Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 316. (Read 194970 times)

Season is coming to an end and then there is a fierce battle going all round for who finishes in European spot across the major leagues in the continent. Marseille have been suffering some defeats and you begin to think they won’t stand any chance of getting to any European competition especially after the performance of the other clubs in the chase.

 ⁠For Marseille they have the likes of Lyon and Lens to check out if they want to at least have a presence in Europe. Thought they picked up their form very late but were able to navigate and get to this stage and just yet again they began losing points and you’ll think they’re not going to get any spot.

 ⁠Lyon are in top performance especially after the great show they had against Monaco were they were able to get the victory, you wouldn’t want to write them off anytime soon . Well luckily for Marseille they were able to get the Victory over Lens and were able to get all 3 points to at least plant them in a good position to be good for an European spot.

 ⁠The win against Lens is a major boost for them as they can now go further and be able to challenge for at least 5th place. Luckily for them they will not be having any big fixture anymore so a proper and organised team work will be able to help them do the magic and get the wins in their final matches.

No, it is simply a question of money. Just look up the numbers of money invested in Ligue 1. I can't recall the exact numbers, but I remember that PSG is operating on a different level obviously. There is a difference between a team spending a billion and a team spending 100 million.

By the way I noticed that PSG is actually playing a poor season. With all the advantages they have, they've already dropped 23 points this season. I think they should be far more dominant with that team. They got 10 draws and a loss and there is still no other team even close to them. That's how weak the league overall is.

Since Marseille was coached by Jean-Louise, Marseille's performance has not been as bad as when managed by Marselino and Gattuso. Likewise with Aubameyang, he is now more productive in scoring goals with his new coach. It could be said that the system implemented by Jean-Louise has not been effective in every match they have played, but at least he is better than the two previous coaches.

Talking about the course of the match, it is true that Lens dominated ball possession more. However, regarding tactics, both teams both have advantages based on the patterns and systems applied by both coaches to their team squads. Lens, must work hard to equalize in this match. Only in the 77th minute, Franck Haise's team were able to equalize. Unfortunately for Lens, 8 minutes later Pape Gueye was able to receive a pass from Aubameyang which made it the winning goal for Marseille. Well, this victory can increase the confidence of the entire team to play against Atalanta in the semifinals of the Europa League. Moreover, Marseille acts as the home team. In just a few days, the Europa League semifinal match will be held. so we'll see if Jean-Louise is able to bring her team to victory, it's interesting for us to wait.

Yeah it was a great victory for Marseille because unlike when their points was still far behind Lens but after that wining their points has now become so close that if their is a little mistake from Lens on their upcoming matches Marseille will lead their position, however in terms of that match I seriously blame Lens because they over underestimated Marseille thinking that they could easily win them but immediately the match started Marseille Utilize the opportunity they had and score their first goal on the first minute of the match and after then they started leading Lens with possession and dominating the match.

However because of how dominating Marseille is on that match it took Lens a lot of time before they managed to equalize the goal on the 77 minutes and do to their inconsistency they were unable to defend well in other to hold Marseille to a draw and at the end they lose the match and now they are on a tight situation on their table because Marseille is just their waiting for any mistake from Lens to takeover their position.

I would say that it's always a trouble for French league, every year there is a different second place, and that is why PSG gets to be the best team every season, because if there was a team that was second place for 5 years in a row, then they would get better and better gradually, but no team stays good there. Look at Lyon for the simplest example, those guys were champions 7 years in a row, and this season they almost relegated before they turned the ship around and did very well in the end.

I think it is quite obvious that we are not going to end up with a greater result all that easily. We should consider the fact that we may not end up being that easily interested in this, we should probably see ligue 1 at least have a better shared TV rights or win rewards etc, so other teams would get more money.

In fact, Marseille managed to score a quick goal at the start of the match because  Aubameyang managed to score a quick goal within a minute of the match starting. Therefore, Lens made great efforts to be able to make a return goal in this match, but in fact in the 77th minute Lens just make a return goal and make the score 1-1. But even though Lens had good dominance in this match but still, Lens failed to maintain that draw score. Because in the 85th minute Marseille managed to score again and in this second goal Aubameyang made an assist and the goal was made by Gueye and ensured Marseille still got good results at home throughout this season.

So far the Bundesliga and Ligue 1 may have little in common where one team dominates the league too much, in the Bundesliga we see Dortmund being Munich's main competitor so far even though it has not been able to thwart Munich's championship chances due to Dortmund's frequent selling of star players, and in Ligue 1 of course we have Monaco which is like Dortmund so far,  Yes, maybe we think the Bundesliga started to change after Leverkusen got up, but I think it's  not difference also like in Ligue 1 when a few seasons ago Lille could become champions and break the dominance that has been held by PSG for more than 10 seasons.

