Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 374. (Read 194664 times)

The resurgence of Lyon under Pierre Sage is indeed remarkable to witness. There is significant improvement in their performance since his appointment. Lyon is now able to win against both weaker and stronger opponents that shows the effectiveness of the changes implemented by Sage and the players' commitment to his tactics and strategies. Lyon's climb out of the relegation zone to secure a place in the top 10 is a testament to Sage's managerial prowess and the team's resilience. Reestablishing themselves as a competitive force in Ligue 1 amidst stiff competition is no small feat and deserves recognition.

The progress is commendable, but securing a ticket to European competitions for the next season is too big to ask for a team that is just fighting in relegation zone in the first half of the season. Even Though the gap between them and the fourth is nine points, they have to compete against six teams. Lyon would likely need a significant surge in form and results coupled with slip-ups from other contenders to bridge that gap. The recent performances indicate that they are heading in the right direction. The continued development and consistency could position them as strong contenders in the future.

Before being in the semifinals, Lyon had faced quite troublesome opponents such as Lille and Strasbourg, but they completed their mission well, thus placing them in a position to win at least one title this season. Lyon experienced quite a tough season and fortunately they were not shackled by failure and finally they were able to recover.

Maybe we already know that Lyon's opponent in the final round will be PSG and it is possible that this will be a final with high tension. I mean, both teams certainly still hold the tradition of prestige and self-respect for many years and even though the difference in quality is quite large, I think Lyon will not remain silent in the next match. But before that, we still have to wait for the semifinals to finish where Lyon will play Valenciennes and PSG will play Rennes. I think if there are predictions outside of what we think then it will be more of a surprise.

Lyon is slowly starting to experience very good development after changing coaches, at least nine of the ten wins they have achieved this season occurred when Lyon replaced Fabio Grosso and replaced him with Pierre Sage, so the steps taken by Lyon produced results that made them a good team performed better and started to produce lots of wins, and what was more impressive was that not only did they get lots of points when facing teams that were considered weaker than them but they also managed to beat other strong teams such as Monaco and Marseille.

Of course being able to survive the relegation zone is not an easy thing but Pierre Sage was able to bring this team into consideration again and is already in the top 10 which is a good achievement but to get a ticket to one of the European competitions next season it seems impossible for Lyon to get it because of points They are already far behind the other teams in the top six of the standings.

I think Lyon can reach 9th place. They managed to get 3 points in some unexpectedly difficult matches and became one of the strongest teams in the second half of the season. They can also make a surprise against Reims. If they do this, they can continue to push for the top spot. The Lyon I remember from past years can come alive again with its spirit.

For Lyon to finish in the top 9 i think it will be very difficult because they are still 4 points different from Reims who are currently in 9th position, finishing in the current position i think is still quite good for Lyon.  Lyon will face Reims, in this match Lyon will be the host, i'm curious whether Sage will use a 4-3-3 formation again like when they faced Toulouse.

While Lyon was on the relegation zone in the first half of the season, today it is ranked very well. The second half of the league was completely different for them. They are currently at the top of the league. If the first half of the league had not been terrible, they would be fighting for the European cups today. Lyon is fighting better now that it has learned its lessons

When I think back before Lyon experienced an improvement like this, Lyon experienced a shortage of players and the previous coach was unable to make any changes to Lyon's performance and after changing coaches and adding several players in last winter's transfer, it provided a very extraordinary change as we saw today.
I agree with you that a new coach can always make changes and Pierre Sage made very visible changes.
There is a big opportunity for Lyon to try to continue increasing their points to end the season on a high note.

It is true that if Lyon can be consistent, they can definitely get a position in the top 5 in the points table, but to overcome the obstacles of competing against PSG, Brest, Monaco and Lille is not an easy task, but if from matches against these strong clubs, Lyon doesn't lose points or even get points. Beating several of these clubs will definitely make it easy to get 5th place because the point difference is only 9 and in the remaining matches it is still quite catchable.

It is not true to say that Paris Saint-Germain can never win the Champions League. But they couldn't do it when Messi, Neymar and Mbappe played together for Paris Saint-Germain. How can they do it today without them? It's impossible to put such a squad together again. Of course, I wouldn't say that they will never win the Champions League, but we have to accept that their chances are lower now.

