French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[Farma]

Nice has experienced successive failures and as a team that was initially in 2nd place in the standings (even competing with PSG) has now had to plunge to 5th in the standings. What is actually not surprising is that Nice is just an ordinary team and there is nothing special about this team. They should not be able to compete any longer with other great teams and this is also a warning to coach Francesco Farioli not to continue this bad trend.

I think Brest is much better because they managed to stay where Nice was before and they are still unbeaten in their last 13 Ligue one matches. Nice have to learn more about how to manage to avoid conceding goals and the defeats they have had so far could be an important lesson before the end of the season. I see Lens will overtake them this week and that is inevitable.

I'm not surprised because basically Nice is not a strong and consistent team, if we look at the many wins that the Nice team has had since the start of the season there is some element of luck because overall their performance in the match is not that impressive.

Compared to Nice, of course Brest is better, although overall if you look at the strength of the two teams, it's not much different, it's just that Brest is able to maintain its consistency, which is different from Nice.

[bering]

Brest will gets hard opponent this weekend because they will fight against Lens and i know Lens performance is decline compared to last season but they can bounce back and their performance is better now and Lens position on league standings is gradually climbed up because currently Lens at 6th place and their chances to finish at Champion League zone also wide open because the difference points between them and Monaco is not too far so i am confident Lens can be compete with Monaco, Lille and Nice for Champion league spots and for Brest this match is good to tested their consistency

In the first met of this season Brest can able to beat Lens and   for this weekend this is home match for Lens so i am sure they want to gets revenge in the front of their fans but it won't be easy because we all know this season Brest has been change became an strong team in Ligue 1 and according to the odds i can see Lens is the favourite but based on head to head statistics i can see both team has equal results because they can able to gets 2 wins each in the last 5 meeting but if we see from squad conditions Brest is more favourable than Lens this because there was no players from Brest who got injured or suspension but for Lens their key player Elye Wahi has uncertain condition but Franck Haise as manager of Lens was confident Elye Wahi will be available for this match

[Palakka]

Nice has experienced successive failures and as a team that was initially in 2nd place in the standings (even competing with PSG) has now had to plunge to 5th in the standings. What is actually not surprising is that Nice is just an ordinary team and there is nothing special about this team. They should not be able to compete any longer with other great teams and this is also a warning to coach Francesco Farioli not to continue this bad trend.

I think Brest is much better because they managed to stay where Nice was before and they are still unbeaten in their last 13 Ligue one matches. Nice have to learn more about how to manage to avoid conceding goals and the defeats they have had so far could be an important lesson before the end of the season. I see Lens will overtake them this week and that is inevitable.

The consistency that Nice has at the moment is not as good as at the beginning of the season, since the beginning of the season actually Nice is playing quite well but unfortunately they are not able to continue to maintain their performance in the middle of the season and slowly make their position  to down, Nice and Brest are two small teams that are lucky enough to be able to live this season in the top 6 but honestly I am quite doubtful if Nice can continue to be in the top 6 at the end of the season Later, at this time, especially Nice, their struggle can be said to be quite heavy and at this time they are even more depressed from Lens and Marseille.

If we look at Brest it is certainly quite surprising that they are able to continue to be in the runner up position now, whereas if we look at their squad is no better than Monaco and even since they were promoted from Ligue 2 in 2020 we have never seen Brest enter the top 10 and be relatively above the relegation zone,so far so Brest's success in reaching the runner up rank is certainly worthy of appreciation and I think with their performance at the moment of course, the level of two is worthy of them at the moment.

[Salahmu]

I think Brest is much better because they managed to stay where Nice was before and they are still unbeaten in their last 13 Ligue one matches. Nice have to learn more about how to manage to avoid conceding goals and the defeats they have had so far could be an important lesson before the end of the season. I see Lens will overtake them this week and that is inevitable.

