French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[bitgolden]

When you are PSG and got a goal at 4th minute, and then you do not score a single more game all match long, that feels like a tie to many fans, because by the end, with added minutes, that's 90+ minutes of game time where you did not score a single goal, that seems quite boring and should be very important as well. PSG is a much better team than this and they should be able to get some wins, I am not really seeing anything great from them.

Sure, they are leading the league right now, but that doesn't mean that they are doing great, we are talking about a team that is doing barely fine but only getting away with wins and leading the league because others suck, not because they are good. If PSG was good, they would have scored a second or even a third in that game. Normally, I am not against a 1-0 win, that happens and a win is a win, at the end of the season when they win the league nobody will remember this game, but they are really not that good.

[aylabadia05]

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Marseille player Greenwood is one of the best scorer in Ligue 1 with 7 goals. He scored like 1/3 of Marseille goals and helped them to be the second, along with the failure of Monaco and Lille. The problem with Marseille is the number of goals they receive and which they cannot reduce. Toulouse in the 12th position and didn't receive as high as them.
I expect him to keep competing Barcola for the best scorer in Ligue 1.

Mason Greenwood has scored 7 goals and 1 assist in 10 appearances for Marseille in Ligue 1 so far. He is ranked 3rd in the top scorers so far, above him is Bradley Barcola with 8 goals and Jonathan David with 7 goals. Meanwhile, Marseille has conceded 12 goals in 10 matches and this is a sign that Marseille has defensive problems which might be called weak compared to some other Ligue 1 teams.

Monaco and Marseille have the same points so far, but because Marseille has a high goal productivity, they still occupy second place in the standings, behind PSG with a gap of 6 points. I don't think Marseille and Monaco will really be able to threaten PSG to fail to defend their title this season, I mean PSG is still very strong with 10 matches so far where they are unbeaten. PSG is still very comfortable leading the standings with a gap of 6 points above Monaco and Marseille.

[jaberwock]

Indeed, a shocking performance from Rennes against a team I hardly pronounce their name. There are a lot of responsibilities from the angle of incompetent Stephen to the angle of players not up to standard and of course, to the irresponsible management who get rid of of about fourteen or thereabout players and recruit ten more unknown average players. They have succeeded turning their club to a training ground that lends and sells its youngsters players. Perhaps, a new couch can give Rennes a new and applaudable performance but truth be told even a new couch would suffer with this kind of recruitment. That's the result you get when you try to make money by selling your best performing players year in year out instead of maintaining them. You definitely end up being a mediocre team when you recruit average players.

Well to be fair, Auxerre is ahead of Rennes at the league table, so it is not a shocking that they won, maybe the four goals part could be the shocking part, but anything could happen in football, just the other week we saw Barcleona win 4-0 against Real Madrid, so seeing Auxerre to win against Rennes isn't really that shocking. The real shocking result was Monaco, who lost to Angers, and they also lost to Nice previous game as well, so that makes it two in a row for them and puts them very far away.

PSG is now leading with 6 points gap already, and they are looking like they are basically ready to lift the title already. Marseille has shown some improvements for the season and at second after this Monaco loss. I believe Lille seems to be the fourth place is the understatement of the year, because they look better than both Monaco and Marseille and just had some unlucky games, I believe they are looking like the second best team in the league right now.

[tiCeR]

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Marseille player Greenwood is one of the best scorer in Ligue 1 with 7 goals. He scored like 1/3 of Marseille goals and helped them to be the second, along with the failure of Monaco and Lille. The problem with Marseille is the number of goals they receive and which they cannot reduce. Toulouse in the 12th position and didn't receive as high as them.
I expect him to keep competing Barcola for the best scorer in Ligue 1.

Mason Greenwood has scored 7 goals and 1 assist in 10 appearances for Marseille in Ligue 1 so far. He is ranked 3rd in the top scorers so far, above him is Bradley Barcola with 8 goals and Jonathan David with 7 goals. Meanwhile, Marseille has conceded 12 goals in 10 matches and this is a sign that Marseille has defensive problems which might be called weak compared to some other Ligue 1 teams.

Monaco and Marseille have the same points so far, but because Marseille has a high goal productivity, they still occupy second place in the standings, behind PSG with a gap of 6 points. I don't think Marseille and Monaco will really be able to threaten PSG to fail to defend their title this season, I mean PSG is still very strong with 10 matches so far where they are unbeaten. PSG is still very comfortable leading the standings with a gap of 6 points above Monaco and Marseille.