It would be a brave statement to not consider PSG for the Champions League title from now on. They can still create a solution to this if they take the right steps. They can spend their money in a more sensible way to build a much stronger team. They have signed skilled young players recently but I doubt they can achieve this title with the current squad. 

Especially when Mbappe leaves this team will be much weaker. He is keeping this team on feet with his big contribution of goals. The chairman has all the money he can use to transfer big names. He should focus on that in the next transfer window.

Lyon managed to recover so that they can slowly distance themselves from the relegation zone this season. At the start of the season they were very disappointing, and fortunately the management was able to move quickly to appoint a new coach who would be able to bring fresh air to Lyon, and they succeeded in doing that. Yes, even though they are in the middle of the table, it is very good compared to their ranking at the start of the season because they have to struggle with their position which is very threatened by the red zone.
This is a form of success from management, where they realized that something was wrong with the team and they immediately moved quickly to fix it and now we can see the better results they can show. Things like this are what a team must have, they must act quickly with careful consideration when they see something wrong in their team. However, moving quickly is also not good without careful consideration, so everything must be considered carefully before making a decision.

Lyon surprised me lately because with the poor start they had this season, I did not expect Lyon to come this far before the end of the season because I was expecting them to be relegated due to their poor performance, but lately, they regain their balance and were able to move up and left the relegation zone on time.
If Lyon keep performing well, they can make it to the Europa Conference League or even the Europa League next season.

In the pervious match, Lyon could beat Marseille very well, although it was with a goal. but this was a great achievement again. In three matches, they have been doing good result, all victories.

Actually, lately, Lyon's performance hasn't been that bad. It's just that at the start of the season, their performance was quite drastic which made their position quite threatened. Meanwhile, for now, they are heading to mdeiocore club to continue to survive in the main French League.

Oh yes, actually Lyon's achievements are not that bad. Even they still survive in the semi-finals of the French Cup, right?

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From this, I'm also sure that Lyon will be able to win the match and continue to he final of French Cup. Although the final match may be more difficult because the candidate will be also between PSG vs Rennes, and I'm sure, it will be PSG.

Yes, of course Lyon is able to survive in league 1 and since the start of the season when Lyon experienced a decline in performance I still believe this club is one of the popular clubs that will continue to maintain its reputation even though it often experiences a decline in performance without any definite clarity but still when it comes to the end of the season Lyon will start to rise to get a safe position in league 1.
Currently, Lyon has succeeded in occupying a top 10 position and I am sure that after this season's matches end, it is very likely that Lyon will finish in 7th or 9th position in the points table.

One of the surprises that we never expected before is because we rarely discuss Lyon here, but since entering the second half of the season, most people have just realized that there is a popular club that is in decline and after we often discuss Lyon, it turns out that there has been an extraordinary improvement and of course we will all a little surprised by the very high increase in performance, getting 3 points in a row, even competing with top clubs, Lyon was also able to provide strong resistance.
Lyon must at least continue to maintain consistency to provide a point difference with Toulouse, who could currently be chasing Lyon's points.

Talking about Lyon, of course they have managed to get out of their bad trend in the first half of the season because we saw that Lyon was at the bottom of the standings and up to now they have managed to improve their ranking by being ranked 10th.
I think they don't have any targets this season except avoiding the relegation zone and they have succeeded in doing that.
Indeed, Lyon has hopes of reaching 5th place to be able to take part in the European group stage, but that is quite difficult because the other teams are stronger than Lyon.

Yes, in the upcoming match, Lyon will face Reims and there will be a big opportunity for Lyon to get 3 points because the opponents they face are ranked quite close to them. Moreover, in this match Lyon will be playing at home and seeing the pace at which they have succeeded in progressing in a winning trend, of course this will be additional enthusiasm for the Lyon players to beat Reims. Apart from that, if Lyon manages to get 3 points then their position will still be in 10th place because they are 4 points behind Reims who are above they ranking.

Looking at a club like psg one would consider them to already have one European title to its name especially after all the massive investments the owner have done at the club. This kind of situation doesn’t happen with an English club.The player has released funds and the clubs have had some big name players in the team yet they’re not able to achieve an European title. This is a very big blow for the fans of this club as this is not what they expected.
 
 Well this goes to say that football is much more than having a big name player in your team as most times the big name player(s) might not be playing under the right tactics. So you can either blame the tactics or his teammates for not helping him achieve success. Blaming the teammates can be one thing and can be overlooked but when you come to the coach, I think the Psg owner understands that his team haven’t had the best coach yet as you can see how they performed in the UCL last season and last 2 seasons. This season they’re already in the quater finals and this is a big win for the fans.

