French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[W Jr.]

Both Barcelona and PSG are in very good form now. Both are at the top of their league table. And both have won in the first match of the Champions league. It is difficult to make predictions about this match. Because Barcelona and PSG are both very strong  teams. The chances of winning are equal for both. But the  match is Barcelona's home match. Barcelona can also become even stronger at home. On the other hand , PSG coach Luis Enrique is well aware of barcelona's strength. So there is no doubt that the match will be very exciting.

PSG was handed their first defeat of the season, and this might affect its morale in the game with Barcelona. Some people claim that the loss was caused by Lucas Chevalier but Roberto De Zerbi's side was able to stop the aggressive attacking PSG from scoring. The Spanish side could copy the strategy of  Marseille to win at home. The game will be hard to predict, but my bet will go to Barca.  

Yes, as the team that has always tried to remain undefeated in the domestic league has suffered its first defeat of this new season so if they play against a tough opponent, the Catalan club, their morale could be affected. We understand that their notable player, who won the men's best award a few days ago while injured, is still not fully recovered. Moreover it is true that the Spanish club has its own strategy, so it seems that they will imitate it and be obsessed with a sole effort to win against the French club.

Frankly, it's quite difficult to predict what might happen when Paris Saint-Germain faces Barcelona in their current form. Both Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain have very strong squads, and both teams will give it their all. Don't let their defeat in the French league fool you; they were unlucky not to score. They could have won against Marseille. They could have done the same against Barcelona; the biggest problem is they'll be trying to do it away from home. Barcelona's stadium atmosphere could put a strain on Paris Saint-Germain.

[DaNNy001]

Both Barcelona and PSG are in very good form now. Both are at the top of their league table. And both have won in the first match of the Champions league. It is difficult to make predictions about this match. Because Barcelona and PSG are both very strong  teams. The chances of winning are equal for both. But the  match is Barcelona's home match. Barcelona can also become even stronger at home. On the other hand , PSG coach Luis Enrique is well aware of barcelona's strength. So there is no doubt that the match will be very exciting.

PSG was handed their first defeat of the season, and this might affect its morale in the game with Barcelona. Some people claim that the loss was caused by Lucas Chevalier but Roberto De Zerbi's side was able to stop the aggressive attacking PSG from scoring. The Spanish side could copy the strategy of  Marseille to win at home. The game will be hard to predict, but my bet will go to Barca.  

Yes, as the team that has always tried to remain undefeated in the domestic league has suffered its first defeat of this new season so if they play against a tough opponent, the Catalan club, their morale could be affected. We understand that their notable player, who won the men's best award a few days ago while injured, is still not fully recovered. Moreover it is true that the Spanish club has its own strategy, so it seems that they will imitate it and be obsessed with a sole effort to win against the French club.

Frankly, it's quite difficult to predict what might happen when Paris Saint-Germain faces Barcelona in their current form. Both Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain have very strong squads, and both teams will give it their all. Don't let their defeat in the French league fool you; they were unlucky not to score. They could have won against Marseille. They could have done the same against Barcelona; the biggest problem is they'll be trying to do it away from home. Barcelona's stadium atmosphere could put a strain on Paris Saint-Germain.

I think this is the most expected games since because PSG have virtually won all the big teams and we have expected to see and watch how this game actually plays out especially now that both teams are in top forms and most especially to crown out the duel match between dembele and lamine yamal. For me I think if am to bet I will just play it according to goals predictions as a lot of goals will be scored between both teams.

[ShowOff]

Frankly, it's quite difficult to predict what might happen when Paris Saint-Germain faces Barcelona in their current form. Both Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain have very strong squads, and both teams will give it their all. Don't let their defeat in the French league fool you; they were unlucky not to score. They could have won against Marseille. They could have done the same against Barcelona; the biggest problem is they'll be trying to do it away from home. Barcelona's stadium atmosphere could put a strain on Paris Saint-Germain.

Theoretically, Barcelona are slightly favored over PSG, in my view because they are playing in front of their own supporters. In terms of statistics and performance, Barcelona have been more consistent and remain unbeaten, while PSG has suffered one defeat. However, in terms of head to head meetings over their last five encounters, both teams have recorded balanced results.

On the other hand, Barcelona and PSG will start the match with incomplete squads, as both sides are still missing key players due to injuries. At a glance, it is indeed quite difficult to predict the final outcome of this match, but one thing is certain, the game will be intense and challenging for both teams. Despite all that, PSG will probably be able to appear more confident because of their status as defending champions.

