French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[Shadiq]

PSG almost lost this beautiful game which they were supposed to secure their 3 points. Scoring first and going down to 2 goals down in 15 minutes is just so appalling. I couldn't believe it was PSG playing. The errors, the losses...the goal keeper. Thank God for Ramos who brought back life to the game with his Penalty before Mayulu secured the draw. Strasbourg played a good game not minding that the home fans were everywhere. I think PSG has to be very careful especially this time Dembele is not in the squad, to avoid loosing all why they have built. Dembele remains the engine house to their attack and it has been proven since he's off with injury.

I taught for PSG to win this game without too much struggle but it appears that they are trying  so hard not to loose the game, they had a better play than their opponent and they at a point lead. Maybe the injuries that got some of their players really did told on them, anyways I hope they get back their form soon and take the lead again just as they have been dominating the league.

The match was very unexpected, PSG really performed unexpectedly. Did you notice that PSG were 3-1 down in the first 50 minutes? That's what surprised me the most, however, they managed to tie the game 3-3. PSG's poor defense was notable in this match. Although Strasbourg had very few attempts to control the ball or attack, most of their shots were on target and three of them resulted in goals. On the other hand, PSG, although they had the upper hand in possession and attack, their shots on target were not very high and their shots were not catastrophic. However, I think this is a reaction to the PSG team's injury attack and trying to save themselves for the Champions League match. They might be more focused in the Champions League and that's what they should be. Maybe after the match in Marseille we will see PSG leave the top spot.

[Sexylizzy2813]

PSG almost lost this beautiful game which they were supposed to secure their 3 points. Scoring first and going down to 2 goals down in 15 minutes is just so appalling. I couldn't believe it was PSG playing. The errors, the losses...the goal keeper. Thank God for Ramos who brought back life to the game with his Penalty before Mayulu secured the draw. Strasbourg played a good game not minding that the home fans were everywhere. I think PSG has to be very careful especially this time Dembele is not in the squad, to avoid loosing all why they have built. Dembele remains the engine house to their attack and it has been proven since he's off with injury.

In as much as this encounter ended in a draw I still have to applaud the visitors for the strong fight they gave PSG tonight, it wasn't an easy one to end the game in a 3-3 draw knowing fully well that the host that's PSG are always showing that hunger and drive to maintain that top spot position and now they couldn't get a win. Strasbourg did what I believe Marseille and the other clubs could not do if they find themselves in this same situation. Let not out this dropping of point on the injured players like saying if they were around it won't have ended this way, it had to happen and at the same time they need to start planning on playing without these guys and bringing better result if not they might fall out from other competitions.

[Nheer]

I am impressed with Strasbourg’s performance tonight, they did really well despite not going away with the three points. I am now seeing what I am expecting in League1, let there be competition so that PSG or one team will not keep dominating the entire league like farmers league.
PSG has gotten their second draw this season, and they have lost one match already, this means that other teams can be serious this time and win the league since PSG are now been matched in the competition.

Now this is an opportunity for Marseille and Lyon to take the lead this week; if they can both win their respective matches, PSG will be ranked 3rd in the League table with one point behind them, and if they can both be consistent in their respective performances, they can also defeat PAG and one of them will win the league.

Since the start of the season Strasbourg have been very good that's why they are able to get a top spot and now the are just a point behind PSG. They showed that it hasn't been luck that they have been working so hard this season but the problem is will they be able to maintain the consistency til the end of the season.

I am impressed with their performance too, I didn't expect them to give PSG a tough time and draw with them at their home. They were ahead at first before PSG later scored and level up. I like how the league is moving so far it has been very competitive and I will like to see the competition till the end of the season. I would even love to see another team win the league title other than PSG, they have dominated it enough. I hope Marseille and Lyon can win their games to go ahead but I don't think they can maintain the consistency till the end.

