Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 1184. (Read 184973 times)

Mbappe does not have to move to Premier League to make another dual competition with Haaland. Of course it would be more interesting if they play in a same league but it is still fine if they play at different leagues. They can compete each other with total goals, assists, titles in their national leagues, Champions League and Ballon D'or.

With Mbappe bad behaviour in last several months, I see Haaland is taking a lead and if Mbappe continues like this, he will lose against Haaland. His playing style relies so much on his speed and if he wastes his young ages, he will never be able to catch Haaland.

We saw how Gareth Bale lost his best form and performance just after a few injuries. I don't expect injuries for Mbappe because watching him is interesting but injuries in sports are unavoidable and Mbappe simply is not excluded from injuries.

Mbappe does not want to be managed by Mourinho because Mourinho does not support such undisciplined and unprofessional responses like Mbappe usually does. Mbappe can join Chelsea that is a club usually support players rather than their coaches.

If he really goes to premier league, we are going to see a whole another series of ronaldo vs messi type of deal in our life time and that would be awesome. Back in the day Ronaldo and Messi played in the same league for many seasons, and that gave us a lot of competition, if Mbappe leaves for any team in premier league, that would mean Haaland and Mbappe would be playing against each other and that would be a great thing as well.

In this situation, Haaland has Pep as well, which is a good coincidence for the same reasons, but Mbappe won't have mourinho I assume. It is going to be a great transfer if it happens, but I still expect it to not happen to be fair.

Without any doubt Marseille is second-best club in French League, but their recent form give them setback with this right now they are at fourth now in next round they are going to host third spot team Lens which is also doing good, but their away form is not good, so this can give them good fight back for their spot and back on good run.

Their Champions League form is also now on good run with this they have chance to go through into next round but for this they have to beat Frankfurt in their next game which is going to play in Germany recently they have done good job against sporting and won their both matches which is surely a good from them now if they are able to beat Frankfurt then surely they can do much better.

It wouldn't be easy to make a guess, but it really depended on who would be his opponent in the next round. The knockout system will usually see big teams meet each other, it will be detrimental to one team because only one team will qualify. I think PSG will be smooth to the last 8 if the opponent is not too strong, and so on until the final. But not hard to believe.

Some of the top teams in my opinion are PSG, Real Madrid, Manchester City, Bayern Munich, Liverpool. I think one of them will make it to the final. For Ligue 1, PSG is without a doubt.

After a wonderful start to the season Marseille's form has started to drop down recently. I can understand the PSG defeat actually because it was really hard for them to get even one point away against PSG. They still resisted PSG well by conceding only one goal despite the red card. However I couldn't understand how they lost to a much weaker team like Ajaccio in their match home.

These consecutive point losses can cause bigger problems to happen but we will see. The Lens match is pretty tough for them and I'd like to add another thing like they lost their last two home matches against Lens also. Therefore it is difficult to trust Marseille as much as betting on them. But I might go for BTTS as I think that it will happen most probably.

complicated because of his own fault. actually Mbappe is a good player, especially when he was in Monaco. But for some reason lately his behavior irritates many people.
Quality players are not just individual skills, but also the nature, character and mutual respect in a team.
mbappe still needs to learn a lot from all aspects, he will never be a great player if he is still selfish and childish.
messi deserves to be respected and liked by the team because emotions have completed all aspects.

Marseille's 2 matches were not so good and should be 2 defeats in a row, it kept them away from Paris Saint Germain in the standings. This week they also got a tough opponent, Lens. Perched one level above Marseille Lens is a difficult opponent for Marseille. If you look at the statistics, these two teams are not much different in terms of strength, maybe it will also be a match that ends with sharing points from each team. If that really happened then Marseille would be further away from the leaders.

PSG's problems are still the same as in previous seasons and indeed in this case it is difficult to change things like this even though their quality is very good in terms of individual players but still they are still very difficult to make their dream in the Champions League.
I don't even hesitate to say they won't be able to bring back the Champions League season as long as they don't improve their internals.

I think Mbappe's situation is still very complicated. I don't think they can unite with Real Madrid, if they leave PSG, I think they will go to the Premier League. I think he has less chance of playing in Spain.
There are already minor problems with both the team and the fans. I'm still wondering how it can last until the end of this season. During the Ballon d'Or ceremony, we saw the reaction of the fans to Mbappe, which is not very pleasant

It's not as if Paris Saint Germain are privileging Mbappe, but they really are privileging him and it's true that is the root of the problem. I don't understand why they decided to do that even when they wanted to keep Mbappe I don't think they had to do all those privileges. Even without Mbappe I believe they can still do well to win the League. The impact on their own internal problems now that are not harmonious is caused by one player.

The root of the problem arises when one player is privileged by management while the other is not, selfishness can trigger a rift between players and this has happened at psg this season. mbappe as if he became the golden boy at psg. some of the rumors on social media that are circulating he will leave in the transfer window next season whether it's true or not. PSG are a strong team in terms of player quality, of course they are quite ready to be champions this season either in the domestic league or in the UCL.

