French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[len01]

Lyon vs Strasbourg

Lyon started like last season at the beginning of the season always starting with a very bad performance. Indeed, in terms of H2H, Lyon should be more favored than Strasbourg. But I will not only believe in the last 5 meetings of these two teams but also look at their previous performances which were only able to get 2 defeats that Lyon got.
Strasbourg is much better at the moment with the success of getting 3 points from Rennes and being able to get 1 point from the away match against Montpellier. This is the reason I bet on Strasbourg victory to try to get an advantage from this match. The temporary score Strasbourg managed to get 1 score and Lyon still couldn't score.
From ball possession, Lyon controlled the ball more often but had difficulty in making attacks. But on the other hand, Strasbourg had lower ball possession but had surprising attacks when Lyon defense started to lose focus.

[rahmad2nd]

Yeah honestly I wasn't expecting PSG to be this amazing after Mbappe left the team. But I was missing a point. Relying on a specific player is mostly a bad thing. It prevents a good teamwork at a high rate.    Since he left, the team have been destroying every single opponent they face. Of course there is still a big quality gap between them and the rest of the Ligue 1 teams. But the way they play is very promising.

Now when it comes to the Champions League... Their fixture is quite tough. However I still expect last 16 from PSG. Because they will probably play way better than Mbappe era. 

I have said in previous posts, even without Mbappe, PSG is still a strong team in the French League. In addition, Enrique can play a more solid teamwork without Mbappe always being the executor. Now, every player can score goals if they have the chance. Talking about PSG players, last season Barcola's performance was up and down. Well, interestingly in the two matches they have just played, their performance is quite good. He has scored three goals, even though he is not the player who is the finisher. In addition, Dembele's role is getting more mature and he is always a core player in Luis Enrique's squad. Well, what they need most is Joao Neves' consistency, if he performs well then it will really help his team to win the match. However, he is a young player whose game has not been tested for consistency and maturity. btw, PSG has only played two matches and the team they are playing against is not a strong enough team. It is natural that they are able to win big over their opponents, the next match will be more interesting if they are able to maintain their performance. Talking about PSG in the Champions League, we don't even know who their opponents are in the group stage. Because, the draw hasn't started yet. So, we can't speculate too far before they play their match in the UCL.

[skarais]

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I saw PSG's overall performance in the two matches. The squad does not have a big star player like Mbappe. However, with the help of Luis Enrique, PSG have managed to build a stable squad capable of performing well. Scoring 10 goals in two matches was not an easy task. Even if the opposition is relatively weak, it is very difficult to score 10 goals in two matches.

It won't be easy for PSG to do well in the Champions League. But I guess PSG team will be able to win home matches against Girona and PSV. On the other hand, away matches against Salzburg and Stuttgart won't be difficult. But it is very difficult to win against Munich and Arsenal. However, Bayern Munich are not in good form this season. So it cannot be said that PSG win against Bayern Munich is unlikely.

Of course it's true, no player is shining brighter than Mbappe at PSG at the moment, but Luis Enrique's squad isn't too bad. PSG have quality players who they can hope to provide the best competition in Ligue 1 this season. They are favorites to retain the title, so I don't think this season they will have much trouble. Scoring 10 goals in 2 matches is certainly difficult, but PSG proved it, even without Mbappe.

I admit that PSG's journey to win the Champions League title has never been easy. This season they have some tough teams drawn against them, but on the odds I think PSG will get through to the last 16 even if they can't win all 8 games.

[hahay]

It is indeed not easy for every player who is just debuting, they certainly have to make adjustments and other factors to be able to develop themselves in a better direction, PSG has recently appeared more open with its squad and everyone is aware of that, but basically there is no banquet that makes PSG have to be amazed there because the team in the French League 1 is indeed not very productive and effective so PSG's ability in the league is very guaranteed.

I am not even that amazed and surprised by PSG's appearance in the French Ligue 1 this season because PSG still has more strength than other teams in Ligue 1 at this time. And for the matter of new players, I think it always takes time to be able to adjust to the team and also to the colleagues in the team so that it cannot be denied anymore because it is like that every season in all Leagues. But I am still a little curious about PSG's strength when the team competes outside Ligue 1 because this season is the season where PSG did not have Mbappe as their mainstay player before.

Considering about PSG, which in the previous two matches at least can be said to only play against mediocre teams, so maybe it can be said that it is also natural for PSG to get very good results. But, for the next match that PSG will also play away against Lille, which is currently also Lille in second place in the Ligue 1 standings and also, Lille got clean sheets also in the previous two matches. Thus, although in the head to head record it is clear that PSG has good dominance as well, but at least the match between Lille vs PSG is a big match which will certainly be a difficult match for them.

But even so and if I consider about the odds available at the moment as well, the truth is that PSG is still quite favored to win. But for me,  maybe Lille has a chance to get points even if only with a draw because I believe, eventhough PSG is the favorite but that does not mean PSG will easily beat Lille. Because it is possible, Lille also has a big target or ambition to be able to beat PSG, this will be an interesting match of course, because in the previous two matches they got very good results.

