Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 1249. (Read 197173 times)

Messi were not happy when he left Barcelona but I believe after the past season and this one, Messi would feel more happily in PSG. His mental improvement helps him to play better in PSG and we all see how he plays better in this season.

Some people think that Messi will choose to return to Barcelona because Xavi is there and Larpota said in press conference that Barcelona is always opened for Messi. After all the bad treatment from Larpota, do you believe Messi will agree to waste his last couple of seasons in his career in Barcelona?

At PSG, he will still be able to win another or other Champions League. At Barcelona, it is impossible with their quality now.

Messi is a genius player and he can adapt very well with tactics as well as ageing. He started his career at the left swing and reached to his best under Pep Guardiola management and the False Nine position. Later, he improved his vision and played more similar to a play maker. He also sharpened his free kick skill.

I agree with you totally that ageing has less effects on Messi than on other players. Because with Messi, he is able to contribute in the match by many ways: shots, goals, key passes, ball possession, free kick and even more.

Lens can really show his dominance for a perfect result at home with all the wins he got, last night's match against Toulouse also Lens was still very consistent and even Toulouse couldn't put up a strong fight for Lens until Lens won with a perfect score at 3-0.
If I consider a result like this then Lens will stay behind PSG until the end of the season but yes, we also don't know what will happen in the second half of the season. Because of course there will always be changes that occur especially if they are active in the next transfer market.


It is difficult for Marseille to be a team in the title race this season, although anything can still happen throughout this season but I believe Marseille will still be difficult to penetrate and be consistent in the top three. In addition, on matchday 13 Marseille will play away against Strasbourg who are currently in 16th place which even, Strasbourg points are the same as the two teams below who are in the relegation zone.
Strasbourg themselves so far have not won at home and also, head to head they at least Marseille can dominate the victory. With such factors Marseille should be able to end their losing streak so far, and get another win in this away match against Strasbourg.


Monaco this season is very weak, although currently Monaco is in 7th place with 21 points but for me Monaco so far is very bad, because they are really very inconsistent to achieve good results in every match. Also, their defense looks very weak and so far they have conceded 18 goals, and have only 23 goals but on this matchday it looks like they will have a good result.
Because Monaco will play at home and only against teams that are currently bottom of the table, but I'm still worried because Monaco are not very good at home. But anyway, Monaco has a good record when playing against Angers and because of that, I say that Monaco on this matchday will win because of course Monaco will continue the record for their winning results when playing against Angers.

Strasbourg vs Marseille and on the paper this could be easy match for Marseille considering Strasbourg is weak team even they still struggle to avoid relegation zone and because Marseille has losing too many points from their previous matches so they have to utilized this match back to winning track but a bit worried to see Marseille performance because they looks unstable this season and several times they were playing poor even Ajaccio can beat them so for bet purposes seems pick Marseille win as the option could be risky however i was hoping Igor Tudor can evaluated their previous losses before and Marseille can playing well this time and get full points from this match

Toulouse are not playing well. Not being able to produce consistent results as well. The attacking was okay-ish from them but the defending was horrible. They have conceded far too many goals so far this season. They will need to improve in this area.

Marseille is also not in good form after their 3 back to back losses. It feels unbelievable to think that we thought Marseille was going to be a top contender for the title. Now they are struggling.

The performance of Monaco has not been up to the standards. They have been too inconsistent. They have dropped points against teams they are not supposed to drop points.

I don't think Messi is happy to leave Barcelona. Barcelona club made Messi the best in the world. He really loves this club. But the former president of Barcelona thinks Messi is old, and he does not want to keep Messi in Barcelona. If Messi was in Barcelona, ​​maybe their performance would not be so weak. It was a wrong decision by the Barcelona management to release Messi. And they have yet to find a worthy replacement for Messi.

Pleased you said ? There's no way on earth I'll support that, Barcelona made everything easy for Lionel Messi especially winning those Ballon d'or 's especially the year 2010 which was never his. As far as I can tell, he was sad leaving Barcelona, do you think if not for the financial woes, Lionel Messi would leave Barcelona real quick ?

Even at 40 Lionel Messi will still play good and entertaining football, his first touch will forever be fantastic for every eye that sees that for the very first time. Heading back to Barcelona will make sense but, they can't pay him all of that big bucks when they haven't cleared up completely other players that are being held huge sum's.

I'd love to see a Lewandoski-Messi combination, you'll see Lewandoski scoring so much goals. Even at 40, Messi will still be a Boss at Spanish League, he is renowned for his complete destruction of those defending player's with his fast feet and pace.

