers and wingers. PSG have signed Dembele from Barcelona and maybe that would be a great addition following Messi's departure, but Luis Enrique has basically been left bewildered by his pick of the best line-up of the season.

Neymar is also rumored to leave PSG in the near future, it will add a lot of work for Enrique to find the right players in his main line-up. Asensio has not performed optimally, as have several newcomers this season.

[Velvet78]

There was an attacking trio of Lee Kang-in, Ramos and Asensio on the pitch today. It felt really different to see none of the previous trio to me. Even Mbappe wasn't part of this game which must be due to his recent situation with leaving or staying this summer. We don't even know how long he will be left out like this.

PSG completely dominated the game statistically maybe but even this huge dominance wasn't any help to score a goal. They had really nothing to do to prevent a 0-0 draw at the end. 

[Bobrox]

Unbelievable with current condition from PSG, they have removed three players in the name list quad against Lorient, Neymar, Marco Veratti and Mbappe are players removed from PSG squad for the first Ligue 1 match and rumor with them have reached agreement for joining other teams. Marco Veratti linked with one Saudi Pro League team and seems he has reach personal agreement deal and waiting both teams confirmation on few day later. For Mbappe still complicated problem after rejecting extend contract and he won't join with Pro League teams after PSG receive 200 million offer for transfer fee.

The same situation with Neymar, he was rumor will leave PSG and Major League Soccer or Saudi Pro League are destination competition from him although not confirmed yet which one team interested for signing him.

[Docnaster]

Was wondering how the PSG team would be like without Mbappe starting or not playing for the team again.

The team's goal stats have fallen drastically, but only if PSG don't have another striker who is qualified and has good finishing. But I don't see that there so far especially after their first match which ended goalless. Everyone failed to score against Lorient although some of them had good chances to break the deadlock.

This season they are without Messi and now Mbappe, is really going to be worrisome because I don't see anybody to fit in those positions of Messi and Mbappe, even if the have, they can't play like those two. With Neymar Jr in the team with him always on the injury list I don't see this team doing well at all, they can do well in the league but outside this France ligue 1 it would be hard, and now they can't score a goal against Lorient, this game might even end in a draw.

I wouldn't be surprised if in the end PSG failed to win any titles this season if they didn't have great strikers and wingers. PSG have signed Dembele from Barcelona and maybe that would be a great addition following Messi's departure, but Luis Enrique has basically been left bewildered by his pick of the best line-up of the season.

Neymar is also rumored to leave PSG in the near future, it will add a lot of work for Enrique to find the right players in his main line-up. Asensio has not performed optimally, as have several newcomers this season.

The quality of the current squad of Paris Saint Germaine is the best in France football at the moment and even if Mbappe and Neymar happens to leave this summer, they'll still  have the quality players that can win all the domestic trophies in France this season.
With the arrival of Marco Assensio and Dembele coupled with the fact that Mauro Icardi is gonna continue with the squad after his loan spell last season, I think they still possess the most lethal attacking line in France .