Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 722. (Read 189603 times)

The fact about PSG in the last season is they had a good player and their owner hired many players for this team but whenever you hire superstar players, the team also needs to hire a good coach to control these players and this coach should have the high prestige while a coach like Galtier was never in the situation to have the great players as they had before. I think this team can have a better situation with Enrique considering the experience he has.

They were drawn in Group F of the UEFA Champions League. With Paris Saint-Germain, Borussia Dortmund, AC Milan, and Newcastle in the group, it's going to be an extremely tight struggle. We'd be more interested to see which of these teams made it out of the group. Extremely tough rivalry between these elite clubs, and I'm hoping for the most outstanding performance from the Parisians. PSG's performance this season appears to be inconsistent; they're making a lot of blunders in league games; perhaps Luis Enrique has addressed the concerns weighing on the club.

Yeah the only team that looks threatening in that group is only Intermilan that's had better experience in the Champions League and even reached the finals last season, i expect Paris Saint-Germain  to comfortably beat Newcastle United and Dortmund especially Newcastle who's had little experience in the Champions league, if they fail to quality to the next round then their something  wrong and it would be either the coach ain't competent or they lack the rightful players in their squad.

 They should be very lucky be a group not very tough and would be easy for them to move into the next round and going out in the first place is definitely what they should be aiming for but im not too sure if they'll go far in this because the teams you've mentioned looks tougher and would make it tough for PSG to win the competition especially Realmadrid that would be looking to recover the trophy from Manchester City.

To be fair if you are PSG, then facing Milan, Dortmund and Newcastle shouldn't be a problem for you. I think they should be the leader of that group, they are capable of beating them all, their aim is usually winning the UCL but we know that they fail that but for a team that aims at winning the whole thing, it should not be really considered to be a big trouble to face these teams.

PSG does have some serious rivals, like Madrid, like City, like Bayern, but those are not in the same group, which Real could have been so that's lucky. I think this is why they should not fear this group, and hope to get out with 18 points if they possibly could, but if not, at least go out with the first place to make sure they are doing fine.

Monaco have been doing a great work in the league so far. Now they have signed Balogun which has made their attacking side stronger. However there is going to be a tough rivalry between Ben Yedder and Balogun for the centre-forward position in the starting eleven. Because Ben Yedder is doing great so far - 4 goals in 3 matches. 

In addition to this situation Monaco adopt a formation like 3-4-2-1. Balogun can normally play as a winger as well but he can play as a left midfielder according to the formation. Because of that Balogun would be preferred only as a centre-forward unless there is a change in the formation. Let's see if he can make use of his chances well to take Ben Yedder's place.

PSG joined in Group F, which is inhabited by three other strong clubs Dortmund, AC Milan and Newcastle. Overall, if you look at the other groups, Group F is Hell. But I predict PSG and AC Milan can get out of the group phase and move on to the round of 16. Of course this depends on their performance in their respective Domestic Leagues. Not only that, player injuries are also very influential for the journey in this group phase.

Meanwhile, FC Lens joined group B, along with Sevilla, Arsenal and PSV. I think it is no less tough either. By the way Halaand is the best player in Europe, hopefully Mbappe can compete with him.

IMO, from my point of view, Galtier is a pretty smart trainer and has a lot of strategy. Unfortunately, he doesn't have the experience to handle a club as big as PSG, let alone one with so many stars. we can see that the previous PSG coach could not control the situation in the locker room, so there was a lot of commotion among the players. Plus, Galtier doesn't have the freedom like other famous coaches to bring in the players he wants. PSG is sharp up front, but weak in midfield. when one of their three star players was injured, it was obvious that their game performance had greatly decreased. The midfielders they have are not very creative when helping build attacks. So, Galtier tends to change his formation patterns.

Now, Neymar, Messi, have left, as has Galtier. PSG is currently being coached by Luis Enrique, it is hoped that he will be able to make PSG much better. unfortunately again they need an experienced midfield figure, especially an attacking midfielder. there is also a target target, namely Bernardo Silva, reluctant to join this squad. which in the end, Enrique must maximize the available players. to build this team much stronger, they need time. well, let's see how far this Spanish coach is able to take his team, especially in the Champions League competition.

Yes but the same guy they are blaming for not winning the Champions League did win the World Cup with Argentina. He can't be that bad can he? It wasn't him alone, it was a deficiency in the balance that PSG had. You brought up Mbappe, Messi and Neymar. Now imagine if they also had Ronaldo, Haaland and Lewandowski. It was too much and they couldn't cope with their attackers to not start defending in the last third of the pitch. That's why mistakes happened in the defense and why they were overwhelmed at times because you can have one Messi, or maybe a Messi and Mbappe, but having three attackers who just stay in front and wait is not balanced enough.

Well i don't blame the fans impatience because alot was spent to bring Messi into the team to help them secure the Champions league trophy but they couldn't even reach the semi's and that broke the heart of both fans and club owners because that was a trophy they desperately needed so they invested lots of funds to make it happen but to no avail, imagine having a team made up of Messi, Neymar,  Mbappe and several other and they fail to meet up to their demands, i believe that's why they got fed up and the player on noticing that decided to leave.
 But i feel if they had tried to keep him for another season like they did with Mbappe, he would had performed better than last season of which he's recently doing in his current club at Intermiami baging goals in every match.