Barcola is a player that nobody had written down so far. I think he is one the players who will not be in Ligue for long unless PSG pays him so much money that he can't leave the club. True what you said that Greenwood is doing great, but he has a past in Europe and Barcelona doesn't have the same way. I think he will get offers from many of the best clubs in Europe by next summer the latest.

[G_Besar]

In today's match of Nantes vs Marseille team, Marseille team won the match by scoring 2 goals. Nantes team scored 1 goal. In the match between the two teams that I enjoyed, if Nantes team could have done better, the match could have been drawn but Nantes team scored 1 goal for which  Couldn't win this match. Marseille team player N. Maupay scored 1st goal in 24 minutes and M. Greenwood scored 2nd goal in 61 minutes to win the match.

Nantes is not on the same level as Marseille so it is very natural for Nantes to lose to Marseille even though the match took place at Nantes' home base and Nantes was able to equalize in the first half. However, in the second half Marseille continued to attack by controlling the ball more, making it difficult for Nantes to score again because there were no opportunities that could be utilized properly by Nantes, so I think that the defeat suffered by Nantes was a very natural thing.

[Hirose UK]

I lost the bet at the beginning and returned to make new slip that only chose PSG in three choices with PSG victory, Over 2.5 and 1st goal for PSG but they only got 1 goal with very good game dominance, even though this was victory for PSG but I was quite disappointed.

I just want to ask, how do you predict the outcome of a match?
Do you realize that the result obtained by PSG vs Lens is indeed a satisfactory result?
And I think your disappointment started from your prediction that took small odds only in the builder bet. For me it is very high risk.
Even Lens only played 10 players but PSG still held on with 1 score. Do you know the reason?

I see the statistics of the strength in the game of both team that show PSG is far superior and they have front line that is really sharp enough for match in the Ligue 1 competition, indeed in other competitions such as UCL they cannot play as expected but here they are team with very good front line that even from all Ligue 1 match shows large percentage of victory with large score too.
But I do admit that Lens has very good defense but they are weak in attack, all of this can be seen from the way Lens plays in each match and also Lens statistics in the number of goal they can get and also the number of goal conceded they receive, both show quite low numbers compared to several other team.

[tusandii]

Having suffered 2 consecutive defeats, the gap with PSG has widened and is now 6 points. I have lost a little hope about other clubs breaking PSG's dominance because I think Monaco or Marseille can do it this season, but it seems that these clubs are only strong at the beginning of the season just like PSG's challengers last season were only strong at the beginning of the season. For the next I don't expect much and at the moment their performance is a bit unstable it seems that fatigue is starting to affect their main players.

AS Monaco and Marseille are starting to run out of steam, despite showing promising performances at the start of the season. If you look at the depth of the squad, it is only natural that they have difficulty competing with PSG, the points difference that has been formed seems difficult to reduce. Marseille has faced PSG directly, De Zerbi squad could not do much, they lost badly at home. It takes a lot of luck to break PSG dominance in Ligue 1, a team that is ambitious to win a trophy must be able to appear unbeatable. Just like Leverkusen did in the Bundesliga last season, when they managed to defeat Bayern Munich.

That's why sometimes we can't judge a club too early because unexpected things can happen in the middle of the season, Marseille and Monaco have shown their good abilities at the beginning of the season but they couldn't last long in challenging PSG in League 1 so now we know that PSG's strength in League 1 is difficult to beat, it does require luck to break the dominance maybe one day there will be a club that provides great competition but it must start from the quality of their squad and also have an experienced coach.

[Adiljutt156]

In today's match of Nantes vs Marseille team, Marseille team won the match by scoring 2 goals. Nantes team scored 1 goal. In the match between the two teams that I enjoyed, if Nantes team could have done better, the match could have been drawn but Nantes team scored 1 goal for which  Couldn't win this match. Marseille team player N. Maupay scored 1st goal in 24 minutes and M. Greenwood scored 2nd goal in 61 minutes to win the match.

Right, Olympique de Marseille football team played very well in this match and did 2 goals in this match and won the match easily. N. Maupay did first goal of the match and his stroking capacity was outclass because he played with full confidence and played excellent inning and impressed all fans in the ground. He showed his stamina and he was prominent in the ground.Greenwood  also gave good performance in this match by doing goal at 61 runs. He did goal and after his goal his team won the match.Nantes football team could do only one goal in this match and Kadewere was the person who became successful to do goal for his team.

[Palakka]

In today's match of Nantes vs Marseille team, Marseille team won the match by scoring 2 goals. Nantes team scored 1 goal. In the match between the two teams that I enjoyed, if Nantes team could have done better, the match could have been drawn but Nantes team scored 1 goal for which  Couldn't win this match. Marseille team player N. Maupay scored 1st goal in 24 minutes and M. Greenwood scored 2nd goal in 61 minutes to win the match.

