Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 153. (Read 193362 times)

That will be a great achievement for Enrique if he is able to build a team that will be strong enough to UCL. He would be honored by the club because that has being what they have being dreaming of and thay is what they want.

There is no doubt that PSG will always be in their best performance to win their league even without superstars like Mbappe or Messi because they are already the best in the league and the management will always want to maintain that standard.

The coming and going of a star player at the club is a common thing, but in this case what happened to Mbappe at PSG is a different thing in my opinion, Mbappe has grown and developed at PSG from a very young age when he was recruited from Monaco and even the arrival of Messi and Neymar was not able to make his position as a mainstay player in the PSG front line replaceable, So we can say that their dependence on Mbappe is very big and of course sooner or later we will see the effects of losing Mbappe will be seen at PSG later.
Since Mbappe departure to Madrid, PSG has not brought in a star player who is indeed projected to replace Mbappe role in the front line, but fortunately they have Barcola who is currently impressive, but will Barcola be the next Mbappe at PSG?
I don't think so, even though Barcola is a talented player, so far he has not been able to bear the burden given by PSG as a replacement for Mbappe, even in the last few seasons his performances are still very inconsistent.

I only took a sample of the goals scored by Paris Saint Germain when they were still with Mbappe, if we look at the last few seasons, during Mbappe's time here their goal tally was between 80 and 90 goals. So, let's see this season, whether there will be a drastic decrease in their goal productivity, stable or even better.
From the 3 matches they have played in Ligue 1 this season, their goal productivity is still fairly good, they can even score 13 goals from 3 matches, that is a very good record that they have managed to create. The reason I made this comparison is because when we talk about Mbappe, we cannot be separated from the discussion of their front line, because Mbappe is a mainstay player in the front line.

People who doubted PSG when they lost Mbappe must be regretting their words now because PSG is still the strongest in League 1 even without its goal-scoring machine, PSG even went crazy after losing Mbappe, PSG players were even more productive, unlike when Mbappe was still in the team. On the contrary, Mbappe had a little difficulty adapting to his new club, he seemed to have difficulty creating opportunities, but I can still understand it because every player still needs adaptation that takes a long time.

Even so, I am happy that PSG has not experienced a decline, it is even better if the players continue to play solidly like this, it is likely that PSG can compete well in the UCL.

If Mbappé leaves, they can definitely have players to replace him. The biggest team in France is Paris Saint-Germain. Many young talented French players are dying to play for Paris Saint-Germain. They also believe that after seeing the development of Mbappé, Paris Saint-Germain can take players to the next level. Therefore, no player's place will be empty. Paris Saint-Germain will definitely fill that void.

Mbappe is really a great player that every team will love to have but we shouldn't forget that PSG is a club that have had great players before Mbappe and when they left Mbappe come on board and now his era is off and a chance for another great player to show up again, there is a saying that when a door closed another open that is what is going to happen to PSG after Mbappe, they just had their three matches of the season which was so incredible and well played, they got nine points and 13 goals, conceded only two, I know definitely they will fill the absence of Mbappe but in main time the will forget when they have found his replacement.

I remember in the last season when PSG was about to lose Mbappe and he wanted to leave PSG to join Real Madrid the fans of PSG and the managers of this team were all worried about losing Mbappe in PSG and they tried to keep in PSG in any situation even they wanted to spend more money for keeping Mbappe.
But paying too much attention to one player is not good at all and we saw even an important player like Mbappe will leave the team one day but after leaving this player nothing to be changed.
 

The PSG we see now is not much different from last season and since the beginning of the season I am very sure that the pressure they received has disappeared immediately. The proof is before winning against Lille, they had already won 2 times and this makes them a productive team. It feels like sooner or later all the players are at the same level and don't have to rely on each other.

Barcola is a fantastic winger, not only fast but his dribbling to break through the opponent's defense is also difficult to stop. His achievements so far prove that his preparation is increasingly mature and he could be the top scorer for this season. It can be said that Mbappe will always be a team need but that is not visible now because all the players play like a whole family and no one is special.

Yes, this may be Enrique's greatness in making the team finally free from players with great influence on the team. we can see PSG with Mbappe, Messi, and Neymar. it was a great effort to realize PSG's ambition to win the Champions League. but it still failed. now Enrique is trying to build a team with even quality in all lines. it will make the team's performance very good.

We will see how Enrique will make a strategy to win PSG in the Champions League with a new match format. in Ligue 1 I think PSG's performance is unquestionable. 3 matches that have just been completed they won with extraordinary scores. they are favored there.

Mbappe scored a lot of goals with PSG's squad. Now Real Madrid's squad is more organized and stronger than PSG's. It can be hoped that Mbappe will be able to score more goals in the future if he can maintain a good relationship with the players in the squad. But it takes some time to adapt to this new squad and new tactics. Mbappe fans should be patient.

I agree with you that it is admirable that PSG are performing the way they are without Mbappe. Last season we saw Luis Enrique experimenting with this squad. And we can see the good results of these experiments in this season. PSG's performance has been very consistent and strong since the start of the season. PSG won all three matches and managed to score 13 goals. If this trend continues, PSG will be able to do well in the next Champions League.

Haha, don't worry it still early, I believe Mbappe will create many goal in the future and we can definitely witness many big surprises given by Mbappe with Real Madrid.
Previously when Mbappe was still here with PSG, he had shown how great he was and now he is with team that I think is much better than PSG, but we can see something different now where PSG without Mbappe can still play well.
I quite admire PSG at the beginning of this season because they were able to show the same strength where they managed to easily win even though in the pre-season match they were unable to show good increase in performance.
What Enrique did really came true, he made the players get used to it and not be so dependent on Mbappe and all of that had pretty good impact after Mbappe left.

