Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 1261. (Read 197190 times)

The same goes for Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, Real Madrid in Laliga and Manchester City in the Premier League. They are the most dominating team for the title every season, but the competition is still good among all the teams because they didn't win it absolutely without the sacrifice of money, energy and good strategy from the coach.

The team's success to reach the pinnacle of glory and maintain it is something that is difficult for most teams to have, but some of the teams I mentioned might be able to because of the quality of the players they have. PSG will always be like this if the owners are rich, unless there is a limit that requires them not to spend more than $50M a year buying star players.

What also stands out in the competition is the performance of Lyon, which is currently in 10th place in the competition. For years, regular participants in the Champions League competition, but that is all gone now. I don't even know if those days will come back. Trainer Bosz was fired, but he also lost his credit in the long run. The goal of all teams like Lyon will not be to become champions either, but Lyon is certainly one of the best 3-4 teams in France, and apparently that was not in it this year. PSG's lead on number 2 is only 3 points, I actually expected more.

Psg has a good squad. I don't understand why there is jealousy within the team. If there is no success despite spending so much money, it must be because of the problems within the team. I don't understand why Mbappe is like this. I don't think this is the time and place to be jealous when we can achieve success together. There is unnecessary discord within the team.

Yes indeed Paris Saint Germain is that strong in Ligue 1 which makes the league boring because it does not display very tight competition. Honestly I am tired of seeing Paris Saint Germain always being champions for many years, I would like to see there is a new champion in Ligue 1. But it is very difficult to realize, Ligue 1 can be said to have belonged to Paris Saint Germain.

Journalists sometimes just take advantage of the situation to get an advantage even though it's not the real situation. A lot of things have been debunked by the fact how bad the online media coverage continues to speculate about certain players, I don't fully believe it, but we can see it in their game.

The cooperation of the players, yes their cooperation when playing is good evidence to refute many rumors. I believe the conditions are a lot different as reported, this allows people to consume the wrong information.

People reacted way too early for Marseille being the same points as PSG at the start of the season, now the difference is already 6 points, and Lorient is closer to PSG than Marseille, that should be a good enough indicator that PSG is a team that is beyond all these talks, other teams could have good periods here and there, but they will end up losing eventually and they won't have the sustainable power to continue until the end of the season whereas PSG has that power to be this good without any change up until the end of the season and that matters a lot.

PSG will win the league title once again and will be 10+ points difference easily, I always said this, and I will keep saying it until the end.

The fact that Neymar has serious disciplinary problems was already known last season without any connection with the situation with Mbappe. But this season Neymar is super professional in the game at least and I don't see any reason to complain about him now. Maybe all these rumors are just another invention of journalists who combine previous news/issues to make clickbait headlines? In part, Mabppe himself is to blame for the fact that there are so many fictions around him - he himself behaved in this way. Around Haaland I don't see anything like that.

A red card after they conceded a goal which made it even more difficult for them because they had to continue to focus on defense.
On the other hand, the defeat against Ajaccio is actually a surprise and I find it difficult to predict them against Lens in the upcoming match because regardless of what currently Lens is still performing quite well even though now they are also not very consistent but looking at the last 5 matches of course Lens is still better.
This is another difficult thing for Marseille because indeed in this match they are definitely required to bring 3 points.

This is a very contradictory suggestion due to the fact that Christophe Galtier was able to unite the PSG squad, if you realized beforehand that there was a problem with Mbappe and Neymar where they were arguing about penalty kicks. But this problem was quickly resolved and then even the two players were able to play well by providing beautiful assists for their goals, so I think PSG no longer have problems with their coach. Also about the privileges that Mbappe has is indeed a problem which is a pity because of course it will make this player difficult to control, but that has become part of their risk as well. But for his performance so far I think he is still fine and he is just a young boy who is still unstable and besides that, PSG are basically still okay for competition in Ligue 1 but to compete further in the Champions League I personally still doubt it.

