French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[ancafe]

Looking to Ligue 2, I see that Auxerre and Angers will return to Ligue 1 instead of Clermont Foot and Lorient.
For the last ticket for Ligue 1, there will be a series of games. First, tomorrow, there will be a game where Paris FC will visit Rodez which is a little bit favourite in this match. Second, the winner of this game will have to face St-Etienne home this Friday. Finally the winner will face Metz in the relegation play-offs.
I find Metz better than these teams but we will see how serious they are in the promotion to Ligue 1.

Every season we will see a team that will be promoted, Auxerre and Angers will play in Ligue 1 for the next season and they have to try to prepare many things so that they are not easily relegated in the following season. Metz does have much better abilities and I don't think they will waste the opportunity to lose their win because the opponent they are facing should be much easier.

Clermont Foot and Lorient have not been so lucky this season and they have had to accept the fact of being relegated after struggling hard this season. If a club does not have the ability to compete and is not supported by adequate quality players then they will have difficulty surviving because the league is so competitive.

[klidex]

Kylian Mbappe exits Parc des Princes stadium at the end of the 2023/2024 Ligue One campaign. It's been a terrific tasks triggered by the Frenchman all these years and he took the burdens and challenges of Paris Saint Germain on his shoulders and always present to deliver them from humiliating defeats. However he's tired since his numerous attempts to win the UEFA Champions League title have failed, he tends to rewrite a new chapter in another elite team, atleast this time he's focused on winning major awards.

Kylian Mbappe leaving PSG will definitely cause sadness for PSG fans because they will lose their star player who has decorated PSG's victories for years in the domestic league and has tried hard to perform as well as possible in the Champions League competition but has always failed. Mbappe has put up a tough fight. It's been a very long time with PSG and now it's time for him to leave the club and at least he has achieved good results so that PSG was able to reach the semifinals. Now he wants to experience this prestigious title by joining a bigger club and will add to PSG's experience in football. He wants to achieve achievements brilliant like his idol players and we know who Mbappe's motivation was while he was a football player.

Mbappe is a talented player and being at Real Madrid is a very good decision for Mbappe to achieve proud achievements and Real Madrid's opportunity to win the Champions League title is wide open because this elite club has good and quality players so they have a very strong mentality to win the Champions League title and he will also experience competing in a competitive league and of course it will be a new challenge for Mbappe because La Liga is more difficult than League 1.

[Lannakosa]

When you say PSG is nothing without Kylian Mbappe, it's as if you are saying that all the players in the PSG squad have been useless all this time. Kylian Mbappe is just one of the players who has been the target man at PSG, in fact his role has not changed as long as Neymar and Messi are in their squad. Neymar and Messi work for him by sending more assists instead of scoring goals themselves, which is what makes Mbappe have higher goal statistics than others.

When compared to Vinicius, I think Kylian Mbappe is nothing. Mbappe is a good player to be a target man in any squad, but Mbappe is clearly a quality player. He's fast and he's also a good finisher, but his absence from the PSG squad is not an unresolved issue.

Perhaps it is not very correct to compare Mbappe and Vinnicius, because they had to work in different conditions, Vinicius’s support in Real was much better than Mbappe’s, while Ancelotti worked to strengthen Real, Enrique lost Messi and Neymar whom you mentioned above and therefore, Mbappe's results were not so impressive. But PSG will be strong without Mbappe, just as they remained strong enough without Messi and Neymar.

PSG is a club that can afford to buy any striker they want, I expect that this summer we will see several such transfers, and the PSG attack will be strong enough to not feel the absence of Mbappe.

[QueenVera]

Yes Very often it happens that a weak team suddenly plays in the UCL league and when they play in the UCL there is no significant resistance, instead it becomes a source of goals for strong teams and the most fatal thing is that they become less consistent in the league and even their performance decreases. Like the example you gave of the Lens team, this could also happen with Brest if they don't buy players and strengthen the squad for next season because of course with Brest's entry into the UCL league their schedule will become even busier so it will affect the players' fitness which makes them unable to maintain their performance.

I admit that Brest has really improved this season. They are quite big now and in the near future, they will be playing among the big players in Europe. Next season's UCL League will not only mark the start of a new era, as we see 36 teams in the league stage, rather than the group stage with 32 teams. We'll also see the arrival of new arrivals, notably Brest, Girona and Bologna, as well as the return of 1982 champions Aston Villa and Stuttgart, whose last appearance in the Champions League was in 2010.