There was a time Nice was very good than Brest I think during the beginning of this season because of there efforts they always put in on there matches but they were not able to still hold the performance for long and that has made them to become lower on the league table and now Brest is much better than Nice and also because of the good performance, they have been able to maintain the second position for a while now and looking at the point difference between Brest and nice is quite big because for now it is very difficult for Nice to compete against Brest because they are still far behind and even if they plan to compete with Brest on the second position they will still need to go through Monaco because Monaco is still above them on the table and I think is also difficult for them to beat Monaco because Monaco is more in a good shape than them, for now if there is any club that has a chance of competing with Brest I think it should be Monaco because they have more closer points than Nice.

[Hanadawa]

We should blame Luis Enrique for making changes in his team? It's publicly stated out and we'll watch Kylian Mbappe exits Parc des Princes stadium at the end of the season. This is the exact phase Luis Enrique is trying to hook up with, he keeps substituting Kylian Mbappe halftime because he's planning for the future of the team, he knows one of the key player is leaving and the earlier he starts playing matche without Mbappe contribution, the better. PSG must learn to win matches without the aides from Kylian Mbappe, one of the reasons we're seeing the poor results of the club currently.

Although many think Enrique did it for revenge, I don't seem to agree with that opinion. I mean if you are a coach and your striker is going to leave next season of course you have to be able to find a replacement as soon as possible. I think what Enrique did was give Mbappe playing time to score goals and replace him with another player to rebuild his squad for next season without Mbappe. Enrique will have to do some testing with other strikers and find suitable tactics and gameplay.

[Hirose UK]

Nice has experienced successive failures and as a team that was initially in 2nd place in the standings (even competing with PSG) has now had to plunge to 5th in the standings. What is actually not surprising is that Nice is just an ordinary team and there is nothing special about this team. They should not be able to compete any longer with other great teams and this is also a warning to coach Francesco Farioli not to continue this bad trend.

I think Brest is much better because they managed to stay where Nice was before and they are still unbeaten in their last 13 Ligue one matches. Nice have to learn more about how to manage to avoid conceding goals and the defeats they have had so far could be an important lesson before the end of the season. I see Lens will overtake them this week and that is inevitable.

I'm not surprised because basically Nice is not a strong and consistent team, if we look at the many wins that the Nice team has had since the start of the season there is some element of luck because overall their performance in the match is not that impressive.

Compared to Nice, of course Brest is better, although overall if you look at the strength of the two teams, it's not much different, it's just that Brest is able to maintain its consistency, which is different from Nice.

I said it wasn't actually matter of luck, but indeed Nice performance at the start of the season really looked very dominating and when they started to enter the middle of the season they appeared to be in complete decline when they started to have more frequent draws and defeats.
Now Nice only occupies the top 5 positions in the standings with consecutive defeats and draws in the last few matches and of course the quality of Nice game is really messy so this result is normal.
I don't know whether in the future conditions like this will continue or not, but if it continues then it is very likely that Nice will experience drastic decline in standings and for next season they will not participate in any prestigious competitions other than Ligue 1 such as the Europa League.
We can only watch and wait what steps Nice will take in facing several matches until this competition ends.

Everyone would say the same thing where Brest would be much better than Nice because they are in 2nd place and Brest also has much better stability than Nice even though they have also had 4 defeats and 7 draws overall.
It just that everything can change suddenly, Brest can fall if they make mistake and there are still 10 matches left in the competition.

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We should blame Luis Enrique for making changes in his team? It's publicly stated out and we'll watch Kylian Mbappe exits Parc des Princes stadium at the end of the season. This is the exact phase Luis Enrique is trying to hook up with, he keeps substituting Kylian Mbappe halftime because he's planning for the future of the team, he knows one of the key player is leaving and the earlier he starts playing matche without Mbappe contribution, the better. PSG must learn to win matches without the aides from Kylian Mbappe, one of the reasons we're seeing the poor results of the club currently.