[Sandra_hakeem]

PSG did not underestimate Strasbourg, they are playing their best unfortunately, their best is not enough to grant them an easy win tonight as the visitors are hell bent on humiliating them in their home. It is 60 minutes now into the match and the score remains 2:3 and PSG just scored their second goal through a penalty that was well played by Goncalo Ramos. My guess is that the match will end in a 3:3 draw because it will not be impossible for PSG to score again at the rate they are attacking now.

There are no impossibilities in football, especially when the game hasn't been concluded yet. They just scored an equalizer and made your guess right. PSG played a very competitive game, but the goals escalated too far for them that they were pressed with 2 early goals.
The French league is getting more competitive these days and I'm not expecting anything more or less for the top teams in the league. You can't make it out with two separate achievements at a time-- Unlike other teams, PSG also needs to deliver in top level performance in the UCL.

[Slow death]

RC Strasbourg was one of the teams that could give PSG the biggest challenge in this league. As a result, they scored three early goals to take an early advantage, but couldn't finish it off. PSG saved 1 point. Kvara, Vitinha and Hakimi were on the bench. They went into this match with a good rotation. In the end they didn't lose and in the league this many points dropped is tolerable. But in the Champions League there are far fewer games and mistakes can be costly. I can understand Luis Enrique, I think a draw is a good result for both teams.

A parenthesis for Panichelli. He scored 7 goals in 8 games in the league. He's having a really good season. Last year he scored 20 goals in 40 games in Mirandes, but that was the Spanish 2nd division. To continue this success in Ligue 1 is really admirable.

Strasbourg are playing very well, I already imagined this result, because PSG are not doing well this season when it comes to Ligue 1 games, for today's game, they had their best players, with the exception of Ousmane Dembélé and even so they lost a point, with this loss of points they opened up space to lose the top position in the table if Olympique wins, honestly I see this season as having a real risk of PSG not being champion.

[len01]

After the draw between PSG and Strasbourg, tomorrow there will be a match between Marseille vs Le Havre. This is a pretty good opportunity for Marseille to get 3 points and shift Strasbourg's position. On the one hand, Le Havre is not an equal opponent and the match at home provides Marseille with more opportunities.

Asian handicap -1.5 will be my choice this time.

[JiiBs]

PSG almost lost this beautiful game which they were supposed to secure their 3 points. Scoring first and going down to 2 goals down in 15 minutes is just so appalling. I couldn't believe it was PSG playing. The errors, the losses...the goal keeper.

I did forget about this fixture completely, my attention was glued to the Saturday fixtures and imagine my surprise coming on here to find out that, PSG couldn’t manage and get a win against Strasbourg. Not like I’m seeing them to be less a team but, they aren’t that a match for PSG at the moment and with the fact that PSG was playing from home, I expected this game to have come at the home fans delight and looking at the score board to find a PSG 3:3 Strasbourg scoreline, that’s so unexpected.

[MK-74]

Although PSG dominated the match, they barely escaped defeat.
RC Strasbourg took a 3-1 lead, but couldn’t hold on, and the game ended 3-3.
PSG is really good at making comebacks like this.
I didn’t expect this match to be so difficult for them, but they struggled to secure even one point.

[GiftedMAN]

PSG is a strange team, having dropped points in their last two league matches. They're beating some of the best teams in the world, including in the Champions League. Despite selling key players, Strasbourg is doing well, sitting second in the league and trailing PSG by a single point. PSG faces serious problems without Dembele, and Dembele is definitely one of the important players who can win matches for PSG.

PSG is moving from being strange to funny cause their last two games they have not recorded a win but in the champions League they are seriously beating big teams tonight they escaped being defeated by a team that no one expected to rise to the position they are right now in the league PSG must be ready because they are gradually having strong challengers in the league. Strasbourg gave them a good fight and they exposed the weakest of PSG as the absence of Dembele showed in the game PSG will have to be careful if not they may nut be feared in the league when they are without their key players.

