French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[marcous]

It's still early in the season and it would be a shame if Lyon fired Laurent Blanc, because it would make things worse, Lyon's poor performance at the start of this season cannot be separated from their lack of improving the quality of the team to cover this season, there are not many transfers from Lyon to cover the season This, this is quite unfortunate even though Lyn is one of the top teams in Ligue One.

Meanwhile, I think the Gattuso rumors are a little strange, because Gattuso is not a coach who has experience and a history of successfully managing teams.

I think it's natural that Lyon management has decided on its collaboration with Laurent Blanc, if it continues, the situation could get worse. A series of bad results is certainly a major factor, the relegation zone is not a comfortable place for a club as big as Lyon. On the other hand, Lyon is not alone at the bottom of the standings, Lens, who qualified for the UCL and joined group B, also had bad results in Ligue 1.

I think Gattuso is also not good if he is appointed as the new coach, even though he has coached a club as big as AC Milan. I have some doubts about the quality of his tactics.

[Altryist]

I'm not very surprised with the drop in Lens' performance level this season honestly. Because they weren't a team that were regularly fighting for the league title every year. Last season just went on really good for them and they finished right behind PSG by a small gap. After that they have lost some important players as you said like Openda and Fofana.

This is also a factor in their getting weaker at scoring goals this season. Especially Openda had a huge contribution last season as you know. Still this is a huge downfall by Lens of course as they have 0 wins in 4 games. It is only the beginning though and hopefully they would improve later.

It's one thing when you lose several important players and a completely different thing when you are at the bottom of the standings with 1 point after four rounds. However, in last rounds they had to play with PSG and Monaco, which expectedly brought them defeats, so perhaps in the next games they will be able to improve the situation. Lyon surprised me even more, of course last season was not very successful for them, but now they are in last place, with only 3 goals scored in 4 rounds and 10 goals conceded, it couldn’t have been worse.

[superman184]

I think it's natural that Lyon management has decided on its collaboration with Laurent Blanc, if it continues, the situation could get worse. A series of bad results is certainly a major factor, the relegation zone is not a comfortable place for a club as big as Lyon. On the other hand, Lyon is not alone at the bottom of the standings, Lens, who qualified for the UCL and joined group B, also had bad results in Ligue 1.

Both of them experienced quite bad things at the start of this season in Ligue1, so they have to immediately recover from this through the next match and also through future matches by making better improvements within themselves and trying to improve their players. them to get better. I am quite doubtful about Lens in the Champions League group phase considering their poor performance at the start of this season because the possibility of qualifying for the next round is very slim even though the match has not yet started.

I think Gattuso is also not good if he is appointed as the new coach, even though he has coached a club as big as AC Milan. I have some doubts about the quality of his tactics.

Things like that need to be addressed by the team management so that the team can get quite significant changes, because when the management has found the key to the problem experienced by the team, it should be corrected immediately so that there is an increase in the team's performance this season.

[shinratensei_]

It's still early in the season and it would be a shame if Lyon fired Laurent Blanc, because it would make things worse, Lyon's poor performance at the start of this season cannot be separated from their lack of improving the quality of the team to cover this season, there are not many transfers from Lyon to cover the season This, this is quite unfortunate even though Lyn is one of the top teams in Ligue One.

He deserves more matches to prove if he will able to bring lens back to the right track. I think that the club shall tolerate him after he has brought the club qualified to play in UCL. Lens needs to put all of focus into the UCL caused by this event will give the club a lot of money. Lyon has been losing some important players. It needs time for him to make sure if the new player can adapt to the club.
I saw that if lens is very struggling with its performance. Blanc has responsibility to bring back the last season performance of lens very soon.

Meanwhile, I think the Gattuso rumors are a little strange, because Gattuso is not a coach who has experience and a history of successfully managing teams.

True. It's quite strange to see hear him has been linked to the lens but who knows if he can deliver better than blanc this time.

