Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 195. (Read 195616 times)

Turning things around especially overnight is something no one should be expecting of the PSG coach and I don't think even their managers should be thinking in this direction as it's almost not possible, this period is one in which PSG is gradually trying to get back their form and seeing if its going to be possible they get much better than the ahv been so its honestly not an easy work for their coach and he's trying so hard already, thw best thing will be to lower the expectations and give him some more time.

Talking about PSG in UCL last season, they played very energetic and aggressive during the semifinal match against Dortmund, they were even much better than Dortmund. Unfortunately, Dortmund was luckier and qualified for the UCL final. In addition, PSG is no longer strengthened by two other stars, namely Neymar and Messi. Enrique only has Mbappe, but they were able to advance to the semifinals. In fact, PSG was not favored to reach that stage. So, I see that under Enrique PSG has improved. Although, some of their players did not perform well in every match. In fact, reaching the Champions League final is not easy for other strong teams. For example, Bayern Munich has Kane and is even architected by Thomas Tuchel. However, they still failed and were unable to advance to the Champions League final phase. Currently, PSG is in the process of rebuilding their squad, especially since Mbappe has left. Which means, in order for this team to remain competitive, Enrique is trying. But it's not easy, because bringing in players who are needed by the team always has obstacles. although PSG has abundant finances, the fact is that not every player they are targeting is willing to join the French League giants. Under Luis Enrique, he is currently evaluating his team by recruiting several newcomers. Unfortunately, Luis Enrique has not yet found the striker they are targeting so that his team can be competitive again.

Ancelotti, Tuchel, Pochettino and Luis Enrique have failed to lead PSG to win the Champions League title so far, even when they are considered the top coaches in Europe. PSG basically has a good squad to compete for the Champions League title, but this team has not found success due to a lack of luck and mentality. It was the same as Manchester City several seasons ago, but Pep Guardiola finally managed to win Manchester City's first title.

It seems very unfair to only blame the squad and coach, but PSG management in particular must be responsible. Many of their recruits are not very reliable, even this season's transfers. Their transfer activity tends to seem like good business for the player's agent or someone else with an interest, that's been the case with Chelsea too so far.

Losing Mbappe definitely will impact them a lot, but at the same time they didn't need that much better player at that position, they already made some changes and they are still the best team in all of France without Mbappe. Hell, if they lost Mbappe and did not get anyone instead, they would still be best team in the league. And when it comes to UCL, I do not think that losing Mbappe means much, they didn't win it with him too, so I think they will be fine and if they play a better team ball now then they will have a chance to actually do something. I believe that they are looking quite good right now and I believe that we are going to see them growing gradually to a team that will do fine in the end, shouldn't be an issue.

PSG have been targeting to win a Champions League title for ages. Whatever they have done so far still didn't help them make it. Maybe something is wrong with the management of the team generally? But let's see what Luis Enrique will do this season. 

It is good to see Monaco there again. After having a horrible season they have made progress for sure. But we will see whether this will reflect onto the Champions League as well. Maybe they would progress through league phase by finishing at a position from 9th to 24th.

Lastly Brest... They were the biggest surprise in the Ligue 1 last season. I didn't expect them to be that consistent. But I don't have good expectations from them there. They are quite probable to get eliminated in league phase already due to lack of experience. 

Considering the performance of RB Leipzig in recent seasons, they shouldn't be a team that one can easily write off when they're facing Paris Saint Germaine. But like you rightly said, it's just a preseason friendly game of which I don't expect us to be surprised with any result we get at the end since players of both club wouldn't play to their full strength in such games. For the first time since the 2017/18 season, Paris Saint Germaine will start a campaign without Kylian Mbappe who's been French Ligue 1 top scorer in the last 6 seasons so I expect them to experience some setbacks before finding their best form again.

Although PSG previously had Mbappe and some great players too but anyway, the fact is that PSG has never had a good chance of winning the Champion League trophy. So anyway, it is natural that for example without Mbappe, PSG's chances will still be difficult to get good results in the Champion League. But indeed, nothing is certain what PSG will be like without Mbappe because after all, if Enrique is really able to build the PSG team to be better even without Mbappe, then Enrique should also still succeed in making PSG get good results also in the Champions League and not only in the domestic league.

Of course, any result can still happen and perhaps, PSG will be even better when there is no longer a reliance on just one player as before a heavy reliance on Mbappe. But about the new format in the Champions League I personally don't care, because the most important thing is the competition in the Champions League which will certainly still be interesting to look forward to.

Most important thing is that this match is not serious or not but from the performance of the friendly match we can find out the expertise displayed on each player. And with such an appearance makes the fans sure that at least PSG is still fine to pursue the League 1 title or at least not make doubt.
But if we talk about PSG readiness to face the challenges at UCL, it seems I am not too sure and the possibility of the quarter finals later PSG will fail because it still requires a little time to build the expertise of players who replace the role of Mbappe.
The time draw was a lesson for the coach to at least not use the strategy and replace with other tactics that could provide guarantees.

The new format will add excitement to the Champions League. I think Paris Saint-Germain can be successful in this format. Now they should focus on the player they will transfer instead of Mbappé. They still haven't decided who will replace him. There are a few names floating around for this, but no definite transfer has happened yet. While a few people were saying Osimhen, some were saying Kvaratskhelia. Even the name Yamal was mentioned, but I don't think Barcelona will let him go. The only thing I'm curious about now is who they will get instead of Mbappé. Accordingly, their positions in the Champions League next year will be predictable.

 I think right now the management of PSG will not be expecting the coach to turn things around overnight with the current squad but they have higher chances of winning the Ligue1 and coming closer to the champions league competition but winning it next season means they will gather all the experience they have got and the team will need to prove themselves wrong to get things right if they must break betrayals of not winning the Champions League for the club. The current manager Enrique is a good coach who knows how to make use of his tactics very well he will definitely want to prove himself next season in the champions league people should not underestimate the PSG team yet.

