Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 501. (Read 193808 times)

First of all, Luis Enrique will need to get clarity on his future at PSG. Will he be a coach who will be with the team for a long time or will he be fired in a few negative situations? If he wants to remain in the team as a promising coach, what he needs to do is to bring France's best young potentials between the ages of 16-18 to the team. France has a golden feature in this regard. PSG could be a great opportunity for a country that constantly produces Wonderkid. After 2-3 years, they can have a great squad with these players. I think one should be patient with Enrique.

Currently Lyon has been out of the relegation zone for a while but still Lyon position is still not safe because they are still in 15th position and only a narrow point difference from the relegation teams so Lyon still has to fight in the next match to be able to shift their position to a better ranking this season, last season Lyon finish in 7th place and this season I think Lyon may not be in the top 10 because Lyon is already quite far behind others clubs in the top 10.

PSG still has a chance to winning the League 1 title this season, but for the Champions League it looks like it will be a little difficult because there are still other teams that are more consistent, while PSG just got through the group stage, it seems like they are having difficulties, how can PSG achieve maximum results in the UCL?

I mean it is important to remember that if Martial ends up not being cost that much, just getting rid of the salary is great for United, getting to a team that does end up playing him is great for Martial, and not spending much money on him is great for Marseille as well.

I think those are all important stuff and we should be considering it as a great deal. I know that we are talking about a situation that would be great and we could consider that as a great option as well but we need to make sure that we could make some money one way or another with this information and I really can't. Not like there is a bet on him leaving or not, so it doesn't matter to me.

I just have to wait and see, but I think it would be great for all parties involved. I believe that the biggest benefit would be for Martial, he still would get paid, and he would play instead, which could make him show the world that he still has it, and his injuries are gone, if he gets injured again, that would be terrible.

Yes, PSG has large funds to build a squad with good depth. But unfortunately, as long as their squad has many star players, PSG is having difficulty finding a great and experienced coach at European level. Christophe Galtier and Mauricio Pochettino are not coaches who can have much influence on the game of a team like PSG, so it is natural that PSG's game scheme and game strategy are very uncertain.

This season PSG has Luis Enrique as an experienced coach. He must gain a lot of trust to adapt and perfect the team's game, including forming an ideal squad for defense, midfielders and strikers. If Enrique has many seasons at PSG, then I'm sure PSG will be in the Champions League final with him.

I agree with you. Erik Ten Hag got some of the players the managers wanted. But he has not been able to manage them well. I think one of the reasons is his relationship with players. Not very good. We all know only great managers can handle the great players. From that point of view, Erik Ten Hag is not a great manager, he definitely lacks the skill to communicate with the players.

Manchester United is lacking the mentality right now. Every player who joins there just loses his form. I think most of the blame should be given to Erik Ten Hag.

I think PSG is very lucky because their competitors in Ligue 1 were unable to match or surpass them, even at the start of the campaign PSG not led the standings for several weeks. Adaptation sometimes goes easily, but this season a lot of work has been handed over to Enrique as the new tactician, I think their adaptation process is not completely bad.

I agree that PSG performance in the Champions League was disappointing, but again I have to say they were lucky to qualify for the round of 16. Enrique faces many challenges, the biggest of which is potentially losing Mbappe, I can't imagine what their situation, what would be like if the transfer was actually realized.

Because the club owners have a lot of money, they were able to put together a front line that was quite dangerous in the previous few seasons. But in reality they are not able to provide anything different and that is not about Ligue 1 but other competitions that are much higher. Other clubs don't have the finances like PSG so not many can afford to buy quality players and when that can't be done then PSG will continue to dominate Ligue 1 without such strong competition.

PSG needs to build a more solid squad and maybe not just talk about a number of quality players because the previous season they had quite good strength. Now long-term projections need to be developed where Luis Enrique must be different from the previous coach and this will be a difficult job that Luis Enrique needs to do.

