Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 12. (Read 195190 times)

As it seems to me Monaco was stronger in this match, they attacked more and struck, but they could not win, moreover they were losing 2-0, at the moment it seemed that they could lose, but I generally understood that with such a game Nantes will not last long and will concede a goal, and where the first goal, there is somewhere near the second. Basically it turned out that way, it's a pity they couldn't score anymore

Me too, i didn't expect Monaco to play 2-2 with Nantes tonight, was expecting a 2-1 or 3-1 win from Monaco. But from their previous records i noticed that in Monaco vs Nantes fixture both teams scores in most of their encounter, so i opted for GG option in one ticket and straight win for Monaco in another ticket, as it stands Monaco has made me to lose money in that area this night, i actually trusted them to win this match. Nut its all good, this is football and anything can happen.
I'm waiting for Auxerre vs Lille game for both teams to score because that's the option i gave them. 

Honestly, I was expecting Monaco to win this match based on my comparison. Looking at their current form, it was a little bit clear that Monaco was the favorite team to win the game. However, I was not that surprised when the match ended in a draw because, even from their head-to-head statistics, it has been a few meetings now since Monaco last beat Nantes in Nantes’ home game. Monaco always has good chances to beat Nantes, but only when Monaco is the host of the game.

But the truth is that Monaco tried, but they just weren't lucky enough to win the game. Monaco was the team that controlled the pitch and created some good chances, but they weren't lucky enough to convert those opportunities into goals. When Nantes scored, I thought maybe they would lose the game to Nantes, but they equalized with two goals. That was great work.

I'm not sure yet but maybe the solution for having more competitions in the French League is to have a more rich owner for the other teams as they have than in PSG. Since they have good a rich team in PSG they can have much better and more expensive players and coaches which makes PSG a much better team than other teams.
That's why even if PSG is not in the good for many other teams like Marseille and Monaco try hard they still can't have a fair competition with PSG.
Recently we saw rumors about Marseille and maybe the Arabs are interested in buying this team and hiring some superstar players for them but this team but until that time I don't think if we can see any competitions in the French League.
 

La Liga = Real Madrid and Barcelona

Premier League = Manchester City, Liverpool

Serie A = Inter and Napoli

Bundesliga = Bayern and Leverkusen

Portuguese League = Benfica, Porto and Sporting

Turkish League = Galatasaray

In my opinion, the case of Ligue1 is not very different from the other leagues. The fact that PSG constantly becomes champion does not mean that the league is not competitive, the other teams in Ligue1 are not weak, we have seen cases of Ligue1 teams beating other European teams, in the same way that we have seen cases of Premier League teams losing to other European teams.

Although Nantes is ranked low in the standings, they can always be relied on when facing strong teams, previously Nantes held Lille and PSG to a draw, this was a kind of warning for strong teams not to mess around, they seemed to know what to do to make it difficult for strong teams. Now the next victim is Monaco, statistically overall Monaco is indeed superior, but in terms of effectiveness Nantes is superior. The final score of 2-2 did not change, a good point for the home team, on the one hand this is a defeat for Monaco because by only bringing one point they are slowly moving away from the title race.

The match is a tough one and is going as expected, because I predicted that the game will end with draw in my slip ,Nantes is a strong side as well as their visitors Monaco,  that's why we see the level of competitiveness tonight since the beginning of the match and, I think the game will most likely end in draw as at this point.

What a nice block from the defender, Monaco would have been 3-2 up on the night, the comeback would have been complete if not for the block, the defender was at the right place at the right time. 85 minutes and its 2-2, lets see what will happen from now till full time.

Monaco this season have been very inconsistent in the French league and some cases, they've gone on to drop points in games they had the more probability ratio of winning. The against Nantes is currently in the 82nd minute and judging by what I'm seeing on my screen here, I think Monaco might just be lucky to complete their comeback tonight. Nantes who went 2 goals up in the 47th minute threw away their two goal lead and might lose this game if Monaco can continue to press high as they're currently doing. I initially thought Monaco will easily win this game before kickoff but if the game finishes with this scoreline, the headline in the newspaper tomorrow morning will read "Monaco fought from 2 goals down to earn a point at Nantes".

Well, why don't other teams try to attract big investors so that the teams in Lique 1 have the financial resources to recruit talented players and even star players. The question is, what is the main problem for the teams in Lique 1 so that this competition does not have the appeal to make the League much more competitive. As we all know, only PSG is the most established team with abundant finances and they can even recruit expensive star players. It is natural that they are targeting many star players, especially PSG wants the Champions League trophy. I think this is not a problem caused by PSG, but more by other teams that do not have the strong resources to become an elite team on the same level as PSG. If Lique 1 is a farmer's league, the French football management should find a way to make this competition much more interesting. For example, they make various new rules, or change the regulations so that the competing teams are not always dominated by one club/team. If PSG always targets the trophy in the Europa League every season, it is very natural, after all they have poured a lot of money into it.  Unfortunately, PSG president failed with his mega project. Currently PSG tends to use young players, they do not have star players at the level of Mbappe, Messi and Neymar. Under Enrique's guidance there have been changes, but this team has not reached the level according to the club's expectations. Maybe next season there will be changes and overhauls, the goal is clear, the Champions League will be their target.

I didn't expect Monaco to struggle in the away match against Nantes, the current score is 2-2 and Nantes always managed to score first. Although there is still a lot of time for Monaco to be able to beat Nantes, but it doesn't seem easy at all. Or maybe, a draw could happen, because based on head to head, in reality their matches often end in a draw, and Monaco also doesn't always manage to beat Nantes in every meeting. If I consider their position in the standings and their statistics so far this match until the 65th minute, I personally am still confident that Monaco will still manage to win, because that is also my hope because I also bet on Monaco win in this match.

