Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 378. (Read 194644 times)

It seems like you forgot about 1 team which is also part of the team challenging for tickets to other competitions.
Lens is one of the teams that successfully won a UCL ticket last season and is currently starting to improve on its previous shortcomings and is slowly improving its performance by adding several points to continue to climb to the next ranking.
It is indeed very difficult to predict who will succeed in winning a ticket to the prestigious competition because the point difference is very close, while the remaining 9 matches are the same as the remaining 27 points that can be achieved by all teams and this means that the successful team has a very close point difference a chance to finish in a more decent ranking.
however, I still believe that Monaco this season can at least get a ticket to the UCL or a qualifying ticket for the european league and for Brest I need to see the next match because I see Brest has lost control a little recently.

They have lost a lot of points in recent weeks. In fact, they could be in a much better position than they are now, they are currently 4th in the league. But it is not very difficult to be among the top two teams, of course, for this they need to win the matches without making mistakes like they did a few weeks ago.
Yes, they may be playing European matches, but it is a bad thing for them that it reflects on their performance in the league. If they can't get into the top three in the league, their goals for next year can't be too big

Apart from PSG, there is currently no team that has managed to secure their position to qualify for the Champions League next season, Brest, Monaco, Lille, Nice and even Lens still have a great chance to be able to win the remaining Champions League tickets at this time, with 8 matches left it is certain that all teams still have a great chance to be able to knock each other down in the Ligue 1 standings.


Even Brest and Monaco at the moment I think they could lose their positions if they continue to experience negative results like what happened in their last two matches, besides that there are still meetings between teams in the top 4 in the remaining matches it will present  tough competition at the moment, and I am sure if these four teams will try hard to get the highest possible position in Ligue 1 to be able to play In European competition next season, I think not only Monaco and Nice have a great chance, if you look at the schedule of the four teams I mentioned, I personally doubt Monaco Nice will easily be in the Champions League zone next season because anyway in the remaining 9 weeks we will see the 4 teams will kill each other later to claim 2 Champions League tickets and 1 Champions League qualification ticket next season.

Lille have had a really busy schedule because of competing in the Conference League on one hand as well. They are still a part of the Conference League and have reached the quarter finals. They are really good at having a nice balance between that tournament and the Ligue 1. They are fighting for a Champions League spot as you know.  

Do you believe Lille can maintain this balance until the end of the season? Their next opponent in the Conference League is Aston Villa though so they might say goodbye to the tournament in this phase as well. It is really not easy to predict the top four fight in the Ligue 1 now as the points are very close.  

In the previous season, Nantes also closed the season at the bottom of the rankings or at a safe point to stay in Ligue 1.
This season is also the same where Nantes appearance is not much different from the previous season. Because currently Nantes is still stuck in the relegation zone, which of course means they have to be able to improve their game to be better in order to get out of the relegation zone.
Management efforts to improve the quality of their game do not seem to be successful because they are so easily beaten by their opponents. But seeing that their points are quite close to the teams above their ranking, of course they still have a chance to get out of the relegation zone.

I think they have to make better changes in the remainder of this season because they have to look for points to improve their position in the standings table. In the upcoming match, Nantes will face Nice, which may be a very tough match for them because the instability of their performance will definitely affect them when they face Nice. However, they can try to find a draw because their next match will be at Nice headquarters.

Coman and Christopher Nkunku are both promising players but they don't reach the targeted space in their teenage age, rather this is the season for their sparkling moment. These mentioned ex academy players doesn't seem to be promising, there's a whole lot to know about the system. Sometimes, if these players stayed, they will not find their purpose in football, rather they will not be giving chances, but moving to other clubs, these players ensured they're having their best performance and contributing to their perspective team's growth.

Nantes indeed had a bad performance so far this season, getting 25 points out of 26 matches is a poor result for them as they are already in the relegation zone.
They are just one points behind two teams ahead of them, which means they can make it if Kombouare can make a good effort as the new head coach, even though their next two matches are difficult ones as they will be facing Nice and Olympic Lyon, but if they can be able to get some points in the match then they will have the opportunity to survive in the League because the matches after these two matches are winnable.

Nantes officially introduced their new coach, Antoine Kombouaré.
They stopped working with their 51-year coach who got ten losses, three wins, and one draw, these are the worst results Nantes could ever get and that's why they got Kombouaré back in the team again.
Kombouaré worked in Nantes from 2021 to 2023 and he helped Nantes to stay in the French League 1 but he left the team after that.
Kombouaré has the experience of working in PSG, Lille, and Al Hilal and now while Nantes is close to getting relegated he joined this team to save them again, so far during the games we saw from Nantes in this season, they got 25 points in 26 games and they are in 16th place of the league.