Indeed, after all the speculation, Enrique still gives Mbappe the opportunity to play and still trusts him as captain in every PSG match, but now the problem is that when Mbappe is still given a chance by Enrique, Mbappe does not reciprocate all that by giving his best performance in every match,and the game against Monaco is an example of Mbappe current professional bad with PSG that we did not find when him not yet deciding to move to Madrid, Mbappe should act professionally because indeed Mbappe is still a PSG player outside of his personal agreement with Madrid.

The Champions League is PSG main target this season and I think it's going to be an increasingly difficult journey when all the speculation is going to befall Mbappe at the moment, because anyway there will certainly be an effect felt in the PSG dressing room at the moment, if you say Enrique only played Mbappe in the first half to get used to getting used to their squad being able to play without Mbappe next season, wouldn't it be better not to played Mbappe again in the league this season because PSG position is now quite secure as a candidate for the championship?

[beerlover]

I'm not surprised because basically Nice is not a strong and consistent team, if we look at the many wins that the Nice team has had since the start of the season there is some element of luck because overall their performance in the match is not that impressive.

Compared to Nice, of course Brest is better, although overall if you look at the strength of the two teams, it's not much different, it's just that Brest is able to maintain its consistency, which is different from Nice.

I think that is not it. I mean yes they are not amazing I agree with that, but it wasn't really luck that made them play that well, look at Lyon they played so bad that first half of the season they were at the very bottom, and then played a bit better, is that luck too?

I think some teams have all their players playing at 100% sometimes and during that time they are great, but during some other times there are fatigue, booked, injury and many other reasons why players are not at 100% and that makes them lose. Nice started out great because everyone was ready to play well, but then with time fatigue and injuries started to play a role in their results and they started to end up losing games and points, which resulted with them dropping in place.

[Kristiyana]

I think Brest is much better because they managed to stay where Nice was before and they are still unbeaten in their last 13 Ligue one matches. Nice have to learn more about how to manage to avoid conceding goals and the defeats they have had so far could be an important lesson before the end of the season. I see Lens will overtake them this week and that is inevitable.

There was a time Nice was very good than Brest I think during the beginning of this season because of there efforts they always put in on there matches but they were not able to still hold the performance for long and that has made them to become lower on the league table and now Brest is much better than Nice and also because of the good performance, they have been able to maintain the second position for a while now and looking at the point difference between Brest and nice is quite big because for now it is very difficult for Nice to compete against Brest because they are still far behind and even if they plan to compete with Brest on the second position they will still need to go through Monaco because Monaco is still above them on the table and I think is also difficult for them to beat Monaco because Monaco is more in a good shape than them, for now if there is any club that has a chance of competing with Brest I think it should be Monaco because they have more closer points than Nice.

You're right nice was one of my favorite team from the beginning of this season due to there performance it was overwhelming,but as time goes on I begin to experience some changes from the players that is when I started losing interest.talking about brest,brest was not doing well from the beginning of this season but they turns out to be in a very good form this time,with what I'm seen I think brest will be among the teams that will be in champions league next season,that's if they will maintain this form.

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I'm not surprised because basically Nice is not a strong and consistent team, if we look at the many wins that the Nice team has had since the start of the season there is some element of luck because overall their performance in the match is not that impressive.

Compared to Nice, of course Brest is better, although overall if you look at the strength of the two teams, it's not much different, it's just that Brest is able to maintain its consistency, which is different from Nice.

I think that is not it. I mean yes they are not amazing I agree with that, but it wasn't really luck that made them play that well, look at Lyon they played so bad that first half of the season they were at the very bottom, and then played a bit better, is that luck too?

I think some teams have all their players playing at 100% sometimes and during that time they are great, but during some other times there are fatigue, booked, injury and many other reasons why players are not at 100% and that makes them lose. Nice started out great because everyone was ready to play well, but then with time fatigue and injuries started to play a role in their results and they started to end up losing games and points, which resulted with them dropping in place.

