French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[el kaka22]

Penalty is a game of luck so, I wouldn't agree with you that PSG prepared more than Arsenal in that penalty shoot out because Arsenal that chose to play a defensive game might hope to end the match in a penalty shootout for a worse case scenario. If Arsenal didn't play a defensive game, it would have been very easy for PSG to win them in 90 minutes.

True and wrong at the same time. Yes penalties do have a bunch of luck involved, there is no doubt about it, I won't deny that. But at the same time, if you actually do work on it, that means you could have special training set for it, and make the players shoot on both sides, very well.

Because training is what makes it perfect, if your players can shoot too top corner on each side very fast and hard, then you are ready, and if your goalkeeper scouts the other side and learns what the odds are for each player and where they shoot, you are more ready. That's why you see goalkeepers with towels showing who will shoot where. Yes luck is involved, but you can't just swing it and hope to be lucky, there are things you can do to be more ready.

[Humblevirus]

From the beginning of the game until the final minute there was never a time when that PSG waited for Arsenal you can go back and rewatch the match so that you don't get yourself confused. PSG played an open game it was Arsenal who had to go on defense just to avoid PSG from penetrating their box too often. The best strategy that saved Arsenal was their defense if they had played an open game with PSG the goal would have been more than 1 because PSG completely outplayed them.

If PSG should have played even a little defensively against Arsenal, as some people are claiming, PSG wouldn't have gained that much ball possession. In fact, even if someone did not watch the match, the statistics make it very clear that PSG did not play defensively in any way. It was attacking football they focused on from the beginning of the match to the end.Arsenal really knew that if they tried to play fully attacking football against PSG, they would easily concede goals. That is why they focused more on defending, and to be serious, it worked for them. That is what ultimately led them to the penalty shootout.

Most people are complaining about the defensive tactics Arsenal used in the final, but the fact is that Arteta could not have played any other tactic that day that defensive tactics.He also knew that his wingers were not as aggressive in attack as PSG players. Another thing is that defensive tactics have been what Arsenal have played throughout the season. So, changing their pattern on that day could have caused them a lot of embarrassment because Arsenal might have conceded more goals.

[Cassius55]

Most people are complaining about the defensive tactics Arsenal used in the final, but the fact is that Arteta could not have played any other tactic that day that defensive tactics.He also knew that his wingers were not as aggressive in attack as PSG players. Another thing is that defensive tactics have been what Arsenal have played throughout the season. So, changing their pattern on that day could have caused them a lot of embarrassment because Arsenal might have conceded more goals.

Surely Arteta do it wrong with much more defensive tactic as his team was accustomed. At the same time when they make the first goal they must had the second goal for say goodbye to Paris saint Germain, I don't know why he was convicted that with one goal he can win this type of match very difficult agaist the french team. The penalties shot are a lottery, and in a lottery can win any team despite if they are the strongest or not.

[ndutndut]

Both teams gave their best, leading to the match going to penalties to determine a winner. In such circumstances, the players' ability to remain calm is crucial and mentality is often crucial in determining a player's readiness to take their penalty kicks. It must be admitted that PSG's players were far better prepared and their mentality was much better than Arsenal's which resulted in a successful penalty shootout victory for their second title. Arsenal's weakness in the match was their defensive approach which allowed PSG to dominate despite the difficulty of scoring. If Arsenal had played an open game, the result might have been different.

Penalty is a game of luck so, I wouldn't agree with you that PSG prepared more than Arsenal in that penalty shoot out because Arsenal that chose to play a defensive game might hope to end the match in a penalty shootout for a worse case scenario. If Arsenal didn't play a defensive game, it would have been very easy for PSG to win them in 90 minutes.

Playing a total defensive game is also part of Arteta's intelligent strategy and it's even part of the art of winning. When facing PSG who have deadly attacks, there's no choice but to rely on defense and that's a common occurrence in football. Because it's highly unlikely that Arteta will play openly against PSG, who have a fast game Arsenal will likely concede many goals. This happened in last season's final when PSG defeated Inter 5-0 because Inter played an open game against PSG. Of course, a final with such a landslide victory wouldn't be as exciting, so I was even more impressed by Arteta strategy against PSG.

Arteta strategy almost won them their first UCL trophy. However, the penalty shootout wasn't a matter of strategic quality it was a matter of luck and Arsenal were unlucky. So what I want to convey is that Artata is smart and he also learned from Kompany mistakes when facing PSG where Muchen played an open game which resulted in them conceding many goals from PSG which made them fail to beat PSG.

[MAAManda]

I hope PSG holds onto players like Vitinha and Neves. Because both of their names have been going around in speculations lately. Otherwise they will lose lots of power even if only one of them leaves...