[Velvet78]

Lyon's being the worst started team in the league has come as a big surprise that's for sure. However they are still Lyon at the end of the day. They are one of the most prestigious teams in the Ligue 1 so I expect them to find a way to improve their from as soon as possible. But this is still not a good sign for another thing.

I mean they can risk their chance for European tournaments again. It is still early in the season though but this isn't the first time they are doing this. The previous season didn't end up well for them in terms of qualification for a European tournament. If they don't become consistent after an improvement there would be the same scenario again for sure.

[Texac]

I'm not very surprised with the drop in Lens' performance level this season honestly. Because they weren't a team that were regularly fighting for the league title every year. Last season just went on really good for them and they finished right behind PSG by a small gap. After that they have lost some important players as you said like Openda and Fofana.

This is also a factor in their getting weaker at scoring goals this season. Especially Openda had a huge contribution last season as you know. Still this is a huge downfall by Lens of course as they have 0 wins in 4 games. It is only the beginning though and hopefully they would improve later.

Yes I know they are not an extreme level of best team that we can expect very high result, but i did not expect such a drop in terms of performance.  It is just the start of the season i think a lot of people are actually going to overlook the performance that they have shown so far and probably will also say that they will definitely get better.

But the performance they have shown so far has been disappointing, I don’t think anyone can actually deny that.  I can see they have played four matches and they have already conceded 10 goals, that is definitely not what anyone would expect from them.  They will have to improve quickly, I know they already have a lot of excuses ready for the bad performance. But giving excuses are not going to bring them results, right?

[Marvell1]

we should not think too far about where Haaland will go because this player will not leave Man City, even though Haaland has managed to find a team that suits him and a very reliable coach who is able to develop his talent even further so that he can achieve the UCL title this season. then at the same time get the treble winner title.

and regarding Mbappe, it is certain that Mbappe is much younger player who has the ambition to win the UCL title and titles in other competitions so it possible that Mbappe will still leave PSG in the following season to look for the right team that can lead him to achieve this. that he wants and I think Real Madrid. all of this is not only about money, but Mbappe really wants his name to be known as star player who has had a successful career getting a lot of titles while it was still easy so that too long at PSG without the guarantee of getting a title in another competition such as the UCL or the European league is just useless for him.

I really dont understand why PSG wants to keep Mbappe so badly. He didt even take out an extension with them, and remember how he turned down Madrid's offer? That made a point! Lets not even talk about how poorly PSG has been playing lately. Even with Messi and Neymar, they still couldnt win the UCL. I really believe that Mbappe should leave PSG if he wants to win more crowns. Yes, I have heard rumors that he might stay. He should know its better to move if he has a brain! That means its time for PSG to look for a new player. They could end up in deeper water next season without him.

If you look at PSG match in the first match of the season where they have difficulty winning if they are not strengthened by Mbappe. In the two previous matches PSG won, in which in the two matches PSG installed Mbappe as a starter. That's a strong reason why Nasser Al-Khelaifi really wants Mbappe to last longer with PSG because his contribution has quite an impact on PSG performance in every match.

Even this season, Mbappe has often been linked with Real Madrid, but that didn't happen because Mbappe still stayed with PSG until his contract ended. Nasser Al-Khelaifi will continue to try to persuade Mbappe to renew his contract this season. If that fails then Mbappe will leave on a free transfer next season. PSG has recorded two wins and two draws at the start of this season which has left them sitting in second place in the standings. I think Mbappe will continue to make many big contributions in the upcoming matches because he seems to want to make a sweet record before his contract ends with PSG.

At this point, the only reason Real Madrid might actually go for him is because there is a genuine shortage of good strikers right now. And it is definitely very hard for a club to find a really good striker like him. They probably thought that they would be able to get him for free. But now the PSG club has a new contract with him. So Real Madrid will have to spend a lot of money to get him now. PSG definitely played this thing properly. Otherwise, they would have had to let him go for free. But the thing is it will probably be a good decision to go for him even if it costs them a lot of money.

