Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 591. (Read 193245 times)

They may be on the decline, but I don't think it's right to say they're in a state of inconsistency.
The meeting of these two clubs will be very interesting, and to be honest I want to see Monaco get a point, at least 1 point is a good result for them, yes although further I hope they will win. Not without reason, I want to see that because I want to see the competition get more competitive.
Although I also realize that to get just 1 point will be very difficult for Monaco, but it is not an impossible thing that they will get.

Last season, Lens only participated in two competitions, namely Ligue 1 and Coupe de France. plus they also have some pretty good players, so Franck Haise was able to maximize the team's squad to finish in 2nd place in Ligue 1. In last season's transfer window, they sold several quite prominent players and brought in several newcomers according to the club's budget. Unfortunately, their performance did not match the expectations of Lens supporters. they got off to a difficult start to the season, without a win in their first five matches.

However, gradually, their performance began to increase even though it was not stable. This is natural, considering that Lens is taking part in a competition at a level above Ligue 1. Automatically, the pressure comes from both outside and inside. as we can see, Lens performance is unstable. However, in Ligue 1 their performance started to get better. Now Lens is in 6th place in the Ligue 1 standings, even though they are 4 points adrift of the team above Reims.
Ideally, if Lens perform optimally, it would be better for them to only focus on the Ligue 1 competition. In this way, the probability of their performance changing for the better seems to be able to be increased. For the Champions League, even though Lens are in 2nd place, their chances of qualifying seem difficult. Moreover, with the existing player material. Well, let's see how the Lens coach brings his squad. At least focus on Ligue 1, because other competitions will only interfere with their performance.

The PSG team's performance at the beginning of the season was not stable. Teams like Nice and Monaco could have made good use of this opportunity. But they could not take advantage of the opportunity. Monaco's performance is a bit erratic right now. Getting to the top of the table has become much more difficult for Monaco now.

The Nice team was at the top of the points table for a long time. But I don't think this team is very strong. Their match strategy is quite good, that's why they are second in the table. However, their gameplay is not strong enough to dominate Ligue 1. They scored only 13 goals in 12 matches. Nice's attacking weaknesses are well understood. If Nice want to dominate Ligue 1, their forwards will need to perform better.

Monaco vs PSG will more or less be a game where the fans will expect what the league will look like. PSG are on fire with having winning streak in the last 5 games. it seems that their compactness as a team is back as it should be. Luis Enrique has been showing his capability as manager by working so well on something they should improve. Monaco are having inconsistency so far. after having a good start of the season by being at the top of the table, They dropped so many points from last few games that they were expected to win. Luka Elsner need find solution for their inconsistency, Their midfield is not working very well when they have situation to defend which leads their defense looks vulnerable.

Lile are really having a good start to the season even though they’ve come short at some point but credits can’t be taken away from this side, the match against Toulouse was a very intense one and was kind of expected because Toulouse who sits around bottom of the log are really a stubborn side and could pose a threat to any team they encounter.

 Toulouse would go into another match with fellow team in the bottom of the table, Lyon who just got their first win, would be fighting for another to get out of relegation zone, but Toulouse won’t be an easy fixture for them only if they’ll be clinical in their chances, Ligue 1 is really improving with quality teams but I think consistency will be key to making this league a competitive one across Europe.

Monaco's problem has been in defense, last season they also had the same problem, they managed to score a lot of goals but conceded a lot of goals to the point of not being able to win many games, this season they are doing very well in defense when compared to last season, but even if this season they have improved in defense, it would still be very difficult for them to win the league1, this is because PSG has a good attack, has a better squad compared to Monaco and has a better defense compared to Monaco. If Monaco have good attack and not wasting any opportunity then they could be champions. But this is something I highly doubt will happen.

for example in the game against havre ac, in my opinion havre ac was the best team on the field and deserved to win, they wasted a penalty and on the other side I didn't see anything dangerous coming from Monaco. It was a game in which Monaco were lucky to end with a draw, because they were very close to losing. havre ac has been a team that hasn't lost in recent games, they have a string of draws and in this game against monaco they achieved a good result in my opinion. a draw gives them 1 point and puts them in position number 7

Monaco's next game will be against PSG, it will be a game in which PSG if they win they can start to distance themselves from the other teams, I'm talking about Nice in particular if Nice loses. This would already give PSG an advantage of 6 points and would open up space for a greater points advantage and consequently a greater guarantee of winning the league1, looking at Monaco I see PSG managing to come out of this game with victory

Marseille actually seem to have had a bad day because they did played better and had the best performance when compared to that which lens did played but then the lens keep was in his very good form that day as he did made brilliant saves that really did helped the team maintain their frame all through the match.

Marseille was expected to win that game in their form which was asumed to be better when compared to that which lens had, but them they had a bad day as all their chances was not been converted well enough to get a goal and the defense line from lens aswell did a good job with their resistance, in foot ball underestimating any team is what any team shouldn't do to another because Marseille appeared like a better side which they actually are but luck wasn't on their side that day but then they did performed greatly.

I still think that teams should put on top of their previous seasons to get overall better, getting worse makes no sense to me. Look at Leicester City or Lyon, they never put on top of their success and they are terrible. Lens has to do better, well in fact every team should get better, doesn't mean that they are going to be better at standings, just because they did better it means others did better too, but they should LOOk better at least.

Some teams end up doing better, sell players for some profit, and then pocket that money and do nothing. I am sorry but that is not how it works, look at Napoli, look at Dortmund, there are so many teams that are managed terribly if you ask me, and Lens is one of them. PSG is already biggest, but you can be consistently second place if you know what you are doing, if you fail that, you are not going to end up being good at all, it will not help you at all. I feel like that is a terrible result in the end, it's just not going to be decent.

