French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[DanWalker]

Of course. I'd only consider betting at odds starting at 1.40-1.45. And now that Lens has dropped points again, even that level seems questionable – PSG could simply ignore Ligue 1 and focus solely on the Champions League. No matter how good PSG has been historically, you have to understand the dynamics of what's happening. By the way, even now PSG only has a 72% win rate, and you're telling me that 1.27 is a reasonable return on the risk?  

After Lens lost points against Brest in the last match, psg  will not be under much pressure today. Even if they lose one match, the top spot in the table will be in PSG's possession. Also, PSG's chances of losing points against a  weak team like angers are very low. Angers have not won in the last 5+ matches. Angers  have lost 3 of these  5 matches. What's more interesting is that psg  have won all their last  15 matches against  Angers. Angers have not gained a single point against psg .

[Danica22]

Angers  vs  PSG

Although PSG's main target is the champions league, they do not want to lose the Ligue 1 title. Lens is playing well enough. By winning today's match, PSG will want to increase the point gap with Lens and stay in the safe zone.
psg is leading 1-0. Lee Kang-in's goal in the eighth  minute of the match gave psg the lead. After that, psg's players were able to make several strong attacks. But they could not  score any more goals in the 35th minute. The match will probably end  2-0 or 2-1.

[jakdanyel]

Angers  vs  PSG

Although PSG's main target is the champions league, they do not want to lose the Ligue 1 title. Lens is playing well enough. By winning today's match, PSG will want to increase the point gap with Lens and stay in the safe zone.
psg is leading 1-0. Lee Kang-in's goal in the eighth  minute of the match gave psg the lead. After that, psg's players were able to make several strong attacks. But they could not  score any more goals in the 35th minute. The match will probably end  2-0 or 2-1.

As I expected a serious rotation by Luis Enrique in this match... It's totally normal considering there is a CL match against Bayern Munich ahead only 3 days later.

Even with a rotated lineup of course the gap between PSG and Angers is gigantic! It's 2-0 now while we are into halftime.

Lens were just horribly bad last night and now the gap is about to be 6 points. They are just helping PSG win the title easier. 

[Jossque]

Lyon managed to secure a win at home against Auxerre. Auxerre are fighting to avoid relegation, but following this defeat, we can say that their chances of staying up have dwindled considerably. With three weeks remaining, the points gap remains at four. Lyon, having secured three points, has managed to move into third place with a game in hand. As finishing in the top three means Champions League qualification, the teams are locked in a fierce battle. The points margins are very narrow, and we may not know who finishes in which position until the final week.

[Ahli38]

Angers  vs  PSG

Although PSG's main target is the champions league, they do not want to lose the Ligue 1 title. Lens is playing well enough. By winning today's match, PSG will want to increase the point gap with Lens and stay in the safe zone.
psg is leading 1-0. Lee Kang-in's goal in the eighth  minute of the match gave psg the lead. After that, psg's players were able to make several strong attacks. But they could not  score any more goals in the 35th minute. The match will probably end  2-0 or 2-1.

I personally predicted a PSG victory in this match that just ended. PSG’s performance was completely unaffected by their packed schedule. In this match PSG crushed Angers with two goals in the first half with 82% ball possession. And they added another goal in the second half. Angers looked helpless against PSG failing to score a single goal. PSG has successfully extended their lead over Lens. And they are getting closer to clinching the Ligue 1 title this season with the points they currently hold. Lens does not seem capable of closing that gap as they will find it very difficult to keep winning in the remaining rounds. And they will face PSG in the match that was previously postponed.

[Waleron Wycliffe]

There are four weeks left until the end of the league season, but with today’s victory, PSG have extended their lead over Lens to six points. It’s highly likely that PSG are now champions. I don’t think they’ll let the title slip away.

[Cryptoprincess101]

I personally predicted a PSG victory in this match that just ended. PSG’s performance was completely unaffected by their packed schedule. In this match PSG crushed Angers with two goals in the first half with 82% ball possession. And they added another goal in the second half. Angers looked helpless against PSG failing to score a single goal. PSG has successfully extended their lead over Lens. And they are getting closer to clinching the Ligue 1 title this season with the points they currently hold. Lens does not seem capable of closing that gap as they will find it very difficult to keep winning in the remaining rounds. And they will face PSG in the match that was previously postponed.

