French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[Velvet78]

Which is confusing to me. I mean there are better teams there than Ligue 1 teams and considering the situation they are in, I would have expected them to have something much better at ligue one. They should have been second team with a big gap, but they are not there right now.

Looking at how the teams are going, I feel like the biggest shocker of the season has been Lyon without a doubt, bare bottom with so many point difference, to mid table team after middle of the season. They really look great and I feel like if they could manage to keep this up, they could even finish at conference league levels. Which could be a stone they could build upon and be better next season as well. I really like them, would love to see them do better.

I can agree with you there. There is a different look of the standings this season than the previous one. Lyon started the season horrible and barely managed to climb to the tenth position later on. Marseille are even out of top six now. Monaco and Lille are doing better though. On the other hand we have a surprising team at the second position, Brest. 

Brest finished only 9 points above the relegation zone in the previous season but now they are fighting for a Champions League spot. Éric Roy is doing a superb job since he joined. First he kept the team in the Ligue 1 and now this is happening. 

[tusandii]

I can agree with you there. There is a different look of the standings this season than the previous one. Lyon started the season horrible and barely managed to climb to the tenth position later on. Marseille are even out of top six now. Monaco and Lille are doing better though. On the other hand we have a surprising team at the second position, Brest. 

Brest finished only 9 points above the relegation zone in the previous season but now they are fighting for a Champions League spot. Éric Roy is doing a superb job since he joined. First he kept the team in the Ligue 1 and now this is happening. 

Talking about Lyon, I remember at the start of the season when Lyon experienced a decline in performance, many people didn't talk about the bad things about the club and everyone was busy discussing PSG, who were about to lose first position but managed to get first position again.
After approaching the middle of the season, everyone realized that a popular club like Lyon was experiencing a very deep decline in performance, even as the club was already in despair, but after the arrival of new players, Lyon had a very big change and previously I have said that Lyon is one of the popular clubs in the world. league 1 so it would not be possible to be relegated and now everything is proven.
There are a lot of position changes this season, not the same as last season, only PSG remains in first place and Brest seems to want second place in the League 1 points table.
Marseille experienced another bad period after managing to get 3 wins after then paying for it all with consecutive defeats.

[temple]

In my opinion, Marseille's victory over Villareal in the round of 16 was lucky for Marseille because at that time Villareal's performance was also unstable in Laliga and Marseille was able to take advantage of the first leg by scoring lots of goals so that in the second leg he only increased his total aggregate so he could qualify for the round. quarter-finals despite Villareal also winning in the second leg but the aggregate total was not able to match Marseille, and now Marseille has to face Benfica in the quarter-finals which is Marseille's next challenge.

The defeat against PSG was indeed a bit painful because Marseille was playing at home and their opponent had also lost 1 player but Marseille also couldn't do much against the French giant and he had to accept defeat at home, his decline continued until now against Lille Marseille lost badly 3:1 and 1 goal achieved by Marseille was due to an error by a Lille player who created an own goal.

So overall, Marseille's performance is getting worse, who knows what will happen when he has to face Benfica later, even though next week he has to prepare for this first match in Portugal, which will definitely make Marseille have to think hard about beating Benfica, even though his current performance is a little doubtful.

I guess that Marseille will not be able to repeat a 4-0 against Benfica, but still the result was very clear and Marseille deserved to advance to the next round. After all, these rounds consist of the aggregate of two games and when a team wins the first leg 4-0, it isn't uncommon that the second leg doesn't go perfectly well as the leading team might be playing with some overconfidence.

But now Marseille has lost strack of their recovery after that horrible start into the season. They were really on a good way to make up for their bad performances and I thought in the meantime that they could make it into the top 4, but now losing 9/9 points in the last three games put this recovery to an end. At least they are not fighting against being relegated anymore...