[Black Mbaye]

Lyon secured a one-goal victory over Lille. It was a disappointing match for Lille, but there's nothing they can do about it; they lost. They're tied on points with Paris Saint-Germain, but of course, Paris Saint-Germain can continue to play consistently until the end of the season. The Marseille defeat was an unusual one and will likely be one of the few defeats of the season. Lyon started very well, let's see how far they can go.

[Cossyblack]

Paris saints Germain remains the most inform team in the world,I don't think they would have problems securing 3 points against Barcelona.

Most in-form team in the world? By what metric?
In the Ligue they have lost against Marseille, both Barcelona and Bayern and are undefeated in their leagues, both teams have won their CL games also.
What makes them the most "in form" team that denies Bayern or Barcelona this title?

PSG is the most inform team doesn't mean they are invisible or god-like team that cannot be defeated. PSG loss to Marseille doesn't make them a less inform team in the Ligue 1. This is football,no team can play undefeated, definitely they will be defeated by a team. How long do you think Barcelona and Bayern Munich can maintain their undefeated streak in their domestic leagues(La Liga/Bundesliga ),do you think they would continue playing without loosing to a team. However PSG won the UEFA Champions League last season, same league both Bayern Munich and Barcelona participated failed to win.

[pewboy]

Both Barcelona and PSG are in very good form now. Both are at the top of their league table. And both have won in the first match of the Champions league. It is difficult to make predictions about this match. Because Barcelona and PSG are both very strong  teams. The chances of winning are equal for both. But the  match is Barcelona's home match. Barcelona can also become even stronger at home. On the other hand , PSG coach Luis Enrique is well aware of barcelona's strength. So there is no doubt that the match will be very exciting.

I think that right now Barcelona has a bit of an advantage, also because those guys who previously seemed to have no experience are now doing very well and seem to have matured and grown, they are people who are playing excellent football and it shows.

[Abbatty]

Lyon secured a one-goal victory over Lille. It was a disappointing match for Lille, but there's nothing they can do about it; they lost. They're tied on points with Paris Saint-Germain, but of course, Paris Saint-Germain can continue to play consistently until the end of the season. The Marseille defeat was an unusual one and will likely be one of the few defeats of the season. Lyon started very well, let's see how far they can go.

Lyon have been impressive so far this season, they way they play this season is totally different, if you don’t even know you will say they are a different team from the team that played last season. They have only lost one match this season and it was to Rennes, and in that game they controlled the game well until de conceded a red card lost control.

It a good thing they are challenging PSG this drain for the league, I really hope they can keep it up because it would really make the league more interesting and competitive. They are not tie with the current league holders let see if the French league will have a different champion this season.

[changaa]

Lyon secured a one-goal victory over Lille. It was a disappointing match for Lille, but there's nothing they can do about it; they lost. They're tied on points with Paris Saint-Germain, but of course, Paris Saint-Germain can continue to play consistently until the end of the season. The Marseille defeat was an unusual one and will likely be one of the few defeats of the season. Lyon started very well, let's see how far they can go.

Nothing against Paris Saint-Germain, a truly good team, but not impossible to beat. Let's remember that teams are made up of players, and players are people; they can't always give their all, so in my opinion, they can't continue their run comfortably.

Unfortunately, Lille played poorly; they'll have to work harder if they want to achieve satisfactory results, but their position in the league isn't a cause for concern right now.

[Frankolala]

Paris Saint-Germain appears completely focused on the Barcelona match. Their French league lineups have typically been rotational. This gave Barcelona the opportunity to rest their best players. Barcelona is the favorite in Spain, and Paris Saint-Germain knows this. It would be a great opportunity to take points from them and prove themselves in the Champions League. They want to capitalize on it. Fortunately, they managed to secure all three points against Auxerre.

This is very correct, the Barcelona game is very crucial to PSG and it is Okay and understandable that they are priorising that fixture since they have in mind to defend the league title this season and so many expectations are on them about it even as this game does not look like a determinant to their chances of defending the trophy, I believe  they will be able to make a very good attempt at this game with all of the preparations been made so far.

PSG might lose this game but that doesn't mean that they won't make it to the round of 16. Some big clubs don't perform well in their group stage matches. Whoever wins this match hasn't win the league yet. Assuming, this is the semifinals, I would say that it will be very tough because both clubs will take the match to be a do or die thing. They might not take this match as serious as we think.

[Iranus]

PSG might lose this game but that doesn't mean that they won't make it to the round of 16. Some big clubs don't perform well in their group stage matches. Whoever wins this match hasn't win the league yet. Assuming, this is the semifinals, I would say that it will be very tough because both clubs will take the match to be a do or die thing. They might not take this match as serious as we think.