PSG is making a significant play right here. Enrique sees developing machine rather than depending on one celebrity. Winners are created in this way. Yes, Mbappe is a great talent, but look at Man City under Guardiola. They rule without one Messi or Ronaldo on the lineup. It has to do with the system, the plan, the cooperation.

Some people would argue now that losing Mbappe compromises PSG's chances for Champions League. Remember, though, last season they made it to the semifinal without their full star strength. It is evidence of the great distance a coherent, well-coached squad may travel. PSG is growing rather than merely rebuilding under Enrique's direction. Count not one of them out. They remain a big rival, hence I wouldnt be surprised to see them raising that trophy earlier than you would believe.

So PSG was unable to win the match even though they went ahead by 2-0 in the 12th minute of the match. In the 15th minute, PSG actually ended up conceding one goal. and in the 43rd minute, they went to concede another. There were no goals scored in the second half. I understand that this was a friendly match and the result of this match does not matter at all. But still, PSG probably should have been able to win the match somehow, especially since they went ahead two goals by the 12th minute of the match. That is also against such a team that many people don’t even probably know the name of, and yesterday they drew against RB Leipzig. But I think I am being a little too hard on PSG. I think we should trust the coach to bring in better results in competitive matches and not talk too much trash about the results of friendly matches.

Hopefully these 3 clubs can do a lot in the Champions League this season, the first is Paris Saint Germain, of course this club is the club that is most expected to be able to achieve an achievement in the Champions League, because of the 3 clubs they are the strongest and have the potential for it. The second is Monaco, they have played well in the Champions League several times, hopefully this time they can repeat that and even be better. the third is Brest, I don't remember if they have ever been in the Champions League or not, but hopefully they can talk a lot.


Apart from the 3 clubs above, there is also one more club that is still in the qualifying round, namely LOSC. They are now in the 3rd round of the Champions League qualifiers. They face Fenerbahce and are ahead in the first leg with a score of 2-1. In the second leg they only need a draw to be in the play-off round and one step away from going to the Champions League.

I think this negotiation is over because there is no mutually beneficial meeting point for both parties but here it is clear that Marseille are really looking forward to Nketiah joining. I think they have made a great effort to woo Arsenal and the existing offer is still not enough to make Arsenal give the green light.

I think with Nketiah's current quality Arsenal is setting his price too high and Marseille must be smart when doing business by not saying yes to the offer requested by Arsenal. Arsenal may look greedy but they want to recover their finances after making transfers in the summer and therefore they are still insisting on the existing offer. I think this will not be over until one of the parties gives in.

With their performance in UCL, it shows that PSG is not improving in performance because the farthest they can go is semifinals. PSG is only having a big name because they are the best in France and they have no rival.

If PSG wants to show that they are improving they need to qualify to the finals and from there we can have hope in them that they might win the finals but when you have not reached the finals how do you want to win UCL.

I am not sure if this new one benefits them that much though, like it's just group stages that are different, rest will be same. Like for example if they are in quarter finals, they will face a strong opponent twice, just like the old times and they usually lose around there, either last sixteen, or quarters or semi finals. And those things are still same as it used to be and that means I do not think that PSG has anything better nowadays, it's still the same thing and I do not see how they could do better this time around.

We need to be considering this as something that will take a while, and we are looking at something that is not going to be that easy to handle neither, so it will not be too simple to handle, we could make it work some other way if we are not careful. PSG bets on UCL is not a smart thing.

There is actually a player who can replace Mbappe and we all know who he is, Victor Oshimen, this player has shown his interest in playing for PSG many times but the club must fulfill the agreement that has been set by Napoli club but until now PSG has not recruited the player and I think PSG has given up on bringing in Victor Oshimen meaning that PSG is ready with the existing players and Enrique also does not seem too ambitious to bring in a new winger. Let's see what will happen to PSG this season whether they are still the strongest in League 1 if there are no more potential players in their squad because I think other clubs like Nice, Lille and Marseille will have make it difficult for PSG to compete in League 1 starting this season.

I don't agree with this, Enrique is trying to do something fundamentally different at PSG, he is moving away from the system where the team was made up of many star players and is trying to make PSG a team that does not depend on one player.

I see something similar with Guardiola and in my opinion this is a very correct path. Look at what PSG were able to achieve with Messi, Mbappe and Neymar, and look at last season PSG was in the semi-finals without Messi and Neymar, and what will you say if, for example, this season PSG is in the final without Mbappe, or at least in the same semi-final? I think that this is quite possible, because Enrique is building a strong enough team, but I think that a good forward would not hurt them.

Talking about the big target for PSG next season with the hope of getting the UCL trophy, of course this must be accompanied by changes to the squad in several important lines at PSG so that Enrique's own ability can be more visible when training the players at PSG. But if until now PSG still has no changes in several important lines, of course there are still many people who doubt PSG's ability to get the UCL trophy next season. Moreover, coupled with the new format that generally every team must be ready to welcome it next season so that the strength level of the team squad must really exist and be tested.

We cannot doubt Enrique ability in terms of building a squad, but for now we cannot expect too much from PSG ability to compete in the Champions League, the squad that PSG has is very good, especially with the arrival of several new players at the moment, this will not exclude them as candidates for champions in Ligue 1, but if we talk about PSG then for now we will no longer talk about their abilities in Ligue 1, because after all PSG main target has been bigger (UCL trophy) than just to get the domestic league trophy, losing Mbappe clearly makes a lot of changes to their current squad, so it directly reduces the percentage of their chances of winning the Champions League trophy next season because at the moment we haven't seen many changes in their front line.