Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 17. (Read 149349 times)

When you say PSG is nothing without Kylian Mbappe, it's as if you are saying that all the players in the PSG squad have been useless all this time. Kylian Mbappe is just one of the players who has been the target man at PSG, in fact his role has not changed as long as Neymar and Messi are in their squad. Neymar and Messi work for him by sending more assists instead of scoring goals themselves, which is what makes Mbappe have higher goal statistics than others.

When compared to Vinicius, I think Kylian Mbappe is nothing. Mbappe is a good player to be a target man in any squad, but Mbappe is clearly a quality player. He's fast and he's also a good finisher, but his absence from the PSG squad is not an unresolved issue.

PSG is balance when it comes to finance, they have everything to elevates themselves to become very consistent club but they have challenges when it involves other elite tournaments. PSG president, Nasser Al-Khelaifi will look for other key paths to endeavor his team become promising in the future. Paris Saint-Germain without Kylian Mbappe will experience difficult because they're absolutely nothing without the Frenchman. Kylian Mbappe played a major role in the club and his presence is acknowledged.

This season Brest has really experienced a great improvement in performance. It's not just about the performance of the attackers, but Brest also has a strong defense this season. They only conceded 34 and 34 a game, the lowest since the 2019-2020 season. But regarding his mentality in the Champions League, I think Lille is more convincing than Brest.

Unfortunately Lille only qualified for the Europa League after they drew their last match against Nice. Lille is only 2 points behind Brest, it was an unpleasant failure for them. So Brest have already qualified for the Champions League, now they have to strengthen their team even though the Champions League title is not the most realistic target for them next season. No coach dared to expect that from the Brest players, so they just tried to give their best and survive to earn more money.

In fact, it's too much to say that PSG without Mbappe will have difficulties. If we look at the Ligue 1 top scorer, we will see that Lacazette and David have pretty good statistics, not much different from Mbappe

PSG owners have said they cannot keep Mbappe in the team but they have a long-term project with Enrique, I am sure Enrique will be able to give positive results against PSG, because PSG is a very rich team

Looking to Ligue 2, I see that Auxerre and Angers will return to Ligue 1 instead of Clermont Foot and Lorient.
For the last ticket for Ligue 1, there will be a series of games. First, tomorrow, there will be a game where Paris FC will visit Rodez which is a little bit favourite in this match. Second, the winner of this game will have to face St-Etienne home this Friday. Finally the winner will face Metz in the relegation play-offs.
I find Metz better than these teams but we will see how serious they are in the promotion to Ligue 1.

Yes Very often it happens that a weak team suddenly plays in the UCL league and when they play in the UCL there is no significant resistance, instead it becomes a source of goals for strong teams and the most fatal thing is that they become less consistent in the league and even their performance decreases. Like the example you gave of the Lens team, this could also happen with Brest if they don't buy players and strengthen the squad for next season because of course with Brest's entry into the UCL league their schedule will become even busier so it will affect the players' fitness which makes them unable to maintain their performance.

I admit that Brest has really improved this season. They are quite big now and in the near future, they will be playing among the big players in Europe. Next season's UCL League will not only mark the start of a new era, as we see 36 teams in the league stage, rather than the group stage with 32 teams. We'll also see the arrival of new arrivals, notably Brest, Girona and Bologna, as well as the return of 1982 champions Aston Villa and Stuttgart, whose last appearance in the Champions League was in 2010.

I agree with you. PSG management managed to find an experienced coach after a long time. If Luis Enrique had come to PSG a few years earlier, PSG might have been able to win the Champions League title. PSG had talented players like Neymar, Messi and Mbappe in their squad. But with no experienced coach, despite having a strong squad, PSG's performance was very poor and erratic.

However, PSG has performed very well this season with the help of Luis Enrique. PSG's squad was comparatively a bit less strong than in previous seasons. However, Luis Enrique's excellent match tactics enabled PSG to perform well in both the Champions League and Ligue 1.

PSG definitely made the right decision last season and their right decision was to hire Luis Enrique to their club. We have had proof this season of just how right Luis Enrique is for their club. This season we have seen Luis Enrique perform well in the league tournament as well as he managed to qualify his team to the semi-finals of the Champions League as well. Although PSG unfortunately lost in the semi-finals of the Champions League, fans of this team will surely be happy with their performance. A team with the best stars in the world who could not go past the Super Sixteen of the Champions League has qualified for the semi-finals of the Champions League with a fairly level team. It is certainly a big deal. When the next transfer window opens, surely Luis Enrique will try to buy quality players and we hope to take this team to a good position next season.