Talking about beating Barcelona to get to the finals, of course it's very possible but in this case I don't see it happening just like you did mentioned it, it may possibly drag to penalty or it may be a narrow escape or a team Winning by luck again either ways it's very likely it's not going to be an easy win for either of both teams because the UCl do comes with a different kind of orientation for all teams.

PSG appears to be very much experienced in the champions league because they have all ways got to appear in the champions league almost every year but they have only gotten to the finals a few times and they aswell have not won it not even one despite the number of times they have appeared in the champions league, Barcelona Is aswell experienced too but they have not as many appearance as PSG but that wouldn't be enough reason for me to see them as not been experienced enough because I know they actually are as they have won a few champions league .

I may not be actually surprised to see PSG crash out of the champions league at this point because away from mbappe who's doing the strike for PSG they actually do find it difficult playing against elite teams as this butt hen if they get lucky enough, they could actually possibly get to win and knock Barcelona out to qualify for the next round of the champions league but it's definitely going to be really tough on them.

Nkunku is a pretty good player but at the PSG academy it seems like he is not very visible so it is quite natural that he let him go besides that the situation of PSG's midfield and attack line when Nkunku was there was also still fairly luxurious where several players like Di Maria, Icardi, Drexler and Neymar also made Nkunku's very young performance invisible because of strong competition and if in the end Nkunku remained at PSG we would not know whether he would be like now or not.
In Leipzig he got more comfort and that was the opening for him to pave the way to be recognized.
So was it a mistake? I don't think so because in this case everything has its own time and priorities, Nkunku is good but he was in 20109 outmatched by several star players so indeed the last hope is to leave rather than his talent being wasted when he becomes a player on the PSG bench.

As I said before about Monaco, I think this team is a great team and they were usually in the top side of the French League in the previous seasons we saw from this team, but still I think Monaco is an unstable team and they sometimes lose points we expect them to win even against the weaker teams.
In the game against Metz they will have a good opportunity to win the three points from this match easily because based on the past results from both teams, I think Monaco can have a much higher chance to beat Metz in this match.
In the past five games for Monaco, they lost one game and had two wins while Metz had three losses and won two games which can show weaker performance from Metz compared to Monaco in the recent games they had.

Losing points in several matches before the season ends will make Monaco's position in qualifying for the Champions League even more difficult, even though they are currently in the top three of the standings. Monaco must play more consistently in the remaining matches because they must defend their top three position in the standings from challengers Lille and to qualify for the Champions League they must be able to finish in third place. Lille is chasing a three point gap from Monaco and if Monaco does not play consistently then their position is still quite threatened.

Monaco and Nice do have a much bigger chance because they will face much weaker opponents, but that doesn't mean it's easy because sometimes facing relegation zone teams also provides difficult resistance, because they are also struggling to get out of the relegation zone. Monaco must maintain their victory in the next few matches if they don't want their position to be taken over by challengers below them.

To be honest, I didn't know that Coman and Nkunku were two players from the PSG academy, and it would be stupid for PSG to let go of the talented talents they once had, I think maybe there are still a lot of PSG academies that they have wasted at the moment, this is just to take a shortcut by spending a lot of money to recruit star players who may not be better than their current former academy players.

Maybe it's very natural for PSG to continue spending a lot of money when they don't have high confidence in their young players and I think this is precisely what often makes PSG fail because there is no loyalty and chemistry like the players they have trained can provide, big investments for the magnitude of achieving squad perfection in a short time like now actually doesn't produce anything for PSG, even though they can win Ligue 1, it's not worth their outlay so far, I think there's no difference for PSG if Mbappe leaves or stays, because as long as We can see that there is no equality in the PSG squad, so far PSG will only rely their chances on  one or two players who they continue to give big privileges compared to other players at the club and that is no different from what happened to Mbappe right now.

