Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 1006. (Read 194137 times)

Ligue suddenly becomes more interesting because PSG lost two matches when they only have the league to compete in this season. That is not normal with a club which is full of star players like PSG. Again they cool down their crisis with their star players, Messi and S. Ramos while their team operation was not actually improved.

They are close to the crowd but they will have a very hot summer season to do. With their coach, players in and out as well as rebuild their strategic plan. After many years, their plans to buy star players and give players too high power, higher than their coach and sometimes can act as hub of a club. Their players with such high salary and power, lose their best contribution for the club.

PSG record another win in Ligue one with the aides of Leo Messi and Sergio Ramos. The game was not an easy one for the Parisians, although they made good use of their scoring chances. Gianluigi Donnarumma been ranked the Man of the Match with addition to his incredible saves in the game. PSG are close to been crowned champions of France and good accodes goes to the players and the coach. Nice stats in their last 5 appearance, DWDDL which ranked them 8th position on the table. A poor one of the club and they are aiming to secure a spot in Europa league next season.

Me neither and I was about to bet on 1 1/X but didn't end up doing it luckily. But I am not that much of a fan PSG winning today since Ligue 1 is a boring competition anyway. It would have been much more fun to see them losing and let the other teams get even closer. That way we would have had some more exciting final games. PSG isn't showing the quaity soccer the fans expect from them and also have every right to expect it from them. They are all highly paid, play in a league that is quite weak and yet they have trouble to secure the title or at least they aren't dominating the way they should be dominating the league with the team they have. If they play their very best they are nice to watch, but it happens too often that they play too far below their maximum. It could be that some of the players are too old and have experienced too much, the Ligue 1 title isn't something they are badly missing in their collection.

I wasn't very confident about PSG victory and it is nice to see them winning vs Nice
Messi scored a goal and Ramos too so the gap between them and Lens returned to 6 points. For Nice, their chances to reach an european competition spot is indeed low.
There is an unexpected result between Anger 1 - 0 Lille. Anger won only in 2 of their 29 games before their match against Lille.
Lyon - Rennes and Lorient - Marseille will be interesting since bookies are favouring Lyon in the first and Marseille need these 3 points to catch Lens in the second game.

Today we had an important game for the league standings. Nice hosted PSG at home and PSG won 2-0 away to extend their points difference back to six. The hosts didn't play badly, but they struggled to capitalize on their chances and failed to score and conceded more goals. When we look at the stats, we see that the home team has a higher expectation of goals, which is due to taking more shots.

Honestly I had some doubts about PSG to get past Nice today. But Messi was there to take a big responsibility to help his team win by one goal and an assist. Mbappe was also on the field but we didn't see this kind of a contribution from him. After seeing PSG that much inconsistent I was doubting them about winning this game honestly but they proved me wrong.

PSG need to keep winning from now on otherwise they might have to face the possibility of even losing the lead to Lens or Marseille.

Finally, after the last 2 matches they didn't go well in this match they managed to bring 3 points in their away match this time.
It's more special for me that La Liga fans see the list of their goal scorers in this match, namely Messi and Sergio.
Now 6 points still unchanged in their gap with Lens in 2nd place.

This was not too unexpected, because of course we know that Angers can be categorized as one of the easiest clubs to deal with but it was they who made LOSC lose points and lose momentum to catch up to the points gap from Monaco.
This was not too unexpected but indeed Angers played very well in this match and they also took advantage of the conditions where they were playing at home to ensure that they could get 3 points in this match.

Winning the league 1 title is not a difficult task for Bayern. The problem they having is the general European football. Due to the nature of the league(league 1), I quite believe that PSG will not emerge as this season's league 1 title if at all they were some other agile club who were doing well. Assuming there was winning consistency from other clubs like Lens, Masseille,  Monaco and like lille, there would have been a huge difference in the league 1 table. Apart from having the best team, I don't really see the difference between Lens, Masseille,  and Monaco,  in terms of consistency. I would be glad to see Messi 's back in Barca.

well, the LOSC game is over and surprisingly we have the following result:

LOSC 0 - 1 Angers

looking at this result even made me laugh a lot, that's because Angers came into this game with very bad results, in the last few games they couldn't win, they are in the relegation zone, but at least they had achieved a draw and they would play against LOSC who on paper was stronger than them, so a defeat would be expected, but the unbelievable happened, Angers managed to beat LOSC and got out of the curse of defeats, now with this victory it will serve as motivation for the next game that, by all indications, the team is stabilizing, but unfortunately it's too late, and 100% sure they will be relegated

about PSG, well at least today they won and didn't concede a goal, which is a very good thing, because PSG's biggest problem is the fragility of the defense, even with so many coaches who passed PSG they couldn't make the team have good defense, sometimes I even think that it seems like an impossible mission, but at least in this game the defense was good, in the next PSG game it will be even more important, a victory in the next game would make them calmer because the difference in points would be 9 points , but it will not be an easy game against Lens, PSG will only need to have a good defense in the game against Lens

Finally psg team managed to win after two consecutive losses and it was against a tough team such as Nice this is the first time the home team lost since january and this means that Nice team will not be participating in a european competition next season unless they win the conference league.