I don't want to set too high expectations for clubs in Ligue 1 because at the end of the day the rise and fall of performance is always different every season because it could be that this season they play very well but next season they don't do so well.
Examples that are quite pronounced at the moment are Marseille and Lens. They last season performed so brilliantly that they even managed to make a breakthrough and extraordinary competition against PSG but this season they really messed up and even they were in a disadvantageous position in the middle standings even though they could regain momentum.

I think Brest could also be like that because although they played well this season but for next season they have no guarantee to do the same.

If Mbappe's goal is to win the Champions League title then joining Real Madrid would be the best option for Mbappe. Madrid have been in excellent form this season as well. Won the La Liga title and qualified for the Champions League final. With the help of Ancelotti, the team is performing well. Now if an experienced and regular scorer like Mbappe is added to the squad then Real Madrid will be able to dominate La Liga and Champions League next season as well.

Real Madrid's midfield is very strong. Madrid have talented midfielders like Bellingham and Kross in their squad. So Mbappe's chances of scoring will increase with the help of the midfielder.

In a clash of 2 aimless teams, it was the home side that came out winners.Reims hosted Rennes.This game was of little importance as both teams are guaranteed to finish mid-table in the league.
Lyon, on the other hand, defeated Strasbourg at home.Lyon managed to finish in 6th place in the league with this win and Lens' draw.They will be able to compete in the conference league next year.Lens' draw with Montpellier at home proved to be costly.Although they closed the first half 2-0 ahead, they could not protect this score in the second half.Their opponents had 2 chances and managed to take advantage of both of them.

Mbappe mainly played at left wing for PSG this season ,rarely at striker and I think it is quite obvious that he is going back to striker at Real. This means that PSG just needs a left winger, is that really so hard to get for a team with pockets like PSG has? I mean they can just go get Leao for example, or get Martinelli, or get Doku, or get Coman etc etc etc. So all in all, they would be able to get someone who would be "enough".

You do not need Mbappe level player to win the league, you do not need that to win domestic cup, and we all saw that Mbappe wasn't enough to win UCL anyway so having him doesn't mean UCL cup neither. Meaning, they will not face any new issues, it would be just winning the league and failing to win the UCL.

Brest's progress this season is truly extraordinary, by successfully entering the Champions League next season they performed extraordinary this season, even though in the middle of the season their performance fluctuated, Brest has now managed to lock in 3rd place, and has managed to qualify for the Champions League next season , but Brest must be ready to start next season, next season will definitely be busy with a busy match schedule.

With Brest entering the Champions League, they have to strengthen their team again by bringing in some good players, because next season they will have a lot of flying time and they have to be ready for that, but for the sake of Brest's success this season, I am also curious about how their performance in the future season will be. Waiting to see whether they will be more successful than this season or whether they will decline.

He shalll try to follow what thiago silva did. Silva left from PSG because he knew that he would never win UCL if he stayed in PSG even longer. He decided to left from there and join in the chelsea as a new club then he win what he wanted when he was at PSG.
It's obvious that if mbappe shall also join in the club that will help to increase his chance to get UCL trophy. Perhaps, madrid has prepared something when the club announces him.


I strongly agree with this. There is no a better club other than real madrid for mbappe at this moment. Bellingham was just performing extraordinary after he came there. Mbappe can also follow him too.
Bellingham was almost getting so numerous trophies on his first season. That is why very important in joining on the clbu with a winning mentality.

