Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 1121. (Read 194956 times)

I see a bit of a decline in the PSG team. Neymar, Mbappe, Messi chemistry we have not seen till date. But it must be accepted that PSG is the best in League 1.

Nice managed to thwart Lens's beautiful expectations and succeeded in making PSG happy. Lens 1-0 narrow defeat over Nice was really unexpected. I don't know what's wrong with Nice, even though they really dominated the match from the start. PSG will face Toulouse and if PSG win then there will be no more teams that can catch them (PSG must doesn't lose again).

For the next match against Toulouse, I think it's still not an easy match, because even though PSG are playing at home and also Toulouse's position in the Ligue 1 standings, they are only in 12th place with 29 points. Because in the absence of several key PSG players who cannot be played, such as Mbappe and also Neymar, it seems that this factor will make it difficult for PSG to gain full points.

Because so far in my view, when some of PSG's key players cannot be played, it is often difficult for PSG to beat the opposing team even though the opponent they are facing is not a strong team.

Actually I can't say Lens played badly against Nice. They were quite effective on the front. They had a huge opportunity to get ahead first in the first half as well but Schmeichel did a really nice job to prevent them there. Nice's goal was totally due to a defensive mistake. Machado was sleeping there while Laborde finishing the attack with a goal by a single touch. Fofana was really close to scoring the equalizer later on but he targeted the goal post I'm afraid.

Lens could have got one point at least. Now they are behind Marseille and Marseille definitely deserved the position after a great form.

I do agree that they may focus on UCL a bit more than the league, they have done it before and they have showed that they are willing to put players that are from the bench to play during the league games in between the UCL games.

We know how there are games like on Tuesday you play in UCL and then on Saturday a league game and the following Tuesday another UCL game? Well that Saturday game could be played with bench level players to give their starting eleven players some rest, maybe not all of them but some of them, definitely Messi and Neymar for example who are a bit more carefully looked after. That's just my guess though, maybe they will just play everyone all the time unless they are injured.

Chelsea's performance against Montpellier in the last match was very good. The Chelsea team won a beautiful 3-1. Next match opponent Toulouse is the weaker team. PSG have won the last 5 matches against Toulouse. And Chelsea managed to score 7 goals in the last two matches. Considering these statistics, it is easy to imagine that PSG is the favorite in this match.

However, the problem in this match is that PSG's two main strikers, Neymar and Mbappe, will be absent due to injury. Looking forward to see how the PSG team performs in the absence of one of the most important players in the squad.

As I said in a previous post, Lens is not strong enough to be one of the strong contenders for the Ligue 1 trophy. after all, PSG is still too strong for its opponents in this competition. although in several matches, PSG experienced a decline in performance plus several of its players were injured. Mbappe's absence in the coming weeks will not have a big impact on the Ligue 1 competition. But it will be a problem when PSG host Bayern.

Speaking of Lens, in his last two matches in Ligue 1. Lens did not get satisfactory results. even though, their opponent was a team that could be said to be not too strong. next, Lens has quite tough matches including leaving one meeting against PSG and Marseille. I doubt they will be able to maintain the consistency of their performance, until the end of this season.

Meanwhile, Marseille has been able to shift the ranking that has been occupied by Lens so far. Igor Tudor's squad won seven games out of eight in the second half of the season.  even so, at least Marseille and Lens, still have a chance to compete with the top standings. even then, if PSG experienced some problems when carrying out match after match in Ligue 1.

PSG is one of the best teams in League 1. They have been winning their titles for the past few years. But I think PSG needs to have a strong opponent in League One.

For tomorrow's match it looks like it will also be easier for PSG to finish it as the next win. Because what PSG will face at home is a team ranked 12th in the standings which is also not so tough, namely Toulouse. Tomorrow's match can also be another golden opportunity for PSG to continue to widen the gap with the teams Marseille and Lens, who are respectively in second and third place in the Ligue1 standings.

Lens's loss is disappointing since they seemed to be a serious challenger to PSG in the Ligue 1 championship race. I understand how disappointing it is when your team doesn't perform as hoped, but there's still a lot of football to be played this year.

While I agree that PSG isn't quite clicking right now, I do think that they still possess a strong core of skill and experience. Any team would have to do really well to pass them in the standings, which is why the competition is so fascinating. And nobody knows what will happen in the remaining contests. It's possible that Lens may rediscover their form and challenge PSG.

It sure is, mate.  Marseille will take the league in second place and will be behind Lens. The only address for the championship will be Psg again.  Psg is a very good team, a team built from gilding, but they lost so many points this year that they almost gave up the lead.  They are very lucky because there is no team that will be of the quality to surpass them.