It's not PSG's fault but it's galtier. PSG was just recruiting him to the club while galtier was the guy who has responsibility to use the resources that are available on PSG.
Galtier thought that he couldn't unlock Messi's potential because he did not have the right strategy for him. It's very wrong to blame PSG caused by galtier was fully responsible to the squad last season.

In fact, galtier was always changing the strategy because he was trying so hard to discover the right strategy for MNM.
MNM was trio between messi neymar and mbappe. That's also the main reason why PSG has sacked him from being a coach.

After all, even though Messi only played one season at PSG but in fact, PSG won the Ligue 1 title last season. But strangely, PSG fans are not happy with Messi when I think, it is very natural that Messi still needs time to be able to play with his best performance. But unfortunately, with PSG fans displeased with Messi, it made Messi leave and I think, it was a mistake. Because anyway, if Messi is still playing at PSG this season, then I'm sure PSG will have a better performance than last season.

PSG can not blame it on Galtier or any coach as they are partially or can say mainly responsible for it too. Galtier and previous coaches are responsible to handle star players and internal relationships, connections among players and players vs coach but the club are more responsible. Because they are responsible for the club strategy and they negotiate with players before signing contracts. So coaches are people who will execute the club strategies and they are impacted a lot by contracts between the club and star players.

PSG bought Neymar from Barcelona, gave him a lot of money and privileges, how PSG coach in that season can let Neymar sits on bench or refuse to give the Brazilian player some big rights on field like penalty shots. A same story with Mbappe in the last three seasons in PSG.

Messi got good support from Barcelona fans and only treated badly by Barcelona board  members. In PSG, the club board members treated him well but PSG fans did not much support Messi. He did not feel happy in PSG and it makes sense that eventually he decided to leave as a free agent and chose MLS as a next destination.

So far he played well there, made great impacts and brought great success for Inter Miami as well as MLS. He is surely very happy in the USA. recent weeks.

Christophe Galtier is not a coach who has much experience handling star players like Neymar, Mbappe and Messi. Even so, Christophe Galtier's experience while coaching PSG was not too disappointing, meaning he could have won at least a title for the team even though he failed in the Champions League.

I agree with that opinion because in reality Messi doesn't seem to have a better role at PSG than his role at Barcelona. PSG has Kylian Mbappe who is the main star of the team, while Messi and Neymar play around Mbappe and help him score goals. Messi's assist statistics prove that, I mean Messi has create 30 assists in 58 appearances in Ligue 1, while Messi scored 22 goals for the same number of appearances in two seasons.

The opinion may be because PSG failed to win the UCL last season. If the coach could not use a player like Messi, maybe other players are very difficult to control. Any coach would feel proud to be able to train a player like Messi, he would give Messi the freedom to run in any area to look for empty space.
Now Messi has become a thing of the past for PSG. Luis Enrique's arrival came a bit late, when he set foot at PSG the player he most wanted had already left the club.

Luis Enrique has to work hard to form a team with the players he currently has, he has not yet found a suitable strategy to utilize the players available in the squad he leads. Enrique needs time to adapt and build good chemistry with PSG players, I'm not sure PSG will be successful in the UCL this season, but in the following seasons maybe he will.

Monaco has certainly been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Folarin Balogun because they have been targeting him for quite some time. His market value is around 30 million euros and Monaco bought him for about the same fee and not too much from Arsenal, so it is an ideal transfer in terms of price. The contract is also long, so Monaco is the team that will benefit the most. Maybe that was the reason he chose Monaco over Inter because he had previously played for a Ligue 1 team so his adaptation would also be quicker. When he makes his debut against Lens, I hope he can score goals and continue to contribute fully to Monaco so that Arsenal will be disappointed by letting him go.

So far I have never heard anyone say that to PSG except you today, because if you say the team coach cannot use a player like Lionel Messi, it means that other players cannot be used better by a coach. But when there was still Lionel Messi at PSG I think the coach put him in a very suitable position so that PSG can continue to win trophies in Ligue1 even though PSG have never succeeded in the UCL as long as there was Lionel Messi in the squad in the past.

From the reports we've seen since the start of the summer tranfer window, it's clear that Real Madrid has always wanted to sign Karim Benzema to the club next summer but just that they wanted to sign him as a free agent. There was even a report that the player had an agreement to join the Spanish club next summer when his contract with Paris Saint Germaine had expired and that was the reason PSG wanted to sell the France international this summer so they can make some money from his transfer.
But from the reports in France so far, it seems the striker is gonna sign a one year contract extension with PSG which will see Madrid spend reasonable amount of money in getting Mbappe's signature

PSG team could not use a player like Lionel Messi well. One of the reasons for this is that the coach of the team does not have enough knowledge of how to use a player like Lionel Messi.

Even chelsea linked to him as well. Im glad to hear that balogun officially becomes a new player of monaco. Monaco has been getting a horrible result in the previous match. The come of him will be changing the tempo in the club. Although Balogun's performance was stable last season, Arteta is uninterested in recalling him.. The final decision to sell was already taken by the club. Balogun is still worthy enough as a striker. I do agree with you if he had an impressive performance, but that's not enough to make him able to attract arteta's attention.
Arsenal keeps use nketiah/gabriel as its striker at this moment. Even though nketiah rarely performs so well in the match. Nketiah is just an overrated striker for me. Balogun seems to have better quality than him.
Balogun will able to play regularly in monaco which is good for the future of his career. he can attract the big club to sign him in the future as long as balogun will have good performance like previous season.