Though Kylian Mbappe have given us enough reasons to believe that he decided to remain at Paris Saint Germaine because of the financial benefits that comes with playing for the club but I also think we shouldn't conclude that it was all about the money that he decided to remain at the club till this very moment. About three summers ago, Kylian Mbappe was very close to leaving Paris Saint Germaine but was offers a very lucrative deal by the club president Nasser Al-Khelaifi before he changed his mind and decided  to remain at the club. But before the money was part, the club president have already promised Kylian Mbappe that they'll sign one of the best players in the history of football Lionel Messi to help Mbappe achieve his dream of winning the UEFA Champions League title and that promised was fulfilled as we all know that Messi later joined the club.
After Lionel Messi joined the club it dawned on them that the club's failure to win the UEFA Champions League wasn't because they lacked players that are capable and that's why I think Kylian Mbappe finally made up his mind to leave

Exactly mate! I agree with you totally. Mbappe can finally start playing in a much more serious league and earn more valuable trophies like the La Liga one.    Ligue 1 trophies have started to be really meaningless as the league is too easy for PSG. Now Mbappe is gearing up for not only La Liga trophies, but also Champions League trophies. 

PSG just can't do it. They have brought many quality managers as well but still no trophy in the Champions League. They still need time for that but Mbappe has no time to waste. He can still continue to earn a lot of money at Real Madrid too.

I am pretty sure that they are going to dump a huge amount of money again on some other player who they think is going to be a great striker for them. Since they do not have any problems with spending money. I am pretty sure that if they could offer more money to make Mbappé stay, they probably would have. But I guess it is good to say that finally, they have come to their senses.

We all understand that Mbappé was in the PSG team just because he wanted a lot of money. And there is nothing wrong with that. After all he is a professional footballer. He earns money for playing football. If someone is giving him more money, he is definitely going to go to the team that is paying him more. But at what expense? Is it a good thing to do at the expense of his career?

This is something that I believe should have happened a long time ago. And now that it has happened, nobody is surprised and PSG also knows that it is going to happen. The thing is if they had made the right decision at the right time, they could have gotten More than 200 million for him. And that was also two years ago. With inflation and other bonuses, we could say that it could have been 300 million right now easily.

Brest journey this season does look quite extraordinary because throughout the season they managed to continue to stick to PSG ranked second, but in the midseason their performance actually decreased drastically and made them have to be in 4th place after the Streak defeat they got and made them have to fight hard to get 1 automatic ticket to the Champions League next season,  Luckily in today last game Brest got 3 points from Toulouse and Lille had to have a bad day after getting a draw from Nice, the change of position that happened today is certainly quite bad for Lille, because currently they still have a long way to go to reach the Champions League next season after ending the season in the Champions League play-off zone.

Qualifying for the Champions League next season is certainly a great achievement for Brest after in recent seasons they have only struggled at the bottom of Ligue 1, by ensuring a place in the Champions League next season, of course Brest must make many changes in their squad next season because the competition will be tougher than just fighting for the Champions League title,  We can say Brest squad this season is indeed quite good but still Brest must try to bring in some star players next season to not just be a team that just passes in the Champions League.

Monaco managed to finish in second place this season and will get a UCL ticket next season at the same time as Brest who finished in 3rd place, but I'm not sure that League 1 clubs will be able to provide fierce resistance in the UCL knowing that League 1 is not as strong as other leagues and is not as competitive as the other leagues. other leagues so I think Monaco and Brest will only be able to survive in the group phase or in the last 16, just like Lens last season who didn't qualify for the next round and had to compete in the UEL but still Lens wasn't able to do much, in fact they couldn't compete in the league. 1 and UEL but after he was eliminated Lens was able to return to focus on league 1, I think it is very natural that league 1 has difficulty competing in big competitions knowing that the quality of clubs in league 1 is only mediocre.

For Monaco, it might still be able to perform at UCL with good performance but I doubt Brest who is only a lucky club in League 1 can take advantage of the situation at the beginning of the season and can get tickets to compete in the Champions League next season.
Lille is likely to have a good chance to compete in the UEL in the coming season because the competition in the UEL is not as heavy as in the Champions League and this time Lille must show that Lille cannot be underestimated and keeps his talented players to be able to achieve new history in the season that will be come.

Mbappe is the most important player in PSG's squad. However, Mbappe has not been able to win the Champions League title with PSG for a long time. Mbappe now desperately wants to win the Champions League title. Although the PSG team dominates Ligue 1, PSG is yet to become experienced enough on the Champions League platform.

Real Madrid could be the perfect club for Mbappe to win the Champions League title. The most experienced club on the Champions League platform is Real Madrid. Madrid have an experienced squad and an experienced coach like Ancelotti. If Mbappe joins Madrid, Madrid's attack will be much sharper.