I think the problem with Nice is that they don't have high aggressiveness and that way, it is difficult for Nice to consistently win. Because, in fact, Nice is the team in the top five, but Nice is the team that has scored the fewest goals, even though Nice is also great in defense so Nice is also the team that has conceded the fewest goals. But unfortunately, this good defensive ability is not matched by a good attack line. So, because there is no balance like that, of course Nice is unable to compete and in fact, Nice is out of competition in the top three and I have believed in results like that before and I also predicted before when Nice was still in second place. But indeed, basically Nice does not yet have the quality and performance that promises to be able to compete well in the top three, therefore it seems natural that gradually Nice's position will continue to decline.

[Leviathan.007]

We should blame Luis Enrique for making changes in his team? It's publicly stated out and we'll watch Kylian Mbappe exits Parc des Princes stadium at the end of the season. This is the exact phase Luis Enrique is trying to hook up with, he keeps substituting Kylian Mbappe halftime because he's planning for the future of the team, he knows one of the key player is leaving and the earlier he starts playing matche without Mbappe contribution, the better. PSG must learn to win matches without the aides from Kylian Mbappe, one of the reasons we're seeing the poor results of the club currently.

Although many think Enrique did it for revenge, I don't seem to agree with that opinion. I mean if you are a coach and your striker is going to leave next season of course you have to be able to find a replacement as soon as possible. I think what Enrique did was give Mbappe playing time to score goals and replace him with another player to rebuild his squad for next season without Mbappe. Enrique will have to do some testing with other strikers and find suitable tactics and gameplay.

Until the last minutes when Mbappe moved to another team and signed a contract officially with that team, I think there is still the chance to say Mbappe can even stay in PSg for a longer time.
Currently, all the big and great people in Qatar and PSG owners are trying hard to don't lose this player, even the Prince of Qatar tried to have this place in PSG and talked to him in person but he didn't change his mind.
However, the story with PSG and Mbappe is long and there is still the chance to stay there otherwise Enrique can think about alternative players.

[entertheabyss]

Until the last minutes when Mbappe moved to another team and signed a contract officially with that team, I think there is still the chance to say Mbappe can even stay in PSg for a longer time.
Currently, all the big and great people in Qatar and PSG owners are trying hard to don't lose this player, even the Prince of Qatar tried to have this place in PSG and talked to him in person but he didn't change his mind.
However, the story with PSG and Mbappe is long and there is still the chance to stay there otherwise Enrique can think about alternative players.

The team's president will not give up because he has eyes for the progress of the club, he's keen on making more signings this season. The story Luis Enrique is trying so hard to propagate is simple, he's aiming to win matches without the presence of the team's main key player. It will be truly challenging for him because Kylian Mbappe is always on the trends and due to his capacity, winning becomes very promising for him. Kylian Mbappe have made up his mind and he's not leaving until he grabbed the important winnings.

[QueenVera]

If you look at its performance, Lyon is actually in good condition because it has won matches in the last few weeks. But sometimes Lyon's performance is still a little unconvincing and can't be said to be completely stable even though they are trying to get up, but coincidentally the opponent that Lyon is facing is a club located in the ranking is better than Lyon. Lens ranked 6th while Lyon is ranked 11th, that gap is what makes Lyon still quite difficult to deal with Lens deservedly won this match with a quite impressive score of 3:0 without reply.

Lyon is currently in a fairly safe position, namely in the middle of the table. If they continue to perform well and don't suffer another series of defeats, they will not be relegated. It's true that Lyon is only 5 points away from relegated clubs and can't be said to be completely safe, but if you look at the clubs that are in the relegation zone, they haven't shown any progress. So Lyon is still breathing a little easier because their goal is to escape from that scary zone, there is still there are several remaining matches this season so Lyon must really focus on getting the best results so as not to fall back into the relegation zone.

