Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 302. (Read 188790 times)

It's hard to believe, Brest is in second place in the standings awhile got losses against Lyon have lower current standings position after dramatically match with the result over 4-3. Its crucial victory for Lyon after conceded over 1-3 until 70th minutes but success made come back for winning over 4-3. Slowly, Lyon success moving to the higher position standings and their points almost close reach the Europe League spot after having bad performance in the early season and dropping to relegation zone.

Currently, Lyon has 8 points remaining to reach Champion League spot and small points left to set up one place for Europe League next season although have play more one match than above teams standings. I think Lyon has chance with moving up to higher standings position 5 remaining matches later.

So far there is only Mbappe who really looks dominant and has made huge contribution to PSG, in fact they have been able to continue winning Ligue 1 for several seasons, especially this season thanks to Mbappe being with them.
For other competitions such as the UCL, I don't think PSG really has enough performance or strength to compete and be able to win the title in the upcoming match, it is certain that PSG will fail to beat Barcelona away and they will be eliminated.
They can repeat this next season but PSG is playing without Mbappe and there is no certainty about who will replace him, clearly this is detrimental condition for PSG.

Yes and the decision to move to Real Madrid was the right decision for Mbappe considering that with PSG he also did not win any titles except Ligue 1, he is great young player and it would be shame if his career did not develop.
It time for Mbappe to go and pursue what he should have gotten long time ago, Mbappe biggest wait is to be able to fight for and win the UCL title, and with Real Madrid the chances are quite big to achieve that.

Reims actually has starting the match with very well because at the beginning of first half Reims can taking initiative to playing attacking Reims even can able to leading the game after Nakamura scored at 7 minutes of first half but the red card is ruin Reims performance because after that incident Strasbourg can taking over the game and they were successfully to makes Reims playing under pressure until this match ended and this result is makes Reims position on league table was taking over by Lyon because at the same time Lyon can win from Brest

I personally won't be recommend to placing your bets for Reims because the performance of this team is really unpredictable because sometimes they performing well but often too Reims performing poor and lost even it against small teams so it is very risky to putting your money on them and if we talking about Reims this weekend they as a host will playing against Montpellier and actually Montpellier is not strong opponent for Reims because previously Reims can beat Montpellier several times but lets see it later whether Reims can return to the winning ways from this match or they will be unable to win again

This has mostly to do with the fact that PSG is not the only rich club in the Champions League getting money from investors or being rich for other good reasons. Real Madrid has tons of money because for some reason they can go deeply into debt. Manchester City is rich because they are owned by the City Football Group, which is run by the Abu Dhabi United Group etc. Bayern Munich has been a very rich club because they made a lot of wise financial decisions and they have done some great work to set up their club without being based on huge debt.

But in France there is no competition for PSG. That's why it is all about money. Neymar was a mercenary who was all about the money. Messi went to PSG at a stage in his career when he knew that he already had his best years of his career at Barcelona and Mbappe was very young and couldn't resist the money either. But that is not how you build a Champions League winning team. Look how much work Guardiola has put into building the Manchester City squad. Yes he has a lot of money available, but he is much better at building world class teams than any other coach that has ever worked for PSG.

Even though PSG did not have financial difficulties, they still could not win Europe's biggest cup. They couldn't do this even with Messi-Neymar-Mbappe. We can no longer watch a top-level offensive line other than this trio of offensive lines. They probably had one of the best offensive lines in history at that time. They still didn't win the UCL. This year, they lost to Barcelona at home and gave the advantage to their opponent. I think they won't win this year either. Their chances of winning are even weaker after Mbappe leaves.

Maybe no one would have thought that Reims would submit against Strasbourg last week and the hosts, Strasbourg, beat Reims quite badly with a score of 3-1. Recently we have seen Reims lose its consistency, even in the previous match they only drew against Nice without a goal. The record of their last 5 matches is also bad, where they only got one win and they have also lost so many points in the last month.

This made Reims fail to move forward and they only remained in 8th place in the standings and would be easier to shift in the next match if the results remained the same as before. Reims, which I know has a good defense, seems to often experience carelessness and this is well exploited by the opposing team to steal points from them. Well, hopefully they get up soon considering that Ligue One will end soon and at least they will finish where they should be.