Lens is statistically the favorite to win the match due to the following reasons:
They won three and drew one in their last five matches against them.
They are in good form compared to them because of their league positions.
They started the season well compared to Marseille, which has started winning matches lately.

Even though Lense's last five match results were not impressive, they have a good team that is well experienced, and I am sure yesterday's win against Marseille will be a motivational win for them to keep competing for the top four in the league.

In the French Soccer League yesterday Lens vs Marseille in the match between these two teams, Lens scored 1 goal and won the match. In the first half of the game, neither team could score a goal for a very good performance. However, Lens team scored 1 goal before the end of the game.  Player J. Gradit scored in the 90th minute. Marseille team tried hard to score in this match but Marseille team could not score any goals due to the great performance of the goal keeper of Lens team.

PSG is now leading the competition. Monaco was missing a chance to stand at the top place. I think that this is very hard for monaco. It's caused by the club needs to work even harder to replace PSG again. Nice is now at the second place but it seems like that if PSg will be dominating the league till the end of season. PSG is not starting to discover its best form again. People may not feel happy with it but as long as nice and monaco can keep up to be on the second and third place till the end of season and everything will fine.
The next match will be very interesting match. PSG will face monaco which is placing at the third place. The result from this match will determine the position at the end of season. PSG needs also to focus in the UCL as well.
The club needs to put more of its focus on winning the match against monaco. My sense said that if PSG will win the upcoming game.
Monaco rarely had good stats when it was playing at the parc de princes.

Monaco have dropped points in two of their last three matches. Monaco's points gap with PSG is now 3. I thought Nice and Monaco's performances would be consistent and it wouldn't be easy for PSG to top the table. But PSG are now at the top of the table. Although PSG is only 1 point ahead of Nice.

Monaco has managed to field a very strong squad this season. However, their defence is weak. If the Monaco coach can tighten up their defence, this team's overall performance will be even stronger. But in the end maybe this season we will see the dominance of PSG in Ligue 1.

Sports betting and gambling is all about uncertainty and risky with currently we have too many teams which are performing not as they were expecting which is surely wired situation so placing bets on them is surely not ideal Lens was really awful in early matches, but now they are recovering with having good performance in last few matches which bring them to the sixth spot which is also good, and they can jump into top 4 as well which will ideal for them, but they need to be settled which is important.

Most chances they will be having early exited from the Champions League which will help them for having better results in Ligue 1 and this could be helpful for them and surely this will give them advantage for staying at the better spot for the rest of this season.

Ligue One is mainly on another level with full competition from every single clubs. Monaco would have climb to second position but they relaxed to settle for lesser result. I don't understand the whole situation regarding the problem on ground with Monaco this season. They have been very inconsistent with their actions and having terrible performance in league games, Adolf Hütter seems to be reluctant in his duty as headcoach, because if he's fully active in his position, there are certainly some games he would have won, just like the draw tie against Le Havre, it was dissapointing and Monaco performance declined.

Monaco is one of the best club in Ligue 1, but sadly they are lacking consistency which is surely problem for them in last three games they already lost five points which bring them to third spot and after break they are going to face PSG which mean things can go more down for them even they will still stay at this spot, but they need improvement in quality with performance could be also needed improvement their last game against new promoted side Le Havre they fail to end deadlock which bring them with just one point and goalless draw it is really shameful performance as we all know French league is lacking many things which are not setting due to lack of funds and strong base which is surely hurting big clubs as well if they are not able to improve than surely more consequences have to face in quality and performance.

Lens is still in an uncertain situation right now, so I totally agree that betting on them is a huge risk. They are erratic from match to match, it makes it difficult for us to predict what they will show in their matches. We can see from their statistics this season, in LIgue 1 itself, from the 12 matches they played, the number of wins, draws and defeats has the same number, namely 4.
For me personally, I would prefer to avoid betting on a team that has a situation like Lens, and that applies not only to Lens, but to all teams. Especially if I do a multi bet, one bet will destroy our successful bet.

But people are quick with saying that the start for Lens is unsatisfying. I agree that the start was far from perfect, but I wonder what the club goals are. Did they really expect to average like more than 2 points per game or something? I don't believe so. I think this start into the season was quite realistic and while I don't like the talk about how it is a burden to top clubs when they play many competitions, this is rather true for a small club like Lens. Handling the pressure from playing Ligue 1, Champions League and Coup de France is much harder for Lens to cope with than for PSG.

Lens started the season very badly. They lost several matches in a row. But gradually the team was able to find out their problems. And the performance of Lens is quite stable at the moment. However, Lens is not able to win consistently. However, Lens's performance is pretty good in every match now.
In the last two matches, Lens played well and won against big teams like PSV and Marseille. They will face Clermont Foot in the next match. I am quite optimistic about the victory of Lens in this match. I think it's safe to bet for Lens to win this match.

Although some changes are happening now for Lens, betting on them is still quite risky because their performance is still erratic.
But indeed their current progress is slowly bringing positive results only indeed with the current situation it is still risky to bet on Lens.
But Lens current performance is still quite good even their changes are quite pronounced when they were in an unfavorable standings before now slowly starting to move back to a better position. 

I also agree about this all specially in few leagues which are having huge difference of quality between top teams and mid-table teams things like these can happen but good thing for the Lens now they are back in business and after having the worst start of this season currently they are having good streak of positive results in all competitions which is helping them for staying at the 6th spot and most chances if they keep things at this level surely they can jump above as well.

Chances for the Champions League in this season are not bright with they can face early exit but if they will keep spirit high and improve their performance then surely we can expect them in next season as well into Champions League because many big names are struggling into Ligue 1 which can give them another season in this elite league.