Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 1051. (Read 194406 times)

I was really surprised that Marseille got this result. In fact, they were down to 10 men early on, but they still did enough to score. They scored at the beginning of the second half despite being down to 10 men. In minute 76 they increased the difference to 2 but they couldn't keep this score. In the 88th and 89th they had to settle for a draw with 2 goals one minute apart. With this point loss, the point difference with psg increased to 10 and we can say that the possibility of the championship has started to diminish.

I agree with everything you have listed, but I don’t understand why this is important for PSG this season? They have already been knocked out in the cup and in the Champions League. Bookmakers estimate the chances of a Ligue 1 title as 1.01 (lol I wonder if someone will bet on such a negligible odds).
In fact, PSG should already be preparing for the next season, everything else is trifles.

2 goals in one minute by the same player also makes this a bit unbelievable.
Even though he still brought 1 point at the end of the match, it was clear that in this condition, Marseille was a loss in my opinion because this should have been a win.
But on the other hand Aholou is definitely the MOTM in this match with his 2 goals for Strasbourg and 1 good point against a big club.

It was quite unprofessional for Masseille. Just under 30 minutes of starting a game a player is red carded. This can even change the whole game plan, the coach himself will be confused of what to do. Concceding two goals at that time was quite too sudden but I wouldn't blame them.
Strasbourg in other hand made a good impression I would say.   At least they were able to utilise the privilege of playing against 10 men.

IMO, actually the defense line is the last wall that a team has before the goalkeeper. before the opposing team penetrates the defense, at the very least, they have to get past the midfield players first. plus, the role of the pivot is as an attack breaker that is being built by the opposing team.

In the case of PSG, as far as I understand, the fault was not genuine on the part of the defensive line. however, the team as a whole.  because PSG has enough quality defenders. IMO, the problem is the system. yes, the system built by Galtier. I don't blame it purely on Galtier, but sometimes he tends to always change his patterns and strategies in every game. apparently, Galtier doesn't have a pattern on which to rely. most likely, PSG players are not always ready for what the coach wants. as a result, their performance tends to be poor. if, we refer to the match versus Bayern Munich. there are many mistakes made by PSG defenders, why, because midfield players don't provide good support when PSG will build attacks from the defensive line. as a result, Bayern succeeded in carrying out tight marking and high presing.

Apart from that i agree. so, yes, PSG has a lot of problems. in particular, midfield players. however, PSG's dominance in this competition will be difficult for their rivals to break and they will still win the Ligue 1 trophy.

Passing week 27 and currently Paris Saint Germain is 10 points ahead of second place which is now occupied by Marseille. With a difference of 10 points, it will be very easy for Paris Saint Germain to finish this season by becoming champions. And indeed they will definitely focus more on Ligue 1 now that they were knocked out by Bayern Munich in the Champions League.


Turning to the bottom of the standings, in my opinion, Angers will be the first club to be relegated. They are at the bottom of the standings by collecting only 10 points, 13 points behind from the safety zone. For Ajacio, Troyes and Auxerre they still have very big hopes of being able to stay in Ligue 1 next season. The competition is still very interesting to watch in that position.

I agree that in conclusion it can be said that PSG's defense this season has not been as good as expected. PSG conceded 26 goals in 27 Ligue 1 matches, while PSG conceded 10 goals in 8 Champions League matches this season. I don't get much other data about PSG's poor defense in other competitions, but it's true that the fact is that PSG's defense this season has been problematic.

Next season PSG must be able to improve its defense and also its midfield. They have to sign some new players to improve their chances in the Champions League. This season Ligue 1 is theirs because they really excel.

One of the most important reasons for their failure is that they turn their backs on players from their youth setup. While the goalkeeper from their own team takes Milan to the quarter finals, they cannot pass the last 16 with the goalkeeper from Milan's youth setup. If they had benefited from Coman and Nkunku instead of transferring neymar, they would have bought a top class midfielder and a top class defender with 222 million euros. They could only played kimpembe from their youth setup. Of course, I think PSG was the best choice for Messi because there was no other club that could take him at that time, there was Manchester City, but that door was closed for Messi after the grealish. I think Paris should have a more accurate transfer policy from now on, otherwise they will just pass by the final of the champions league.

If you look at PSG's defense it's a complete mess, first I think that the players are not up to standard but when I think about it I start to think that they are disorganized and I think that also goes down to the manager who is like you said. PSG's defense isn't the best but it's far from bad if the Manager can't manage it properly. With proof PSG had to be eliminated in the UCL and in Ligue 1 conceded a lot.

This Will Still guy has been doing a really remarkable work in the Ligue 1 since the day he was brought to the manager position at Reims.

His story is pretty interesting also. He was playing Football Manager before and he started a quite interesting journey for himself later. But this has been a really long journey of course. He worked as a video analyst and an assistant manager so many times before reaching this level. We have seen him at teams like Sint-Truiden, Lierse, Beerschot and Standard Liege before. He worked as an assistant manager at Reims before this job too. And now we are seeing him as a manager who is doing an amazing work.