I am sure Lionel Messi would be pleased he left Barcelona because from all indications Paris Saint-Germain F.C. has a bigger prospect than Barca. People have failed to understand that it was the financial problems of Barcelona they made them release Messi and the club is still going through some financial challenges. It is also important to note that Messi is getting old and his performance would continue to depreciate, hence he might not have that capacity to revive Barcelona. Currently, Messi might even be thinking of retiring from active football. I think Barca has enough players that can take them to any level of success if they are rightly managed.

Mess will stay at PSG. Barcelona was going to the europa league and it has been losing a lot of potential income. This club can't even pay its former of coach Quique Setien. Bringing back messi to the camp nou was just another impossible thing for barcelona. I don't even know why people are always still thinking about that non sense thing while barcelona is not even having enough financial to make it happen. it can't even pay some of its players.
This club may go bankrupt as soon as possible. It's started from losing some income from champion league must force barcelona to get money from another ways. Remember that barcelona has been taking some financial clevers.
It may possible for barcelona to be sold for billionaire. Messi may love his old club but he must not be naive if he was also playing football for money. He needs money for his family.

Exactly what you said happened and Lens did manage to get 3 points in that game at home. The victory has at least become an asset for Lens to remain in a good position in the temporary standings, although not better than PSG, because it is likely that PSG will also win against Troyes. But Lens will really benefit if Lorient don't win against Nice, although I'm not sure that Lorient will lose at home.
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Lens has a good performance and results this season and barely letting PSG run alone in the first place. They only lost 1 match and they are 2 points away from PSG which will make the gap 5 points again since they are way better than Troyes and they doing pretty good for the moment.
Lorient - Nice game is a hard game with a slight home advantage for Lorient. Lille - Lyon is the other interesting game, while Lille is better, Lyon seems favourite according to bookies.

Well for me it is clear that Mbappé is not going to go to Real Madrid, Real Madrid could fight well for a player like Haaland, but comparing Mbappé with the Belgian Hazard no, because I think that Hazard is much more professional than Mbappé himself, no I would see Hazard making a blacklist of the players he doesn't want and have them fired, I don't see a Hazard doing something like that, what Mbappé did was something other than childish and that he closed the doors himself, honestly I don't like it I would like to work on the pitch with a player like Mbappé, who has a lot of egocentricity, while a player like Haaland who has much more technique, is more humble, does much more than him.


Well I really can't think that there can be anything but an analogy, for me PSG in the French League are kings, because there is no team that can give PSG a fight, at first I believed a lot in Lille, I also leaned to the last for Marseille, but they have not achieved their objectives, I see that they do not have enough to be able to stop them so that they can beat them, I do not know if it is because of the presence of many stars and perhaps that undermines the conditions of the teams there present, however I could say that PSG could happen to Barcelona in the UCL if they don't show their true football, because Bayern is already doing it, Real Madrid too.

If Messi goes to Barcelona, I think he would do it because of the great friendship he has with Xavi, and that would be an achievement for Xavi so that they don't remove him from that position, but I hope that Messi doesn't return, where I live there is a said that it says: "Goat that is returned, he sniffles" and I think that Messi has already closed a cycle, it is not good to open it, because if I remember correctly, it turned out very badly, in fact he himself said that he lowered his salary with such of not leaving, and this did not give anything to the directors of Barcelona, so I think that Bacelona does not need so much clemency for Messi to make them shine again, although a duo between Lewa and Messi would be great, but it would be time to play in the Europe League.

Interesting:

Ligue 1 'no weak league' says Aaron Ramsey as ex-Arsenal man shines in France with Nice




Source: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/aaron-ramsey-nice-arsenal-stability-28308921

Do you think Messi has no resentment towards Barcelona? I think he may not want to go. I don't think the Mbappe or Neymar situation in Paris will affect Messi. What they need to think about is if Messi leaves, can they win the champions league? PSG still has no big success. This great achievement is to win the champions league. Messi can provide that. They shouldn't let gossip about Messi. There are always rumors about Mbappe anyway and it hurts the team. I think there will be huge reductions in salary. But I don't think he will return to Barcelona.

Exactly what you said happened and Lens did manage to get 3 points in that game at home. The victory has at least become an asset for Lens to remain in a good position in the temporary standings, although not better than PSG, because it is likely that PSG will also win against Troyes. But Lens will really benefit if Lorient don't win against Nice, although I'm not sure that Lorient will lose at home.