[bering]

The result match between Lille vs Marseille is ended according to the prediction that Lille still able to managed their winning streak at home yesterday and they were successfully to beat Marseille with final scores 3-1 and this result is makes Marseille situations is getting hard and their position at league table also will possibly to taking over by Rennes or Reims if these teams can able to overcomes their opponents later and for Lille they have same points with Monaco now but they can taking over 3rd place from Monaco because Lille is more good from head to head statistics

For upcoming match of Ligue 1 Lens as a host will playing against Le Havre today and i know Lens previously was lost from Lille and Nice so they had ambition want to used this match to bounce back and collect 3 points and i think their chances to beat Le Havre is very wide open because Le Havre away matches this season is very poor even since November last year Le Havre was unable to gets the winning results from away matches so confidently i will says Lens will being an the winner of this match and actually the odds for Lens win is not high @1.50 but i think this is safe bets and probably easy money

[mammusu]

The result match between Lille vs Marseille is ended according to the prediction that Lille still able to managed their winning streak at home yesterday and they were successfully to beat Marseille with final scores 3-1 and this result is makes Marseille situations is getting hard and their position at league table also will possibly to taking over by Rennes or Reims if these teams can able to overcomes their opponents later and for Lille they have same points with Monaco now but they can taking over 3rd place from Monaco because Lille is more good from head to head statistics

Marseille tried to give LOSC resistance in this match, but their efforts only lasted in the first half, because when they entered the second half they failed to maintain their game when they were able to hold LOSC to a draw. In the second half, LOSC was able to evaluate their shortcomings in the first half so that they managed to create goal after goal to win, while Marseille could only create 1 goal and that was because of an own goal.

This result allows LOSC to shift its position from MOnaco in 3rd place in the standings with the same points. However, Monaco still hasn't played a match this week, which means that if Monaco can get points then they will regain their position in 3rd place again. Looking at the opponents that Monaco will face, this is actually not an easy match for them. However, when compared, they are still better than Rennes, so I think they will be able to secure points in this match, especially as they will also play as hosts.

[Moreno233]

The result match between Lille vs Marseille is ended according to the prediction that Lille still able to managed their winning streak at home yesterday and they were successfully to beat Marseille with final scores 3-1 and this result is makes Marseille situations is getting hard and their position at league table also will possibly to taking over by Rennes or Reims if these teams can able to overcomes their opponents later and for Lille they have same points with Monaco now but they can taking over 3rd place from Monaco because Lille is more good from head to head statistics

Olympique Marseille have gone so bad lately, loosing three consecutive matches and have almost been kicked out of both the champions league and Europa league. Without the own goal of Ismaily yesterday, they would have lost three goals to nil against Lille, a team they would have fought squarely if it were when they were still in form. I would have said they are paying more attention to the Europa league but they are not the only team playing that competition yet still doing very well in their local league. If they face Benfica next week with this weakness, they might not survive it.

[Farma]

The first half of Lens' match against Le Havre has ended and the score is still 0-0.
Here I saw that Le Harve really put up quite a strong resistance and it seemed like they were really playing hard to get points to get away from the relegation zone.

On the other hand, Lens, who is also competing with Nice for the 5th position to get a ticket to Europe next season, seems unable to recover from the slump in performance, which did not get any points in its last two matches.

The second half will start soon and I'm sure the tension in the match will be higher because both teams are playing quite hard.
I think for now it is better to bet on 1.5 over goals in the second half, it is possible to happen

[QueenVera]

PSG have a lot of great players in their squad and even when Messi and Neymar were at PSG many said that PSG was like an Avenger team that did gather many stars in their squad, but when they had the best striker, the best midfielder and even the best goalkeeper in the world with them at that time they still failed to win the Champions League.  I think the mentality that PSG have had has been a factor in their failure to win the Champions League so far, and competing in a league that is not competitive is certainly the main reason they have a weak mentality when playing in the Europa League so far.

This season is an opportunity for PSG to be able to try their luck again in the Champions League and this season will be Mbappe's last season at PSG certainly quite interesting to see how far PSG go this season with Mbappe, Enrique has good experience in the Champions League and I think it will be a good capital for PSG this season although it is very pessimistic to see their will be able to win the Champions League,  In addition, PSG will face Barcelona in the Champions League quarterfinals, not Bayern Munich as you said, against Barcelona it might be a bit of an advantage for PSG because after all this time Enrique has understood the style and character of Barcelona's game so maybe it will be easy for him to beat Barcelona.

In the Ligue 1 PSG happens to be the very best in the league as them winning the league and dominating the league is a big testament to that fact and you can’t compare or worry much when PSG has a weekend match in their league. This is one reason this league is being referred to as a farmer’s league because of how comfortable the other clubs are with PSG continuous dominance in the league.When it comes to the UCL, there’s a bit of difference as PSG are not able to match most of the big boys in the UCL. In the Ucl psg are known not tO be able to g past the last 8 of this competition as they are seen to always struggle in the round of 16 and quater finals of this competition.