[SquallLeonhart]

Last season at the beginning of France league Lens was able to gets 9 matches unbeatable and they are very strong at their home ground because until end of season Lens has unbeatable status at home even these records is more good than PSG at that time but with their current situations i am so doubt Lens will be able reach to his achievement just like last season again because until week 4 they are one of strong team who unable to gets the winning results and it was never cross in my mind before because i have to see their position currently at 17th place

Lens have done poor transfer this season because they have already sell their some of key players and they were attempts to buy new players to covered the position from those who leave this team but apparently it was bad decision because Lens new players performance currently were far from the expectation and they have hard task to bounce back and it wouldn't be easy especially Lens have to divided their focus by playing at champion league

I agree that they were decent last season, but Lens not being good this season makes sense as it was mentioned why.

The ligue 1 has one issue, all teams are having hard time chasing PSG and they are spending as much as they could to make that happen which results with a terrible deal for them, I think it should be important to make it happen as well as they hope they could, which could result with them not doing any worse, and that should lead with something that would make some sense if teams sell their players to make money, so that they could spend less and get younger and hopefully better future players. That should result with a good return for real and that could make it work like a charm for these teams.

[bering]

Regarding Lyon this season, they had a disappointing performance so far and they lost many points, We know Lyon was racing at the top of the table in last season but right now they are in the danger zone and had a poor performance, especially in the game against PSG when they lost the game with 4-1 result.
Laurent Blanc is under pressure but he has not been fired yet, however, Lyon thinking about Gennaro Gattuso who was working at Valencia.
 

But last season Lyon also only finished in seventh position and of course, finishing in seventh position is not a good achievement for Lyon either. Also, will Lyon current poor results immediately sack Laurent Blanc and replace him with Gattuso? After all, I think Gattuso also does not have good quality as a head coach, so if Lyon fired Laurent Blanc and recruited Gattuso, then the result would be the same. Therefore, then of course this season Lyon will only struggle in the relegation zone, and maybe the case will be the same as Sevilla in La Liga last season and this season too.

It's still early in the season and it would be a shame if Lyon fired Laurent Blanc, because it would make things worse, Lyon's poor performance at the start of this season cannot be separated from their lack of improving the quality of the team to cover this season, there are not many transfers from Lyon to cover the season This, this is quite unfortunate even though Lyn is one of the top teams in Ligue One.

Meanwhile, I think the Gattuso rumors are a little strange, because Gattuso is not a coach who has experience and a history of successfully managing teams.

This rumours has been appears because Lyon had poor start in France league so people will starting to speculate Laurent Blanc will be sacked and if these poor results still resumes i think Lyon owner don't want to take the risk that they have to immediatelly decide whether they will sacked Laurent Blanc or not and everything will be decided after the match against Le Harve this weekend and if Lyon can able to beat their opponent then for time being Laurent Blanc position will be safe but if Lyon lost from that match i am sure the owner will immediately sacked Laurent Blanc

Just like i said before there are some of candidate as the replacement of Laurent Blanc and the names such as Julen Lopetegui, Oliver Glasner, Thiago Motta, and Graham Potter has been linked to them but i am quite surprised by Lyon owner was putting Genarro Gatusso as the next candidate of Lyon manager because so far he hasn't gets good achievement during his managerial career even i have to says it's very risky to placing him as new manager because last season Valencia has poor performance under him and they even almost being to relegated

[borovichok]

Lyon's being the worst started team in the league has come as a big surprise that's for sure. However they are still Lyon at the end of the day. They are one of the most prestigious teams in the Ligue 1 so I expect them to find a way to improve their from as soon as possible. But this is still not a good sign for another thing.

I mean they can risk their chance for European tournaments again. It is still early in the season though but this isn't the first time they are doing this. The previous season didn't end up well for them in terms of qualification for a European tournament. If they don't become consistent after an improvement there would be the same scenario again for sure.