The both team played very well especially Lyon for equalizing the goal the way they did however I blame Brest on the other hand for showing their weaker side when the Match has gone really far, though at first Brest tried to have equalized the first goal at the 60 minutes of the game and was still able to utilize the opportunity and scored two more goals making it 3-1 against Lyon on the space if 7 minutes and at that points I concluded that Brest will surely win the match but it was unfortunate for them that when they feel they have already won the match that was when Lyon change their method of play and Brest was not able to hold them do to the kind of pressure they were having.

For the ones who saw how bad Lyon performed in the first part of Ligue 1, I mean in 2023 then he would definitely back Brest which is sitting in the second spot.
If we analyse deeper the situation then we will see that Lyon made the best progress among all teams in Ligue 1, top 4 teams included. They won most of their matches and continue to climb in the ranking. Best they could do is to get to Europa League next season or at least Conference League..

PSG still has a chance to win against Barcelona in the second leg. Barcelona is likely to be superior because they are playing at home and also lead the temporary aggregate, but Barcelona is also not very reliable because they are a team that is experiencing difficulties from outside and inside. Barcelona's performance has been good, but they will definitely be under pressure to maintain their lead.

Personally, I hope that Xavi will be able to take Barcelona to the semi-finals to the final of this season's Champions League. Barcelona has the potential to play Atletico Madrid in the semi-finals, but of course only if Atletico Madrid wins against Dortmund at Signal Iduna Park.

The rules for it are very simple. The more risk you take, the more reward you get. If you take the bigger risk you can't get anything and that's something we are sure about it no matter if you are betting in the French league or the other leagues. In fact, even if you are talking about the French League you should understand that PSG is the team they usually win and that's why there is much lower rates when you bet on PSG which can make you to get a small reward it is worth nothing while even PSG can lose and the risk you take for PSG won't give you the big reward to want to get while betting on this team.

To be honest, I didn't watch this match, but I predict that Lyon will win the battle between these two teams. and yeah, Lyon beat Brest with a score of 4-3. automatically, Lyon rose to 7th place in the Ligue 1 table. This refers to the last goal scored by Lyon from the penalty spot. the Brest goalkeeper should not have made a fatal mistake, so the referee gave Lyon a prize which made them win this match.

Referring to the course of the match, Lyon was more in control of this match. The difference is, Brest has more total shots. Regarding tactics, the two teams played fairly evenly and Lyon deserved to win this match. Next week, Brest will play a match against Manaco. and this match is important for both teams. because Brest and Monaco are only separated by one point. If Brest falls again next week, that means Monaco will shift the ranking occupied by Brest.

Brest 3-4 Lyon

This loss for Brest could easily have been avoided. The last goal was completely unnecessary. I mean the last moment when they actually ended up conceding a penalty. In the first half, Brest played really well. They were actually playing well until Lyon started scoring goals. From the moment when Lyon scored their first goal, it looked like the defense of Brest was starting to crumble. They were starting to make more and more mistakes in the defense. And finally, they ended up losing the match because of that.

This has made Brest buying in fear of dropping down to the third position. And they also had a red card for Tagliafico which is a very important player for them. They are going to have trouble in my opinion.

Kylian Mbappe already gave announced that he's going to leave Paris Saint Germaine at the end of the season but the debate that his departure will significantly affect the performance of the French champions come next season I know will be very difficult for the team but that doesn't mean that Paris Saint Germaine will fail to dominate the French league when the France international leaves the club if you ask me. The current squad of Paris Saint Germaine without Kylian Mbappe will still remain the most fearsome in the whole of France but definitely not in Europe but with the presence of Kylian Mbappe, the Paris Saint Germaine team will pose a great threat when facing any European club. Kylian Mbappe is without doubt one of the top three best players in the world at the moment and that's why no body can write off his impact in the Paris Saint Germaine team which is why many people believes the team will likely underperform when he leaves the club.

PSG will remain the dominant power in French football for as long as the sheikhs are willing to invest enough money into the squad. Mbappe is one exceptional player that may not be replaceable 1:1, but that doesn't mean PSG can't put a squad together that is far superior to any other team in Ligue 1. But they will still be running with their head into walls trying to win the Champions League. It is a totally different story.

I was hoping that maybe some other club gets investor because that would be the only way to make Ligue 1 interesting again similar to some other leagues where balance has been lost long ago. That's why a win like that of Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga is so special. But how interesting is a league where one team more or less wins everything for a decade or so?