When a team like Munich and PSG dominate the Bundesliga and Ligue 1 so far, it is certainly surprising if suddenly there is another underdog team that can actually break their dominance so far, but believe me if the shock will only last one season and in the next season the surprise team will again be a mediocre team that will only struggle at the bottom and middle of the standings.

I was not expecting at all to see PSG lose points against Le Havre. Compared to a team like Le Havre, PSG has much better and more expensive players also they are playing in the Champions League and they are in the first place in the table. That's why I was predicting seeing them to win this match but sadly I was not right this time,
Le Havre was lucky this time because of getting this one point against a team like PSG. However, I think PSG was trying to save the potential for the next game they have against Dortmund in the Champions League. Otherwise, they could have a much better performance in this match.

PSG has now won Ligue 1 even though the season is not over, PSG with its financial strength is certainly not surprising if they can dominate the league so easily because there is no other strong team that can block PSG, but indeed the league championship is too easy for them as if unable to lift PSG's performance playing in European competitions, especially the Champions League,  Sometimes their play in European competitions does not show as a team with a winning mentality in the league, unlike what we see with Madrid and Manchester City today who also have strong financial strength.

The valuation owned by PSG is of course several times that of other teams in the league but strangely in some matches PSG was not able to achieve positive results in the league, if we say dominance of course we cannot deny if PSG dominance has begun since they were owned by Nasser Al-Khelafi and we can see their frequent winning of consecutive French domestic league trophies is clear evidence of PSG dominance.

Marseille was suffering several loses from their previous matches in Ligue 1 and this makes Marseille lost points from those matches and finally Marseille can return to the winning ways last week with gets important win from Lens and for top 6 there are at least 3 teams who still compete to finish on that position because besides Marseille and Lens do not forget too about Lyon because this team in the positive conditions after beat Monaco and if Lens or Marseille unable to managed their consistency then big possibility Lyon can taking over 6th place

The winning result from Lens can boosted Marseille mentally and according to Marseille schedules in Ligue 1 actually Marseille will not facing hard matches because their upcoming opponents is only Lorient, Reims and Le Havre so if Marseille can able to managed their consistency then beat those teams is not hard task for them but before that Marseille have to focus for upcoming match against Atalanta on Europa League and in this match Marseille as underdog team because people are more likely to considers Atalanta as the favourite especially after this team can eliminate Liverpool and it could be very fantastic if Marseille can win from this match

With the victory over Lens, Marseille is now closer to being able to shift Lens' position in the standings. Of course, this is to fight for a place in the conference league next season and of course both teams will be fighting much harder than before before the season ends. If we talk about this match, of course Lens can dominate the game but on the other hand Marseille can take advantage of Lens' defense gaps to gain the upper hand.

The result was that before the match ended, in the 85th minute, Gueye managed to break into Lens' goal and at the same time gave the fans who came a 3-point victory. I think lately Lens have been less consistent so they should have been able to secure one point from the away game but had to lose it with the chance their opponent had in the final minute.

Yes that's right. It's not surprising that PSG won League 1 and it was like celebrating their birthday, every year they celebrate it because they are too dominant in League 1, starting from players and finances. Actually, a league like this is interesting because it is too boring. The same thing also happened in the Bundesliga, only this season Bayern Munich's dominance was broken by Bayer Leverkusen very impressively. I still hope that League 1 next season can be even more competitive so that League 1 will be even more interesting.

One of the reasons Mbappe wants to leave PSG is because he wants to look for challenges and of course wants to seek individual achievements such as the Ballon d'Or. Because if he still stays at PSG, it is impossible for him to get it, he really has to move so he can achieve more individual achievements.

PSG was the most expensive club and nothing surprise when team was totally owning the league like this time. It means that if PSG is consistently using all of its resources. It will be so dumb if PSG will not able to dominate this competition since it's owning everything.
PSG is the only club that has more than 1 billion valuation. The domination from PSG for league one is just getting started. We will see more domination in the upcoming season.

Of course it will be different and we actually can't equate it because every team in every league will always be different in terms of quality of performance and also the support that makes each team develop.
For Ligue 1 itself, I sure that in the long term there will never be another team that can compete with PSG, if there is, maybe only for few season because PSG can always dominate even though they previously failed.
Just look at the table for each season which clearly shows that PSG won the title almost every season and they only stopped after defending it for several seasons.
In addition, PSG is the richest team here and to be able to keep up with this will really be very difficult, if can, it means PSG is in trouble or could be said to have experienced decline in playing quality.