Dissapointing results facing Lyon this season, however they hoped to bounce back to good position this season, it's just a competitive race we ought to look out for. The board working entirely on rebuilding the club and making out solid results from it. Olympique Lyonnias ranked 18th on the league table, which means they're sitting in the relegation zone currently. Laurent Blanc have been relieved from the position of head coach after a poor starts this season. Scoring just a point in four games been played. However Gennaro Gattuso sets to replace Laurent Blanc position this season, the team will not relent in league games as they push further to accumulating their first three solid points against Le Havre on Groupama ground.

[rendravolt]

Lyon has officially parted ways with Laurent Blanc. It seems that the rumors a few days ago have finally been answered and with this Lyon will immediately look for a new coach to fill the vacant coaching chair. Laurent Blanc was fired by Lyon after a poor start to the season, suffering many defeats and eventually placing them at the bottom of the standings. At this time it has not been confirmed that an interim coach will be appointed in the near future and considering that this week Ligue 1 has started again, Lyon must move quickly before they suffer another bad result.

Source: https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1701240619279032749

[len01]

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At this point, the only reason Real Madrid might actually go for him is because there is a genuine shortage of good strikers right now. And it is definitely very hard for a club to find a really good striker like him. They probably thought that they would be able to get him for free. But now the PSG club has a new contract with him. So Real Madrid will have to spend a lot of money to get him now. PSG definitely played this thing properly. Otherwise, they would have had to let him go for free. But the thing is it will probably be a good decision to go for him even if it costs them a lot of money.

PSG team signs new contract with Mbappe ? I think its not.
what I know from several rumors at the beginning of the opening of the last transfer market, PSG leader Nasser Al Khelafi was told that in the past he did not immediately sign an extension contract with Mbappe, there would be no other choice but to release Mbappe for free in the next season because what I know Currently, Mbappe contract only lasts until next season.

and this is a golden opportunity for Madrid to pressure PSG to release Mbappe and I also keep hearing rumors that Real madrid has a way to get Real Madrid but not sure if it will work for sure it fails to get this PSG star Madrid has other equal options with Mbappe.

[Republikcoin.com]

Lyon has officially parted ways with Laurent Blanc. It seems that the rumors a few days ago have finally been answered and with this Lyon will immediately look for a new coach to fill the vacant coaching chair. Laurent Blanc was fired by Lyon after a poor start to the season, suffering many defeats and eventually placing them at the bottom of the standings. At this time it has not been confirmed that an interim coach will be appointed in the near future and considering that this week Ligue 1 has started again, Lyon must move quickly before they suffer another bad result.

Source: https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1701240619279032749

I quite regret this because in my opinion, it is too fast, the season has just started and there is still a lot of time to improve and we have also seen last season when Laurent Blanc was not so bad when managing the Lyon team.
Now the conditions are getting more difficult for the team and there will be two possibilities, they will get worse or they will get up.

Now it is rumored that Gattuso is very strong in managing the Lyon team, I have a little doubt because Gattuo is not a coach who has brilliant achievements.

[poodle63]

Lyon has officially parted ways with Laurent Blanc. It seems that the rumors a few days ago have finally been answered and with this Lyon will immediately look for a new coach to fill the vacant coaching chair. Laurent Blanc was fired by Lyon after a poor start to the season, suffering many defeats and eventually placing them at the bottom of the standings. At this time it has not been confirmed that an interim coach will be appointed in the near future and considering that this week Ligue 1 has started again, Lyon must move quickly before they suffer another bad result.

Finally it's happening. Lyon can't always let blanc to destroy its club. There are no lots of change happened with this club but i saw that how lyon showed different performance compared with last season.
Lyon has chosen Jean-François Vulliez as a new caretaker for the club when lyon is seeking a new candidate to replace blanc. Im sure that lyon's director has been losin patience for blanc.

The decision to sack blanc is the right one from lyon.

We would like to thank Laurent Blanc and his staff for their commitment and professionalism over the past 11 months at the helm of the team,” the statement concluded. Deputy coach Jean-François Vulliez has been appointed caretaker, working alongside former Lyon players Jérémie Bréchet and Sonny Anderson.