Of course the smaller teams when they have presence in Europe, it’s most time challenging for them as they ought to go through that and also their domestic league. Going through these might be one hectic one amd as such, you see them fumbling in the group stage of the competition. ⁠Well there’s sure a way to Avoid this kind of situation and I’ll take a run down.

 One of the best way is to build squad depth. Doing this will help the club and coach be able to do needed rotations as such resting the players in most matches and not overworking them beyond their normal stretch. ⁠I think participating in European competition also brings in more finance, so it will be best to be able to balance the budget, so as not to overspend and get caught with FFP or short spend and lose out on all competitions.

 I really want the small teams coming to Europe to make a name and there’s no way than them building a strong squad and maintaining consistency especially in domestic performance. Yes, it’s a great thing to qualify for the UCL but with it’s new format of 36 teams, you don’t know what to expect so as such the smaller teams shouldn’t fail on club and squad building.

[tygeade]

Perhaps it is not very correct to compare Mbappe and Vinnicius, because they had to work in different conditions, Vinicius’s support in Real was much better than Mbappe’s, while Ancelotti worked to strengthen Real, Enrique lost Messi and Neymar whom you mentioned above and therefore, Mbappe's results were not so impressive. But PSG will be strong without Mbappe, just as they remained strong enough without Messi and Neymar.

PSG is a club that can afford to buy any striker they want, I expect that this summer we will see several such transfers, and the PSG attack will be strong enough to not feel the absence of Mbappe.

I feel like Koala muani will be their striker and they are going to look for a left winger instead, and there are so many options to choose from when you have that much money. Remember, they are getting rid of someone who got paid nearly 100 million a year, they can just get someone and pay that player 20-30 million, and use the rest on transfer and get literally anyone they want.

I honestly believe that they should look for Doku, he has provided to the world that he is a star, and for 100-120 million range they should be able to get him, sure it's hard to get a player from City considering they are rich and not need any money, but it wouldn't be impossible neither. It would make them at least as good as they were this season for sure.

[Plaguedeath]

I feel like Koala muani will be their striker and they are going to look for a left winger instead, and there are so many options to choose from when you have that much money. Remember, they are getting rid of someone who got paid nearly 100 million a year, they can just get someone and pay that player 20-30 million, and use the rest on transfer and get literally anyone they want.

I honestly believe that they should look for Doku, he has provided to the world that he is a star, and for 100-120 million range they should be able to get him, sure it's hard to get a player from City considering they are rich and not need any money, but it wouldn't be impossible neither. It would make them at least as good as they were this season for sure.

City: Doku for 100-120 Million Euros? let's make a deal!

Doku market value is only 70 Million Euros and he didn't able to contribute to City for many matches, he's actually a failed signing by Manchester City, he can't step up and be in the same level like other players.

City dare to sell their player, you shouldn't forget they sold Palmer to Chelsea.

[redsun114]

Perhaps it is not very correct to compare Mbappe and Vinnicius, because they had to work in different conditions, Vinicius’s support in Real was much better than Mbappe’s, while Ancelotti worked to strengthen Real, Enrique lost Messi and Neymar whom you mentioned above and therefore, Mbappe's results were not so impressive. But PSG will be strong without Mbappe, just as they remained strong enough without Messi and Neymar.

PSG is a club that can afford to buy any striker they want, I expect that this summer we will see several such transfers, and the PSG attack will be strong enough to not feel the absence of Mbappe.

Kylian Mbappé and Vinícius Júnior both are different players which have been performing in different conditions and with the different teams while things were completely well under control for the Vinícius Júnior which is doing good job and having good results in last few seasons while Kylian Mbappé is having nothing as we can give him anything extraordinary winning Ligue 1 is never been issue for the PSG while they are having below then average opponents in this league with mostly are not able to have competitive players which can give them consistency and quality.

Now next season could be completely different for the PSG as now their search is going on for the quality striker which can give them better results and good number of goals as well. Even mostly are prediction we will have good increase of quality and performance from the PSG but still things are not easy while we are having nothing update who is coming here to replace for the Mbappé and is we are having another season for the Luis Enrique.

[piebeyb]

PSG is a club that can afford to buy any striker they want, I expect that this summer we will see several such transfers, and the PSG attack will be strong enough to not feel the absence of Mbappe.

