Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 545. (Read 193582 times)

PSG has always been in the Champions League competition, but for some reason PSG has never succeeded in the Champions League. Meanwhile in Ligue1 it is always easier for PSG to succeed by winning trophies at the end of the season so we can judge that in Ligue1 there are not many great teams that can stop PSG's dominance. However, in the Champions League, we all know that there are many strong teams that enter there to compete, so this makes PSG's steps not so smooth in getting the trophy there.

Lens, was unable to continue their winning streak, after overthrowing Marseille, Clermont and Lyon. in the match against Montpellier, this match had to end without producing a goal from the two fighting teams. Even though Lens actually controlled the game with 66% ball possession, they were not able to convert a single opportunity into a goal. Regarding opportunities, there is no significant difference.

Lens and Montpellier both have 2 big opportunities. The difference is, the home team had 18 total shots even though Lens was better at shots on target. In this match, Montpellier basically relied more on counter attacks. it was proven, they carried out 3 counter attacks as well as taking 3 shots even though they did not score a goal. So, none of them were able to be converted into goals.

And as I said in the previous post, this match will not produce many goals. and those who bet following my recommendation with Under 2.5 goals @1.79, congratulations on winning this bet. It's simple, in short, in my analysis, Lens will not go all out because they have an important match to host Sevilla in the Champions League group phase. clearly, this match is more important for them. However, that doesn't mean Lens isn't serious about playing this match. It's just that they won't waste a lot of energy against Montpellier. Meanwhile, Montpellier doesn't want to lose points in this match.  and their focus is more on defensive patterns so as not to lose this match. As a result, this match was as I predicted.

The match has finished, and guess what? It ended in a draw, which means neither team won. Surprisingly, there were no goals scored at all! A lot of people thought Lens, the team that seems really good and powerful, would win because they were expected to be stronger. But guess what? It didn't happen the way everyone thought! Lens played well and controlled the field, but they weren't lucky enough to score and win. Montpellier, the other team, also did a great job! Even though people didn't expect much from them, they created some really good chances to score. Unfortunately, luck wasn't on their side either. So, in the end, both teams played hard, but no one came out as the winner.

IMO it will be very difficult to happen.
We know that Nice is one of the clubs that is quite good and even seems surprising this season, especially when they managed to play consistently in their first 10 matches, it's just that seeing the current conditions seems a little complicated.
Nice is slowly losing its productivity in scoring goals. In addition, in the last 3 matches they have run Nice can only score 1 goal with 1 loss, 1 draw and 1 win which is not very good if they really want them to end the dominance of PSG.
If in the end they still expect Nice to be able to compete then inevitably they have to improve this from now on because honestly at this time their performance could be getting worse.

The Ligue 1 race is still on, although PSG are the better team no doubt even though there are still teams that are trying so well to be competitive too. The trophy is likely to rest with PSG. They've got the better squad and intensity to win, at thesame time they've got the European trophy to go after and so their focus is on two goals. They're just 4 points clear from the second position Nice, who in their own best have been doing well in keeping up with games and gaining victories.

 I won't say they actually lose a threat though because PSG seems potentially the leaders than any other team. Both teams strength can not be compared and they just have to keep playing and gaining the points they can whilst PSG win and go for the trophy. It's beautiful to see Nice have an eye on the trophy too and they've got a gleam of hope being that their focus is majored on just the domestic league, so there'd be no need to stress for two races again. We hope to see them meet up with PSG and even go ahead of them on the table but the odds are just in between.

I expected that lens would be leading by a goal or two by now but then it turns out that they are yet to get a goal and Thay have gotten pass the the 50th minute of the second half and neither team is yet to get a goal and most likely they would wan to end the game goalless just like they did ended the first half goalless.

Montpellier is a team I consider weak because earlier, they were at the bottom other league table, within the relegation zone but have recently gotten pass it but lens has since this season been in a considerably average form such that I expected they wouldn't be struggling much with Montpellier such that they would be appearing to draw a match with them. Montpellier in their last five matches were unable to win any and have hade a very few wins this season, this could mean most definitely they are not such a strong team.

PSG is always in the first place in the league because of the owner they have and the money they invest in this team otherwise all other teams in the French league are at the same level except for PSG. If you just compare PSG's budget with some other teams like Nice while Nice is racing with them you can see a huge difference between these two teams and that's the main reason for PSG to always be in the first place of the French league.

Of course it's not that easy to stop PSG's dominance in Ligue 1, but it can be possible. In the last 9 seasons, Monaco and Lille are the only two teams to break PSG's title dominance. Monaco won the Ligue 1 title in the 2016-2017 season, while Lille won it in the 2020-2021 season.

In my opinion, Nice, Monaco and Lille have the possibility to win the title if they can maintain their performance. PSG will never always win, they will definitely lose and lose some points. It's just that Nice, Monaco and Lille also couldn't maintain consistent performance so it wasn't PSG's fault for dominating but their own fault for failing to play well and consistently take advantage of opportunities. If any Arab conglomerate wants to invest in Ligue 1 again, then I think Monaco is a good choice. They are competitive and have a good history in Ligue 1 in the past.

Give Pep Guardiola time and he would go to a club like Marseille and show Paris Saint Germans how's it's done. The thing Pep Guardiola would want to manage a club that has funds to match the player's that meets his standards. Paris Saint Germans have the funds to get whenever player they want. The league ain't too competitive, infact they should be one of the best grooming players just like the German Bundesliga. That division has enough room for development for whatever young player that comes into the club.

A little bit of consistency and all these clubs will no longer see that back of parisians. The main goal every season should be to achieve the Champions League. There'll be no rest until it's achieved.

