Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 685. (Read 190013 times)

Mbappe scored 3 goals in the World Cup final match. He could have brought the cup to France. Messi and Erling Haaland are talked about a lot, but Mbappe is just as good as them. I think I agree with you on this. If he continues to play for Paris Saint-Germain FC, it will be impossible for him to win this award. This season will probably be his last at Paris Saint-Germain FC. Real Madrid would be a very good choice for his career. 

Paris Saint-Germain FC had a very difficult time winning the league last season. This season Neymar and Messi are not with them. Naturally, they will have a more difficult season this season. I think the level of competition in the French Ligue 1 will increase.

Regarding the game between Lens and Metz, we know Lens got higher rates and it was mostly because of the performance they had in the last season, we know Lens is the second team in France and there was only one point difference between them and PSG while PSg spent much more money. That's why Lens got higher rates for this game to beat Metz.
While I think Metz winning this game was not supering at all because Lens had a weak defensive line.

For awhile, Kylian Mbappe have final decision will leave Ligue 1 next season after not extending contract with PSG will over next season but I doubt that final decision or change later for renewing contract with PSG. Did you remember before when Mbappe contract will be over but in deadline window transfer closing he reached agreement extended contract two years later with PSG after fantastic offering from management. Depend with Kylian Mbappe priority he will push up his level career and moving to Real Madrid is the best option or keep staying with PSG and actually he will get another chance with fantastic offering and highest salary payment.

Looking with his rival Haaland have won Champion League I think Mbappe have move to Real Madrid if want to win Champion League tittle because have been several years with PSG but never winning yet.

Wow not a single one of the main favorites in this league won their game during this weekend.Paris,Monaco,Lens and Marseille all failed to win and they all lost or drew their games which makes this week in the French Ligue 1 really strange to say the least,I never have seen the same happening here before especially when three of these favorites were playing at their home field except Monaco which was playing away and a draw is not the end of the world nor a big surprise result,these are three though are huge surprises in the results of this league,I wonder if anyone of us has hit a win in sport betting in this league as it seems quite impossible with these results.

I do not think Kylian Mbappe can be amongst the top 3 players this year best player award; he has fallen off radar thanks to Erling Haaland masterclass treble season with Manchester city and Lionel Messi triumphant worldcup campaign. Mbappe also had an excellent worldcup performance; but i do not think that willl be enough for him

Mbappe needs the Real Madrid move desperately, to push his media hypes and be more recognized for the world prized event.

It is undeniable that Lens' improved performance last season was also quite surprising, so a drop in performance like now is not unusual.
But in this case we can also know that for clubs other than PSG in Ligue 1 all do not have good control over their consistency in each running season which makes me quite sure that things like this will definitely continue to happen.
Actually for PSG also applies in this case, but for PSG they have extraordinary resources so that no matter how tough the conditions are they will still return to their position in contrast to clubs other than PSG in Ligue 1 because when they perform badly it is difficult for them to rise because they have resources and finances that cannot be compared to PSG which makes it difficult for other clubs.

Yes, that's right, what is clear is that there are many star players at PSG but the only one who shines is Mbappe. It is absolutely true as you said, Mbappe should move from PSG if he wants to win the UCL League title and Ballon D'Or, because if he is still at PSG it will be in vain because he will not be able to compete with players of his class. Haaland. Real Madrid needs players like Mbappe, he cannot waste his talent on PSG.

If I see Enrique implementing a strategy like this, it is very unsuitable for a team like PSG whose defensive quality is weak. The reason is that PSG's game with this strategy is very vulnerable to the opponent's counterattack. It's just that when you lose against a team like Nice, what if you meet a team that has counter attacks and has players who have running speed, then PSG will concede more easily.

That is the issue with PSG as well, they do not pick world star level managers, get terrible results, and then fire them and get another one. I have been saying this for a long time, and I truly believe that if they get one of those top 5 names in the manager world, and trust that person for a few years, they will be able to not only get the title of the league which they already do, but they will be able to get UCL eventually.

Look at City, they only won the league for a long time, didn't win UCL for MANY years with Pep at the helm, but they say that they were getting success at the league so they decided to keep him, and kept on trusting his vision which eventually resulted with them getting that UCL title as well.

He should be the third best player when they finally awards the best players in the world after Lionel Messi, and Erling Haaland when they finally get to announce the Ballon d'or winner next year January.

Kylian Mbappe can finally take hisngame to another level when he finally leaves League One Giants. Real Madrid are hot favorites for him and I'm certain landing as a Real Madrid players once his contract comes to conclusion with PSG would be done ASAP.
With Real Madrid, if the club builds around him he can replicate Cristiano Ronaldo to an extent but Lionel Messi? He can't be easily replaced.

Last season, they showed something much different and even finished runners up behind PSG. This season, it seems as if this team has run out of gas even though the competition has only started five matches. Franck Haise as coach, has tried to rotate some of his players. However, the efforts he made never changed after playing his match in Ligue 1. In this week's match, Lens lost at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis, their home base, to a team that had just been promoted to Ligue 1, namely Metz.

Honestly, I'm not too sure what caused the problems for them to start this season in such a messy way. because I didn't dig too much into the information regarding this team. Maybe, because several of their important players have left for other clubs in the last summer transfer window. or, Franck Haise had difficulty implementing the system he wanted to the newcomer players. What is certain is, if Franck Haise doesn't find a way out, it will be a big problem for his team's squad and even his career.
In the next few days, Lens will try out Sevilla in the Champions League. There are not many options, Franck Haise must prepare his team and motivate their mentality so they can bounce back. For this season, don't expect Lens to compete again at the top of Lique 1. Just to escape the relegation zone, that's the best thing for now.

