French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[lixer]

We were surely not expecting to see Marseille beating all the teams in the French league and losing the game against Strasbourg was not surprising for us. However, I didn't watch the game but when I was checking the game stats for the match between Strasbourg and Marseille I saw Marseille had much better chances and many more goal opportunities in this game which made me think Marseille could even beat Strasbourg.
Regardless of their match against Strasbourg, I think Marseille still has a good chance to race with teams like PSG on the top side of the table.

After three years we have won for the Strasbourg at home which is good because we have good start of the season for both sides with Marseille is doing impressive, and now they are having first defeat which bring them to the 3rd spot Strasbourg is also having 9 points from 6 games with one lost against Lens mean they are also going good, but quality difference is wide open as we have in French Ligue 1 for last few years between top teams and other teams which are having not strong enough in finances.

In this season we have top 3 teams on same level of quality and performance just because of this we are having good chance of fight for the title between them, but Marseille is still had good chance of comeback and do good next round is going to be interesting for top two teams as they are going to visit for strong challengers.

[Fiatless]

Leaving Dembele out of squad is going to have positive and negative sides for PSG.

The positive side: Maybe Dembele would learn not to act in an undisciplined way and be more obedient with his manager's calls.

The negative side: He was still contributing in a really good way. He got like 4 goals and 4 assists in 7 games. This would be a really important loss for PSG in the attacking line.  

Some time ago, you would remember Mbappe was also left out of squad but it didn't take him a long time to be added in. The same thing might happen to Dembele as well.

https://dailypost.ng/2024/10/02/champions-league-psg-winger-apologises-to-luis-enrique-after-2-0-defeat-to-arsenal/

There are some important games that coaches shouldn't joke with. I don't know the gravity of the offense Dembele committed but he is a key player that shouldn't have been dropped in such an important match. His suspension should have been moved to a game in the Ligue One not against an European power house like Arsenal. According to some newspapers, the French player have apologized to Luis Enrique and have been brought back to the team. Hopefully, both Dembele and Enrique have learned some lessons from the sanction and loss.

[el kaka22]

I really pity Nice. PSG just lost to Arsenal, and a game where they didn't play as well as they should, which means the manager will be very mad, because Luis Enrique isn't a "nice" type of manager, he does get mad, and yells, and that's how he manages his teams, and I also think that he is going to make them train a lot harder and be ready for the Nice game.

So whenever a big club like PSG loses, they end up playing much harder next game up to make the fans think everything is okay. So if by some chance PSG beats Nice 7-0 or something, then nobody will really think about the Arsenal game, after all PSG will go out of the group stages, they will win most of the other games so what they need to loo kat would be just league and UCL group stage ending. A win like this would make them feel much better about it and not have any worries. This is why I am going to figure out a way to bet for a lot of games this game, I think 3.5 over seems good for me, I will do that.

[SirLancelot]

We were surely not expecting to see Marseille beating all the teams in the French league and losing the game against Strasbourg was not surprising for us. However, I didn't watch the game but when I was checking the game stats for the match between Strasbourg and Marseille I saw Marseille had much better chances and many more goal opportunities in this game which made me think Marseille could even beat Strasbourg.
Regardless of their match against Strasbourg, I think Marseille still has a good chance to race with teams like PSG on the top side of the table.

Strasbourg are a strong team when playing at home so I am not really surprised by their win over Marseille.
Overall Marseille played better in this match but they were unable to score because Strasbourg played more effectively.
Regardless of this result Marseille are a strong team in Ligue one this season and they still have a big chance to compete at the top of the standings this season, this is their first defeat this season so we can't overestimate it either.

To be fair while Strasbourg could be strong, Marseille is much more strong and this is why everyone assumed that they would win. I am not saying they were a bad team, they are good at home, and this resulted with a win obviously as we can see.

However, Marseille spent so  much money and did so well until this game so everyone assumed maybe there was a chance Marseille could win with ease, or even if they would have hard time, get a win barely. None happened, Strasbourg ended up getting the win which is shocking to me but I hope things get better with time and Marseille could close the gap once again, losing these unexpected games hurt their chances to be second. Nobody other then PSG will be first of course, I always think like that, even without Mbappe.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Yes a win is a win but sometimes the performance of a team that got them the win matters because sometimes that could indicate if they were just lucky or deserving nevertheless they are awarded the complete point even if they were lucky or not but for the purpose of improving it becomes important they take more of the performance that got them the win because against some other teams they my not win with same performance, and yes not all the times favourites gets to win, sometimes they do loose games.

I have no doubt about that, in fact that victory has oxygenated things well for the team because they lost against Arsenal, and now they lost 2-0 is quite a lot, for a team like PSG it is an open score and leaves much to be desired, of course we are used to seeing PSG with a bad reputation where they win and win, but seeing it from the better point of view they have to improve I think they need big-time players, famous players who are good, in this case they really need an Osimhen, players who make the difference and who have a hunger for victory.

[Ryu_Ar1]

Leaving Dembele out of squad is going to have positive and negative sides for PSG.

The positive side: Maybe Dembele would learn not to act in an undisciplined way and be more obedient with his manager's calls.

The negative side: He was still contributing in a really good way. He got like 4 goals and 4 assists in 7 games. This would be a really important loss for PSG in the attacking line.  

But this will be a lesson for both parties because after all, both PSG and Dembele must have introspected themselves in this case because as you said, PSG will indeed be a little difficult in the absence of Dembele even though there is still Doue who has a speed not much different but Dembele's role is still quite vital because of better experience so this is indeed a good lesson for Enrique but the decision to cross out Dembele is quite right even though he lost to Arsenal but when a player lacks discipline and is allowed in the end this will also have a bad impact on the club so why be defended and cross out even though it is full of risks it is a form of the right decision to show that PSG now does not look at players because no matter how good when not disciplined it is not really needed in the team.