Barcelona is strong, but PSG is weak ? There is no chance to think pisg s weak. In fact, I consider Barcelona and PSG to be equally strong.
But the biggest weakness of PSG in this  match is that Kvaratskhelia, Dembele and DOue will probably be out of the squad due to injuries. It will be very difficult for Luis enrique  to form a starting  XI without these three important players in the attack. In this match, PSG's attack will be weak without these three players. If barcelona can utilize this opportunity well , they can earn full 3 points from this match.

[Frankolala]

PSG might lose this game but that doesn't mean that they won't make it to the round of 16. Some big clubs don't perform well in their group stage matches. Whoever wins this match hasn't win the league yet. Assuming, this is the semifinals, I would say that it will be very tough because both clubs will take the match to be a do or die thing. They might not take this match as serious as we think.

Barcelona is strong, but PSG is weak ? There is no chance to think pisg s weak. In fact, I consider Barcelona and PSG to be equally strong.
But the biggest weakness of PSG in this  match is that Kvaratskhelia, Dembele and DOue will probably be out of the squad due to injuries. It will be very difficult for Luis enrique  to form a starting  XI without these three important players in the attack. In this match, PSG's attack will be weak without these three players. If barcelona can utilize this opportunity well , they can earn full 3 points from this match.

This was the reason why I made that statement that whoever wins the match does not mean that they have won the league. Infact, Barcelona is the favorite in this match because of the absence of the three players that you mentioned above. Those players are major key players in PSG squad therefore, playing without them wouldn't bring out the best performance from PSG.

[Lida93]

Snip.

I agree with you on what you said but as someone who gambles and are being favored by some teams like PSG you'd be carried away by the fact that they will lose too, like the confidence will be too high. But again, this season is going to be one that they'll find it hard in some encounter because I believe the energy they used last season won't be compared to this very season especially now that they're missing some good players in their squad and sometimes they'll still find it hard to perform well even when the likes of Ousmane Dembélé and Désiré Doué in the squad. Let's say is a bonus point for Marseille when the won PSG because we know why things went bad for the champions until everything is set for PSG and they lose then there won't be any excuses for their loss.

Am a sport betting gambler too and I do have my considerations about the fact that even the most strongest team of the season in any league can lose a game too in the way  and when we didn't expected. But we here for the risk and rewards as they unfold.

 Tiptoeing to last season PSG wasn't in excellent shape with their performance at the start of the season, even in the UCL they had to escape being eliminated when they luckily won their last two games. At the mid of the season everything changed and they were overwhelming. Might be what it's repeating this season.

[mvdheuvel1983]

Paris Saint-Germain appears completely focused on the Barcelona match. Their French league lineups have typically been rotational. This gave Barcelona the opportunity to rest their best players. Barcelona is the favorite in Spain, and Paris Saint-Germain knows this. It would be a great opportunity to take points from them and prove themselves in the Champions League. They want to capitalize on it. Fortunately, they managed to secure all three points against Auxerre.

This is very correct, the Barcelona game is very crucial to PSG and it is Okay and understandable that they are priorising that fixture since they have in mind to defend the league title this season and so many expectations are on them about it even as this game does not look like a determinant to their chances of defending the trophy, I believe  they will be able to make a very good attempt at this game with all of the preparations been made so far.

PSG might lose this game but that doesn't mean that they won't make it to the round of 16. Some big clubs don't perform well in their group stage matches. Whoever wins this match hasn't win the league yet. Assuming, this is the semifinals, I would say that it will be very tough because both clubs will take the match to be a do or die thing. They might not take this match as serious as we think.

Losing matches in the group stages may stop PSG from reaching the round of 16 because winning more games increases the teams chances of finishing at the top or becoming second in the table the big teams that doesn't perform well in the group stage can lose few games but they don't lose all their matches as they become more serious during the retuning legs, PSG is the defending champion they can't afford to start underperforming in the group stage because it will affect their motivation if they start losing early. PSG will have to start winning now so that they can get to the semi finals.

[el kaka22]

PSG bounced right back up with a win over Auxerre, I do not think that one defeat will be that much of a problem for them. I understand the feeling, but it doesn't feel like a big deal to me, even big teams have bad days and sometimes it happens and we should see that as a normal thing, not a big deal.

Sure it is not a good thing to have a defeat, and they would rather not lose, but it is not really that big of a deal at the moment and should not be considered as end deal. If they can do a fine job then they should be able to actually get over it and be fine. I personally believe they can do that. I hope that we are not considering that they may lose the title, because if you believe that, then you have not watched closely how they are playing.