Nantes is not on the same level as Marseille so it is very natural for Nantes to lose to Marseille even though the match took place at Nantes' home base and Nantes was able to equalize in the first half. However, in the second half Marseille continued to attack by controlling the ball more, making it difficult for Nantes to score again because there were no opportunities that could be utilized properly by Nantes, so I think that the defeat suffered by Nantes was a very natural thing.

Marseille have better squad quality than Nantes, so it is not surprising that they can win the match, but with a squad that is inversely proportional of course a narrow victory is not something we expect from them in the match, Nantes is so far a weak team so Marseille should be able to beat Nantes with a big score but in fact, even Nantes was able to keep up with the marseile game in the match,  With a squad that is already very qualified, of course we hope a lot if Marseille this season can become a challenger for the Ligue 1 title, but in fact, the improvement in the quality of the squad that they did in the transfer market this season did not have much impact on their consistency, ability and also their chances of winning or tittle.

[fullhdpixel]

AS Monaco and Marseille are starting to run out of steam, despite showing promising performances at the start of the season. If you look at the depth of the squad, it is only natural that they have difficulty competing with PSG, the points difference that has been formed seems difficult to reduce. Marseille has faced PSG directly, De Zerbi squad could not do much, they lost badly at home. It takes a lot of luck to break PSG dominance in Ligue 1, a team that is ambitious to win a trophy must be able to appear unbeatable. Just like Leverkusen did in the Bundesliga last season, when they managed to defeat Bayern Munich.

That's why sometimes we can't judge a club too early because unexpected things can happen in the middle of the season, Marseille and Monaco have shown their good abilities at the beginning of the season but they couldn't last long in challenging PSG in League 1 so now we know that PSG's strength in League 1 is difficult to beat, it does require luck to break the dominance maybe one day there will be a club that provides great competition but it must start from the quality of their squad and also have an experienced coach.

In last few years we have Monaco and Marseille living under shadow of the PSG due to lack of funds and quality players which can give them good challengers for leaders in this league as we all know PSG is having luxury of things which needed to stay at the top in any league.

In early rounds, we have good performance from the Monaco, but now things are letting them down from top in last three games we have one point for the Monaco and their defeat at home against relegation zone team Angers were shocking as well Marseille is also doing good but in last few games their quality is also coming down which is the biggest concern for them while we have PSG only undefeated team into league which is doing good job and having chance of staying at the top for long time, but they also have struggling time in Champions League as they are going to host Atlético Madrid and then going to visit Bayern Munich in next round.

[len01]

But I do admit that Lens has very good defense but they are weak in attack, all of this can be seen from the way Lens plays in each match and also Lens statistics in the number of goal they can get and also the number of goal conceded they receive, both show quite low numbers compared to several other team.

It seems that your opinion is contrary to your previous bets. If indeed you predict the statistics of the two teams and say if the two teams have a small amount of conceding, shouldn't you choose under 3 or under 2.5 rather than select over 2.5 with the small odds that you add to the bet builder?
If you see from the statistics of the two teams, don't you know that the advantages of Lens are only in defense and not on the attack line?

[tusandii]

AS Monaco and Marseille are starting to run out of steam, despite showing promising performances at the start of the season. If you look at the depth of the squad, it is only natural that they have difficulty competing with PSG, the points difference that has been formed seems difficult to reduce. Marseille has faced PSG directly, De Zerbi squad could not do much, they lost badly at home. It takes a lot of luck to break PSG dominance in Ligue 1, a team that is ambitious to win a trophy must be able to appear unbeatable. Just like Leverkusen did in the Bundesliga last season, when they managed to defeat Bayern Munich.

That's why sometimes we can't judge a club too early because unexpected things can happen in the middle of the season, Marseille and Monaco have shown their good abilities at the beginning of the season but they couldn't last long in challenging PSG in League 1 so now we know that PSG's strength in League 1 is difficult to beat, it does require luck to break the dominance maybe one day there will be a club that provides great competition but it must start from the quality of their squad and also have an experienced coach.

In last few years we have Monaco and Marseille living under shadow of the PSG due to lack of funds and quality players which can give them good challengers for leaders in this league as we all know PSG is having luxury of things which needed to stay at the top in any league.

Yes, clubs like Monaco and Marseille do lack quality players because their funds are also tight, if there is a big investor who wants to work with one of these clubs, it might provide fierce competition to PSG because they have the same quality of players as the club, currently PSG is still superior in anything and it is difficult for any club to break PSG's dominance.
Even though Marseille is actually the only team in League 1 that can win the UCL title in its heyday, it is very unfortunate that this club is inconsistent this season even though I think this club will return to its best version and become a challenger to PSG until the end of this season because they also recruited many players in the summer transfer market.