[Salahmu]

PSG almost lost this beautiful game which they were supposed to secure their 3 points. Scoring first and going down to 2 goals down in 15 minutes is just so appalling. I couldn't believe it was PSG playing. The errors, the losses...the goal keeper. Thank God for Ramos who brought back life to the game with his Penalty before Mayulu secured the draw. Strasbourg played a good game not minding that the home fans were everywhere. I think PSG has to be very careful especially this time Dembele is not in the squad, to avoid loosing all why they have built. Dembele remains the engine house to their attack and it has been proven since he's off with injury.

From Strasbourg winings they weren't supposed to perform anything below good attempting of winning PSG because they are the best competitive team against PSG, I'm surprised PSG knows that but there efforts they made wasn't too defined as people with full intention of using their squad to win because there was an incompletion of PSG regular squad because few players didn't play. They almost really loss as you said but the opportunity of the penalty increases the low probability they had. Perhaps even if Strasbourg has become an inch behind PSG I still see the usual trophy belonging to the PSG again this season and not technically Strasbourg.

[PremiumcryptoHub]

A great clash is underway in today's match of the new season's French league as we see that PSG's squad today is a bit unfamiliar, only Desire Doue seems available for PSG today as the promising player has been included in the starting XI against Strasbourg. This rising player certainly has a tough task ahead of him in this match as the defending champions must win against Strasbourg at all costs. In the early stages we saw great attacks from Paris Saint Germain Football Club and they scored in the first sixth minute but then through a very tactical counterattack, the Strasbourg player scored the equalizer. As a result this match is still going on in a breathtaking manner, maybe the substitutes will bring PSG victory in this match and they will leave the field with a victory against the Strasbourg football team.

Strasbourg is leading now at halftime, a good comeback for them but the game isn’t over yet till the last minute and PSG still has a lot of firepower at the bench, I think the second half will be more exciting. Let’s see if Strasbourg will be able to hold on to their less or add to it or maybe PSG making a comeback and winning the night. This is how a game between a second and first position should look, it seems PSG are not going to find winning the league easy this time. Even if they eventually win it as they always do, they would have fought well for it.

PSG's players were able to turn the game around in the final stages of this match because witnesses to yesterday's match must have noticed that Strasbourg scored three goals within halftime. Even then, as a mighty team, Paris Saint-Germain Football Club's morale did not decrease, that is, they did not become too nervous, which gave them the strength to turn around. Anyway, I thought that PSG's replacement players would take the field in this match and win the match, but in this match they shared the points. As a result it is now proven that the points table of this league has become extremely unstable and there is intense competition here and Ousmane Dembele's team was in for a very intense and dramatic clash against Strasbourg.

[Belarge]

Although PSG dominated the match, they barely escaped defeat.
RC Strasbourg took a 3-1 lead, but couldn’t hold on, and the game ended 3-3.
PSG is really good at making comebacks like this.
I didn’t expect this match to be so difficult for them, but they struggled to secure even one point.

I've been quite busy with the whole stuff, knowing one's place and been able to identify the category that best suits an elite team. PSG are still one of the best performing European club in the world, already proven themselves on high phases in football, don't forget so easily that they're defending UCL Champs. This is a trophy won with efficiency and consistency.

What do we call the performance Les Parisiens displayed yesterday's night? It was so unprofessional to watch the highlights and see how PSG scuffle to share points with Strasbourg. It was totally unacceptable to watch Luis Enrique's men coming out to play 3-3 with Strasbourg. Common man, PSG need to prove themselves as determined players in the France Ligue One this season because they're yet to do so and this fact alone make other competitors fierce and thinking about taking down PSG.

[wakier]

PSG is a strange team, having dropped points in their last two league matches. They're beating some of the best teams in the world, including in the Champions League. Despite selling key players, Strasbourg is doing well, sitting second in the league and trailing PSG by a single point. PSG faces serious problems without Dembele, and Dembele is definitely one of the important players who can win matches for PSG.