There are many rumors circulating about Messi but for me, PSG can still do well without Messi even though Messi can still make a big contribution to the team. But for me, with his old age PSG should not expect Messi to stay longer because sooner or later his performance will also decline and may be prone to injury. Therefore, if they still have the ability to extend Messi's contract then they shouldn't have to worry. Because what they should prioritize is to find a replacement early on, because after all rejuvenation in the squad is more important and they can't expect older players to stay any longer.

It's difficult because Neymar plays an important role for PSG's winger position
At least to release or sell Neymar, Paris Saint-Germain need to first get a potential player who can play a role like Neymar did, of course it will be difficult to find a player like him right.
For this "rumor" I would say PSG will never be free from negative rumors that have the potential to divide the team like that, because PSG have big names and every news about Paris Saint-Germain has an appeal to read. That's one of the reasons why similar rumors will continue to exist

It is very clear to me that you are right. I foresaw this when Mbappe was given administrative authority to prevent him from moving to Real Madrid. There is no doubt that this is one of the most prominent examples of the money game that is now spoiling the game of football. Taking a look at the names in PSG's squad, you would have thought that they should have been the number one team in the world by a wide margin based on their roster.

I can barely see respect among the players because there is discontent among the squad, and internal clashes have caused them to play very poorly, so I don't expect them to do well. It is outrageous that Mbappe stopped his run in a counterattack the other day when his teammate did not pass to him. This is inexcusable. In addition to that, rumors are circulating that Messi may be leaving at the end of the season, which totally makes sense, he deserves better treatment than what he is getting now.

I agree to say Neymar was very bad with discipline in past seasons but disagree with anyone who accuses it in this season. Neymar has changed at least since beginning of season and he has still continued it until now. He wanted to show the world that he can play better than Mbappe and also want to reserve his best fitness for the World Cup. Neymar knows that it would be a last World Cup he can play with best body. He is no longer young and maybe he will not be chosen in the World Cup 2026.

And if I have to choose a player who is bad with discipline in PSG this season, it would be Mbappe.

I wish Mbappe and PSG the best and wish they to win Champions League this season. This will make them becoming a stronger club and that is good for Champions League in general.

With rejection from Real Madrid and Florentino Perez, I think Mbappe realizes that he is making things worse for himself, in PSG and in potential destinations.

Now there are new rumours such as Mbappe has asked PSG board about selling Neymar. Because he thinks that Neymar has some discipline problems at the club currently.

Honestly Mbappe wasn't seeming like he was unhappy with Neymar's presence in their last league game. We even watched their cooperation many times in the game and the goal even came thanks to these players. I really can't keep up with this honestly. Because one day we hear this kind of rumours and the other day Mbappe refutes them by making a statement. I don't feel like these are only about rumours now. There must be something going on really wrong now and we will find out at the end of the season most probably.

If guessing was easy, you and I would always win every bet. but in fact, we can only assume and analyze and then conclude.

true, it depends on who will be the opponent later especially in the knockout stage phase. we will see, who is more consistent and luckier and who will win the match.
I will not assume that PSG will be able to pass smoothly to the last 8, for me personally it all depends on how they play the match later. all the candidates mentioned here, also have the potential to topple PSG if they have a chance to meet in the knockout round later. and vice versa, PSG have a great chance to overthrow the team we mentioned in this post. this is an important gamble for them.

for Ligue 1, it looks like we're not bothering to argue about it.

Forget about mbappe and this time barcelona's fans was making another stupid movement by taking legal action for PSG. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/oct/18/barcelona-fans-take-legal-action-over-lionel-messis-transfer-to-psg
It's clear if mbappe will not be moving from PSG at least until next transfer season. Im sure mbappe may find its new club next transfer season. The situation becomes even worst since PSG getting sued by barcelona fans caused by messi.
WTF was wrong with barcelona's fan.

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.