Reims haven't lost a single game in the league for 17 weeks. Thanks to this young manager who is only 30 years old, Reims can even qualify for a tournament at the end of the season.

It looks like the red card that Leonardo Balerdi got really made bad luck for Marseille, because this match should have been won by Marseille. Although, in fact, Marseille was able to win first with a score of 2-0 but still, playing with only 10 players can make the opposing team continue to put pressure on Marseille.

Evidently, in the end Strasbourg was able to score two quick goals before the match was over. I'm sure that if Marseille still plays with 11 players then of course Marseille can maintain the victory it already has. Very disappointed with this result, because my multi bet failed only because Marseille failed to win.

They have very experienced players like Sergio Ramos for example, but if only 1 player it won't be enough because the defense needs players who really have very good chemistry. The problem they are currently facing is not only in defense but in midfield as well. I will compare with Manchester United for example, when Casemiro arrived, Manchester United's midfield could be more balanced in defense or attack.

In football crazy things like that happens all the time, just last year City looked like they were about to win and go to finals, and then after 88th minute Real scored twice and took it to overtime and won it there. On the other hand we had France at world cup finals, even though they lost in the end, for 80 minutes they were trailing 2-0 behind and in one minute they scored twice in a row to take it to extra time as well, it ended sadly for them of course but still shows that in world of football a few minutes is all you need to score.

Obviously that doesn't happen to most teams, if it is 2-0 at 88th minute, the likely result is 2-0 and not a draw, but it is not impossible to get a draw.

PSG has plenty of talented players in every position in defense, midfield, and attack. And PSG management has tried their best to build their squad with the best players in the world. Even so, PSG's squad has plenty of weaknesses visible. I would say this is due to the coach's inexperience. Coach Galtier is not very experienced. At least I think so. He has got enough time to stabilize the team. Yet he failed. And so far he has not found a stable formation for the PSG team. If the coach of PSG was experienced then we would have got better gameplay from this team. If the PSG management wants to spend more money next season to sign players, the first thing they should do is hire an experienced coach.

This is the problem PSG has been having even before now, that is why it was easy for Bayern Munich to take advantage. PSG has good players, and if the players are not exhibiting good performance then the fault is from the coach,  he needs to change his method of formation.

Very sick to imagine Sir. Actually I don't believe in Strasbourg quick goals, to be honest previously I saw Marseille advantage with a score of 2-0 then I stopped watching because they should have won that game, but when I saw this game again the score had changed. This is clearly Marseille weakness because they are playing with 10 players, but at least they didn't lose because this game at the last minute really excited.
Yes that's a really unwanted result, but also Marseille still has a chance, we'll see on matchday 28 whether Marseille can get points from Reims, if not then Lens could sit in second place for a while.

That's a good point, actually, I think the reason why PSG could beat Bayern Munich and lost the Champions League this season is the weakness in the defensive line where they even have good players there but still, there is a weakness of PSG, maybe the reason of this weeks is their coach because he doesn't know how to manage the player to have and stronger defensive line otherwise Brestois could's score a goal against them.

When viewed from the factor of the Marseille players it was clear that they had lost because they had to play with 10 people in the middle of the first half. Even though they were 2 goals ahead, it didn't guarantee that Marseille would be able to maintain that advantage and had to be willing to have the goal broken twice by Strasbourg players. A really unwanted result considering playing at home they had to suffer an unlucky fate. For Lens, their chances are very big to be able to shift Marseille's position in the standings, moreover, the opponent that Lens will face in next week's match is Angers, who are a team in the relegation zone.

That's why in football players shouldn't lose their focus just because they are ahead and the game is running out. In football, even 1 second can change the situation and that was felt by Marseille in this match. 2 minutes in 90 minutes of the match really buried the 3 points that were already in front of their eyes. Strasbourg didn't give up until the end so they got 1 point at home to Marseille.

PSG situation is very serious, despite them having a difference of 10 points in the table, they have serious problems such as:

1 - PSG has serious problems in defense, which makes it difficult for the team to play without conceding goals, to get an idea of the seriousness of what I'm talking about

PSG 2 - 1 Brestois

in this game, PSG conceded a goal, but if we look at this goal that PSG conceded, we can see that it was a serious mistake in PSG's defense, and to add that PSG is not managing to play well against brestois, which are a team that are competing with teams from the relegation zone

PSG 4 - 2 Nantes

PSG conceded 2 goals in this game

I'm not going to post more games, but the most important thing is to show that PSG's defense is not good in certain games, of course if we look globally we will see that in 27 games they conceded 26 goals, and that's a good thing. but in the last few games they have conceded a lot of goals sometimes

2 - PSG will no longer have neymar this season, it is safe to say that PSG's attack is already weakened, so it is possible that even their opponents will be able to win the Ligue 1 this season


Marseille were playing with 10 players from the 29th minute, but even so they managed to score 2 goals, but it is still shocking to concede a goal and in the next minute to concede another goal. it was very bad luck for them and the mistake of the guy who received the red card. It is very difficult for a team that is playing with fewer players to win a game, these are very difficult situations.