Lyon - Lille seems to be the most attracting match on this week as it is likely to be very competitive between these two close teams in strength.

Lille are in a better condition than Lyon in the standings now. They owe this to their recent form actually. Because they won 4 of their last 5 league matches and lost to only Lorient. I don't see anything weird in this loss also because it was an away match and we all know how strong Lorient are at the moment. Lille managed to beat Monaco 4-3 after an epic match. Lyon were having a bad form for a long time until the Montpellier match. They finally got a win there. Despite their big effort they found the winning goal in the last minutes though.

There is an interesting statistics about this matchup despite Lyon's being shown as the favourite. Lyon couldn't defeat Lille in their home matches since 2014. This is a really serious record for Lille and they won the last time they met too. I'm thinking about placing a bet on double chance on Lille @1.80.

I doubt that Messi would care about the situation with Mbappe, but he left because of financial troubles in Barcelona. Now that he is getting older, I am pretty sure that they could just hire him back and pay him a competitive salary.

Dude will not get his old 50-70 million rage salaries anymore, that’s not going to be possible, it would be like 20-30 million most probably and that’s fine because of jersey sales you would have, so Barcelona could afford him now. If they agree on a 25 million deal for example, for 3 years, he could definitely play that long and it wouldn't be too expensive for Barcelona and then Messi could retire where he started.

There were a few other teams, but none of them really wanted to activate that high clause. It doesn't make sense to me to bring Mbappe into a team with such a big contract value, it's crazy. PSG won't be able to sell Mbappe for such a high value in the next 2-3 seasons, but maybe Mbappe can decide his own future when his contract expires in the next few years.

Messi will probably really want to retire at Barcelona, ​​so I think he will work on his contract to Barcelona next season. Mbappe will stay at PSG although it is always possible to see him wearing the jersey of other teams including Premier League teams.

Toulouse seem to want to play the ball more so far because they are quite aware that if they keep up with Lens' fast play it will be a bit more difficult considering that we know Lens' attacking quality up to week 13 was pretty good.
In 20 minutes now by capitalizing on Toulouse's mistakes and a fairly quick counter-attack there have been several chances that Lens managed to get that were quite threatening.

The match entered the first 15 minutes and there were no surprises in the early minutes of the match. Toulouse who appeared as the visitors did not show that they would be so easily defeated. There have been no chances created from both teams, both teams are still looking for their game and also looking for where to take advantage of the opponent's defense. In fact, Toulouse are more daring to hold the ball so far, it's not so significant but it's quite visible. Lens must be able to win to keep their points distance from Paris Saint Germain.

PSG has somewhat ruined Mbappe's attitude with money that's for sure. He has been offered a shit ton of money and that is exactly why he chose PSG over Real Madrid.
There are probably only two teams who are able to afford Mbapp's huge money demands right now, which are Real Madrid and Manchester City.

Nevertheless, the sad thing is that Messi may not renew his contract with Barcelona, and this is both a good thing and a bad thing at the same time.
It is good for me because I would like to see him play in the English Premier League and it is bad for PSG, of course.
It will be interesting to see what these two players have in store for the future.


Duke

Ligue 1 and Champions League are 2 different competitions I agree with that. The pressure in the Champions League will be heavier than in Ligue 1. A tough opponent, mentally strong, a game that can surprise at any time is a factor where they have to be better prepared in this Champions League. It's true what you said, just one match will determine their fate in the future. There is no time to say they will improve here, if they fail in one game then there is only one chance for them to change everything. And it will not be easy for them to do because once again the club that competes in the Champions League is a very strong club.





The difference of 9 points is not a small number for Marseille to catch Paris Saint Germain. Karen the potential to lose points for Paris Saint Germain is very slim considering the lack of competition that exists in Ligue 1. Which of the few clubs currently in good form could hold off against Paris Saint Germain? I doubt anyone can answer my question. The possibility is still there, but if we were a little more realistic we would say it's very difficult to do so.

I think Monaco in particular has been disappointing in the competition so far. PSG are already 5 points ahead, but that will only increase as the season progresses. I think everyone in the PSG squad will also participate in the World Cup. Other teams have far fewer players who are allowed to participate, so somewhere as a team you also have more moments of rest during that period. The risk of injury is otherwise considerable. I especially did not expect Lorient in 3rd place, but they are there for a reason. I also don't know how Lyon should handle the departure/resignation of Peter Bosz. A few years ago, this team was indispensable in the Champions League. But then PSG came onto the scene.