Yes, since Dembele absence, PSG performance has been unstable, sometimes performing well, sometimes performing poorly. But strangely, against Atalanta and Barcelona in the Champions League, they still won even without Dembele.
PSG seems to be struggling against several clubs that have performed impressively in Ligue 1 this season. First, they lost to Marseille, then they drew against Lille and Strasbourg. The good news is that this makes the competition in Ligue 1 quite interesting because other Ligue 1 clubs are starting to take advantage of gaps to make things difficult for PSG.

[Jewan420]

PSG is a strange team, having dropped points in their last two league matches. They're beating some of the best teams in the world, including in the Champions League. Despite selling key players, Strasbourg is doing well, sitting second in the league and trailing PSG by a single point. PSG faces serious problems without Dembele, and Dembele is definitely one of the important players who can win matches for PSG.

Yes, since Dembele absence, PSG performance has been unstable, sometimes performing well, sometimes performing poorly. But strangely, against Atalanta and Barcelona in the Champions League, they still won even without Dembele.
PSG seems to be struggling against several clubs that have performed impressively in Ligue 1 this season. First, they lost to Marseille, then they drew against Lille and Strasbourg. The good news is that this makes the competition in Ligue 1 quite interesting because other Ligue 1 clubs are starting to take advantage of gaps to make things difficult for PSG.

Maybe Luis Enrique doesn't want to take any big risks so that they have to struggle in the Champions League. They don't seem to be very strong in the league but they are playing great in the Champions League now, maybe it's because of the importance. Maybe for Luis Enrique, doing well in the Champions League is more important than dominating the league, so they are trying to play it safe and try to win by a small margin. That's why they sometimes have to leave the field with unsatisfactory results. Maybe there are other reasons too.

They dominated the match in the last match, but they also had to concede goals unexpectedly due to their weak defense. This is definitely due to the weak defense, I don't see any major problems in their attack line yet. So PSG are not having any major problems due to Dembele's absence. Enrique needs to work on the back line and solve the problem.

[asriloni]

PSG is a strange team, having dropped points in their last two league matches. They're beating some of the best teams in the world, including in the Champions League. Despite selling key players, Strasbourg is doing well, sitting second in the league and trailing PSG by a single point. PSG faces serious problems without Dembele, and Dembele is definitely one of the important players who can win matches for PSG.

There's nothing strange here caused by they unable to beat Chelsea's B team. Strassbourg is full with so many wonderkid owned by Chelsea, and that's the reason they struggle. Just look at how Strassbourg is drastically improving after Blueco used it as a club to give more minutes to the their wonderkid.

I'd like to see PSG to get a competitive season, and that's good by having Strassbourg that is following them at 2nd. I will be surprised if they may lose the current season to the strassbourg. I know this sounds too good to be true, but who knows.

[reagansimms]

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Yes, since Dembele absence, PSG performance has been unstable, sometimes performing well, sometimes performing poorly. But strangely, against Atalanta and Barcelona in the Champions League, they still won even without Dembele.
PSG seems to be struggling against several clubs that have performed impressively in Ligue 1 this season. First, they lost to Marseille, then they drew against Lille and Strasbourg. The good news is that this makes the competition in Ligue 1 quite interesting because other Ligue 1 clubs are starting to take advantage of gaps to make things difficult for PSG.

I never imagined PSG would play like this, they were 3-1 down before coming back to end the game with a 3-3 draw. Strasbourg has really shown significant improvement, a team like PSG was overwhelmed in front of them, it is very natural that they are currently in second place in the standings.
Strasbourg players truly showed a steely mentality by maintaining the rhythm of the game which succeeded in making PSG players lose their way and making PSG supporters fall silent when they were in an unfavorable situation. Despite having just dropped two points, PSG remains at the top of the table, but the pressure from Strasbourg is growing, especially with the two teams only separated by one point. This situation will only heat up the competition in Ligue 1.