True, there is no team that doesn't make mistakes, but how often do they make mistakes? that's what makes them labeled as a team that can not utilize its potential. They are one of those teams that have a star-studded squad, but they couldn't have gone higher. It would be a shame if they couldn't take advantage of the good momentum they always get in every season.

PSG has all the potential to lift the UEFA Champions League this season but its greatest obstacle would be unresolved internal rifts. Kylian Mbappe is the center of all these challenges. He is gradually losing the support of the fans and the management. There are reports that he was booed by the fans during the Ballon d'Or ceremony. And there are also speculations that the club is willing to sell him, at the right price. He has claimed that he has no intention of leaving the club in the January transfer window. But I think PSG would achieve more without him because he is really causing division in the dressing room.

The news that Messi wants to leave is not a surprise to me. The club gave Mbappe so much privilege that he could conveniently disrespect one of the greatest players that ever existed. Yes, Mbappe has a glorious football future, but his ill behavior and selfishness can make him end like a player like Mario Balotelli.    

Benfica were also strong last year (by the way, they knocked Barcelona out of the group stage and reached the quarter-finals where they lost to Liverpool), but PSG are supposedly an annual contender to win the tournament, so they should not have problems with such averages. If they can't consistently beat average teams then what are the chances that they can beat at least a few top clubs to win the title? I think minimal. Maybe Galtier in some cunning way distributes forces for the whole season, but this makes very little sense because of the World Cup, which will break all plans.

No team has never made a mistake, that's natural.

PSG always try season after season to win the Champions League title, but it seems their efforts have not yielded the results the club wanted. this season, in addition to changing coaches, PSG brought in several players to strengthen in defense and add attacking midfielders. the results are quite satisfactory, until now they are unbeaten in all competitions.

as well as Real Madrid, they are still mighty by not tasting defeat this season.
PSG's chances in the Champions League are of course very big, they have three deadly strikers. whoever their opponent later in the next phase, will not play open. meaning, will prefer to strengthen the defense line. but can they get that title, let time will tell.

@hahay I believe that these two are key factors why PSG player’s are not performing that well: 1) the new coach has failed to unite this egoistic squad, 2) Mbappe status is causing discontent among the squad and the solution is to sell him and reinvest in other player or player’s. Furthermore there’s also talks of Messi leaving which has further distracted the squad, and if PSG wants to achieve success this season then it needs to put an end to Messi’s exit rumours.

Regarding the result in the Champions League against Benfica, it made me curious as well, whether it was purely because Benfica were indeed in their best form or there was something that maybe they planned to keep getting points so that Juventus no longer had a chance to overtake them. But apart from these suspicions, I also agree that it is indeed difficult for PSG to continue to get maximum results in every match, because winning by only one goal difference with the squad they have, for me it is not a maximum result.
But for me it is not, because if other teams in Ligue 1 improve to make it difficult for PSG to win or only make PSG able to win by a narrow score. Then PSG will be increasingly tested and of course have a good impact for them to compete even stronger in the Champions League, but in reality this is not the case. Because PSG in the Champions League doesn't seem to have had a big development to get stronger and that means they are still at the same level, or maybe they tend to decline a bit because over time they need more effort than usual just to score one goal.
Alexis Sanchez is indeed a hard-working player and I really liked it when Alexis Sanchez played at Barcelona, and until now he is not young anymore Alexis Sanchez can still play with very good movements. But yes, a team win cannot be done with just one player and also, basically it is not easy for Marseille to beat PSG. What's more, PSG's team development makes it difficult for Marseille to beat PSG from time to time. Therefore, Marseille is still not strong enough to win the trophy because even, to stay in the top three Marseille really needs a bigger effort and it is not easy for them.

While in theory it should be like this,the player to obey the manager rules and decisions some players are simply highly skilled and have a class of its own and when such strikers do not agree with the coach,then the result is simple,most probably the coach will be fired rather than a player of such caliber.

Whatever internal problems PSG may have they are on another planet compared to all the other teams of the Ligue 1 in the French soccer and thus they are already Champions of it before the league has even started.Their main goal for this year is to win the Champions League,it won't be easy but sure the stellar player they have make you believe them to be strong contenders.

Having a first assist in this season is good and it helps to reduce critics about Mbappe selfishness. However, he should make it more often, from key passes to assists. PSG need both goals, assists and good connections between Mbappe and other players.

In match with Marseile, we saw some weakness of Mbappe that he relies on his speed to beat defenders. His dribbling is not too good and when he can not use his speed, it is hard for him to run through defenders. His skills are far lower than Ronaldo from Brazil.

Rumor is rumor and we can not trust or distrust rumor. Wisely we can absorb it as one of news but that's all. Before rumor is confirmed by real actions, it is still rumor. Mbappe will likely not move to other clubs after the World Cup. At least he will complete this season in Paris and PSG.

If anyone want drama, hot news about Mbappe, wait till next summer.

The media seemed to exaggerate PSG's internal problems but the rumors that were created were successfully dismissed. another recent rumor is about the rift between PSG and galtier, there are speculators that galtier's future at PSG is not long as he is not friendly with mbappe. after all galtier is a coach and mbappe should listen to what he has to say, if he doesn't want to be managed then he doesn't deserve to be a striker.