As PSG has easily retained the Ligue 1 title in other seasons but it will be very difficult for them to retain the Ligue 1 title this season. At the moment, the PSG team is shaky. PSG have lost their last match at their home ground against a lesser opponent than them. Such defeat at home ground is really disappointing.  
Despite Mbappe's great performance against Nice, PSG lost this match due to lack of proper planning.  

Luis Enrique is an experienced enough manager that he must make some changes to his plans in all these matches. If PSG drop points in these matches, it will be almost impossible for them to retain the Ligue 1 title this season. PSG will have to do well from the start if only they can eventually maintain their position at the top of the points table.

Expected a win from Monaco to be honest. And I also thought that they were going to win. But it was the last moment of the match. When Lorient was able to snatch away, one point. It’s really incredible to see a match finish like that. but let’s be honest, the match actually could have gone either way. I wish Monaco could have held onto their nerves for a little longer. they are still at the first position on the table anyway. But now they only have one point difference within the team that is in the second position.

I think that if monaco has been performing so well overall. Monaco was close to winning the game, but Lorient scored another goal in the last minute, resulting in a draw at 90+8. Unfortunately, Monaco was unlucky.
The club needs to be consistent when the game was entering into the injury time. I saw that monaco was rarely making mistake. Its defensively hasbeen performing properly but it's still lack of consistentcy.

Getting draw is far better rather than losing three points. Monaco can still increase its point even though it was only draw against lorient. I hope monaco will be lucky enough in upcoming game against nice which has been beating PSG in the previous match.
Nice is not underrated team at this moment. This club can beat strong club as well.

Their current run is terrible after a second-place season last year. Metz defeated you? They must beat that team to match last year's performance. Only a tie against Rennes has separated their four losses. I cant overstate how difficult their Champions League challenge will be. They're in the Ligue 1 relegation zone and preparing for the major European competitions, making things difficult. Despite the high slope, I think they can get back on track if they remember how brilliantly they played last season.

Monaco in my opinion was just unlucky in this match that they could not finish the match by bringing home 3 points. A late goal by Romain Faivre dashed their hopes of beating Lorient in front of Lorient supporters.
Actually they also created many opportunities, but unfortunately there were only 2 goals they could create in this match.
But indeed this is an unsatisfactory result for them, because the victory that was in sight had to be lost just because it was missed in the final minutes of the match and they had to be satisfied with sharing points with the home team.

Lens is still in a bad condition and we have to understand this situation and if we think about it, we are probably very disappointed with Lens performance yesterday when they lost as hosts and were even defeated by a club that was promoted again this season and it was very embarrassing for Lens.
I'm quite sure that if in a few more match Lens is unable to improve the performance of the quality of its players, I think Franck Haise will face the threat of being fired as the Lens coach failed in early stages of this season and we all would not have thought that Lens performance would be this bad even at home. myself and I'm a little unsure that Lens will fail in the Champions League group stage with a performance like this.

Lens next match will host Toulouse. If this match is lost again, I think Lens will have to lose its popularity this season.

Monaco just lost an ample opportunity to solidify their hold on the number one position in League 1. They might even lose the top spot if Marseille beats Toulouse which will take the former to twelve points.  It was a good day for two Nigerian-born players Tosin Aiyegun and Folarin Balogun ( representing Benin and USA), Tosin scored Lorient's first goal while Folarin netted Monaco's second goal. Monaco was comfortably cruising to victory before the extra-time goal by Romain Faivre. Nice will not be an easy team to beat considering their recent form which includes an unexpected win against the defending champions, therefore Monaco needs to put in more effort. Lorient's next game will be against Nantes a team that won their game today against Clermont Foot. 

I think Ligue 1 will be very interesting when there is a struggle for top position in the standings, not only filled by PSG. Monaco and other clubs can take advantage of PSG decline in performance to create a better competitive impression. Even though on the one hand it is not necessarily consistent, this can arouse overall fan enthusiasm. PSG have ruled Ligue 1 for almost a full decade, only Monaco and LOSC have ever broken their dominance.

I think even though PSG still has a real chance of defending their championship again, Luis Enrique squad must be very consistent in the next match. The real challenge is the tight competition schedule that PSG is participating in, for now Enrique has to get back to preparing Mbappe and his friends for the UCL group phase match against Dortmund.

This is just a really bad setback for lens and the club should be panicking. It feels like lens is a hopeless team but there is still enough time for the club to take a urgent step as soon as possible to save the club from battling in the relegation zone.

Lens has been performing so consistent last season but it's declining so hard and i never though if lens will suffer this horrible performance this season. It seemed to me if i was seeing a good club who plunged so hard to the bottom.
It's really disappointing to see the result between lens vs metz. I never thought metz would be able to win the game against lens even with small margin like that.

Lens losses its all of experiences from last season. The club has turned to be inexperienced club this season. Lens feels so confuse in attacking metz and scoring a goal. I think that the management just got slapped back to the reality.
Lens was only getting 1 point from 5 matches played, which is hurting my eyes to watch it.

With PSG poor performance at this moment, it should be an opportunity for other teams to be in the top position in the Ligue 1 standings. Because this season I believe the competition in Ligue 1 will be more competitive, because there is no team that really promises to be able to dominate the top position. At this moment there is still Monaco in the top position in the Ligue 1 standings, but I personally not so sure Manaco will be consistent to stay at the top of the standings. Therefore, I believe the competition this season will be more interesting, because the leading teams like PSG can no longer be expected to defend the title.