PSG is undoubtedly one of the most valuable teams in Europe, now, if we look at the fact that they have such an impressive trident like Mbappé+Neymar+Messi, everyone thinks that they must be invincible, and well, it's food for thought, no. I deny it, they are the best players there are currently, so as I have said in other threads, if PSG each one plays for them, if there is selfishness they cannot do much, that is, this team does play in favor so that they always score goals. goals: Messi or Mbappé or Neymar, this team would be invincible, if they put it that way it would be something like this, but in this team there are associated envy, things that don't add up.

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Many people have been a bit disappointed with Lens' match yesterday, and I think I know why, they will say that it was a good opportunity to get much closer to PSG, but a team that wants to compete against PSG cannot fail now In these instances, it is something natural, it is difficult to comply, but it is known that this is what they must pursue, however when we start to see the possibilities that PSG has to fight hard for their title, they are putting everything into it " the color of ant" and that's good, and Ligue 1 doesn't look like that boring league where PSG was hegemony, now Marseille has plenty of opportunity, only, as I said before, they can't and shouldn't fail, which It's a very difficult thing in Fútbol.

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I was supporting Lens to challenge psg for the Ligue 1 title, and they were doing very good and were so close to psg, but then they drew 1-1 against Troyes, and lost 1-0 to Nice a few days later, this has affected them so much on the Ligue 1 table, they have even fallen below Marseille and are now in third position, while Marseille are in second place. I felt this season would have been a good time for a different French club than psg to win the Ligue 1 title, psg aren't playing in their best way, but there is no team that is ready enough to go ahead of them in the table, so they will be Ligue 1 champions again.

Yes, Paris Saint Germain really dominated the game and it was an easy win for Paris Siant Germain. Even though new goals were created in the second half, the 3 goals they scored made them very comfortable to finish this game. This result had indeed been predicted by many in advance that Paris Saint Germain would be able to win the match, because the opponent they were facing was not a formidable opponent when viewed from the standings and from the other side.

Even Lens having no capacity to fight against PSG for the title race, but they were doing good job in early half of the season but now suddenly after the break things are completely changed, and they are on same level of PSG for losing points both teams are already lost seven points which is beneficial for the Marseille which is now having second rank and Monaco is also at the fourth rank with if they are able to keep their momentum they also can rank up and stay at the third because Lens is slowly now losing touch and having from poor to worse which can bring them down as well.

As we are now heading for the important part of the season injuries are also having poor impact on leader's performance, so now we can expect Marseille and Monaco will do good fight and try to stay with PSG because now they are also going to face Bayern Munich in Champions League as well which is also not easy for them.

Their focus will be divided because I believe they will be more focused on the Champions League matches, as they really want the trophy they have been after for a long time. But on the other hand, they also have to keep their distance now in Ligue 1 because the threat really came to them following the bad results they received the previous week.
In the Champions League, Bayern Munich will be a difficult opponent for them, and to be honest I doubt them a bit, if they don't do very well.

Like Montpellier we expect PSG to win by 2/3 goals. And PSG played very well in this match. And if PSG can perform like that in the upcoming matches then they will have no problem winning. But I think PSG's aim now is to perform well and win the Champions League match against Bayern Munich. The performance of the Bayern Munich team is now somewhat unstable. So PSG has a good chance to win. But it cannot be predicted which team will win. Because both have strong squads and experienced players.

Lyon clearly losing their ground and now having the worst time with no chance to qualify for the European competitions they have 11 points gape from fifth spotted Rennes and their performance is also not good for having any chance to rise at higher rank with this all now just four teams which are in good shape will stay at their spots and qualify for the next seasons European Competitions Rennes and Monaco is doing good but for me Monaco will be gone above, and we will have fight between Lens and Rennes because Monaco is having good quality and can fight hard but other two are not near to them for staying at the best which is surely not good, but hopefully things could be improved, and they will be able to have improvement in performance and also quality will also better for having good chance for higher ranks.

3 goals against Montpellier is a convincing win for Psg and it was an expected win. As the Champions League is drawing near, psg team is improving and wining matches . This season CL will be great because Bayern match may destabilise the psg club and give other clubs opportunities to contest in the ligue 1 because the point difference is not much.

In the match between Montpellier vs PSG in the French Soccer League, PSG won by 3 goals. However, we know that PSG is a very strong team. PSG team is now at the 1st position in the points table.  Both teams scored after half time. Montpellier scored 1 goal in this match. However, I enjoyed a very peaceful game between the two teams. I hope to enjoy the game of PSG vs Toulouse again tomorrow.