 ⁠Yes they’ve had great players in their squad especially with the likes of Neymar, Messi and Mbappe and the squad looking all fierce you’ll think they’ll run riots but in the UCL, these players suddenly become a shadow of themselves and end up not performing when they get to that stage. I feel them being too comfortable in their league has affected their mentality and in turn affected the way they see the ucl as they in a way compare it to their league match.

 ⁠They need and they’ve got an experienced coach in Enrique who’ll try to help this team get somewhere notable in the UCL and I aslo feel as Mbappe’s last season he is ready to help the team attain huge success in this year’s ucl. Their next test is Barcelona and I’m very confident Psg if they take their chances well and partner with Mbappe then they can be able to eliminate this Barcelona side and head to the last 4 of the Ucl this year.

[Jody.Drummer]

The first half of Lens' match against Le Havre has ended and the score is still 0-0.
Here I saw that Le Harve really put up quite a strong resistance and it seemed like they were really playing hard to get points to get away from the relegation zone.

On the other hand, Lens, who is also competing with Nice for the 5th position to get a ticket to Europe next season, seems unable to recover from the slump in performance, which did not get any points in its last two matches.

The second half will start soon and I'm sure the tension in the match will be higher because both teams are playing quite hard.
I think for now it is better to bet on 1.5 over goals in the second half, it is possible to happen

The match ended with a draw, 1-1. In the second half, Lens managed to score a goal in the 58th minute, but unfortunately it was equalized by Le Havre in the 78th minute through a penalty. Le Havre managed to provide very fierce resistance to Lens, so that Lens could only secure 1 point from this match. To be honest, this is a result that I didn't predict beforehand, because I thought Lens would be able to win, because the opponents they faced were no better than them.

This result makes Lens stuck in 5th position, and that is not safe enough for them, because Nice has not played a match this week. Nice itself will visit Reims headquarters tomorrow and it will also be a difficult match for them. Because in terms of quality and performance, Reims is not much different from Nice, especially since Reims will act as host in this match. I don't know for sure what will happen in this match, because in my opinion their chances of winning are not much different and maybe this will be a match that ends in a draw.

[Republikcoin.com]

Olympique Marseille have gone so bad lately, loosing three consecutive matches and have almost been kicked out of both the champions league and Europa league. Without the own goal of Ismaily yesterday, they would have lost three goals to nil against Lille, a team they would have fought squarely if it were when they were still in form. I would have said they are paying more attention to the Europa league but they are not the only team playing that competition yet still doing very well in their local league. If they face Benfica next week with this weakness, they might not survive it.

Marseille really needs to improve their performance in the remainder of this season if they still really want to be in a better position or in the European zone for next season. Because with conditions like that, Marseille certainly won't be able to do much in the Europa League this season, especially as their opponents are Benfica, who are generally still quite good in the Portuguese League and could also remain good in the Europa League this season. So Marseille really needs motivation and improved performance before facing Benfica in the Europa League.

[rendravolt]

The first half of Lens' match against Le Havre has ended and the score is still 0-0.
Here I saw that Le Harve really put up quite a strong resistance and it seemed like they were really playing hard to get points to get away from the relegation zone.

On the other hand, Lens, who is also competing with Nice for the 5th position to get a ticket to Europe next season, seems unable to recover from the slump in performance, which did not get any points in its last two matches.

The second half will start soon and I'm sure the tension in the match will be higher because both teams are playing quite hard.
I think for now it is better to bet on 1.5 over goals in the second half, it is possible to happen

Even though I had imagined that Lens would win this match so easily, unfortunately the score ended in a draw with both teams scoring goals. In the end, Lens was unable to take advantage of the opportunity to widen the points gap from Nice and even though Lens has currently moved up one place, its number of points is the same as Nice.

On the other hand, Nice, who have not played a match this week, have the opportunity to increase the gap to 3 points if they win against Reims. I think it will be Nice's opportunity because in the last 5 matches they have only been able to win once. So far, Nice can't be said to be good and I think they often experience unprecedented deadlocks. Against Reims is certainly not an easy task and they cannot afford to get bad results again later.

Anyway, your prediction about betting over 1.5 goals has proven to be correct because there are 2 goals in this match and if you bet then you will definitely get a profit.

