Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 538. (Read 193597 times)

It's not too bad because so far PSG have only suffered one defeat in Ligue 1 and twice in the Champions League, so saying that their performance at the start of the season with Luis Enrique's arrival was very bad is not true. Coaches need to adapt and perhaps the opposite is true with players so that Luis Enrique cannot produce maximum results at the start of the season. Currently, PSG's performance is much better when seen in the Ligue 1 competition because they only experienced their first defeat when they faced Nice as a team that is in second place in the standings.

Nice are one of the strong challengers and even though they are currently four points behind PSG. When compared with the other two teams, it can be said that Nice's performance was much more convincing. Getting to the Ligue 1 title is still quite easy for PSG, but we want to see how Luis Enrique can bring PSG to compete in the Champions League.

I'm tipping PSG as well as my favorite in this game. PSG needs this game badly to secure a seat in the round 16 champions league. Even a draw may not favor them as no one knows the exact goal difference that will be between Newcastle and Milan especially if Newcastle eventually won the match. The issue I'm having here is that Borussia Dortmundis playing from away and checking their last 5 games, it favours the team playing at home. So this is where I'm concern, for history not to repeat itself.

Even though PSG lost several of their star players this season, in exchange they brought in young players whose talents could be further developed. Plus, PSG's players at least have quality above the average of the clubs competing this season. In fact, I am still optimistic so far that PSG will retain the Ligue 1 title for the umpteenth time. Even though Enrique still relies on Mbappe in his squad. However, gradually this team will form and develop according to the coach's wishes.
January transfer window is getting closer. Supposedly, Enrique remains in his plan to bring in one of the established attacking midfielders. thus, this team will be even more competitive. at least, for the Ligue 1 level of competition. The rest, they have to let go of the players they can't rely on in the January transfer window.

As for Nice, I'm actually not too interested in following its developments. Gradually, this team will return to its original settings and be eliminated in the top four of the standings.
The case is different with Monaco, at least they have better progress. although keeping up with PSG is not a very easy job. but at least, Monaco has a chance to be ranked second behind PSG. Let's just follow how this competition develops next. especially, after the first half of the season ended. because in the second half of the season, competition will get tougher and teams that have difficulty competing will have difficulty getting into the top four of the standings.

By the way, PSG will play their match against Dortmund in the Champions League phase. it could be said, this match will be very important for them. So, full points are a mandatory result even if the match is played at Signal Iduna Park. well, let's wait for the results of this match.

Kylian Mbappe is a young vibrant player that has lots of experience in football more especially in goal scoring, and has helped PSG for quite some years now so he's a kind of player teams yearn to play in their squad, he's a unique player that when he isn't in the pitch of play his absence can easily be noticed and when he is on pitch his impact are also felt so he's still a promising young players with lots of tactics. Mbappe is a goal scoring machine so I believe he will still score lots of goals before the end of this season

On paper Borussia Dortmund shouldn't be a problem for PSG as Dortmund isn't a top class squad. PSG isn't one either, but I think they are still one step ahead of Borussia Dortmund. I believe that PSG will win that game and then they don't have to care about what is going on in the other game. Which by the way is hard to estimate whether Newcastle will win it or not. Milan can't be underestimated and what they suffered from the most was their inefficiency. If they can improve upon that, they can also beat Newcastle I think. But Enrique will go for the win to be sure, although he will have his eyes and ears available for info about the other game.

Enrique is definitely a coach for PSG who knows his job well and he got good results in this team so far even after losing players like Messi and Neymar but the performance of PSG was not bad at all and currently, they are still the first hope for the French League and PSG also got a good chance in the Champions League, maybe during the winter if PSG hires some more players they can even get improved more.

But Enrique will be facing the same problem as all the other coaches that were given a try to lead PSG to success. It is the Champions League title and nothing else. The Ligue 1 title is taken for granted by most people and I understand why. If there is one team being flushed with money and all the other teams are not, I think it is normal that nobody considers the Ligue 1 title as a big achievement. But I don't think that this PSG team under the lead of Enrique has higher chances to win the Champions League than other PSG teams from the last seasons. But Enrique knew this before he signed the contract.