I don't doubt Victor Osimhen's ability, but what matters to me is when he will be in a team that still has problems with a strategy that until now doesn't look promising and we know how many players can't win anything other than the domestic title when was at Paris Saint Germain. This is the task of management, actually so that they can show even tighter competition, especially when they are in the Champions League.
I myself agree and disagree if Osimhen lands at Paris Saint Germain, because I'm worried that he won't be able to show his best abilities. I mean when a player is in a regular league that has no competitors it will make him comfortable, and when comfort comes into a player he may not be eager to develop his abilities. It's different when he's in a very competitive league, like it or not, he has to hone his skills even more deeply so he can compete with other players who also want to get a top spot. So as I said before, I'm worried about his move to France because it might make him lazy, but I hope I'm wrong about that.

The news of Victor Osimhen moving to PSG has been in the media space for a very long time now. There have been no comment from either PSG or Napoli concerning the Nigerin's departure to France. Maybe the Parisians have not lost hope in convincing the French star to remain in Real Madrid. The success of PSG in the Champions League might also be delaying Mbappe's declaration about moving to Real. Some sports analyst thinks that Victor will not be able to replace Mbappe since he operates from the left wing. But they fail to understand that the coach can easily change tactics to suit the Nigerian attacker. Lous Enrique will just have to get a standing left winger while Victor Osimhen remains a traditional goal-getter. Victor will be the perfect replacement for Mbappe and it fits the budget of the club since they don't want to spend so much on players. The Nigerian also understands the French league since he spent some time with Lille.  

It is very likely that the PSG team can be built with stronger chemistry without relying on just one player when Mbappe leaves.
However, it all goes back to PSG's management pattern in building this team, they have made a lot of efforts to bring in star players and spent a lot of money but there is no success on the European stage that can be bought instantly, PSG management should be aware of what is happening and reflecting on the Manchester City team in building a team which went through a long process until finally producing quite good quality.

All of this goes back to PSG management, if they continue to spend a lot of money to buy several big players and then just depend on those players, of course it won't make the PSG team much better.

PSG performance not really effect yet although losing Mbappe for next season and keep dominance in Ligue 1 as the winner every season, but PSG will on difficult position when playing in Champion League next season after looking with Mbappe contribution this season success make PSG qualify until quarter final. Mbappe have final decision with his future leaves PSG after his contract expiring, but he still not announce yet which become his club for next season and want to give more respect with PSG and keep focus until the end of this season by giving the best performance in domestic league and Champion league match.

PSG have list some target will recruit next season for replacing Mbappe's position, its not difficult with fantastic salary payment offer by PSG for their players target. Victor Osimhen become the players linked will replace Mbappe position for next season but Napoli still not accept yet with official offer from PSG.

I find it aggravating that PSG consistently buys their way to success rather than cultivating potential. Coman and Nkunku are crushing it now, making you wonder what could've happened in Paris. Maybe they lack the patience to give young guys an opportunity.

Honestly, Mbappe leaving could be best for them. It will make them work together and include everyone. Less predictable, possibly more constant over time. The media will go crazy about who they sign, but its too early.  It will be intriguing to watch who they choose and if he lives up to the hype.

Honestly, I have never seen PSG take a player from their academy while PSG was held by Nasser Al Khelaifi, because this person always used his money to buy expensive and well-known players, so it would be impossible if that really happened because Nasser Al Khelaifi always wanted to get something instantly.  and by running the club really from the bottom like big clubs that always save their finances, even though there are many candidates that Nasser Al Khelaifi wants to bring in, at least it can lift PSG to the European Cup, not just in the domestic league, to dominate, at least it has the ambition to  European League.

When a player beats the expectations of many and is achieving indivisible records and hitting the limelight season in and out, he’s considered to be a very top player and is seen as a strong force to reckon with. One player that falls into this category is Kylian. The boy is young and has a World Cup trophy to his name and has also made sure he gets the media attention from the milestone of successes he achieves in every tournament he finds himself. These kind of players are real difficult to let go and it’s a sad one PSG will be losing him at this point.

 Kylian always wanted to achieve suceess and get individual accolades for himself which is one major reason he’s chasing his career in a bigger club, Real Madrid. He’s very dedicated to delivering for the club and country and this is one big characteristics of a winner. He’s their target man and has been in that position for a long time so it’s quite expected he attains that height but you can’t just go without noticing his efforts because you see how he carries the team generally and how poorly they perform when he’s absent.

 The next season without Kylian would to an extent be quite difficult for PSG. I like the face that Kylian is retiring on a very high note by him winning the highest goal scorer and the league’s best player. This is the same way Jurgen wants to leave Liverpool where he’s spent quite some time, on a very high note. PSG next season will be one team trying to find their feet especially if they’re not able to get one quick replacement for Kylian to be on a very top production level.