Yes, everyone knows that PSG has enough money to buy a new striker player, but replacing Mbappe may not be easy, because there is no player who plays as well as Mbappe at PSG, therefore it is necessary to choose correctly so that there are no more mistakes in selecting players. PSG management must know what the head coach wants for the main squad in the team because it will definitely complement the strategy used to at least find good players both in the front line and in the back line.

Every team should not only focus on the front line of striker players but must pay attention to the defense side because that is important so that they don't concede more goals, they need strong players who have to guard the back line, therefore PSG needs to focus on spending on players for all their core lines to achieve their goals in the season. In the future, PSG must be able to find young players who are productive and have good talent, don't look for players who are already popular and are almost old or whose performance is declining, that would be a waste of money, PSG must learn from previous failures in overhauling their main squad. , next season is full of competition and they have to start it by being careful in selecting players.

[rendravolt]

The results were very impressive for Lyon and at the end of the season they managed to finish in 6th place and at the same time secured a place in the European league. If we go back, of course we still remember that this team was in its lowest phase and was in the red zone for a long time. The transition from coach to coach made them so down and it was very difficult to recover this season but in the end they managed to close this season with a good score.

We will definitely be looking forward to their next action in Ligue One and we hope they don't experience the same start to the season as this season. Once again there will always be a miracle on top of the hard work they have and Lyon is able to prove it.

[Palakka]

PSG is balance when it comes to finance, they have everything to elevates themselves to become very consistent club but they have challenges when it involves other elite tournaments. PSG president, Nasser Al-Khelaifi will look for other key paths to endeavor his team become promising in the future. Paris Saint-Germain without Kylian Mbappe will experience difficult because they're absolutely nothing without the Frenchman. Kylian Mbappe played a major role in the club and his presence is acknowledged.

The finances owned by PSG do not doubt us if they will try to continue to bring the best players to their squad every season, at this time of course the main target that must be immediately sought by PSG owners is of course a replacement for Mbbape who is likely to leave at the end of this season, in order to get a decent replacement of course PSG must really be able to get players who do have the capacity to be able to bring PSG to be even better next season than With what Mbappe has done in recent seasons, I don't think that bringing in one player will be enough for PSG to replace Mbappe because this season we can see many lines that Enrique should immediately improve to be able to compete next season.

Mbappe has always been a mainstay of PSG and it is proven that he managed to become the top scorer of Ligue 1 in a row, but when you say PSG without mbappe is nothing, of course you are wrong, because all this time football is a team game and even Messi and Ronaldo have admitted that if all this time all the achievements they have achieved are none other than the support of their teammates at the club so far,  If you look at PSG journey so far, of course without PSG, Mbappe is nothing because Mbappe has emerged as a star player after he joined PSG which is filled with good players, so if Mbappe was still in Monaco now of course he would not be able to become the star he is today.

[Sakanwa]

I feel like Koala muani will be their striker and they are going to look for a left winger instead, and there are so many options to choose from when you have that much money. Remember, they are getting rid of someone who got paid nearly 100 million a year, they can just get someone and pay that player 20-30 million, and use the rest on transfer and get literally anyone they want.

I honestly believe that they should look for Doku, he has provided to the world that he is a star, and for 100-120 million range they should be able to get him, sure it's hard to get a player from City considering they are rich and not need any money, but it wouldn't be impossible neither. It would make them at least as good as they were this season for sure.

City: Doku for 100-120 Million Euros? let's make a deal!

Doku market value is only 70 Million Euros and he didn't able to contribute to City for many matches, he's actually a failed signing by Manchester City, he can't step up and be in the same level like other players.

City dare to sell their player, you shouldn't forget they sold Palmer to Chelsea.

I don't think they will be ready to sell Doku just like that,the fact that he didn't contribute so much last season does not mean he wasn't able to play,he was out injured and didn't play so much football before the season ended.
Why City sold Palmer to Chelsea was because Palmer's position was occupied by about three players,and we all know how good those players are,Phil Foden, Debruyne and  Bernando Silva,these are players City can't bench,and Palmer wanted to see regular football,so Pep had no choice but to sell him.So if Pep should sell Palmer,he knows how he will trouble him when they'll meet.