Well teams now getting defeated and it’s not surprising especially as we’ve got injury worried now happening and hitting on teams this season. Having your major striker out on injury can be so worrying and it could lead to the team getting some disappointing result.This was the case for Lyon who tried to maintain their good score and winning ratio but were met with a disappointing result to Lens. Lens are on a run to getting an European qualification and this result is a big boost for them in this current  season

 As for Lyon, this match isn’t a big deal as there are still plenty matches and they can sure get good results to keep them safe in the Ligue 1. With their main striker back to the team, I think they’ll be running riots again and back on their feet.Comparing Lens to Lyon for this season is quite awkward as Lens is doing real better than Lyon this season as you can see how they’re placed in the league standings. Lyon isn’t really having a great season as they’re quite unstable and not having a great time in the league though they’re still considered to be safe in the league

 So that’s to say that the result from the match against Lens wasn’t a big surprise as Lens proves to be a better team coupled with the injury worry for Lyon. Lyon getting back to winning ways is what’s key as that could be their only saving grace out of relegation zone as they’re barely 5 points away. Not ranking the other teams, I think Lyon are well placed to still remain in the league and compete next season.

[Strongkored]

You're right nice was one of my favorite team from the beginning of this season due to there performance it was overwhelming,but as time goes on I begin to experience some changes from the players that is when I started losing interest.talking about brest,brest was not doing well from the beginning of this season but they turns out to be in a very good form this time,with what I'm seen I think brest will be among the teams that will be in champions league next season,that's if they will maintain this form.

A team like Nice will find it difficult to compete consistently in Ligue 1 from the start of the season to the end of the season because they often only play defensively and will try to maintain their lead if they are already leading 1-0 even though that is not a safe score at all and you can see the average on their match results were filled with low scores, making Nice the team in the top five with the fewest goals and also the fewest goals conceded, so slowly but surely they started to lose a lot of points and made their ranking drop.

Likewise with Brest, maybe they will stay in the top three to get tickets to play in the Champions League next season, but that is also because they are helped by the teams below them who appear inconsistent. This week Brest will face Lens and this will be a big match this week, this will be a match that is difficult to predict because both teams can be said to have the same strength, and in many meetings the two teams beat each other, but it could end in a draw.

[RaltcoinsB]

I think Brest is much better because they managed to stay where Nice was before and they are still unbeaten in their last 13 Ligue one matches. Nice have to learn more about how to manage to avoid conceding goals and the defeats they have had so far could be an important lesson before the end of the season. I see Lens will overtake them this week and that is inevitable.

There was a time Nice was very good than Brest I think during the beginning of this season because of there efforts they always put in on there matches but they were not able to still hold the performance for long and that has made them to become lower on the league table and now Brest is much better than Nice and also because of the good performance, they have been able to maintain the second position for a while now and looking at the point difference between Brest and nice is quite big because for now it is very difficult for Nice to compete against Brest because they are still far behind and even if they plan to compete with Brest on the second position they will still need to go through Monaco because Monaco is still above them on the table and I think is also difficult for them to beat Monaco because Monaco is more in a good shape than them, for now if there is any club that has a chance of competing with Brest I think it should be Monaco because they have more closer points than Nice.

You're right nice was one of my favorite team from the beginning of this season due to there performance it was overwhelming,but as time goes on I begin to experience some changes from the players that is when I started losing interest.talking about brest,brest was not doing well from the beginning of this season but they turns out to be in a very good form this time,with what I'm seen I think brest will be among the teams that will be in champions league next season,that's if they will maintain this form.

Brest is one of the flashiest teams of this season. We will probably have the chance to watch them in the championship league next year. The transfers they will make for next year will show their power level to all of us. It seems they are scoring very few goals. They win many matches 1-0. They have only scored 35 goals in the league so far and are in second place. However, they are very good in the defense area. They need to protect this.

[hyudien]

You're right nice was one of my favorite team from the beginning of this season due to there performance it was overwhelming,but as time goes on I begin to experience some changes from the players that is when I started losing interest.talking about brest,brest was not doing well from the beginning of this season but they turns out to be in a very good form this time,with what I'm seen I think brest will be among the teams that will be in champions league next season,that's if they will maintain this form.

A team like Nice will find it difficult to compete consistently in Ligue 1 from the start of the season to the end of the season because they often only play defensively and will try to maintain their lead if they are already leading 1-0 even though that is not a safe score at all and you can see the average on their match results were filled with low scores, making Nice the team in the top five with the fewest goals and also the fewest goals conceded, so slowly but surely they started to lose a lot of points and made their ranking drop.