[PremiumcryptoHub]

Lazio Football Club has tasted victory in their second match of the new season of the Italian League today even though S.S. Lazio won the second match, but they were able to completely dominate because we saw that the opposing team was not even able to show defensive attitude against them. Lazio Football Club started the attack from just four minutes at the Luigi Ferraris Stadium and they were able to maintain it throughout the match, which makes me think it wasn't a difficult task for them to pull out a win from this match.
In fact it was unimaginable that Genoa Football Club would accept defeat so easily. To be honest this team played very poorly because they didn't get a chance to score a single goal.

[qurbanshah02]

Lazio Football Club has tasted victory in their second match of the new season of the Italian League today even though S.S. Lazio won the second match, but they were able to completely dominate because we saw that the opposing team was not even able to show defensive attitude against them. Lazio Football Club started the attack from just four minutes at the Luigi Ferraris Stadium and they were able to maintain it throughout the match, which makes me think it wasn't a difficult task for them to pull out a win from this match.
In fact it was unimaginable that Genoa Football Club would accept defeat so easily. To be honest this team played very poorly because they didn't get a chance to score a single goal.

I was very happy to see this match and Lazio won this match very strongly and in this match there was a lot of hard work and performance from Lazio which made them successful. There was a lot of pressure from Lazio and their players were able to win the match by scoring 3 goals while giving in to this pressure. Yes, the player who scored the goal at that minute was Cancellieri who could have won his team with this one goal by playing very well, but other players also contributed to the hard work and made the match very strong. If Genoa had also tried something, the match could have been more strong, due to which Lazio could have been even stronger.

[bitgolden]

Nothing against Paris Saint-Germain, a truly good team, but not impossible to beat. Let's remember that teams are made up of players, and players are people; they can't always give their all, so in my opinion, they can't continue their run comfortably.

Unfortunately, Lille played poorly; they'll have to work harder if they want to achieve satisfactory results, but their position in the league isn't a cause for concern right now.

Well to be fair, no team is impossible to lose, every team can lose. We are not going to hear any team that goes with pure winning streak, and even the best teams that have a very high unbeaten run, ends up with a loss eventually.

PSG of course expected a loss here and there, last year they had 2 losses as well, when they won the league the cup the UCL everything and was the best team, they lost two games at the league, and even lost at the finals of CWC to Chelsea as well. Basically they lose a few times every year, could be 2-3 games basically, and this was one of them. Shocker was that it was early, so that means they have a full season ahead of them nearly, and they can only lose like 2 games, if they want to be similar.

[pawel7777]

Marseille is not stopping. Another big win for them: a 4-0 against Ajax in the Champions League. They made it look easy. That's 3 big wins in a row, previously they defeated Strasbourg and PSG in the league.

The most exciting game of this UCL round is to be played tomorrow, when Barcelona hosts PSG. In the previous round a week ago, PSG demolished Atalanta 4-0, while Barcelona struggled a bit against Newcastle, but they too earned 3 points by winning 2-1.
Despite PSG being the current UCL champions, it's Barcelona who will be the favourite. The odds are as follows:
Barcelona: x1.84
Draw: x4.20
PSG: x3.60

I guess bookies consider home advantage to play a significant role tomorrow.

[$weetne$$]

Both Barcelona and PSG are in very good form now. Both are at the top of their league table. And both have won in the first match of the Champions league. It is difficult to make predictions about this match. Because Barcelona and PSG are both very strong  teams. The chances of winning are equal for both. But the  match is Barcelona's home match. Barcelona can also become even stronger at home. On the other hand , PSG coach Luis Enrique is well aware of barcelona's strength. So there is no doubt that the match will be very exciting.

It will be a very interesting game to see, seeing both team in their very best form against each other, I will want to see how the top talented young players from both teams are going to be able contend each other and get good results at the end of the game, I would want to say that Barcelona is mostly going to win but PSG has got the title to defend so they will be putting in all of their best.

[snipie]

Marseille is not stopping. Another big win for them: a 4-0 against Ajax in the Champions League. They made it look easy. That's 3 big wins in a row, previously they defeated Strasbourg and PSG in the league.

Marseille is gone crazy these days trashing Ajax Amsterdam by 4 goals! Just a week after defeating PSG and Strasbourg indeed.
I will not say that it was unexpected victory, after all Marseille is a good team and Ajax Amsterdam lost a lot of its previous skills but the number of goals scored by Marseille was big. Ajax didn't used to take as many goals as that..

Despite PSG being the current UCL champions, it's Barcelona who will be the favourite. The odds are as follows:
Barcelona: x1.84
Draw: x4.20
PSG: x3.60

I guess bookies consider home advantage to play a significant role tomorrow.

Yes, bookies took on consideration which team is playing home and the defeat that happened to PSG by Marseille but also injuries that both teams suffering from it. Obviously PSG lost Dembele among other good players making them vulnerable in front of strong opponent like Barcelona.