[hahay]

The results were very impressive for Lyon and at the end of the season they managed to finish in 6th place and at the same time secured a place in the European league. If we go back, of course we still remember that this team was in its lowest phase and was in the red zone for a long time. The transition from coach to coach made them so down and it was very difficult to recover this season but in the end they managed to close this season with a good score.

We will definitely be looking forward to their next action in Ligue One and we hope they don't experience the same start to the season as this season. Once again there will always be a miracle on top of the hard work they have and Lyon is able to prove it.

Indeed, it is very far as imagined because in reality Lyon not only managed to get out of the relegation zone, but Lyon also managed to finish in the Europa League zone and not in the Conference League. Apart from that, in reality Lyon still has one more schedule, that schedule is the final match of the Coupe de France against PSG. Indeed, Lyon was very impressive throughout the second half of the season because Lyon continued to improve,  eventhough sometimes Lyon suffered two to three consecutive defeats, but Lyon still managed to recover. Obviously, it was an impressive result because throughout the first half of the season that Lyon was just struggling in the relegation zone. But even so, I think Lyon doesn't have a good chance in the final match later because of course, PSG will also maximize the Coupe de France final match to get the trophy.

[fullhdpixel]

Looking to Ligue 2, I see that Auxerre and Angers will return to Ligue 1 instead of Clermont Foot and Lorient.
For the last ticket for Ligue 1, there will be a series of games. First, tomorrow, there will be a game where Paris FC will visit Rodez which is a little bit favourite in this match. Second, the winner of this game will have to face St-Etienne home this Friday. Finally the winner will face Metz in the relegation play-offs.
I find Metz better than these teams but we will see how serious they are in the promotion to Ligue 1.

Every season we will see a team that will be promoted, Auxerre and Angers will play in Ligue 1 for the next season and they have to try to prepare many things so that they are not easily relegated in the following season. Metz does have much better abilities and I don't think they will waste the opportunity to lose their win because the opponent they are facing should be much easier.

Clermont Foot and Lorient have not been so lucky this season and they have had to accept the fact of being relegated after struggling hard this season. If a club does not have the ability to compete and is not supported by adequate quality players then they will have difficulty surviving because the league is so competitive.

We are having huge decline in quality and consistency which is bigger concern for the French League with many teams are dropping badly due to having not enough sources for bringing big players and attracting things which help them for having better results while we are having few teams which were staying into top ranks are not suffering badly even few are having improvement but still things are not stable like we need to be here for the improvement of competition and having stable clubs which give good competition to the top clubs.

Auxerre and Angers back into Ligue 1 with Clermont and Lorient both are relegated, and we are going to have Metz going to face St Etienne which is trying to have place into Ligue 1 for the next season even things are not easy while they are having not enough quality to compete with Metz but still this is going to be not easy game for both clubs.

[dezoel]

At the end of this season, we are having few huge surprises like Brest which having third spot and Nice at the fifth spot done big improvements and Lyon which is surely the biggest winner of second half as they were staying into relegation for the first half and having worst ever start of their season ending at the sixth spot is huge success for them while we are having Marseille and Lens as the losers of this season while both fail to have anything positive despite having good squads, but their performance was not good as they needed to be for staying into top ranks.

Ligue 1 is having serious decline into their performance and many big teams are having lack of sources which are important for having big names and good quality, but sadly nothing positive is coming which is concern for them even their national team is one of the best but still they need to improve things here as well.

[Tony116]

The results were very impressive for Lyon and at the end of the season they managed to finish in 6th place and at the same time secured a place in the European league. If we go back, of course we still remember that this team was in its lowest phase and was in the red zone for a long time. The transition from coach to coach made them so down and it was very difficult to recover this season but in the end they managed to close this season with a good score.

We will definitely be looking forward to their next action in Ligue One and we hope they don't experience the same start to the season as this season. Once again there will always be a miracle on top of the hard work they have and Lyon is able to prove it.

Indeed, it is very far as imagined because in reality Lyon not only managed to get out of the relegation zone, but Lyon also managed to finish in the Europa League zone and not in the Conference League. Apart from that, in reality Lyon still has one more schedule, that schedule is the final match of the Coupe de France against PSG. Indeed, Lyon was very impressive throughout the second half of the season because Lyon continued to improve,  eventhough sometimes Lyon suffered two to three consecutive defeats, but Lyon still managed to recover. Obviously, it was an impressive result because throughout the first half of the season that Lyon was just struggling in the relegation zone. But even so, I think Lyon doesn't have a good chance in the final match later because of course, PSG will also maximize the Coupe de France final match to get the trophy.