Source

Lyon has finished at the top 10 last season. It's a big shame to see that this club was dropping so hard when nothing happened. Lyon likes to lose its spirit in playing football under blanc.

[kro55]

Lyon has officially parted ways with Laurent Blanc. It seems that the rumors a few days ago have finally been answered and with this Lyon will immediately look for a new coach to fill the vacant coaching chair. Laurent Blanc was fired by Lyon after a poor start to the season, suffering many defeats and eventually placing them at the bottom of the standings. At this time it has not been confirmed that an interim coach will be appointed in the near future and considering that this week Ligue 1 has started again, Lyon must move quickly before they suffer another bad result.

Source: https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1701240619279032749

I quite regret this because in my opinion, it is too fast, the season has just started and there is still a lot of time to improve and we have also seen last season when Laurent Blanc was not so bad when managing the Lyon team.
Now the conditions are getting more difficult for the team and there will be two possibilities, they will get worse or they will get up.
Now it is rumored that Gattuso is very strong in managing the Lyon team, I have a little doubt because Gattuo is not a coach who has brilliant achievements.

You are right, Lyon may or may not have started the season well. This team is at the last position of the points table. That doesn't mean they can't improvise. They still have plenty of time. The coach should find out the internal weaknesses of the team. Identifying reasons why players are not playing well. Lyon has been able to perform well. The players in their squad are talented. If the match changes tactics and the players gain confidence, the Lyon team will be able to get back on track. Be patient and wait. I believe we will see Lyon in the top 10 of the table in the next few weeks.

[rendravolt]

Lyon has officially parted ways with Laurent Blanc. It seems that the rumors a few days ago have finally been answered and with this Lyon will immediately look for a new coach to fill the vacant coaching chair. Laurent Blanc was fired by Lyon after a poor start to the season, suffering many defeats and eventually placing them at the bottom of the standings. At this time it has not been confirmed that an interim coach will be appointed in the near future and considering that this week Ligue 1 has started again, Lyon must move quickly before they suffer another bad result.

Source: https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1701240619279032749

I quite regret this because in my opinion, it is too fast, the season has just started and there is still a lot of time to improve and we have also seen last season when Laurent Blanc was not so bad when managing the Lyon team.
Now the conditions are getting more difficult for the team and there will be two possibilities, they will get worse or they will get up.

Now it is rumored that Gattuso is very strong in managing the Lyon team, I have a little doubt because Gattuo is not a coach who has brilliant achievements.

In fact, there is nothing wrong for the club to immediately take the important decision to fire the coach because after all, this is an anticipatory step so that he does not achieve bad results again in the near future. We know that it must be very difficult for Lyon in the current conditions to start collecting lots of points in several matches so that they can return to a higher position in the standings. Even though we know Lacazette is still absent due to his previous red card, still at times like that Laurent Blanc doesn't have a good strategy so his team can win.

Regarding Gattuso who is a candidate as Lyon's new coach, I think he is quite good but it is not often that he fails as a coach. I think even though this seems rushed in determining the fate of the next coach, I hope Lyon can choose the coach they really need to improve the morality of their players.

[sana54210]

PSG team signs new contract with Mbappe ? I think its not.
what I know from several rumors at the beginning of the opening of the last transfer market, PSG leader Nasser Al Khelafi was told that in the past he did not immediately sign an extension contract with Mbappe, there would be no other choice but to release Mbappe for free in the next season because what I know Currently, Mbappe contract only lasts until next season.

and this is a golden opportunity for Madrid to pressure PSG to release Mbappe and I also keep hearing rumors that Real madrid has a way to get Real Madrid but not sure if it will work for sure it fails to get this PSG star Madrid has other equal options with Mbappe.

There is a possibility of something like that on the long run. I am not saying that it will happen or anything like that but it is going to end up happening eventually. Mbappe might be doing all of this just for more money and that means that at the end of the season they are going to sit down to have a talk and maybe they will end up with a result that would be a bit better for him.