I confess that I expected PSG to be signing great players to compensate in case Mbappe left the team, but I saw this news:


source: https://www.instagram.com/p/C1jxSf7ITym/

Honestly, I can't understand PSG, they are a team that in attack depends a lot on the mbape and yet they are not on the market looking for good attackers, they spend money on signing players a lot of games for positions that at the moment they need to have good performance and also have good players in attack. It seems to me that PSG's objective is not focused on winning the European Champions League, on the contrary, their focus when they make these strange signings seems to me that they are only looking at Ligue 1 in the long term, but that's really funny because PSG has already dominated Ligue 1 in recent years

so it doesn't make much sense to just look at league 1 and do very poorly in European competitions, in any case for a team that hasn't yet won the European champions league despite having invested a lot of money in the team over the years, it's just frustration to psg fans who dream of one day being able to win the european champions league and every time the market opens psg comes with some meaningless signing, it seems like they are competing with chelsea and manchester united for the title of the most ridiculous in hiring. Anyway, we'll see if Mbappe leaves the team or will they be able to convince him to stay for more years, with this squad without great ambitions, it will be difficult for us to see PSG win something big that isn't internal competitions in France.

@boltz, About PSG, they would have probably won their 10th Ligue 1 in a row if they hadn't lost it to Lile a few years back. Monaco, Lile, and Marseille are some of the challenges for PSG but not a big challenge. PSG’s financials put them way ahead of the teams that are in the Ligue 1.

On the other hand, what Lyon is doing this season is very humiliating for the club and its fans. But they have won 3 matches in a row which put them outside of the relegation zone. But right now they need to keep their consistency. The morale is high in the squad right now and I believe they will be able to continue it in the 2nd half of the season. Their next match is against Le Havre and if they can win it, they will probably get 2 steps ahead in the ladder probably.

Dortmund came from the bottom of the group and they never dominated a game as if they were the far superior team and deserved the win. It was mostly close results and the lack of efficency on part of their opponents. Their opponents failed to score efficiently most of the games and that was the chance Dortmund took advantage of. If that didn't happen, I think it would be Dortmund that would now find themselves at the bottom.

PSG now has a chance to advance one more round as they are not playing against a superpower, but still Real Sociedad can be a very nasty opponent to play against. But anyway, I am looking forward to all those games and since I like watching Mbappe, I hope they will make it to the next round.

Luis Henrique have played 17 matches in Ligue 1 and 6 matches in Champion League group phase, its can't called with transition moment because he played almost half season of Ligue 1 match but PSG performance still inconsistent exactly in Champion League.
In the modern era pressure for new manager not spent more time for transition and they have ready for on the highest level although leaves by many players.
Supported much money not problem for PSG keep in underperformance in this season exactly they don't face most compete teams in domestic league but have lucky moment success qualify to 16 round in champion league.

Disliked the way they treated Cristiano Ronaldo honestly but who am I? You don't want to work with a player, why not communicate? It's same thing with David De Gea who they kept hanging. Anyways silence is a message but for a legend like David De Gea and Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United and Erik Ten Hag should have done better.

Sancho be so stubborn. There are two sides of a story but he's shown he no longer wants the club. Let him move.

Martial is Manchester United best Striker, he has just been seriously Injured and away for a while. I don't expect much from him. He shou be sold soon.

PSG has had plans to invest huge amounts of money all the time, but they did not have a plan how to prepare their team for the big duels with the best teams in Europe. Something is lacking and we have seen that so many times now that I don't know what the solution could be for a club that plays in a league without any other strong teams. Monaco isn't a serious contender and if they were to become one, then PSG would instantly weaken that contender and buy the best players from them. That's what they immediately did with Mbappe when they saw how strong he is and how he turned Monaco into competition for PSG.

@Pandu Geddon, I think the reason for Ligue 1’s current situation is pretty clear. The owner of PSG has lots of money to spend on players. He spends them on players, buys players from record breaking deals. I think the reason is that the French League always lacked passion. Because if they had, there would have been at least 1 team that would have given PSG a fight for the trophy. PSG always lacks motivation to play football and it also hurts them in the Uefa Champions League. You cannot win the Uefa Champions League if you do not have the drive and the passion. And these are created in you if you always play in a competitive area. PSG lacks it, that's why they have never won the Champions League.