I was happy that PSG didn't neglect this match against Angers just because they have a Champions League game to play. They played incredibly and handled Angers like a baby team and won them 0:3 clean sheet result. I was thinking that since they have an important match against Bayern Munich that they won't take this match seriously, but they even took it personally despite having a red card it didn't affect their performance. PSG has 6 points above Lens and it's just remaining 4 matches for both teams and there is no way that PSG will not win up to 2 games from the remaining 4 which will confirm them winners of the French Ligue 1.

[Waleron Wycliffe]

Does anyone know what’s been going on with Monaco over the last three weeks?
It’s really strange—they’d been doing brilliantly up to this point, beating PSG, beating Lens, and even beating Lyon and Marseille, but they couldn’t beat Auxerre and Toulouse. It seems very odd. With those draws and defeats, they’ve dropped down to 7th place.

[Slow death]

There are four weeks left until the end of the league season, but with today’s victory, PSG have extended their lead over Lens to six points. It’s highly likely that PSG are now champions. I don’t think they’ll let the title slip away.

Even if PSG lost all their remaining games (something impossible in my opinion), the other teams would still find a way to lose all theirs as well, and PSG would become champions. It's very clear that in Ligue 1, only PSG exists. The other teams don't care about things like winning the league. Maybe they don't see much advantage in it compared to the financial costs involved, but even so, I'm shocked when other teams keep dropping points against very weak opponents. It seems like they deliberately lose so they can't catch PSG.

I know what I'm saying sounds very strange, but for example, let's look at Lens' behavior. They were playing very well, but as the final games of the league approached, when PSG started dropping points, strangely Lens also began dropping many more points. It was as if Lens deliberately didn't want to win the title, and in the end, PSG won with a large points advantage. That's why I even stopped betting on other teams in the upcoming Ligue 1 games.

[$weetne$$]

Those guys are the most unserious people in that France Ligue 1 this season, like they literally have every opportunity to win this league for this season but they keep messing with, like this was the kind of opportunity Lille hard few seasons past and they took advantage of it and won the league, and that same chance is given to Lens but they chose to Arsenal it, bottle it rather, smiles, now Paris Saint Germain is going to win today game and increase the point to six points and that will mark the end of it, shame on Lens.

Maybe Lens hot too lucky and so they could not handle such luck and thst is why it does seem like they are unable to use the chance they had, they also could not be prepared to handle such luck too unlike lille who were prepared and when the luck came, it met their preparedness.  They canntry again next season, by then they should  be better experienced.

[GiftedMAN]

Does anyone know what’s been going on with Monaco over the last three weeks?
It’s really strange—they’d been doing brilliantly up to this point, beating PSG, beating Lens, and even beating Lyon and Marseille, but they couldn’t beat Auxerre and Toulouse. It seems very odd. With those draws and defeats, they’ve dropped down to 7th place.

Some team just know how to perform well in big games but end up flopping when they face weaker opponents or the ones in same category with them. Monaco is a team with good history in the Ligue1, if there's any team that should be challenging PSG currently it should be Monaco but they're not meeting the expectations of spectators it's surprising that team like Lens, Lyon and Marseille have developed to be performing better than Monaco.

[odunybiz]

Does anyone know what’s been going on with Monaco over the last three weeks?
It’s really strange—they’d been doing brilliantly up to this point, beating PSG, beating Lens, and even beating Lyon and Marseille, but they couldn’t beat Auxerre and Toulouse. It seems very odd. With those draws and defeats, they’ve dropped down to 7th place.

Some team just know how to perform well in big games but end up flopping when they face weaker opponents or the ones in same category with them. Monaco is a team with good history in the Ligue1, if there's any team that should be challenging PSG currently it should be Monaco but they're not meeting the expectations of spectators it's surprising that team like Lens, Lyon and Marseille have developed to be performing better than Monaco.

In sport, a team can't be dominating forever. Marseille has sometimes dominating in league one but where are they today. They aren't even close to the first seat on the league table. Let's check out Lens all the way from League two to seat at second on the league table. Alot of things can affect team starting from coach, sell of players, finance and many more.. So if Monaco isnt in good form this year or next, don't be surprise if you see them playing with vibes and sitting at the top after some years.

[GiftedMAN]

In sport, a team can't be dominating forever. Marseille has sometimes dominating in league one but where are they today. They aren't even close to the first seat on the league table. Let's check out Lens all the way from League two to seat at second on the league table. Alot of things can affect team starting from coach, sell of players, finance and many more.. So if Monaco isnt in good form this year or next, don't be surprise if you see them playing with vibes and sitting at the top after some years.