PSG have been crowned champions this season and they have defended the Ligue 1 title for the umpteenth time, for the team this season that is truly amazing is Brest because in one season they have shown significantly improved quality.

The same thing happened where Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga have a club that dominated so long but the shift that occurred in the Bundesliga did not have the opportunity to occur in Ligue 1 this season. Lyon, who in the previous season became a title challenger but this season they were quite slumped even though they could get out of the relegation zone slowly, but when they saw their appearance in the beginning of the season Lyon's performance was so inconsistent.

To pursue the top position of the standings it is not possible to be pursued by any team, but for Brest struggling to finish in second sequence is a better choice so they can play in the Champions League next season. The target finish in the runner -up position is enough because Brest only relies on the power of makeshift in competing.

I really think PSG actually does not care if they lose the Ligue 1 title at this point. The only thing they actually care about is the Champions League title. they will go to any length to actually achieve that. I think that’s what we are watching right now. PSG was actually at all worried about losing the Ligue 1 they could have played the match differently. But the main priority is the Champions League competition. that’s why no matter what, they are always trying to protect the players that will play in the Champions League match and then thinking about the match in Ligue 1.

I think that is right because they are going to win the Ligue 1 anyway. But it doesn’t matter what they do, it is going to hurt for them to win in the Champions League competition because they are never ready to actually play against bigger opponents. How would they be? They have been playing against teams that are less than half-powerful compared to PSG throughout the whole season.

It's too far to compare Ligue 1 which PSG has won again with the competition for the Bundesliga title. Leverkusen in Ligue 1 may lie between Monaco, Lyon, Marseille and Lille. It's just that we haven't had the right time to decide on the title at the end of the season.
It is true that in the 2020/2021 season, Lille was able to break PSG's dominance with a difference of 1 point when Lille confirmed themselves as Ligue 1 champions.
This season I am amazed by two other teams, namely Brest and Lyon. It is still possible for Brest to finish in 2nd place, while Lyon, which had slumped to the bottom, could return to the top 10.

The draw against Le Havre almost thwarted PSG's plans to win Ligue 1, but fortunately for PSG if in another match Monaco suffered worse fate than PSG by getting a defeat from Lyon so it can be ascertained that PSG this season has officially won Ligue 1, so the points you mentioned are no longer PSG need at this time,  The remaining Ligue 1 matches this season still have 3 matches and PSG no longer need to win those games because it no longer affects PSG at this time, besides that I think it is better for PSG to continue to play their reserve players regardless of winning or losing the remaining games in order to secure the main players for the Champions League match this season.

For now PSG have celebrated their championship sooner before the season ends, so PSG from now on can focus their attention on playing in the Champions League and of course Enrique still needs to improve the performance and mentality of his players to be able to face Dortmund in the first leg, if PSG hope luck like in the game against Barcelona of course it is difficult to repeat so I think it is mandatory for PSG to be able to work hard to beat Dortmund Later.

Wrong, ligue one doesn't have xabi alonso. Leverkusen was nothng without xabi alonso. Leverkusen has been using almost the same squad like last season but it's kind different when xavi came to the club. He changed the gameplay of leverkusen being more structured than the previous season.
It likes a magic came from xabi alonso. Leverkusen was an ordinary club without xabi alonso. That stats is good enough consider enrique is still in the process to rebuild the team. Even xabi took almost to season to bring leverkusen win the trophy.
Enrique took less than a season to rebuild the club.


The regulation has prevented big investors to come. This is pretty much the same like when bayern munich owned the league for more than 1 decade. That's crazy but this is the reality.
I often think about when ligue one to have other major investors come to buy the mid table club on ligue one. The winner for the next season will still remain the same. That's true if this league less of competitive.

What Ligue One has as a trouble is that they do not have a Bayer Leverkusen at the moment, they had one a few years ago with Lille who win it over PSG, but no team like that anymore. PSG doesn't end up winning every game, only 70 points in 31 games, which is 2.25 average points per game, and that is not good at all, any team that does better than that would be able to win the league, well in that case I am sure that PSG would have played better too but at least a team would be competing with PSG.

But looking at the league, every team is playing with a terrible under 2 points per game averages, even the second ranked team, so that is why PSG doesn't care about the league. Basically PSG has no other team competition, they are the only one that keeps winning their games.