[Richbased]

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I saw PSG's overall performance in the two matches. The squad does not have a big star player like Mbappe. However, with the help of Luis Enrique, PSG have managed to build a stable squad capable of performing well. Scoring 10 goals in two matches was not an easy task. Even if the opposition is relatively weak, it is very difficult to score 10 goals in two matches.

It won't be easy for PSG to do well in the Champions League. But I guess PSG team will be able to win home matches against Girona and PSV. On the other hand, away matches against Salzburg and Stuttgart won't be difficult. But it is very difficult to win against Munich and Arsenal. However, Bayern Munich are not in good form this season. So it cannot be said that PSG win against Bayern Munich is unlikely.

Of course it's true, no player is shining brighter than Mbappe at PSG at the moment, but Luis Enrique's squad isn't too bad. PSG have quality players who they can hope to provide the best competition in Ligue 1 this season. They are favorites to retain the title, so I don't think this season they will have much trouble. Scoring 10 goals in 2 matches is certainly difficult, but PSG proved it, even without Mbappe.

I admit that PSG's journey to win the Champions League title has never been easy. This season they have some tough teams drawn against them, but on the odds I think PSG will get through to the last 16 even if they can't win all 8 games.

PSG isn't that in a bad shape after Kylian Mbappé's exit from the club as their awesome performance can be seen just as the season begun, scoring 10 goals in just 2 games means they've got players that can score just like Kylian Mbappé and it even looks like the existence of Kylian Mbappé in PSG hid some talents of players that would have been visible if not for Mbappé's presence. With how PSG Started the season there's no doubt they can still retain the league title this season.

As for the Champions League it isn't still gonna be easy for PSG because looking at the format of the champions league and the teams they're to face it's quite difficult to say that PSG will have a head way in the champions league because with their current squad now I think they can't make much positive impact in the champions league as they can only succeed in the Ligue 1

[Leviathan.007]

So far PSG have started the season perfectly, 10 goals in 2 match is a really good statistic.
Many people think that PSG's goal productivity this season will decrease greatly when they are left behind by Kylian Mbappe, but in fact this is not true. If PSG can maintain this kind of performance in Ligue 1, then they will retain the Ligue 1 title this season.

Now, do you really believe PSG can qualify for the last 16 of the Champions League when they are drawn against the following teams?

Home: Manchester City, Atlético Madrid, PSV Eindhoven and Girona.
Away: Bayern Munich, Arsenal, Salzburg and Stuttgart.

Yeah honestly I wasn't expecting PSG to be this amazing after Mbappe left the team. But I was missing a point. Relying on a specific player is mostly a bad thing. It prevents a good teamwork at a high rate.    Since he left, the team have been destroying every single opponent they face. Of course there is still a big quality gap between them and the rest of the Ligue 1 teams. But the way they play is very promising.

Now when it comes to the Champions League... Their fixture is quite tough. However I still expect last 16 from PSG. Because they will probably play way better than Mbappe era. 

I look at Real Madrid and they are far from the performance expected from Mbappé. There were also matches in Paris Saint-Germain during Mbappé's term where performances were far from expectations. I wonder if Mbappé thinks more about himself than the team. Paris Saint-Germain is by far the highest quality team in the French League right now. Real Madrid, on the other hand, has only collected five points in the Spanish league and Mbappé has not contributed anything. I think these are in Mbappé's destiny. Paris Saint-Germain may reach the finals of the Champions League this year, how do we know?

Real Madrid didn't lost anything yet and they are still in a better situation with Mbppe because thanks to Mbappe they have a better and a younger forward who can play there for years and make Real Madrid happy to have a player like him but he didn't have good performance recently in Real Madrid that's maybe because other strategies of Real Madrid and the playing style of Mbappe but still we can't forget even after Mbappe left PSG they didn't lose anything yet.

[Ryu_Ar1]

Yeah honestly I wasn't expecting PSG to be this amazing after Mbappe left the team. But I was missing a point. Relying on a specific player is mostly a bad thing. It prevents a good teamwork at a high rate.    Since he left, the team have been destroying every single opponent they face. Of course there is still a big quality gap between them and the rest of the Ligue 1 teams. But the way they play is very promising.

Now when it comes to the Champions League... Their fixture is quite tough. However I still expect last 16 from PSG. Because they will probably play way better than Mbappe era. 

PSG at the beginning of this season was more focused even if you look at their game now actually I think it's much better because it doesn't just rely on one person as the center of attack and the proof that in 2 matches they got full points with 10 goals and only conceded 1 goal is certainly a very good thing shown by Enrique to date.

But on the other hand, we also cannot take this as a benchmark that they are more overall because after all PSG has only played 2 matches and that means Enrique cannot be complacent here because his task is still very heavy until the end of the season to prove that they can despite not having a striker of Mbappe's caliber this season.