IDK where you got your information, mate. AFAIK, there haven't been any strong rumors surrounding those two players. So, I don't think they're going anywhere next season, they'll stay at the Parc des Princes with Paris Saint-Germain. If they leave, I agree that Luis Enrique's squad will lose one of the key players for Paris Saint-Germain.

[Odusko]

Without me taking sides with one of the teams in the final of the champions league both PSG and Arsenal, it's not a tactic, it is clear that we see PSG also failed to finish the match quickly, as well as Arsenal in this case could not finish it with 2 rounds and even 4 rounds until in the end it had to be a penalty shootout, we can conclude that both of them are very strong in terms of competing tactics, but a penalty match is not something like that, it goes back to the individual player's ability, sometimes also hockey when kicking, trying to deceive the goalkeeper who we don't know what's in his mind.

Both teams gave their best, leading to the match going to penalties to determine a winner. In such circumstances, the players' ability to remain calm is crucial and mentality is often crucial in determining a player's readiness to take their penalty kicks. It must be admitted that PSG's players were far better prepared and their mentality was much better than Arsenal's which resulted in a successful penalty shootout victory for their second title. Arsenal's weakness in the match was their defensive approach which allowed PSG to dominate despite the difficulty of scoring. If Arsenal had played an open game, the result might have been different.

Penalty is a game of luck so, I wouldn't agree with you that PSG prepared more than Arsenal in that penalty shoot out because Arsenal that chose to play a defensive game might hope to end the match in a penalty shootout for a worse case scenario. If Arsenal didn't play a defensive game, it would have been very easy for PSG to win them in 90 minutes.

Such assumptions comes from the incident that precede the penalties, PSG hard their best penalties takers on the pitch while, Asernal on the other hand only came into the penalty with alot of imbalance selection and player changes during the match, this is what makes PSG have more advantage than Arsenal during the penalty.

[kriminall]

Without me taking sides with one of the teams in the final of the champions league both PSG and Arsenal, it's not a tactic, it is clear that we see PSG also failed to finish the match quickly, as well as Arsenal in this case could not finish it with 2 rounds and even 4 rounds until in the end it had to be a penalty shootout, we can conclude that both of them are very strong in terms of competing tactics, but a penalty match is not something like that, it goes back to the individual player's ability, sometimes also hockey when kicking, trying to deceive the goalkeeper who we don't know what's in his mind.

Both teams gave their best, leading to the match going to penalties to determine a winner. In such circumstances, the players' ability to remain calm is crucial and mentality is often crucial in determining a player's readiness to take their penalty kicks. It must be admitted that PSG's players were far better prepared and their mentality was much better than Arsenal's which resulted in a successful penalty shootout victory for their second title. Arsenal's weakness in the match was their defensive approach which allowed PSG to dominate despite the difficulty of scoring. If Arsenal had played an open game, the result might have been different.

Penalty is a game of luck so, I wouldn't agree with you that PSG prepared more than Arsenal in that penalty shoot out because Arsenal that chose to play a defensive game might hope to end the match in a penalty shootout for a worse case scenario. If Arsenal didn't play a defensive game, it would have been very easy for PSG to win them in 90 minutes.

Such assumptions comes from the incident that precede the penalties, PSG hard their best penalties takers on the pitch while, Asernal on the other hand only came into the penalty with alot of imbalance selection and player changes during the match, this is what makes PSG have more advantage than Arsenal during the penalty.

The final between Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal ended with Paris Saint-Germain winning the championship after a penalty shootout. I think Paris Saint-Germain had prepared for the penalty shootout, but Arsenal hadn't. Arsenal's penalty attempts seemed very amateurish to me. They could have had better options with better players. Ultimately, it was a lost trophy, but since it was Paris Saint-Germain's second trophy, I'm sure the French were extremely happy about it.

[Zoomic]

I hope PSG holds onto players like Vitinha and Neves. Because both of their names have been going around in speculations lately. Otherwise they will lose lots of power even if only one of them leaves...

IDK where you got your information, mate. AFAIK, there haven't been any strong rumors surrounding those two players. So, I don't think they're going anywhere next season, they'll stay at the Parc des Princes with Paris Saint-Germain. If they leave, I agree that Luis Enrique's squad will lose one of the key players for Paris Saint-Germain.

I haven't seen any speculation that suggests that either of João Neves or Vitinha might leave Parc des Princes this summer. And should there be any strong interest from any of the top teams in Europe, I don't think Paris Saint Germaine will accept to let go of their best midfielders.
PSG at the moment is the best team in Europe and their players are well paid so I don't see anything that'll interest their key players to leave a club they've won the UEFA Champions League in two consecutive seasons.