[Rampagoe004]

Yes, clubs like Monaco and Marseille do lack quality players because their funds are also tight, if there is a big investor who wants to work with one of these clubs, it might provide fierce competition to PSG because they have the same quality of players as the club, currently PSG is still superior in anything and it is difficult for any club to break PSG's dominance.
Even though Marseille is actually the only team in League 1 that can win the UCL title in its heyday, it is very unfortunate that this club is inconsistent this season even though I think this club will return to its best version and become a challenger to PSG until the end of this season because they also recruited many players in the summer transfer market.

Actually they don't lack players, but these two clubs, Monaco and Marseille, really need big investors to be able to bring in more European-class star players. PSG is the only team that has won the UCL in its heyday, but not this season because many of the star players have already Terminating contracts and playing for other clubs, such as Neymar was a big influence on PSG becoming champions in the UCL.
Monaco and Marseille seem to be taking steps to see players in the summer transfer market. They will also not be less competitive with PSG this year.

[Palakka]

Yes, clubs like Monaco and Marseille do lack quality players because their funds are also tight, if there is a big investor who wants to work with one of these clubs, it might provide fierce competition to PSG because they have the same quality of players as the club, currently PSG is still superior in anything and it is difficult for any club to break PSG's dominance.
Even though Marseille is actually the only team in League 1 that can win the UCL title in its heyday, it is very unfortunate that this club is inconsistent this season even though I think this club will return to its best version and become a challenger to PSG until the end of this season because they also recruited many players in the summer transfer market.

Actually they don't lack players, but these two clubs, Monaco and Marseille, really need big investors to be able to bring in more European-class star players. PSG is the only team that has won the UCL in its heyday, but not this season because many of the star players have already Terminating contracts and playing for other clubs, such as Neymar was a big influence on PSG becoming champions in the UCL.
Monaco and Marseille seem to be taking steps to see players in the summer transfer market. They will also not be less competitive with PSG this year.

I think this season Monaco and Marseille have made a lot of improvements to their squad, especially Marseille who in the transfer market last summer brought in many great players so I think finance is not their problem so far, indeed from a financial point of view they are not better than PSG, but actually that is not what makes PSG tough enough this season especially after they many star players leave , mentality and also consistency are the main problems of teams other than PSG in ligue 1 so far, because I see when PSG is able to achieve positive results but instead marseille and monaco fail to follow PSG steps and we can even see if marseille and monaco often lose points from weak teams, so I think the main enemy of marseille and monaco to win the ligue 1 championship currently not PSG but I think rather their unstable consistency is a big barrier.

[Webetcoins]

Marseille definitely took advantage of the situation, they didn't start as well as they hoped they would, but they got better. Now, with Monaco losing twice in a row, Marseille won one of those and took the lead over them.

Well, when I mean "lead" I mean second place, because we all know PSG is the lead and nobody will get that position, right now, the league is too terrible to beat PSG, even after losing Mbappe, when people assumed PSG will not do that greatly, we are seeing how PSG is still better than everyone else and I am not really seeing how any other team could that position, makes no sense and doesn't feel like anyone else could be better.

Marseille however is doing a good job, beating Nantes helped them a lot, they took the second place, and if they can keep this up, they will get their reward and definitely will make a good chunk of money as well, doesn't feel like it would be a small time thing, we are talking about a huge return in the end.

[rahmad2nd]

Marseille returned to winning ways and overtook the two teams above them, namely Lille and Manaco. Lille and Manaco did not play their matches optimally, so they were unable to widen the points gap from the team below them plus approach PSG's points. Meanwhile, Marseille returned to winning ways after defeating Nantes in an away match, and rose to runner-up, 6 points behind the team at the top of the standings. Marseille excelled in terms of ball possession, but in terms of chances, both teams were almost the same. The difference was that two of Marseille's shots hit the goalpost. In this match, several Marseille defenders played underperform, but strangely De Zerbi did not replace them. But overall, De Zerbi's team performed optimally, Neal Maupay scored again and so did Greenwood, who also became Man of the Match in this match. Next week, the team they face should not be a problem, but Lens and Manaco are ready to wait and will be tough opponents. After that, Lille will also meet Marseille. if De Zerbi is able to fix his team's weaknesses a little, Marseille is a tough opponent for the teams that meet them in the next few matches. well, how far De Zerbi is able to bring his team to improve, we will find out soon.