 If the players are serious and determined they can be able to go through to the Semis of this season’s UCL, now you can see how they play nd you appreciate Enrique for using the right tactics on these boys by not making them all dependant on Kylian though it’s pretty hard. But you can see how better shaped they’re with Enrique tactics, this balls down to show how a coach’s experience matters in a team’s success. Now with Enrique, I think the hopes are high that they’re sure of achieving a feat in the UCL in coming years and I’m also confident of that too.

It will actually take a whole Long time before PSG will ever get to win the champions league, that's I'd they ever get to do because they are ever going to win the champions league some day because their attitude towards the champions league, although they look very determined but they still don't look like they are going to win it nay time soon due to their approach to the champions league every season.

They happen to be able to get to qualify almost every season so that now actually isn't a lrobi for them because they have been able to have their way in the Ligue 1 such that they can always be able to qualify but they can never be able to win the champions league because the approach they use is such that doesn't guarantee winning in the champions league, again they may get lucky to get through by winning weaker teams at various stage's but when they get to the critical stage it's actually totally different because the big teams found at this stage has got a whole lot of experience.

So tackling such Big teams with their wealth of experience in the champions league will actually mean that they will be able to come up with a better strategy that will be able to be above that which their contender has got and that they will be able to continually stay ahead of them and get to win but PSG currently lacking the kind of mindset and team depth that's required to be able to contend with such team.

Currently the team in seventh position is Marseille with 39 points, while Lyon is in tenth position with 34 points. Considering about Lyon who experienced badresults in the first half of the season, but until now Lyon managed to be in tenth position with only a five-point gap with Marseille in seventh position thenyes, it is clear that Lyon managed to get out of the difficult situation and the bad situation he experienced in the first half of this season.

So yes, with the success of Lyon who was able to rise and managed to improve his position from the relegation zone to be in the middle of the standings as now, then of  course Lyon will completely avoidrelegation. It doesn't matter what kind of opponent will be Lyon's next opponent until the season ends because anyway, eventhough Lyon plays againts a team that is in the topfive as well, but the fact is that Lyon is stillable to provide good resistance. Therefore, it is clear that Lyon willremain in Ligue 1 and will not be relegated because Lyon is able to maintain its position in a better position in the Ligue 1 standings.

It's no longer news that since the current owners of Paris Saint Germaine took over the ownership of the club, the club have been more successful in the French league than any other club in the the French league but have failed to win the UEFA Champions League competition. But unlike many other persons who think the club blew away their chances when they were formidable enough to win the UEFA Champions League competition, I personally think they still stand a good chance of winning the competition this season and that's because they still have a team that's strong enough to beat any club in Europe on their day.
Paris Saint Germaine's most important player Kylian Mbappe will leave the club at the end of the season but his impressive performances for the club since the start of the season suggests that he's going to do anything within his strength to help Paris Saint Germaine win the UEFA Champions League trophy this season and until becomes totally impossible for Paris Saint Germaine to achieve that feat this season, I still consider them a serious contender for the trophy

Nantes has a difficult challenge ahead of them, preventing relegation will need a lot of commitment and work. If they can't rise to the occasion, there can be severe repercussions, including dropping to a lower league. As you have correctly noted, it would be extremely difficult to get back to League 1 after such a loss, and League 2's competitive environment would present further challenges. Nantes can struggle to make an impression at the top levels of league play if they don't make a strong commitment to getting better.

So, at this point, Nantes would be wise to do everything in their power to keep themselves from being relegated. Even though they have a long way to go, there is still some hope because the teams ahead of them are only separated by small margins of one to three points. Nantes therefore still has a realistic possibility, should they are persistent and determined, of keeping their league position.

Bro surprisingly Lyon has actually improved a lot. The situation that they were in previously in this season was absolutely unbelievable and I thought they were not going to avoid relegation. Right now they are in good condition. Even though the current position, the 10th, is not an improvement compared to what they were in, in the last season.

In the last season, they were able to finish in the seventh position. Of course, there is still a chance for them to do that. But the 10th place is also not bad considering the situation that they were in. The first mission for them was to avoid relegation. And if they can finish even in the mid-table, it is going to be actually an achievement for them in my opinion.