Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 1043. (Read 194326 times)

Lens had a very impressive game against Angers home and destroyed them. They were solid in terms of passing and shots both. Angers couldn't even resist them much. Lens need to maintain an effort similar to this level if they want to keep their claim for a spot in the Champions League. They need to finish at the second spot if they want to join the group stage directly of course.

And this isn't an easy task for them at all. Because there are very challenging opponents like Marseille and Monaco aiming the same goal. Lens will just hope for exactly Marseille to lose points this week. Because their losing points will keep Lens ahead of them in the standings. As Marseille's opponent is Reims in an away match it might really happen. Will Still has been doing an incredible work so far.

I agree with you about Paris Saint Germain, in fact I think that if in Ligue 1 there were teams who were really on the same footing financially and in line-up I doubt they would easily win the title. What are they lacking? Financial they have very good ability, players? They have a series of star players in their squad. But that doesn't make them a very scary team.

PSG should be the example you give when talking about clubs that are not well run. I just don't know what goes on in their heads. A club that wants to really win in the champions league won't go around buying average players while focusing only on their attack. A team that has Neymer, Mbappe and Messi in todays football won't be able to fully strength their squad. As much as Mbappe has been beneficial to them, it would have been better they let him go to Madrid than spend that kind of money on a single player when you have a midfield that's is as awful as that. Aside how bad their midfield is, they don't have good substitutes. They do not have any player on the bench that can come in for an injured or fatigued Mbappe, Neymer, Veratti, Messi. The squad of that team is just not ready to compete and I don't believe they have the right coach for the job either.

League 1 championship for Paris SG is not a measure. According to the squad they had, Paris SG was already the champion of League 1 before the league started. Like everyone else, I think that the real success for them is UCL.  They were not successful in that either. They were eliminated this year. Now is the time for Galtier to think about what he will do next year and how he will form a squad.

It is not easy for psg in the Champions league. The champions league is the toughest league you can think  of. PSG is leading the French league because their are no strong teams that can challenge PSG.
The champions has many strong teams competing to get the championship.

You are right PSG is a funny team, the team is not balanced. They are able to perform best in League One but in other leagues like the Champions League they have performed very poorly. PSG management now needs to think hard about how to balance the team and how to correct mistakes

Lille managed to secure a remarkable victory in the Ligue 1 match. Lille kept most of the possession to themselves and the team's attacking players used great tactics and managed to score 2 goals. Later, Lille secured victory as the opposition could not pay for these goals.

After the slow start of this season now they are doing good job and having good win against Toulouse which bring them to fifth spot which is also good achievement for them in this season with most chances they will keep this for few weeks because tomorrow we have PSG vs Rennes which is surely won for the home team with this Lille will be able to stay here in this match after having goalless draw after end of first half we have two late goals from Lille side with Alexsandro scored in 85th minute goal then Bayo scored in injury time which was big below for them, and they are able to have full three points from this match now after break they will face Lorient which after having good start of this season now having poor results and trying to stay in above spots.

I bit happy during the 1st half and until minute 84 of the match, I bet in a draw and I guess the draw will happen. but, I don't know where he is coming from, Alexandro as a defender be a Lille Hero last night and open a goal for Lille. Which I think make the Toulouse squad to be down and careless to hold the 2nd goal from Bayo.

Well in Ligue 1 it is no surprise that PSG is the best team,Marseille is a team that can reach them, that can compete with them, but for some reason they always lose when they have to play against PSG, they can secure a 2nd place However, they must take advantage of every opportunity they give, PSG is not counting on Ney due to the ankle injury, and only Mesi and Mbappé are there, if they establish a good strategy, they can stop him from good fútbol what do they do? two players are assigned each can make a difference, but of course this is just a strategy, but they should come up with something so they can win more often.


You are right, Ney is a very good reference for PSG, when Messi and Mabppé do not do well, then there is Ney who can show his face, however I have seen games where All 3 have been and they have not done much, to My PSG if these players go, how will they defend themselves? It is not that they Are very happy, neither the players or The owner, because they have not been able to crown a UCL and that is very serious, at least for A team like this that has always Been at the forefront of the best teams in the world. They can do nothing, and the worst thing is that they have a world champion, a sub-champion of the world and not even like that.