As for the German League Bundesliga, although Bayern Munich dominates, they always have to fight for it more than PSG. They have that drive and that passion. Overall, the German league is far better than the French league. The French league is very boring at the moment.

I agree that PSG have a lack of strong competition in Ligue 1 that makes them had relative performances of other teams in their group. Their ability to secure qualification could be attributed to seizing opportunities presented by the performances of other teams in the group. Their second position in the group may have been a reasonable outcome given the circumstances. Borussia Dortmund getting lucky to qualify as the group leaders might be something fine to say, because it was unexpected and they came from the botttom of the group.

PSG Facing weaker opponents domestically may hinder PSG's readiness for the intensity and challenge posed by top European sides in the knockout stages. Teams that regularly face strong domestic competition often enter the latter stages of the Champions League better-prepared mentally and physically. The competitive balance in domestic leagues can significantly impact a team's ability to navigate the challenges posed by tough opponents in crucial phases of the European competition.

Im glad Lyon avoided relegation. The second half of the season isnt looking good, and seeing them struggle has been hard. The battle at the bottom of Ligue 1 appears constant, but they're battling hard. PSG, however, dominates. I expect them to win again. With their play, especially in the Champions League, they're in another league. Im curious how Luis Enrique will affect their UCL performance. Nothing seems to stop them from pursuing that prize. Their consistency is something Lyon and other Ligue 1 teams can only dream of.

It's true that Antonio is now injury prone and will have to be really careful playing else he will be injured at every slightest accident on the pitch or at training but then I don't see it enough to rule him out, Marseille have got good players who are in good form and will be in the stade where in Antonio would have fitted in so it very likely they wouldn't be needing him.

All these doesn't stop the fact that Antonio is still a very good striker and have not been used optimally by ten hag making him look like he isn't as good as they should see him to be , I believe under another coach who will maximize his potential, he will definitely do so well because there are cases of players who left a team in a bad form and getting to another team they turn out so good that their former team wishes to have them back, basically I think ten hag is one of the factors that contributed to making Antonio's career a shitty one in recent times.

It would be an exaggeration to say that it was luck for them to qualify for the next round because I think that Newcastle played well worse than I thought and AC Milan got out of shape during the first few months of the season to be honest. I think the second position in the group stage was ok for them and in my opinion it was rather Borussia Dortmund that got lucky to qualify as first from the group stage. But now we are again in the critical phase of the competition and they don't get prepared for those tough games in the Champions League when they play against teams like Toulouse. That is one of their biggest problem, the lack of competition in Ligue 1. It would make them stronger.

After the PSG owner spent a lot of money on the club, that's when I was quite interested in seeing how their journey was only in the Champions League and not Ligue 1, just like you and most of the members here who definitely think that Ligue 1 is not a competitive league for us to watch, because in Ligue 1 we won't see chasing points like what happens in other leagues, because so far PSG dominance in Ligue 1 has still not been broken so the matches are quite monotonous without any tight competition in the standings, but if we pay attention so far PSG players are also very relaxed because their quality is far above the players of other clubs in the league, so that when playing in the Champions League and against teams that play in competitive leagues, it is quite visible that PSG is overwhelmed like in the Champions League group phase this season and In my opinion, it was just luck for PSG to advance to the round of 12.

Why do they even need him? Marseille already have Per Emerick Aubameyang contributing hugely for them he has scored and assisted a joint number of 10+ goals for them. Gennaro Gattuso and his lads are doing well, finishing top four of the league table should be his target, after having a poor management from his last job.

For Antonio Martial, he'll definitely leave Manchester United and whoever gets a player like him should already know he is injury prone. He is by far the best number nine for Manchester United but he had time ajd chance to show himself for Manchester United due to Injury.
I will forever remember his debut goal for Manchester United against Liverpool.