[rahmad2nd]

I can agree with you there. There is a different look of the standings this season than the previous one. Lyon started the season horrible and barely managed to climb to the tenth position later on. Marseille are even out of top six now. Monaco and Lille are doing better though. On the other hand we have a surprising team at the second position, Brest. 

Brest finished only 9 points above the relegation zone in the previous season but now they are fighting for a Champions League spot. Éric Roy is doing a superb job since he joined. First he kept the team in the Ligue 1 and now this is happening. 

Several of the top teams in Ligue 1 this season have experienced a decline, Marseille experienced a decline after Igor Tudor left. Lyon was even worse, they were in the red zone and finally were able to be in a safer zone. Nice was in the top four of the standings, but in the end they dropped by themselves because this team actually didn't have much depth.
Now, Brest is in 2nd place in the standings. however, it is only a matter of time to be overtaken by Monaco. after all, these two teams still have one meeting left. I'm still quite optimistic that Manaco will be able to finish in 2nd place by the end of this season.

As for Lille, I'm not too sure. But at least they still have a chance to finish in the top four of Ligue 1, even though Lillie is currently in 3rd place. However, if Monaco wins the match against Rennes, the position occupied by Lille will be taken over again. Maybe this week, Brest's position will not be marginalized if we look at their opponent, Metz. but there is no guarantee that Brest can win the match. In the following week, Brest has a match against Lyon and after that against Monaco. so, it is not an easy job for Brest to maintain its ranking until the end of the season.

[pusaka]

Olympique Marseille have gone so bad lately, loosing three consecutive matches and have almost been kicked out of both the champions league and Europa league. Without the own goal of Ismaily yesterday, they would have lost three goals to nil against Lille, a team they would have fought squarely if it were when they were still in form. I would have said they are paying more attention to the Europa league but they are not the only team playing that competition yet still doing very well in their local league. If they face Benfica next week with this weakness, they might not survive it.

Marseille really needs to improve their performance in the remainder of this season if they still really want to be in a better position or in the European zone for next season. Because with conditions like that, Marseille certainly won't be able to do much in the Europa League this season, especially as their opponents are Benfica, who are generally still quite good in the Portuguese League and could also remain good in the Europa League this season. So Marseille really needs motivation and improved performance before facing Benfica in the Europa League.

They experienced 3 consecutive defeats, which means they lost 9 points from those 3 matches, and that is what kept them away from competing for the best position in the standings. If they had not experienced consecutive defeats like that, they could have been in 5th place at least, but unfortunately they received such bad results that they were thrown to 7th place in the standings. In this match they could not maintain their performance in the first half, especially in the back line which looked more fragile in the second half so they conceded 3 goals to Lille.
This is the inconsistency that is still shown by the teams in Ligue 1, so that they miss many opportunities to achieve the best results in the standings and this happens almost every season.

[Palakka]

Marseille really needs to improve their performance in the remainder of this season if they still really want to be in a better position or in the European zone for next season. Because with conditions like that, Marseille certainly won't be able to do much in the Europa League this season, especially as their opponents are Benfica, who are generally still quite good in the Portuguese League and could also remain good in the Europa League this season. So Marseille really needs motivation and improved performance before facing Benfica in the Europa League.

In the remaining matches that only have 10 games left it seems to be very difficult for Marseille to do this, at this time the consecutive defeats they get certainly make Marseille's position very threatened to be able to end the season in European competition next season, currently Marseille is 4 points adrift of Nice which is on the last boundary of the European zone at this time,  In addition, Reims and Rennes, who are now only on goal difference with Marseille, will of course still pose a threat to Marseille this season in the fight for European zone tickets, especially the Conference League, which is indeed the most realistic for Marseille.

Marseille in a difficult situation at the moment, in addition to the league, Marseille also seems to have a small chance of being able to get Champions League tickets through the path of European champions this season, not because of facing Benfica but in my opinion Marseille's struggle ended quite badly because indeed they will compete with Liverpool, Milan and also Leverkusen in winning the title,  Let's say Marseille are lucky to beat Benfica in the quarter-finals but won't they also face a match that they are unlikely to win when they meet Liverpool, Milan and Leverkusen?.

[snipie]

Marseille really needs to improve their performance in the remainder of this season if they still really want to be in a better position or in the European zone for next season. Because with conditions like that, Marseille certainly won't be able to do much in the Europa League this season, especially as their opponents are Benfica, who are generally still quite good in the Portuguese League and could also remain good in the Europa League this season. So Marseille really needs motivation and improved performance before facing Benfica in the Europa League.