[yenerbatmaz]

PSG played the Strasbourg match with a mostly substitute squad due to their injuries.
They found the goal they were looking for early. With PSG leading 1-0, Chevalier made a fantastic save, giving PSG the lead. Strasbourg started playing boldly and began creating chances.
Panichelli scored a fantastic goal.
This was the first time I'd heard of this player. I think I'll be hearing about him a lot more from now on.
He has quality strikes. He scored twice in the match and was the standout performer. If he keeps up this performance, he'll be playing for a bigger club next year.

PSG scored twice in the second half, recovering from a 1-3 loss and finishing the match 3-3 to avoid defeat.
PSG has a Champions League match away at Leverkusen on Tuesday, and if they play with this performance, Leverkusen will beat PSG.

[MarjorieZimmermanGinger]

I never imagined PSG would play like this, they were 3-1 down before coming back to end the game with a 3-3 draw. Strasbourg has really shown significant improvement, a team like PSG was overwhelmed in front of them, it is very natural that they are currently in second place in the standings.
Strasbourg players truly showed a steely mentality by maintaining the rhythm of the game which succeeded in making PSG players lose their way and making PSG supporters fall silent when they were in an unfavorable situation. Despite having just dropped two points, PSG remains at the top of the table, but the pressure from Strasbourg is growing, especially with the two teams only separated by one point. This situation will only heat up the competition in Ligue 1.

This is PSG's second draw in Ligue 1 and it shouldn't have happened if their players had capitalized on several chances. This shows that injuries to several key players have affected the team's overall quality, and Luis Enrique must find a solution if he doesn't want to run into problems. Strasbourg only has a handful of young players and in terms of quality, they are inferior to PSG's squad. However, the spirit and style of play displayed by the Strasbourg players were impressive. While a draw won't affect PSG's position at the top of the table, the one-point gap over second-placed Strasbourg will make the competition even more exciting, especially with Marseille and Lyon in third and fourth place, who are putting pressure on PSG.

[Anayochukwu]

PSG is a strange team, having dropped points in their last two league matches. They're beating some of the best teams in the world, including in the Champions League. Despite selling key players, Strasbourg is doing well, sitting second in the league and trailing PSG by a single point. PSG faces serious problems without Dembele, and Dembele is definitely one of the important players who can win matches for PSG.

Yes, since Dembele absence, PSG performance has been unstable, sometimes performing well, sometimes performing poorly. But strangely, against Atalanta and Barcelona in the Champions League, they still won even without Dembele.
PSG seems to be struggling against several clubs that have performed impressively in Ligue 1 this season. First, they lost to Marseille, then they drew against Lille and Strasbourg. The good news is that this makes the competition in Ligue 1 quite interesting because other Ligue 1 clubs are starting to take advantage of gaps to make things difficult for PSG.

Yes that is the good news because when big teams are always dominating it makes the league boring, unlike yesterday it was indeed an incredible performance from Strasbourg and this is how the game is supposed to be because back then was always PSG but this season might look different for them because what I saw from Strasbourg yesterday was quite impressive because I couldn't believe that they can get a draw with PSG even though going to the extent of winning them if not for the late equalizer.

[Abbatty]

PSG is a strange team, having dropped points in their last two league matches. They're beating some of the best teams in the world, including in the Champions League. Despite selling key players, Strasbourg is doing well, sitting second in the league and trailing PSG by a single point. PSG faces serious problems without Dembele, and Dembele is definitely one of the important players who can win matches for PSG.

Well I think some of don’t really watch Ligue 1 especially Strassborg and that why the result is maybe strange to you guys. Strassborg is a very good side, a side that is very difficult to play against, they beat PSG last season and I was expecting a result like this in this game.

Well I think the injuries are hitting up with PSG, we have seen how they are struggling in that attack, how they are struggling to convert their chances. It a good thing the baby upfront are now back for them, at least by next weekend we should start seeing them play together.

I believe their result should get better in no time, and I still see them as favorites in winning the league.