Has definitely done really well to actually turn things around and finish in a very respectable position. Nobody thought that they were going to be able to finish in this position. But congratulations to them for actually being able to improve their performance so much.

The one match left is against PSG. This is going to be the final of the French Cup. Personally, I am not giving them any chance to win against PSG. Because simply PSG is just a better team. But Mbappé is not playing this match as far as I know. So that might be a chance for them to actually win this match. Or at least somehow take it to the penalties. We all know that it can go either way in the penalties. But still, I think PSG should be able to win easily.

[Leviathan.007]

The results were very impressive for Lyon and at the end of the season they managed to finish in 6th place and at the same time secured a place in the European league. If we go back, of course we still remember that this team was in its lowest phase and was in the red zone for a long time. The transition from coach to coach made them so down and it was very difficult to recover this season but in the end they managed to close this season with a good score.

We will definitely be looking forward to their next action in Ligue One and we hope they don't experience the same start to the season as this season. Once again there will always be a miracle on top of the hard work they have and Lyon is able to prove it.

Indeed, it is very far as imagined because in reality Lyon not only managed to get out of the relegation zone, but Lyon also managed to finish in the Europa League zone and not in the Conference League. Apart from that, in reality Lyon still has one more schedule, that schedule is the final match of the Coupe de France against PSG. Indeed, Lyon was very impressive throughout the second half of the season because Lyon continued to improve,  eventhough sometimes Lyon suffered two to three consecutive defeats, but Lyon still managed to recover. Obviously, it was an impressive result because throughout the first half of the season that Lyon was just struggling in the relegation zone. But even so, I think Lyon doesn't have a good chance in the final match later because of course, PSG will also maximize the Coupe de France final match to get the trophy.

Has definitely done really well to actually turn things around and finish in a very respectable position. Nobody thought that they were going to be able to finish in this position. But congratulations to them for actually being able to improve their performance so much.

The one match left is against PSG. This is going to be the final of the French Cup. Personally, I am not giving them any chance to win against PSG. Because simply PSG is just a better team. But Mbappé is not playing this match as far as I know. So that might be a chance for them to actually win this match. Or at least somehow take it to the penalties. We all know that it can go either way in the penalties. But still, I think PSG should be able to win easily.

PSG won the game against Metz and they had a good performance in this match, while it seems Metz couldn't have enough motivation or play against teams like PSG at the end of the season and this game ended with a 2-0 result. However, the interesting thing about this mart was about Mbappe and Dembele.
Enrique didn't use any of these plays in this match and I think he wanted to show how angry he is about these two players.
They left the team for the Cannes Film Festival and Enrique didn't use these two players.

https://www.goal.com/en/lists/watch-kylian-mbappe-speechless-woman-french-flag-cannes-film-festival-psg-ousmane-dembele-ligue-1-game-2023-24/blt404d84a4e2bc8a5a

[klidex]

Looking to Ligue 2, I see that Auxerre and Angers will return to Ligue 1 instead of Clermont Foot and Lorient.
For the last ticket for Ligue 1, there will be a series of games. First, tomorrow, there will be a game where Paris FC will visit Rodez which is a little bit favourite in this match. Second, the winner of this game will have to face St-Etienne home this Friday. Finally the winner will face Metz in the relegation play-offs.
I find Metz better than these teams but we will see how serious they are in the promotion to Ligue 1.

League 2 for clubs ranked first and second has ended, they will get promotion back to league 1 and for those ranked 4th and 5th they still have the opportunity to face the club ranked 3rd to see who will qualify to face Metz in the play off round. relegation, if Metz is able to fight harder in the relegation play off then he will be safe and not go to league 2 but if he continues his bad performance then he will be relegated to league 2 again, even though he return to league 1 this season because last season he was relegated and promotion again but unfortunately he was unable to improve his performance to be in the middle of the table.

Meanwhile Clermont and Lorient will be relegated to league 2 next season and will no longer be in league 1 because they have been replaced by Auxerre and Angers and we will see these two clubs appear again in league 1. Especially for Angers because they have been in league 1 for quite a long time and he had to experience relegation last season because of his poor performance. I hope he can return to compete in league 1 a little better and not experience relegation again.