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Lille and Lens both won last night's game over their opponents and this result means that the two teams will start competing in the top 4 of the standings starting next week considering that Lille and Monaco are only 2 points apart, if Monaco fail to win over opponent Ajaccio, there will definitely be a chance Lille in the next week is very big to shift Monaco's position in the standings. We know that Monaco's performance in the last few matches has always had minor results and I think that later they will return to a draw.

 PSG is one funny team when you mention the champions league, well they're out now and they'll concentrate on their league but it seems they're still not getting things right even in Ligue 1, I can't just get it.
 Today they're going head to head against a visiting team [Rennes] who wants to make it to the conference league but is going to be a very difficult task to win against the host at this point in time, they're unleash their anger on Rennes and it might be a goal fiesta. With the likes of Messi and Co it will be another day to smile with a huge win.

Angers, who was almost certain to be relegated from the league, could not hold on to the game against Lens.  The lens was worn in 3 goals, I think they could have scored more goals.  For now, they are placed in the second place in the league. They continue to be in the race for second place with Marseille.

take a good look at the table, PSG is not very far from its opponents, and if we look at PSG's current weaknesses we have:

1 - the old and persistent problem in defense, in certain games psg is a great disaster in defense, they concede goals against weak opponents on paper, the goal they conceded in their last game just confirms what I'm talking about

2 - now that neymar has a prolonged injury and will not play this season, so he will no longer have the attacking trio and with that psg's attack will be very weakened, it is worth remembering that even with the trio they were facing difficulties in the attack so now things will be worse

With these two points you can see that it won't be an easy task for psg to win Ligue 1 this season, the risk of them losing points in the remaining games is very big and with their coach who seems to have been unable to come up with good strategies for the team I very much doubt it that PSG have an easy life in the next game until the league ends

Lens did a really good job against Angers today. This reassuring win should be giving them some extra confidence in themselves. They are still in the fight for the second position technically. But it depends on being consistent on one hand. Otherwise their job wouldn't be easy against Marseille and Monaco in the first place. For now they have captured this position in the standings.

I wonder how good Marseille will be able to play against Reims away. Reims are in a great form and they should be able to compete with Marseille at a similar level as well.

In this match, Lyon again failed to bring full points and they only managed to get 1 point. But I see something else here, Lacazette has always been a player that makes the difference. Having previously managed to score a brace against Lille now he also saved Lyon from losing again despite only one point being earned in this game.

Lens again achieved full results like this in this match, they are very comfortable with a big advantage at the moment and of course this makes them compete again with Marseille in the race for second place.
Currently they have scored 3 goals and the time is approaching the last 10 minutes which can be crucial. with the condition of possession and the current opportunity I think if Angers is off guard, it is not impossible that there will be a 4th goal for Lens.

It needs at least until the crucial minutes they can score goals in this match.
Toulous was very good in this match, it was unexpected that they were able to match Lille's performance even though in terms of conditions Lille should have been very superior but they were able to keep up with Lille's fast play but it was a shame that towards the end their focus was reduced and 1 point that was already in front of their eyes was destroyed in The last 5 minutes of normal time and of course the drama of 12 minutes of extra time in this match also made them even more devastated with the second goal in the last minute of extra time.

Lens are literally destroying Angers right now as they are maintaining a 3-0 lead. They really need a win with a huge superiority like this one after the two draws they got.

Fofana and Openda are the players who deserve the appreciation a lot now. This win will just carry Lens right in front of Marseille in the standings but it will be temporarily of course. However Lens might be likely to keep the second place on this week also. Because Marseille's next competitor is Reims and it is an away game. Marseille will have a very difficult job in this one. Because Reims have been on an insane run with Will Still for 17 weeks straight. They haven't lost a single league game in this time period.

I'm thinking of adding their double chance into my parlay.

Lille managed to get 3 points from a difficult away game. Toulouse is not an easy opponent but this game was a must win for Lille. In the first half, the away team couldn't find a goal despite playing a pressing football. In the second half, we watched a more balanced match. In the last minutes, Lille took advantage of the positions they found and scored 2 goals and increased their points to 49.
Lens are 3-0 up against an out of form opponent. Their opponents are bad and their relegation from the league is almost certain. Lens, taking advantage of this, made no mistake and won.