PSG is the most important French club, but it would be better off if there are some other clubs trying to close that gap somehow. But it is unlikely that this will happen. I don't know whether there are any rules for foreign investors in the French league, but the amount of money that the PSG owners are pouring into the club will probably remain unmatched for a long time. Ligue 1 is not as interesting of a commercial product as the Premier League, for instance. And as the Spanish league bosses said, if Mbappe goes to Real Madrid it will draw a lot more attention to the league again while Ligue will lose quite a bit of audience.

I don’t think so and Mbappe leaving PSG will not make them not to be the best in the French league. They’ve dominated the league for long now and I don’t think they will be replaced easily by any club in the French league even though Mbappe leaves. Mbappe is indeed their biggest strength in that club but his departure won’t cause them any trouble. They will feel it, but will adjust after some time and fit into it again and continue to remain the best club in the league. No other club can sign quality players like they do in the Ligue 1 and that had made them standout amongst all other clubs in the league now.

The Monaco vs Bres match will of course be a bigmatch match, because after all the current team both really needs points to be able to secure their position in the standings, Brest and Monaco have a difference of 1 point and of course the match will be very exciting because their position is also not safe to get an automatic ticket to qualify for the Champions League next season,  In head to head of course Monaco is superior to Brest so far but it seems that we cannot make that a reference because after all Brest are required to no longer drop points in their remaining games, the position of both is now starting to be threatened after Lille also started to be quite consistent in the league and I think Monaco and Brest certainly need to be wary at this time.

Two automatic tickets and one Champions League qualification ticket are still up for grabs at the moment, but I think Lille will certainly not be satisfied to be in the qualification zone because it will only make them have to work hard enough to qualify for the Champions League, so I think Lille will try hard to be able to get an automatic ticket to qualify for the Champions League next season,  I think in the match both teams will try to play care so that the possibility of the game ending in a draw.

Matches like this sometimes ends in a draw but if we are to judge with the previous head to head of both teams we will give the wining to Monaco, out of the previous 5 matches between this 2 teams monaco won 4 and the hosting team won 1, so with this analysis we can conclude that Monaco will win but looking at the inconsistency of monaco this season I will say that this match is going to be a tough match, both teams will be needing the point considering the fact that if any lapses occurs among any of them, the side that utilises there chances will take the point.
Monaco has not been doing bad in their last 6matches, they won four and draw 2 which is a good result for any team considering how difficult the league is, their opponent opponent won 3, lost 2 and draw 1 which is not a consistent result so if any ome is to win this match, i will say that it is Monaco.

I do not think that Mbappe alone is enough to win UCL, it feels like we are going to see a lot of changes with the club next season and they had Mbappe for so many years now, it's been many years with him and no UCL title, so that is proof that he is not good enough to win the UCL himself, he needs a good team around him.

PSG isn't a bad team, they just never had a good system, for example if Pep accepted the offer and went to PSG back in the day instead of City, right now PSG would have been an UCL winner without a doubt, they would have built a good system around Mbappe. However, without any good manager like that or any manager that stays too long, we end up with a team that usually doesn't do well on win or go home games.

Recruiting and developing the players who have been recruited is indeed an important thing apart from money, because there are many teams whose finances are not very large but can develop well in the League. And for PSG, it is actually the team that needs greater pressure on the players so that when they play outside League 1 they can still be more competitive. Because financially, PSG is a team that has a lot of money and can buy more star players who are able to help the team become better, but sometimes this is still not enough if the players who have been bought are not trained well enough while at PSG.

This weekend there is a match between Brest vs Monaco and i can called this big match because the position of both teams in league table is not so different because Brest in the second place and Monaco in the third place with only 1 difference points and i am sure Monaco won't missed the chances to beat Brest because if they can able to do that Monaco can taking over second place from Brest and actually Brest performance is not really good recently because last week they dramatially lost from Lyon but for Monaco their recent performance were quite good because Monaco still unbeated in the last 6 matches in Ligue 1

Monaco gradually has been able to find their shape again because from 10 matches they only lost once and from head to head statistics too we can see Monaco has good records from Brest because they can win 4 times from 5 latest meetings besides that just like i said previously Monaco match statistics a bit different because they quite strong to play at their opponents home ground because during this season Monaco only lost twice from away matches so my prediction for this match is Monaco can being an the winner of this match and i haven't checked the odds yet but i assume  the bookmakers will provide high odds for Monaco win