[Hirose UK]

In fact, it's too much to say that PSG without Mbappe will have difficulties. If we look at the Ligue 1 top scorer, we will see that Lacazette and David have pretty good statistics, not much different from Mbappe

PSG owners have said they cannot keep Mbappe in the team but they have a long-term project with Enrique, I am sure Enrique will be able to give positive results against PSG, because PSG is a very rich team

PSG is balance when it comes to finance, they have everything to elevates themselves to become very consistent club but they have challenges when it involves other elite tournaments. PSG president, Nasser Al-Khelaifi will look for other key paths to endeavor his team become promising in the future. Paris Saint-Germain without Kylian Mbappe will experience difficult because they're absolutely nothing without the Frenchman. Kylian Mbappe played a major role in the club and his presence is acknowledged.

PSG is very rich team, they will be very capable of bringing in great players at very expensive prices, in fact there is no player they cannot get as long as the players are willing to accept the offer and play well for PSG.
But basically, looking at what PSG has played in every competition so far, nothing can really be achieved surprisingly, the only thing they have been able to master is Ligue 1 and also the French Cup.
Moreover, several great players were willing to accept PSG offer not to get some important title but only for the large amount of money that PSG gave them.

We see whether PSG will really achieve big achievement in the future or not, but if their condition is still the same as before then everything they do will only be in vain.

[Oneandpure]

At the end of this season, we are having few huge surprises like Brest which having third spot and Nice at the fifth spot done big improvements and Lyon which is surely the biggest winner of second half as they were staying into relegation for the first half and having worst ever start of their season ending at the sixth spot is huge success for them while we are having Marseille and Lens as the losers of this season while both fail to have anything positive despite having good squads, but their performance was not good as they needed to be for staying into top ranks.

Ligue 1 is having serious decline into their performance and many big teams are having lack of sources which are important for having big names and good quality, but sadly nothing positive is coming which is concern for them even their national team is one of the best but still they need to improve things here as well.

I think Brest make us getting bigger surprised after success finish on UEFA Champion League spot standings in this season and become first experience will participants highest level of European competition. In this season, some of Ligue 1 team make huge surprised from Lyon start at relegated position standings until success finish on 6th place and qualified until final round of French Cup. However many team made surprised their performance in this season PSG become the dominance team for winning Ligue 1 without any difficult yet behind 9 points remaining from AS Monaco.

Bit surprised with Lens performance decreasing in this season after securing Champion League spot last season but failed reach the Europe League spot and finish on 7th standings place. Left one team Metz will begin the journey for extending in Ligue 1 by playing in relegation playoff round.

[tsaroz]

In fact, it's too much to say that PSG without Mbappe will have difficulties. If we look at the Ligue 1 top scorer, we will see that Lacazette and David have pretty good statistics, not much different from Mbappe

PSG owners have said they cannot keep Mbappe in the team but they have a long-term project with Enrique, I am sure Enrique will be able to give positive results against PSG, because PSG is a very rich team

PSG is balance when it comes to finance, they have everything to elevates themselves to become very consistent club but they have challenges when it involves other elite tournaments. PSG president, Nasser Al-Khelaifi will look for other key paths to endeavor his team become promising in the future. Paris Saint-Germain without Kylian Mbappe will experience difficult because they're absolutely nothing without the Frenchman. Kylian Mbappe played a major role in the club and his presence is acknowledged.

PSG is very rich team, they will be very capable of bringing in great players at very expensive prices, in fact there is no player they cannot get as long as the players are willing to accept the offer and play well for PSG.
But basically, looking at what PSG has played in every competition so far, nothing can really be achieved surprisingly, the only thing they have been able to master is Ligue 1 and also the French Cup.
Moreover, several great players were willing to accept PSG offer not to get some important title but only for the large amount of money that PSG gave them.

We see whether PSG will really achieve big achievement in the future or not, but if their condition is still the same as before then everything they do will only be in vain.

The reason why PSG is not being able to be competitive in European League is due to their dominance on the local French league. They have no real competitors on Ligue 1. They have lost 2 of those matches but playing long time with teams that are less capable than yourself makes you similarly lousy. That's one of the reason why top players even though they join PSG, don't want to stick there longer. The youth would have better chance to shine elsewhere while the old goats are being bought by other lousy but rich leagues. It was the right descision for Mbappe to explore outside of PSG and Ligue 1.