Lionel Messi knows how to deliver fantastic performances for any team he's playing for and what he did in today's match was one of those performances that's earned him the respect he's been getting from football faithfuls all over the world.
I know that Paris Saint Germain are surely gonna win the league despite their recent poor results in the league but little and as expected their star man Leo Messi made the huge difference today's game to send them 6 points clear at the summit of the league table

PSG successfully ended a series of bad results from three consecutive defeats after winning a dramatic 0-2 win over Nice, Lionel Messi was able to answer the doubts of PSG fans after contributing one goal and one assist to Sergio Ramos' goal in this match. PSG keep lead current standing position awhile behind 6 points left from Lens after winning from Strasbourg yesterday and have crucial game both team between PSG and Lens face each other up coming next games.

Seems PSG can't celebrate Ligue 1 tittle early like last season due 6 points behind Lens and need waiting until matchday 35 or 36 depend on up coming games against Lens, any possibility with Lens can stopping PSG dominance in Ligue 1 this if winning from PSG on next match.

Messi had a good performance today after having struggled in the previous matches. Against Nice, Messi managed to score 1 goal and create 1 assist for PSG's 0-2 victory, that was what was expected after the embarrassing defeat in the last two matches.

Nice basically also threatened with some good chances, but Gianluigi Donnarumma look really good in this fight. So because of this victory, PSG has created a safe distance from Lens' with difference of 6 points. PSG's next meeting is against Lens, it is home match for PSG, which is actually the favorite to win. So I wouldn't be very doubtful about PSG's title possibility, they are the title favourites.

I just don't see that as a possibility at all. I understand that people want to see some changes and they are tired of seeing PSG win all the time, and all the other teams got happy when PSG lost the title to Lille, it wasn't just a win for Lille but a win for every other team to prove that it's a possibility. BUt the reality is that we are not going to keep seeing that, it's just not going to happen.

This is why we should face the fact that we need to live in a world where it could be near impossible for PSG to lose the title from here. They got too close to title now, and they are going to end up getting it no matter what. They will win the games that matter when and if that time comes and just rest until then.

Lille ended their losing streak after 5 weeks with another defeat. Their opponent is actually one of the relegation candidates and there seems to be no chance for them to get out of here. Because the points difference between them and their rivals is high and they are not playing very well. As we can see from the odds, Lille were heavy favorites but couldn't win the match. If Rennes wins this week, they will be above Lille.

Regarding PSG, the game started a few minutes ago and they had a good start, PSG scored one goal while Messi had a good performance after the week and he scored one goal in the first half which can decrease the pressure on this player he recently had, however I guess made his decision about leaving PSG because they don't like him there anymore but regarding this game, I guess PSG got the potential to even score more goals in this game.

I really liked Lens' effort against Strasbourg last night. They had so many goal attempts and got a really good result after this decent performance. The score would have been even better than 2-1 as well. Medina's goal was really impressive but not as much Gameiro's certainly.    His finesse shot to the upper right corner of the goal was really worth watching. But it was still not easy for Strasbourg to make a comeback there. Because they were already having a really bad season and they didn't have a huge motivation to make this happen.

Strasbourg are currently trying to stay in the Ligue 1 at least. They are a quite inconsistent team for two season truthfully. Their look in the previous season was totally different than this you know.

There is 3 teams in the French 1 League that is expected to win today, Lens, LOSC and Paris Saint Germain
One of them managed to get an additional 3 points
The LOSC match with Angers is under way now, while the Paris Saint Germain match is just a few hours away
I bet on the wins of the three teams above, that's why I hope all three win today

Strasbourg was not giving a tough game against lens. Lens was able making two goals during the first half and another one in the second half. The only problem is lens was doing some blunders that was giving strasbourg a chance to make a goal against lens. So far the match is not so hard to predict caused by the performance from lens is always consistent at this moment. I just hope that PSG will be losing in upcoming match.
This will give lens more advantage caused by it's very close to the PSG.

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Nice will be facing PSG soon. Im sure that if the match will be ended with a draw as the result. PSG faces two losses in a row while nice is still consistently getting the draw against its opponent. The consistency of nice makes me believe that the game will be difficult game for PSG.
There have been so many pressures coming to the PSG, especially for messi. I think that messi has been losing his spirit to play in the upcoming game.
Will psg lose french league trophy for this season? this is a very interesting question.