[LUCKMCFLY]

PSG has never lost any penalty shootout under Luis Enrique leadership, this shows that PSG knows how to win a match through a penalty shootout, and it's enough to agree that PSG prepared more than Arsenal in that penalty shootout even though penalty is a game of luck. Arsenal didn't play defensive game for their match against PSG to end in a penalty shootout, Arsenal played a defensive game because they believed they could win PSG with that. Arsenal almost achieve their plan but the penalty PSG had spoiled their plan.

Luis Enrique is a man of many strategies; obviously, in penalty shootouts they are infallible because they always keep in mind that those scenarios can happen. That's why they didn't lose; they know all that very well. Luis Enrique is a person who considers all these types of eventualities; he doesn't stop there, he always sees much further. That's something I admire about him, and perhaps that's why he did well in the penalty shootout.

[Byebyebtc]

Without me taking sides with one of the teams in the final of the champions league both PSG and Arsenal, it's not a tactic, it is clear that we see PSG also failed to finish the match quickly, as well as Arsenal in this case could not finish it with 2 rounds and even 4 rounds until in the end it had to be a penalty shootout, we can conclude that both of them are very strong in terms of competing tactics, but a penalty match is not something like that, it goes back to the individual player's ability, sometimes also hockey when kicking, trying to deceive the goalkeeper who we don't know what's in his mind.

Both teams gave their best, leading to the match going to penalties to determine a winner. In such circumstances, the players' ability to remain calm is crucial and mentality is often crucial in determining a player's readiness to take their penalty kicks. It must be admitted that PSG's players were far better prepared and their mentality was much better than Arsenal's which resulted in a successful penalty shootout victory for their second title. Arsenal's weakness in the match was their defensive approach which allowed PSG to dominate despite the difficulty of scoring. If Arsenal had played an open game, the result might have been different.

Penalty is a game of luck so, I wouldn't agree with you that PSG prepared more than Arsenal in that penalty shoot out because Arsenal that chose to play a defensive game might hope to end the match in a penalty shootout for a worse case scenario. If Arsenal didn't play a defensive game, it would have been very easy for PSG to win them in 90 minutes.

Such assumptions comes from the incident that precede the penalties, PSG hard their best penalties takers on the pitch while, Asernal on the other hand only came into the penalty with alot of imbalance selection and player changes during the match, this is what makes PSG have more advantage than Arsenal during the penalty.

The final between Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal ended with Paris Saint-Germain winning the championship after a penalty shootout. I think Paris Saint-Germain had prepared for the penalty shootout, but Arsenal hadn't. Arsenal's penalty attempts seemed very amateurish to me. They could have had better options with better players. Ultimately, it was a lost trophy, but since it was Paris Saint-Germain's second trophy, I'm sure the French were extremely happy about it.

PSG really did look more prepared for the penalty shootout, their players stayed calm, they had their best takers ready, and the mentality was just on another level. Arsenal on the other hand came into it all unbalanced with player changes and were not ready when it was time to take the kicks. That defensive setup they went with let PSG control the game too much, even if scoring was tough.
Arsenal played too safe and sat back a lot, which let PSG boss the match even when goals were hard to get. If they had gone for a more attacking style it might have turned out different. In the end PSG handled the pressure better and took home the trophy.

[bitgolden]

PSG was not extra ready compared to Arsenal when it comes to penalties, and the fact that it went to penalties is a big dela, I did not expected it to get there, for me that was a shocker and I think it would not be a bad idea to hope that they would do a fine job on the long run.

I get that it may not be that easy to handle, but the reality is that we should not be considering how this could be all that complicated for PSG to win like 5-0 on this game too, they were expected to be that good weren't.

[KTChampions]

Full time PSG did not get a chance to win Arsenal, they got the lucky penalty stroke that got them the title again, the fact still remains that Arsenal is a good team but PSG actually did had that firm wining mentality that got them the best part of the chase for the title. It does takes a great deal to maintain the wining mentality even when you face a very high chance of defeat, i will give it to PSG they actually did so well and they were just too dogged and were deserving of the victory.

I don't like PSG as an oil club, but this season there were some arguments in favor of the fairness of their victory - the main one was the imbalance of the path to the final for PSG and Arsenal. PSG's opponents were Chelsea, Liverpool, and Bayern Munich, while Arsenal's were Bayer, Sporting, and Atlético Madrid! The easiest path to the final imaginable. If we put aside PSG's cheating with the postponement of games, their victory looks completely deserved.

[Iranus]

The final between Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal ended with Paris Saint-Germain winning the championship after a penalty shootout. I think Paris Saint-Germain had prepared for the penalty shootout, but Arsenal hadn't. Arsenal's penalty attempts seemed very amateurish to me. They could have had better options with better players. Ultimately, it was a lost trophy, but since it was Paris Saint-Germain's second trophy, I'm sure the French were extremely happy about it.