I am also one of the people who hopes that Nice can compete after seeing at the start of the season that they were so tough and solid. However, I can't see this going forward because at the same time as the competition progresses they are also decreasing and even now they are in 5th position, down 4 places from the position they occupied at the start of the season.
Their biggest problem lies in their attack line which is not unproductive. I have to admit that their defense line is very solid, even now they are the team that has conceded the fewest goals, which proves that their defense is very good. However, in football everything must be balanced, they cannot have a solid defense but not be balanced by a sharp attack line, because the result will be the same. Because in football to win they have to create more goals than the opponent can score, and Nice can't do that. If only they had a very sharp attack line, I'm sure they would still be in first place, or at least they would be in second place. But now we see a quite striking decline that they are showing.

[Velvet78]

Marseille is in 6th place in the standings and still needs lot of wins to improve its standings until this season competition ends.
It just that I also admit that Marseille performance in the last 3 matches was truly extraordinary, they won with big scores of 3 - 1, 4 - 1 and 5 - 1, this was truly victory that made all Marseille fans cheer with joy.
Maybe all of this is proof that Jean-Louis Gasset performance as coach has really produced satisfactory results and seeing all the players in these 3 matches really looks different from the previous few matches which were just draws and defeats.
Hopefully this will be good start for Marseille in the future by finishing the season and for the development of next season to be even better.

Do you believe that Marseille can get more appropriate place to be able to have UCL ticket? There will be fiercer competition in the future because the competition has been going on for quite long time and there are only few weeks left to finish.
Maybe Marseille can get better ranking but I not so sure they can get UCL tickets easily.

Ligue 1 only has 3 team slots to compete in the UCL, which means Marseille must at least occupy the top 3 positions, and even then they must first go through qualifying or the play-off round.
Everything will not be easy and Marseille must really have perfect strength.

Honestly yeah, I believe there is a chance for Marseille to make it to the Champions League. Because if you have noticed Lille, Nice and Lens all don't have a very good form recently. If these teams continue to show performances like this Marseille would capture a big opportunity to go for at least the fourth position which would take them to qualification phase in the Champions League. 

There are 10 more weeks to go. This means a potential 30 points but I'm not saying it like Marseille would win all of their remaining games.    But collecting a solid amount would be very useful for them.

[Hvdv]

We should blame Luis Enrique for making changes in his team? It's publicly stated out and we'll watch Kylian Mbappe exits Parc des Princes stadium at the end of the season. This is the exact phase Luis Enrique is trying to hook up with, he keeps substituting Kylian Mbappe halftime because he's planning for the future of the team, he knows one of the key player is leaving and the earlier he starts playing matche without Mbappe contribution, the better. PSG must learn to win matches without the aides from Kylian Mbappe, one of the reasons we're seeing the poor results of the club currently.

Although many think Enrique did it for revenge, I don't seem to agree with that opinion. I mean if you are a coach and your striker is going to leave next season of course you have to be able to find a replacement as soon as possible. I think what Enrique did was give Mbappe playing time to score goals and replace him with another player to rebuild his squad for next season without Mbappe. Enrique will have to do some testing with other strikers and find suitable tactics and gameplay.

Until the last minutes when Mbappe moved to another team and signed a contract officially with that team, I think there is still the chance to say Mbappe can even stay in PSg for a longer time.
Currently, all the big and great people in Qatar and PSG owners are trying hard to don't lose this player, even the Prince of Qatar tried to have this place in PSG and talked to him in person but he didn't change his mind.
However, the story with PSG and Mbappe is long and there is still the chance to stay there otherwise Enrique can think about alternative players.

I think Enrique should already think about alternatives because Mbappe seems determined to leave. If he's not going to go, the offer made to him must be like a dream. In this case, team dynamics are disrupted and unrest occurs among other players. If Mbappe behaves towards the players like the team owner, no one in the team can play the way they want. Mbappe is ultimately a football player and of course another player can fill his place.