Now from the illustration you have given do you think PSG will be selling off their pool players soon to the point of not being very strong to dominate the league again ?  I think the answer is no, the owners of the club is rich they have good players and money to buy more quality players if they decide to make few changes.if you think because Marseille dominated the league and is no where around the table and such things can happen to PSG then you have to think again because they aren't stop dominating the league now because they have funds to buy any players of their choice.

[1kodumtek7]

It was so easy for PSG! They faced a team without a goal left which made it even easier. Of course there is a huge gap between the teams in both cases but you know PSG had to rotate as well.

PSG can comfortably focus on their Champions League matches ahead in a tight schedule now. Because thanks to Lens the gap has reached 6 points. That's such a good co-operation by them. 

[MarjorieZimmermanGinger]

Now from the illustration you have given do you think PSG will be selling off their pool players soon to the point of not being very strong to dominate the league again ?  I think the answer is no, the owners of the club is rich they have good players and money to buy more quality players if they decide to make few changes.if you think because Marseille dominated the league and is no where around the table and such things can happen to PSG then you have to think again because they aren't stop dominating the league now because they have funds to buy any players of their choice.

That's absolutely true because PSG's owners are quite wealthy and they don't need to sell their key players for any reason. In fact, I'm sure that if they achieve better results in the Champions League this season, the management will try to buy other top players to make PSG even stronger next season. The reason PSG can continue to dominate Ligue 1 and I think it's because they have sufficient financial resources, so any plan they implement is bound to succeed, especially considering that no other club in Ligue 1 can match PSG's player quality.

[karabiber]

Despite stepping up their game recently, Nice continues to struggle due to defensive weaknesses. They’ll need to play with as few mistakes as possible in the remaining weeks. Marseille, meanwhile, has fallen far short of expectations, losing three of their last four league matches and struggling to create scoring opportunities. Given the current state of both teams, a high scoring match is likely.

[Velvet78]

Lyon have improved their form recently. This time they beat Auxerre who are trying to get out of relegation zone. Now Lyon are the 3rd temporarily.

In case Lille beat Paris FC away today they can push Lyon down to the 4th position. But I really appreciate Lyon's not giving up on a Champions League spot.

Despite stepping up their game recently, Nice continues to struggle due to defensive weaknesses. They’ll need to play with as few mistakes as possible in the remaining weeks. Marseille, meanwhile, has fallen far short of expectations, losing three of their last four league matches and struggling to create scoring opportunities. Given the current state of both teams, a high scoring match is likely.

The downfall of Nice is really sad... They finished last season at the 4th position! And now they are just trying not to relegate. How did they come to this? Because of losing some important players or the manager change?

[Webetcoins]

Lens is literally just giving up with their own hands, as I imagined. Everyone said that PSG doesn't look as good as they looked last year, and PSG was focusing on UCL too much and not caring about league enough and all of that.

I always said, it is not about PSG winning, sure PSG wins, but it is always about Lens not being able to finish off the season strong. They lost and now they have a draw against Brest and we should not be considering how they should be getting a lot better situation moving forward for PSG.

[snipie]

I always said, it is not about PSG winning, sure PSG wins, but it is always about Lens not being able to finish off the season strong. They lost and now they have a draw against Brest and we should not be considering how they should be getting a lot better situation moving forward for PSG.

That was the case in every single year in Ligue 1 regardless of how good Paris Saint-Germain is or how weak the team is, the other Ligue 1 teams just prove they are poorly managed except the year that Lille managed to win the title.
Marseille is sixty right now, they used to be number 2. Lille and Monaco are among the top teams. They are +4 until now at a point Lyon and Lens took their position.
I don't blame much these teams, they are relatively weak because the investment in Ligue 1 is lacking. There is no Emirates or Saudi or US investment in rebuilding a team there. They prefer Premier League or their own over it.

[wakier]

There are four weeks left until the end of the league season, but with today’s victory, PSG have extended their lead over Lens to six points. It’s highly likely that PSG are now champions. I don’t think they’ll let the title slip away.

It's certain that PSG will lift the title again this season with the advantage they have gained. Lens won't be able to catch PSG. Even if they could, PSG would need to suffer several defeats, but I don't think PSG will make any mistakes in the remaining four matches of the season. PSG is a consistent team as the season draws to a close.
But in the UCL, I'm not sure PSG can win the UCL title because their opponent is quite tough in the semifinals. But if PSG can beat Bayern Munich, I guarantee PSG will definitely win the UCL title because their toughest competitor right now is Bayern Munich.