[Webetcoins]

clubs like Monaco and Marseille do lack quality players because their funds are also tight, if there is a big investor who wants to work with one of these clubs, it might provide fierce competition to PSG because they have the same quality of players as the club, currently PSG is still superior in anything and it is difficult for any club to break PSG's dominance.
Even though Marseille is actually the only team in League 1 that can win the UCL title in its heyday, it is very unfortunate that this club is inconsistent this season even though I think this club will return to its best version and become a challenger to PSG until the end of this season because they also recruited many players in the summer transfer market.

French Ligue 1 is surely losing its popularity and fan base due to poor quality and dominance of one club PSG with French soccer organization is also doing nothing for improving quality and bringing investors which bring funds which are essential for development of game and league as well we have some improvement in few clubs, but sadly consistency is still not which is problem and quality is also not as par we need for having good entertaining.

After years, we have good result for French clubs in Champions League which is good sign even PSG is struggling but Monaco, Brest and Lille doing decent job which is good for them but still they needed some good changes which help these clubs for having quality players and consistency because with these changes they can't able to keep themselves into this elite competition at the top which is important for them.

[Weawant]

French Ligue 1 is surely losing its popularity and fan base due to poor quality and dominance of one club PSG with French soccer organization is also doing nothing for improving quality and bringing investors which bring funds which are essential for development of game and league as well we have some improvement in few clubs, but sadly consistency is still not which is problem and quality is also not as par we need for having good entertaining.

I have known all this while that a time is definitely coming when the ligue one isn't going to be getting as much attention as it's expected because of the consistent dominance of a particular team, so it turns out its just a repetition and so even before the end of the season we have a good idea what the result would be, sometimes you can even express certainty about the team who is going to win the league title, Marseille and the likes of Monaco are trying to get the narrative changed but they are lacking the effort to get than done let's hope they achieve that some day.

[SatoPrincess]

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Marseille player Greenwood is one of the best scorer in Ligue 1 with 7 goals. He scored like 1/3 of Marseille goals and helped them to be the second, along with the failure of Monaco and Lille. The problem with Marseille is the number of goals they receive and which they cannot reduce. Toulouse in the 12th position and didn't receive as high as them.
I expect him to keep competing Barcola for the best scorer in Ligue 1.

Mason Greenwood has scored 7 goals and 1 assist in 10 appearances for Marseille in Ligue 1 so far. He is ranked 3rd in the top scorers so far, above him is Bradley Barcola with 8 goals and Jonathan David with 7 goals. Meanwhile, Marseille has conceded 12 goals in 10 matches and this is a sign that Marseille has defensive problems which might be called weak compared to some other Ligue 1 teams.

Monaco and Marseille have the same points so far, but because Marseille has a high goal productivity, they still occupy second place in the standings, behind PSG with a gap of 6 points. I don't think Marseille and Monaco will really be able to threaten PSG to fail to defend their title this season, I mean PSG is still very strong with 10 matches so far where they are unbeaten. PSG is still very comfortable leading the standings with a gap of 6 points above Monaco and Marseille.

Mason Greenwood is a remarkable talent, and I never doubted his potential when he was at Manchester United. I had a strong feeling he would make an impact at Olympique Marseille, and he has certainly lived up to expectations. Greenwood has an impressive stats in the Ligue 1 this season. Though Greenwood has been a standout performer, his club has faced challenges on the defensive end, their poor back line could be a big problem in their pursuit of the league title. Both Marseille and AS Monaco currently hold second and third places respectively, but their poor defense may hold them back from truly challenging PSG for the title. Unless Marseille and Monaco can find a way to strengthen their defenses and maintain their current form, it will be difficult for either team to dethrone PSG.

[TelolettOm]

Both Marseille and AS Monaco currently hold second and third places respectively, but their poor defense may hold them back from truly challenging PSG for the title. Unless Marseille and Monaco can find a way to strengthen their defenses and maintain their current form, it will be difficult for either team to dethrone PSG.

The competition in the French Ligue 1 is getting tighter, especially in the top standing position. Marseille and Monaco are still trying to beat PSG's dominance, initially they were really able to, but lately, both of them have experienced a decline in competence, so that the top standing position was again taken over by PSG.
Now it's
- PSG          : 26 points
- Marseille  : 20 points
- Monaco    : 20 points (performance has declined in the last 3 matches, 1 draw and defeat in a row)

Unfortunately, in Champions League, PSG had a bad result, defeated by Atletico Madrid in the injury time.


Source: Paris Saint-Germain 1-2 Atlético Madrid

Based on the image above, PSG actually dominated and tried to attack quickly many times. However, Atletico Madrid this time was really able to overcome it with a strong defense and turned the situation around in injury time.