Marseille have fluctuating opponents above and under them. If Rennes and Reims win their games, they will pass Marseille and prevent it from European competitions.
I don't know how Marseille could face Nice, Reims and Lens.
Their defeat against Lille are quite big and show how weak Marseille is this season..
PSG - Clermont Foot match started and we all know which team will win this game!

[Tony116]

PSG - Clermont Foot match started and we all know which team will win this game!

PSG vs Clermont Foot

The match has just started. And I am not very surprised to see PSG not play Mbappe. Probably they are saving him for the match against Barcelona and will not play him in this match if it is not very much needed. I like this because I don’t think they will need him to win a match going against the team which is absolutely at the bottom of the table. pretty sure PSG is going to win this match. only seven minutes have been played so far in this match.

[Falconer]

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PSG have a lot of great players in their squad and even when Messi and Neymar were at PSG many said that PSG was like an Avenger team that did gather many stars in their squad, but when they had the best striker, the best midfielder and even the best goalkeeper in the world with them at that time they still failed to win the Champions League.  I think the mentality that PSG have had has been a factor in their failure to win the Champions League so far, and competing in a league that is not competitive is certainly the main reason they have a weak mentality when playing in the Europa League so far.

As far as I know, PSG doesn't have any great midfielders in their squad apart from Marco Verratti. I am not impressed with other midfielders such as Vitinha, Fabian Ruiz, Carlos Soler, Kang-in Lee and several others. That's because their class is still below Bernardo Silva, Luka Modrić, Toni Kroos, Rodri, Kevin De Bruyne or Ilkay Gundogan.

PSG needs to bring in some good midfielders to support their strategy, of course some experienced midfielders are expected. The problem is, PSG tends to be more interested in stickers or great wingers like Neymar, Messi, Di Maria, Cavani, Ibrahimovic and others, while they are unbalanced in midfield and defense.

Look at the teams that actually won the Champions League title, I think they all had a good balance in defence, midfielders and strikers. PSG doesn't have that and tends to focus on building their attack line, it's completely unbalanced.

[redsun114]

Just because you have good players on your team doesn't mean that you are going to win all the games. We have seen it with PSG before Messi joined as well, they had Neymar and Mbappe and still lost to Lille as well, which was a shocker to the whole world but it happened. So, we should consider that as very important information regards to this situation. I can't say that we are going to see a lot more situations changing like that, of course we could have some difference, but we can't make it work differently.

I believe that we are going to end up with a situation that would be a lot lesser, and PSG will do fine even after Mbappe because they figured out just star players can't get you everything, so they are getting other good players.

[rendravolt]

It was so easy for Lille to bury Marseille's hopes of winning and with a fairly landslide score of 3-1, it proved that Lille was still too strong for Marseille. It is natural that Lille can achieve this victory quite easily and this also makes Lille move to 3rd place in the standings by overtaking Monaco. However, the number of points is the same as Monaco, so the possibility of Lille being shifted by Monaco again could still happen.

On the other hand, Marseille, who failed to get points in this match, must be willing to remain stuck in 7th position in the standings and they lost the opportunity to get closer to Nice. This defeat against Lille also added to Marseille's bad record with 3 bad results. I think Marseille have lost their consistency some time ago and it is so easy for them to fall back into the abyss of defeat without knowing when it will end.

[ZAINmalik75]

PSG vs Clermont Foot

The match has just started. And I am not very surprised to see PSG not play Mbappe. Probably they are saving him for the match against Barcelona and will not play him in this match if it is not very much needed. I like this because I don’t think they will need him to win a match going against the team which is absolutely at the bottom of the table. pretty sure PSG is going to win this match. only seven minutes have been played so far in this match.

Yeh you were right they already took huge lead in league table and now the importance is much more for upcoming champion league match against one of strong side Barcelona and we already know they has some terrible history In champion league in past against Barcelona so they are giving some much more attention also loss of few quality players like messi, Neymar damage their potential huge. Anyway currently they are under lead of 1-0 against Clermont Foot still after a half time and the main reason is that most of thier goal scorer main player like Dembele, mbappe etc are on bench so things are looking more messy for them hope at last stage they will make some difference.
If we have a look at thier points table they have huge lead of 12 points with second position holding team which is indication of another league winning trophy for Paris despite they lose some consecutive match still they will be on top.