Perhaps Arsenal's target was to finish the match 1-0. And they managed to take the lead early in the match. If I am not mistaken, Havertz  probably scored in the sixth minute of the match. And even then they started playing defensively in their usual manner. It was  probably just in time for the PSG penalty  shootout. Perhaps enrique has already practiced this with the players. Dembele scored the  only goal of the  match from the penalty spot. Arteta should have  been more tactical before facing an experienced and astute manager like enrique.

[aipercoin]

IDK where you got your information, mate. AFAIK, there haven't been any strong rumors surrounding those two players. So, I don't think they're going anywhere next season, they'll stay at the Parc des Princes with Paris Saint-Germain. If they leave, I agree that Luis Enrique's squad will lose one of the key players for Paris Saint-Germain.

when a coach leaves, all the tactics are also lost, because he also takes away key players, this is almost always the case, in fact when you take the coach of a team you also manage to take players who are very loyal and who can bring added value to the team.

[kennycryptoitalia]

They now have this synergy among them that can be seen as a good chemistry,  this if maintained long enough,  it will help their form improve drastically and they will be able to surprise us even more with the rate at which they grow and are able  to compete at certain levels,  my expectations for them is to see that progression in growth at an exponential rate next season,  not basically aiming at titles but improving their strength such that their attempt at a title will be a solid shot.

Certainly, synergy and understanding never come by chance, this is what happens when a team is built very well, and grows together, my expectation is that they grow even more and this is something that i think will come true, they are too strong to lose everything they have done so far.

[MAAManda]

I haven't seen any speculation that suggests that either of João Neves or Vitinha might leave Parc des Princes this summer. And should there be any strong interest from any of the top teams in Europe, I don't think Paris Saint Germaine will accept to let go of their best midfielders.
PSG at the moment is the best team in Europe and their players are well paid so I don't see anything that'll interest their key players to leave a club they've won the UEFA Champions League in two consecutive seasons.

Yes, as long as there are no internal problems, the transfer will not happen. Therefore, I was confused by what @jakdanyel said, there were no rumors or anything surrounding the 2 players, so I asked where he got that information from. For example, in the case of Osimhen who left Napoli, even though he got good money there, he felt unappreciated internally, so he decided to move to Galatasaray.

When a coach leaves, all the tactics are also lost, because he also takes away key players, this is almost always the case, in fact when you take the coach of a team you also manage to take players who are very loyal and who can bring added value to the team.

Sorry, what are you talking about here?

[$weetne$$]

Surely Arteta do it wrong with much more defensive tactic as his team was accustomed. At the same time when they make the first goal they must had the second goal for say goodbye to Paris saint Germain, I don't know why he was convicted that with one goal he can win this type of match very difficult agaist the french team. The penalties shot are a lottery, and in a lottery can win any team despite if they are the strongest or not.

The defensive pattern has worked for him for a long time such that he began to feel it was the only way out,  so he decided to continue with that probably.  He would have taught of it that for a finals it may not work as exactly as he had taught,  so he would have rather looked at having an alternative plan in a case where it becomes necessary he switches to that sort of plan.  But he sticked with his plan which later did not do give him what he wanted.

[Velvet78]

A new season and a new domination by PSG awaits in the Ligue 1!    Of course I know that there wasn't that kind of a domination by them this season. They finished only 6 points ahead of Lens and collected only 76 points...

But even in this situation, they just don't lose the title to anyone. This is like the biggest opportunity other teams can get against them. Now I don't think next season will be the same. I think PSG will finish with much higher number of points.

[len01]

I think PSG will finish with much higher number of points.

IMO, the outcome will be the same or not much different from this season. I assume that PSG and Enrique will still be highly ambitious and aim to achieve something special by winning the Champions League three times in a row. With that in mind, PSG will probably take a more balanced approach in domestic competitions while still doing enough to stay ahead in the title race. In other words, they'll continue chasing the Ligue 1 title, but their main focus will remain the UCL.

Because of that, Enrique will likely keep experimenting with different tactics to ensure the team stays consistent in Ligue 1 while also maintaining stability and peak performance in the UCL.

[hyudien]

A new season and a new domination by PSG awaits in the Ligue 1!    Of course I know that there wasn't that kind of a domination by them this season. They finished only 6 points ahead of Lens and collected only 76 points...

But even in this situation, they just don't lose the title to anyone. This is like the biggest opportunity other teams can get against them. Now I don't think next season will be the same. I think PSG will finish with much higher number of points.

PSG dominance will be difficult to stop, but I hope the last season repeats itself, meaning Lens shows its persistence to compete with PSG again, although of course the final result has seen PSG lift the trophy, but at least there is an interesting spectacle if the competition in the standings is repeated.
 
I also expect big things for Marseille and Monaco in the new season.