Although Toulouse is in the lower zone also in the current Ligue 1 standings but ya, at least Toulouse still has a better performance than Lyon at this moment. Because anyway, we also can't ignore the good results Toulouse has in the Europa League and in fact, Toulouse also managed to beat Liverpool there. So yes, because at this moment Toulouse also still has good results in the Europa League, it looks like Lyon still won't be easy to beat Toulouse in the next match. Because yes, it looks like Toulouse can play better when playing against seeded teams. So yes,although Toulouse is just above the relegation zone in the current Ligue 1 standings, but I believe there is no strong guarantee for Lyon to be able to beat Toulouse, but somehow I also expect Lyon to get points in this match.

I am not against any scenario where we can see one team from Ligue 1 compete with PSG when there are like 6-7 games left of the season, but how likely is it really. It usually won't happen and if it does, it means that PSG must have failed so hard that the whole league wasn't fun at all. Either PSG is as good as they can and they win the league easily and make some trouble in the Champions League as well, or everything sucks. It's two bad options.

Lyon are going to look for a chance to take a deep breath against Toulouse this week. It is a home match but it doesn't matter much for Lyon though.

Winning this match would be really useful for Lyon considering that Toulouse are right above the relegation zone. But even against the teams having a similar level season to them I can't still be confident about Lyon to win at all. Sometimes they are really trying but there is a huge scoring problem. If they manage to increase the number of goals they score at least they can collect more points.

I agree that Nice will not have that much chance to catch up, it looks like they are close enough, but by the end of the season that 4 point difference will be much higher.

PSG is always the best team here, and they do give up after a while and stop caring about the league so that's why it may end up closer than what people think, but last season it was only one point so they do not want to have something like that again and may have higher advantage. When you are leading the league with 10+ points to the second team, why would you care? And by the end if it is 5 points, and you already guaranteed that you will be the winner, you may just go up with youth team as well, you can lose all you care and it wouldn't matter.

I thought Nice would be able to break the jinx of PSG dominating Ligue One but they soon lost some points and ended up in the second position four points below PSG. I agree that the Super League would have been interesting because big football clubs will compete with each other. Most of these big teams have the money to buy quality players so we would have seen an exciting football league. PSG will continue to dominate the French League until other clubs can have access to the kind of money they have. Maybe if Saudi or Qatari investors take over another club in the Ligue One, they might build a club that will give PSG the needed competition.

Nobody was talking about any disappointment regarding the performance of PSG, in fact it is quite the opposite mixed with a sense of sarcasm because what do we expect from PSG in Ligue 1?

This is the only reason why I would like a Super League. Otherwise I am against it, but to see which team comes out on top after maybe 20 games or so against all the top teams from Europe, it would be interesting. But seeing that PSG dominates Ligue 1, it's not really interesting.

Lens seems stronger than Montpelier but from my observation I can see that Montpelier hasn't lost 2 consecutive match in a row for quite sometimes now so checking their previous match where they lost to Monaco might mean that they will actually want to keep that form of not losing 2 straight match so they may likely prove difficult to be defeated by Lens this evening but whichever way it is let's see how the match turns out tonight

PSG's performance is now very consistent in Ligue 1. The PSG team won the last 5 matches. And that's why they are now in the top spot in the points table. However, the season began in PSG very badly. In the first several matches, they lost points. And the PSG team was away from the top spot for a long time. But with the help of Luis Enrique, this team is now in a very good position. Enrique has been able to stabilize the team. And in almost every match we can see the excellent performance from PSG. If this good performance continues, the PSG team will not face any problems with winning the Ligue 1 title this year.

I do not think Lens is actually going to lose in this match. Even though the performance has not been as people probably have expected from them, they have certainly performed a lot better compared to their opponent Montpellier.  If I am not wrong, Montpelier does not have a single win in the last five matches. They have three losses and two draws in the last five. That is definitely not a good indication. That is also not going to give them any confidence going to the next match. In my opinion, Lens is going to win this match and the real question is the goal difference.

In domestic league, PSG performance not consistent but helped with the competitor teams have the same inconsistency performance and PSG keep manage the first standings place, difference position in  Champion League with PSG not secure yet for qualifying to 16 round. PSG have 1 loss, 3 draw and 10 win of 14 matches but current standings remaining 5 points left from Nice on 2nd standings position. PSG have loss 9 points of maximum achievement 43 points from 14 matches but many teams can get advantage with inconsistency performance from PSG keep pressure on top standings behind fewest points left.

I doubt any Ligue 1 team can sack PSG dominance in Ligue 1 not only how to win against PSG but also many of competitor teams such as Nice, AS Monaco, Lille and Marseille still have inconsistency performance.

Lens, started playing its matches in Ligue 1 by starting to get back on the right track. In their last 9 matches in this competition, Frack Haise's squad advanced without defeat. 6 matches with a win, 4 matches ended in a draw. This condition has put Frack Haise's squad in 6th place in the Ligue 1 standings. Unfortunately, their performance doesn't look too good in the Champions League. In their 5 matches, Lens was only able to win 1 match.

Talking about Montpellier, this team is ranked 14th in the Ligue 1 standings. In the 5 matches they have played so far, they have not won a single win. two draws, and three matches with defeats. So, it would be very natural if Lens were superior in this match. Talking about the condition of the players, I'm not too familiar with these two teams. but what is certain is that both of them have injured players.
considering that Lens will play a match in the Champions League group phase, Frack Haise's squad will not play too hard in this match. Compared to the home team, they will do it by going all out to end the match to win. Well, I think Montpellier has a chance to win this match. especially since their odds are @3.50, which is quite tempting. while Lens, with @2.12. however, it seems a safer bet for the handicap or Under option. My estimate is that this match will not produce many goals. So under 2.5 goals, is a pretty ideal option with @1.79. Well, let's wait for the final result.