[rendravolt]

Nice has experienced successive failures and as a team that was initially in 2nd place in the standings (even competing with PSG) has now had to plunge to 5th in the standings. What is actually not surprising is that Nice is just an ordinary team and there is nothing special about this team. They should not be able to compete any longer with other great teams and this is also a warning to coach Francesco Farioli not to continue this bad trend.

I think Brest is much better because they managed to stay where Nice was before and they are still unbeaten in their last 13 Ligue one matches. Nice have to learn more about how to manage to avoid conceding goals and the defeats they have had so far could be an important lesson before the end of the season. I see Lens will overtake them this week and that is inevitable.

Such a performance from Nice was expected. Even the surprising thing is how this team kept the second place in the points table for a long time! Because the performance of Nice's attacking players was very poor. They could not score more than one or two goals in a match. The team was undefeated for a long time only because of the strong defense. But now the Nice team has lost the truck very badly. They are consistently defeated. Along with attacking players, Nice's defenders also performed poorly.

My guess was that we would see the Monaco team in second place in the table. But Brest's performance has been very stable this season. Due to the strong defense, Brest managed to occupy the second place in the table. I guess we will see Brest in second place in the table until the end of the season.

Absolutely true and that's what I've observed so far. Nice can only be strong defensively and when they score goals they are not as productive as other top teams. What's the point of being strong defensively but lacking goal contributions and in my opinion that will just be a time bomb where the team will experience bad results because there is no progress. Nice could only survive without putting forward proper competition and they were knocked out without realizing what they had gone through.

Second place will be a fierce struggle for Brest and Monaco because there is no team that can compete with PSG and at least these two teams will be guaranteed a place in the Champions League without having to go through the playoffs. I am happy to see healthy competition and also seeing competition with a difference that is not much different will make the league even more exciting. Lille, Nice and Lens may not give up yet and will be busy fighting for the top places.

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Marseille is in 6th place in the standings and still needs lot of wins to improve its standings until this season competition ends.
It just that I also admit that Marseille performance in the last 3 matches was truly extraordinary, they won with big scores of 3 - 1, 4 - 1 and 5 - 1, this was truly victory that made all Marseille fans cheer with joy.
Maybe all of this is proof that Jean-Louis Gasset performance as coach has really produced satisfactory results and seeing all the players in these 3 matches really looks different from the previous few matches which were just draws and defeats.
Hopefully this will be good start for Marseille in the future by finishing the season and for the development of next season to be even better.

Do you believe that Marseille can get more appropriate place to be able to have UCL ticket? There will be fiercer competition in the future because the competition has been going on for quite long time and there are only few weeks left to finish.
Maybe Marseille can get better ranking but I not so sure they can get UCL tickets easily.

Ligue 1 only has 3 team slots to compete in the UCL, which means Marseille must at least occupy the top 3 positions, and even then they must first go through qualifying or the play-off round.
Everything will not be easy and Marseille must really have perfect strength.

With 14 games remaining of course all possibilities can happen including Marseille ending the season in the Champions League zone, Marseille biggest chance to go to the Champions League is still open if if they can consistently win and hope Monaco can drop points in their matches, currently Monaco is the 3rd team in Ligue 1 and Marseille has the closest distance to Monaco at the moment with only 6 points,  Although fairly close but still all possibilities can happen Lens, Lille and Nice are also eyeing the last ticket to the Champions League at this time, but actually the chances of the 4 teams to be in the Champions League next season are as great as Marseille, Lille, Lens and Nice will still meet in the next few weeks.

In addition to the league route, there is actually another way but it can be said to be more difficult for Marseille to be able to reach the Champions League next season, namely by winning the Europa League trophy this season because Marseille has so far still competed in the Europa League, and we all know that UEFA provides 1 automatic ticket to qualify for the Champions League if there is a team that wins the Europa League regardless of their position in the domestic league standings.