But even though he is not very familiar with the Ligue 1 style of play, I believe Enrique will quickly adapt to Ligue 1 because PSG has a more complete quality of players compared to other Ligue 1 participants. So it's not surprising that they easily returned to first place after several weeks of being below Nice.

Yes, maybe in the domestic league PSG has no doubts, but in the UCL league PSG must believe in the process, whoever the coach is, must be patient in building the team to become stronger. If you want something fast, it's difficult and you'll end up firing the coach. PSG must imitate the process experienced by Man City, where for several seasons they were only able to dominate the domestic league, but in the UCL they always failed, but because they trusted the process, last season they finally won the UCL. So I don't really expect much this season from Enrique in the UCL, even if they manage to qualify for the last 16 but they will ultimately lose anyway.

Maybe it's because their new head coach this season, I mean Enrique. Him become the right coach at PSG, and now PSG performance is better than few years ago when PSG have Messi Neymar etc. But this season PSG still have Mbappe. Frankly, without Mbappe PSG might have difficulty. Also, although the performance in League has been quite good, but PSG performance in the UCL has not really impressive so far.

Tomorrow they will play against Dortmund, PSG must win whatever happens because they are must to qualify R016, that is their mission right now. The reason is points gap with Newcastle and Milan is very close,and PSG must play all out in tomorrow match, to continue that big competition.

Yeah actually you are right it will be very difficult for any club to compete with PSG because the performance of PGG can never be compared with any other club in this league because if you check the performance of PSG and there statistics this season you will see that PSG has make a quite performance this season than there performance few years ago when Lionel Messi and some other good quality players was still there, however in those days people were thinking that since Lionel Messi and some other quality players was on PSG it will be very difficult for any club to win them but on the contrary there performance became worst as such that they were not consistent in there performance and also in times of there wining but ever since they remove some of there players they were able to go back to there previous ways of performance and they are the best team on the league now.

He is actually not a bad player when it comes to passes. He is just taking a high responsibility in this team now to make them win as much as possible. He is doing it by taking the goal load of the team over his shoulders. He has scored nearly the half of the number of goals PSG scored in the league so far. This is so Mbappe that we have been used to. 

When it comes to Mbappe's character yeah actually he likes to score a lot at the same time. He had selfish times here in the past as well. But I don't think that this is because of being selfish now. It is because PSG desperately need his score contribution most of the matches they play. I hope this dependency gets lower in time thanks to their other attackers such as Kolo Muani.

Paris Saint-Germain is the main cause of their problem, they're suppose to become one of the successful clubs in the world but they relent much on the big names. Paris Saint-Germain are in possession of one of the top talents in the world of football. The Frenchman have deliver the club at crucial moments and he has already link into limelight since 2018 when he won the Russia world cup with France national team and he was 18 years then, forward to the present he's exceptionally doing good in both club and country level of football. Kylian Mbappe have surpassed all his opposition in previous season and even though he doesn't meet up the targets this season, it's quite understandable.

Mbappe did scored the most goals in that team this season that's true, he does look like he is playing one of his best seasons, already at 15 goals and that's a huge deal, he may end up with 30 goals this season, and that wouldn't be shocking if he can stay healthy and play all the games. However, look at his asset numbers, it's nowhere to be found, why? Is it because he is a bad passer, or because he doesn't like to pass and wants to score?

Well, maybe that has something to do with this, and yes he may look to score more often than passing that's true, however most of the reason is because the entire PSG team is built in a way that their strategy relies on getting Mbappe to score, everyone else is just trying to find him and pass to him for a goal. That's the main reason why he scored so much.

Luis Enrique was not familiar with the style of play in Ligue 1. The squad also needs time to get to know the players and apply new match tactics. PSG's performances at the start of the season were very weak and erratic. PSG also dropped points against weaker teams at the bottom of the table. But gradually Luis Enrique managed to build a friendly relationship with PSG's players. And he has been able to stabilize this squad gradually. And at the moment, PSG has become the strongest team in Ligue 1 again. But we are not sure if they can qualify for the Champions League knockout round. Looking forward to watching PSG's performance against Dortmund today.