I can't say if it will be perfectly fine for him or not but I can say that it is going to end up being a bit easy for him to get a lot of money. PSG will not want to make him leave, they will want to keep him, and they will offer a ton of money for him as well, which will result with Mbappe basically strong arming PSG into paying a lot.

[hahay]

Lyon's being the worst started team in the league has come as a big surprise that's for sure. However they are still Lyon at the end of the day. They are one of the most prestigious teams in the Ligue 1 so I expect them to find a way to improve their from as soon as possible. But this is still not a good sign for another thing.

I mean they can risk their chance for European tournaments again. It is still early in the season though but this isn't the first time they are doing this. The previous season didn't end up well for them in terms of qualification for a European tournament. If they don't become consistent after an improvement there would be the same scenario again for sure.

Although it is still early in the season but still, if Lyon does not have a big effort to be able to recover quickly. Then Lyon will also be very slow to improve its position in the Ligue 1 standings throughout this season. But even so indeed, that Lyon has good management and thus, then at least if Lyon manages to stay away from the relegation zone is also basically good. So yes, instead of targeting to finish in the Champion League zone and or in the Europa League zone, then I think it would be better for Lyon to be able to improve their quality first.

[Zlantann]

Lyon has officially parted ways with Laurent Blanc. It seems that the rumors a few days ago have finally been answered and with this Lyon will immediately look for a new coach to fill the vacant coaching chair. Laurent Blanc was fired by Lyon after a poor start to the season, suffering many defeats and eventually placing them at the bottom of the standings. At this time it has not been confirmed that an interim coach will be appointed in the near future and considering that this week Ligue 1 has started again, Lyon must move quickly before they suffer another bad result.

Source: https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1701240619279032749

One point from four games is a very poor result from Lyon but I would have liked the management to give him more time. Lyon finished seventh last season which made them not qualify for any of the European championships and the Ligue 1 season is still young.  Lyon can still improve and fight for a place in Europe for next season. But the the club management has the final decision.  The main challenge now will be to get the best replacement for Laurent Blanc. I read that that the former Brighton and Chelsea manager Graham Potter was contacted to replace the Frenchman but he turned down the deal. The club is now heavily link to the former Napoli, Milan, and Valencia manager Gennaro Gattuso. Except the John Textor has other plans for Gattuso, I don't think the Italian is better than Blanc.

[tusandii]

Lyon has officially parted ways with Laurent Blanc. It seems that the rumors a few days ago have finally been answered and with this Lyon will immediately look for a new coach to fill the vacant coaching chair. Laurent Blanc was fired by Lyon after a poor start to the season, suffering many defeats and eventually placing them at the bottom of the standings. At this time it has not been confirmed that an interim coach will be appointed in the near future and considering that this week Ligue 1 has started again, Lyon must move quickly before they suffer another bad result.

Source: https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1701240619279032749

I quite regret this because in my opinion, it is too fast, the season has just started and there is still a lot of time to improve and we have also seen last season when Laurent Blanc was not so bad when managing the Lyon team.
Now the conditions are getting more difficult for the team and there will be two possibilities, they will get worse or they will get up.

Now it is rumored that Gattuso is very strong in managing the Lyon team, I have a little doubt because Gattuo is not a coach who has brilliant achievements.

It was very bad, in short, Lyon management acted as if they didn't give Laurent Blanc a chance to improve his strategy which would be able to revive the club performance, but in fact, Laurent Blanc had been given the opportunity from the start of the season, but after four failed matches, Lyon's management was impatient to see that poor performance and preferred to fire him and look for a candidate to replace coach Laurent Blanc.
Currently, there are many rumors saying that the candidate is Gennaro Gattuso who will replace the old coach but there is some debate about this, most of them say that in the end Lyon will need to adapt again to improve performance with the new coach, it is very clear that Gennaro Gattuso does not have much experience so it's a little hard to believe that if Lyon were replaced by this coach, whether Lyon would experience an improvement in performance.
But fans of this club can only believe and believe that the bad times will go away with Gennaro Gattuso.