Lille is the favourite over Auxerre this because the recent form of Auxerre is quite bad that Auxerre even went through December without a win in all competitions but the condition of Lille is also not so good because during this season Lille has got 7 draws in Ligue 1 this record makes Lille as the team with the most draws along with Nantes

Today Lille will fight at Auxerre home ground actually from away matches Lille only lose once during this season but the most problem is Lille inconsistent and they were only able to win once and get 4 draws even Lille still can't get a winning result from an away matches since November last year

For the condition of the squad Lille will lost several players due to injury but for the front lines Lille still rely on their key player Jonathan David so far this player has 11 goals in Ligue 1 and for betting option i personally more prefer to bets both teams to scores or draw also good pick and for the final scores 1-1

I am definitely sure that we are going to see Monaco win this game because Lille is very close and Monaco needs this win very much so. However, if anything happens and they lose or draw, then Lille is a great team and will do fine enough to just get the win they need to catch up. Lille is doing great at UCL as well, we have seen them do fine and I believe they fought really hard for their position at UCL and at Ligue 1 as well, Lille is a good team that is managed very well and that is the reason why they keep getting good results almost every year.

Even when they win the league and their players are bought, they recover and rebuild and do better later on. This is why if Monaco goes under Lille, then I assume there is a chance Lille could catch up to Marseille as well, wouldn't be really that weird to see Lille finish the season second place. PSG is definitely the winner there is no doubt about that, but Lille may go as far as being second place.

Maybe winning the treble winner will be one of PSG outlets when they failed to win the UCL title.
Of course, fans really hope that PSG will win the UCL title and if they lose the title in several competitions, fans will not have a problem with it. Because it would be better to prioritize 1 match to keep the players physically fit to appear stronger in the UCL.
Unfortunately, PSG continues to pursue other competitions to get a collection of trophies and does not seem to take the UCL match seriously. So PSG'sappearance looks bad in the UCL because in any case the players are still tired of appearing in all competitions.

That's right. Ligue 1 is dominated by PSG because other teams sometimes only think about business or because of unstable finances so they often sell players who have potential. So if you want Ligue 1 to be competitive, there must be someone who can compete with PSG in terms of finances. The transfer market in the French League is focused on only one team so that its abilities are not evenly distributed unlike the English, Italian and Spanish Leagues. In addition, the French League clubs are not trained by great coaches who can make the clubs competitive. Just look at the composition of coaches in the French League 1 which is rarely occupied by top coaches, as a result only PSG always dominates League 1.

If asked why PSG finds it difficult to become Champions League champions. This goes back to the explanation above because their league is not competitive so when PSG plays in the Champions League they do not have the fighting spirit and do not have the mentality because in League 1 they do not need that, they are too dominant, no team is able to compete with them.

PSG got their first trophy of the season 5 days ago. They beat Monaco in the French Super Cup finale by 1-0 by playing really dominant you know. I didn't expect a surprising result there though. 

Most probably they will add Coupe de France trophy to their museum as well unless we see a big surprise. It is like PSG can do treble every year together with the Ligue 1 trophy. They can do it comfortably at the same time.

But the fans want more than this. Like the Champions League trophy. But does anyone believe in them to do so at least this season? I think even PSG fans have huge doubts about it while their team are struggling to throw themselves into playoffs. 

I think the competition in ligue 1 is actually lower than what happened in the bundesliga so far, so we can't expect other teams in ligue 1 to be able to do the same thing as leverkusen did last season, Although currently Monaco and Marseille has strengthened their squad and even I think they are have the strength and quality of the squad is equivalent with PSG, but precisely their mentality is still a big obstacle to breaking PSG dominance in Ligue 1, we can see how they actually can be defeated by weaker teams and not just by PSG this season.
Currently PSG has led the standings with 7 points ahead of Marseille, so it is difficult to see other teams can win Ligue 1 this season, talking about UCL, when Messi, Neymar and Mbappe failed to bring PSG champions, then what kind of player are we expected can to bring PSG championsip?

Few hours later the opening match for games week 17 will begin between Nantes vs AS Monaco, have bad capital for AS Monaco at last match after defeating by PSG although the match play have been last several weeks ago.
Nantes still fight out from the relegation standings position have positive result last match after success being draw against Lille and have one point left get out from relegated standings. I think the match today will be interested for Monaco keep existing at the top standings position and other side Nantes want secure their position in Ligue 1 next season by getting out from relegation standings.

I don't think too big with points difference at current standings of Ligue 1, PSG have 7 points remaining awhile from Marseille but the top fourth standings teams can't compete to pressure PSG behind have many points remaining awhile. AS Monaco currently at 3rd place have 10 points left from PSG and this season looks not difficult for defending Ligue 1 trophy back to back four consecutives season.

Competition is natural but about Monaco, of course they still target three points of course to maintain their position in the top three and of course, to keep their hopes of overtaking Marseille. Because even if for example Monaco managed to beat Nantes in this match, in fact Monaco would have the same points as Marseille with 33 points, but Monaco would still remain in third place because of losing aggressiveness of goals with Marseille. But about PSG, there is no need to doubt its dominance in Ligue 1, because until now no team in Ligue 1 has been able to thwart PSG's dominance in winning consecutive trophies.

I don't know where got the record of PSG selling their players because of money; your statement makes me think that you are talking about Arsenal under Arsene Wenger who was famous for grooming players to sell at huge profits thereby making the club remain wealthy even though they rarely won trophies.
PSG have been the club with a good assembly of quality players in the likes of Messi and Neymar including Angel Di Maria and Mbappe. These are big names that played in the same club at a time so that idea of selling players because of money is not a PSG thing.