The PSG squad is really striking and even difficult for other clubs to compete with, because even though they have lost star players like Neymar and Messi, PSG is still a candidate for champions every season. It's no surprise that this season PSG will lift the trophy again for the umpteenth time.

Even though Nice and Monaco are only 4 and 6 points adrift of the top of the standings, it seems quite impossible for these two clubs to catch up, talking about Nice playing in every match only winning narrowly and even it seems like winning with a big score has never happened from the start season they competed, but Monaco only lost their last five matches when they hosted PSG with a score of 5-2 and in the remaining matches Monaco managed to win the match with fairly positive score and there is a possibility that Monaco can compete to tackle PSG to win the title this season. At least by the winter break, these two clubs can be more consistent than leaders PSG.

For me, when PSG managed to return to the top of the Ligue 1 standings then ya, of course these results make me fully confident for PSG maybe will no longer slip. Because ya, after all, PSG also started this season without good results but ya, time by time the reality is PSG managed to improve and also managed to take over the top position of the current Ligue 1 standings.

So ya, it seems no team in Ligue 1 has been able to maintain its consistency throughout the season other than PSG and therefore, then I personally believe that PSG will remain strong at the top of the Ligue 1 standings this season. In addition, although PSG did not start this season with good result, but in fact PSG managed to have better productivity than other teams in Ligue 1 this moment. Therefore, it seems that PSG will no longer slip because ya, PSG also has better quality than competing teams in the upper zone of the current Ligue 1 standings.

Nice got good results with average to good performances. All the results have been close results. You could say that conceding so less goals and still winning with just one goal is a good performance and I agree, but in most cases it doesn't work out all the time and it becomes less likely to be successful when you are trying to stick at PSG's back when they are winning their games with big advantages. The margin for error is very small when you win games with a single goal whereas PSG can concede 2 goals and still win 4-2. That is why I am not very optimistic about Nice being a competitor for PSG.

Yes, I admit, PSG's ability to maintain its chances of retaining its title is increasingly visible and could pose a serious threat to competing teams. Luis Enrique seems to have succeeded in finding the right balance between tactics, strategy and the players he has despite losing many of his star players, but Luis Enrique has managed to prove it.

However, it's important to remember that football season can bring surprises and shifts in momentum. Even though PSG appear very dominant at the moment, there is no guarantee that they will not experience problems or lose. Therefore, Nice has a tough task to maintain its performance in order to remain competitive and take advantage of every opportunity that arises.

and with a distance of 4 points, Nice must maintain consistent performance in order to reduce the points deficit with PSG. Even though there are difficulties, it doesn't mean the struggle is over. Each match still has the potential to change the dynamics of the standings. Therefore, Nice must remain focused and take advantage of every opportunity to achieve victory and I always want to see a new champion in Europe's top league. I hope Nice can do it.

PSG is increasingly comfortable at the top of the standings after winning four points from Nice, it is very difficult to compete with PSG if they are not able to maintain their performance. PSG is starting to consistently maintain its chances of retaining its title, Luis Enrique has found the best formula to improve PSG performance. Nice must maintain its form in order to maintain the points deficit with PSG, anything can still happen as long as the season is not over. Nice must make good use of the opportunity to continue to win. PSG could slip up at any time, Nice must always take advantage of this opportunity to close the gap with PSG.

Nice must improving their attacking line because top 2nd Ligue 1 standings team scored fewest goals, ration one goals on every match its not really impressive attacking line for Nice with 15 scored 16 goals. But have good and solid with defense conceded 6 goals and Nice is the most fewest conceded goals in Ligue 1 than top standings team PSG have conceded 12 goals. If keep consistent performance is not huge problem for Nice become most fewest conceded goals in Ligue 1 but I think they should improving with attacking line how possibility win more than two goals on every match.

Probably, PSG is favorite team for winning Ligue 1 tittle every season but Nice can be competitor team pressure PSG position on the top standing and waiting PSG got loss and replace for the first place. However not easily waiting PSG loss their points indeed Nice need on the consistent performance and not loss points again on upcoming match.