In the past we have seen PSG management spending huge sums of money to add the world's best players to their squad to win the Champions League title. But despite having talented players like Messi Mbappe and Neymar, PSG can't do well in the Champions League.

PSG's squad lacks any big-name star players this season. However, PSG have performed well in every Ligue 1 match so far. With the help of Luis Enrique, the team has stabilized. And the players are also able to perform very well. It looks like we will only see PSG dominate this season in Ligue 1.

Ligue 1 teams are not interested in spending a lot of money to build squads. Every season we see PSG management spend the most money on building their squad, and dominate Ligue 1. And you are right that as long as no Ligue 1 club invests heavily in squad formation, Ligue 1 will likely be dominated by PSG squads.

PSG are like Manchester city that their investing funds are limitless as they are owned by Arabia rich owners that have lots of money to sponsor their transfer window. PSG is always going to dominate the Ligue 1 until another club gets acquired by a rich owner that'll be willing to spend money and have a competition with PSG in building players. PSG are looking more like a team to me now than when they used to be full of star players and high wages that gets them no victory in top competitions as the champions league. Right now that the club don't have a top star that gets all the attentions, maybe the team is going to be focused on playing more as a team and win.

Yeah true. Even though PSG is dominating Ligue 1, and even with Messi and Mbappe were with the team, they weren't able to keep a long winning strike and I doubt this will happen this year when PSG is playing without its classic stars.
I always say the problem of Ligue 1 isn't how powerful PSG is, but how weak the other teams are regardless of the investment difference. How could we expect Monaco to win the title when they miss points against Lens. Same goes for Marseille and Reims draw. I mean Reims and Lens are good teams but we cannot compare them to PSG, so why top teams like Monaco and Marseille fail to collect 3 points against them?
To say, I will not be surprised if PSG fail a game against a normal team by mistake rather than missing points in front of one of the classic top teams..

It was clear that PSG would win, while Lille did as good as they can and attacked and did not stay just scared, they tried their best, and it still was a loss because PSG is just that better, it's clear that they are better and we will not have any kind of confusion about this at all. I think we can say that it is going to end up with some issues on the long run, and we can't really expect anyone other than PSG to win this one, it should be clear and we can't make it change anytime soon.

We need to consider this as normal, it can't be really that big of a deal, and we can't make big changes. So, we should consider this to be normal and not a big deal at all. However, PSG can't keep this winning streak going, eventually they will fail, then it's going to be good to watch what happens, it will definitely have a good result without a doubt, it will be fun. I believe that the bigger income will be from knowing which game they will eventually end up losing.

Apart from Marseille, I think Lille is another team in Ligue 1 that can provide good competition for PSG. But unfortunately, Lille also had to lose to PSG like in yesterday's match for PSG's 1-3 win at the Pierre-Mauroy Stadium. Even though Lille also has a good performance with 2 wins in the first 2 matches, PSG is really strong and difficult to stop.

So far, only PSG has managed to win 3/3 wins until week 3. PSG has collected 9 points and scored 13 goals and conceded 2 goals. PSG's goal productivity looks good at the start of the season even though Mbappe has left for Madrid, but speculation will of course be there considering it is still early in the season. About Mason Greenwood, yes he is the most productive player currently with Marseille and so far he is the top scorer with 5 goals.

PSG has now managed to get away from its rivals again after successfully winning against Lille, previously, Lille was the closest team and was likely able to match PSG's current points tally, but now they have failed and have to admit PSG greatness after losing in yesterday match , for now of course we cannot deny that PSG is still the strongest team in Ligue 1, even at the start of the season they can leave other teams with a difference of 2 points so I think in the near future we will see PSG running alone in the standings again like last seasons, PSG toughness Without Mbappe are has tested in the ligue 1 at the moment, but not in Champions League, so I don't dare say that PSG will be able to go far in the Champions League this season considering their mentality, apart from that, when PSG still had Neymar, Messi and Mbappe, they failed to win the Champions League trophy, then how can we expect them to be champions now?
Several previous seasons, PSG managed to advance the furthest to the final round because they met relatively easier opponents in the group phase and round of 16, but when now their has to meet teams like Manchester City, Arsenal, Munich and Atletico Madrid, of course I will said that their chances of going far in the Champions League this season are very unlikely.

You’re right because Marseille have started very well and they’ve been able to win all of their matches from the start of the season just like PSG have also done so far. I have strong confidence in them, but until when they meet with PSG I can attest the level of their strength in the league matches and if they’re worthy of fighting for the league title with PSG or not. It will be interesting if we have another team that can at least give PSG a tough time in the league, they shouldn’t be getting those wins that easily. A league is more interesting when we have more number of teams fighting for the league title every season, but in the Ligue 1 it is not so. It use to be so in the Bundesliga but now that Bayern Leverkusen have broken that bond, every team can now fight for the same title as them with full confidence.

PSG is outstanding in their domestic league and there is no club that will be able to challenge them or be a threat to them from winning Ligue 1 constantly. This is because none of the team has the zeal to take over the title from PSG if not they will build a strong team that will be a rival to PSG.

PSG cannot win UCL which to me shows that they are weak if they are not playing with a club from their domestic league and this problem needs to be solved so that they can win UCL and become the strong club that they are claiming to be.

Le Havre won the match against Auxerre despite going behind.Auxerre, who were reduced to 10 men at the end of the first half, lost control of the match in the second half.Le Havre, who took the lead at the beginning of the second half, scored the third goal from a penalty in the last minutes.
In the most important match of the week, Lille hosted PSG at home.Lille did not give their opponent many chances, but PSG's squad is really strong enough to beat Lille.PSG managed to lead 2-0 in the first half and kept the score difference in the second half and won 3-1 as a result of the match.