Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 75. (Read 190528 times)

Maybe this is just me, and I could be very wrong here, but I never believed De Zerbi was a good coach. I didn't like his tenure at Brighton at all, he never looked like he was good enough coach to bring out the best on younger players, and he had bad averages there as well. He never broke over 1.80 in any of the teams he managed aside from Shaktar, and that should be telling something about what he is capable of doing.

Right now, he looks good with Marseille, but that's a team that should be second place or worst case third place anyways, when you are given a great team getting the results isn't shocking. He doesn't look that amazing to me, he is just doing what the team should be doing anyways, hence the results do not look that crazy to me at all.

I believe Marseille spent way too much money to build this team, and  they could have just spent a lot of money to find their own great coach as well. Look at Atletico Madrid, they know they are not as good as Real or Barcelona, but they found Simeone and they are doing something good with him for over a decade now, Marseille knows they are not as good as PSG, so they should find someone decent which can stay top three every year while doing fine at UCL as well.

PSG will play in the Champions League and I don’t think it will be in their favor. On the other hand, Marseille don’t have any international matches and are only focused on the domestic league. This can give them an advantage to prepare better. Marseille are also playing at home. I think this match will be really competitive. It’s hard to say who will win this match. Most people will support PSG but I think PSG will get tired if the Champions League matches are intense. PSV is not a difficult team for PSG but they can also give a surprise. I think this match has a chance to end in a draw. Although I hope PSG loses and Ligue 1 will be more competitive.

This season's Le Classique will take place in the 9th week of League 1. In this match, of course, we will be presented with a hot, aggressive, and dramatic game because both are like El Classico in La Liga.

H2H The last 5 matches of both teams PSG has the advantage with 4 wins.
However, Marseille currently cannot be underestimated under de Zerbi's guidance, they have become a very strong club and should be watched out for this season,
Luis Enrique must really prepare his strategy carefully, there must be no mistakes on the field later if he still wants to stay at the top of the standings.
One more thing I'm curious about is whether Rabiot will be played by de Zerbi? because he is a former PSG player, rumors say most fans call him a traitor.

I also think PSG vs Marseille will be a very competitive match. There is no chance to call the team weak in Marseille this season. PSG's players have scored 25 goals in 8 matches, while Marseille's attack is also quite strong. Marseille's players managed to score 21 goals in 8 matches. Moreover, this match will be played at their home in Marseille. At home, of course, Marseille's players will be more confident. The fight for the Ligue 1 title will become more intense if PSG drop points against Marseille. Marseille, Monaco and PSG are fighting for the title this season. But if PSG continues their winning streak then we will see only PSG dominance in Ligue 1 this season as well.

This season Marseille has made a lot of breakthroughs to support them to perform better in Ligue 1 by bringing in De Zerbi as a coach and some other good players, at the beginning of the season they showed quite good performance and also consistency, but unfortunately it started to break down after they got negative results from Strasbourg and also anger, to be honest if we talk about performance of course Marseille has experienced a big improvement, but I think consistency is their main problem at the moment and De Zerbi must be able to overcome it immediately, the match against PSG will obviously be a test for Marseille but to win the match of course their chances are very small.


Marseille is indeed more advantaged at the moment in ligue 1, in addition to their performance and squad has been quite good this season, of course their unbusy schedule should give them a lot of time to rest and restore the stamina of the players when other teams such as Monaco, Lille and PSG must to play in the Champions League, the changes and improvements that have occurred in the current Marseille squad do promise better performance in them competing in Ligue 1,  but consistency is the main key for every team that wants to become champions and in Ligue 1 we only see PSG who have that at the moment.

Last season we saw PSG have the same confidence and consistent performances that we saw this season but we don't see the same confidence and consistent performances from them. A player has moved from their team to another team and here is a huge gap. Before the start of each season PSG do not worry much about their local league tournament but there are doubts whether PSG can win this league. PSG themselves realize that their team has obvious weaknesses in some positions and if they don't overcome these weaknesses they will never win the local league. Maybe they would have been better off if PSG had recruited some players after Mbappe left.

Today PSG will prepare their players to compete in the Champions League before they all meet Marseille this weekend. And I generally have no doubts about the level of consistency of the Marseille team players because so far Marseille have made so much progress in their own performance compared to last season. Ligue 1 fans are indeed waiting for the PSG vs Marseille match in Ligue 1 because it is a match between two teams that already have almost equal strength this season.

Olympique Marseille board triggered good decision when they decided to sign Roberto De Zerbi from Brighton last summer. It's entirely great to see Roberto De Zerbi taking proper management of the club, they're ranked 3rd position on the Ligue One table, that's signs of improvement for the club. Olympique Marseille are in incredible form this season, they're able to match energy with their oppositions without grip of slacking behind. They've the best frontline and was more favorable to win the game. Montpellier conceded 5 goals at home, humiliating as it is for the hosts.

Paris Saint-Germain are favorites to win the Ligue One trophy because they possess the odds but that should not create room for fatigue and relenting actions, PSG would definitely buckled up because they might never know what's coming for them. Marseille are thrashing tough oppositions with ease and we consider that to be coincidence? Ofcourse not, but enchanced strategies reinforced by the new coach and the players adapts so well with his pattern.

Marseille dropped points against Angers and Strasbourg in the last two matches. Marseille lost 1-0 against Strasbourg and drew 1-1 against Angers. Marseille needed a win against Montpellier after dropping points in two consecutive matches. And won this match by a big margin of 5-0.

If Marseille want to fight for the title or qualify for the Champions League, they need to perform consistently well in every match. If there is no consistency in performance, Marseille will gradually fall behind. I am looking forward to see how the Marseille players perform in the upcoming match against PSG. If Marseille can play well in this match then I would say this team will be able to finish second in the table.

I don't think that the right reason, everything will be considered important for PSG and the decline in Ligue 1 matches which have drawn several times is not because they are focused on the UCL, it still early for the UCL competition, there are still many opportunities there.

PSG themselves will definitely be able to play well because Enrique has found squad that is really strong enough for now after Mbappe departure, they are much better than previously expected and for consistency and stability there is no need to doubt as long as they don't experience many defeats in the future.
But if Monaco is also able to perform consistently and also has an increasing quality of performance that is getting better, they might also be challenge for PSG.

Montpellier is a very weak team so I was not surprised when Montpellier had to lose with a big score to their visitors (Marseille) at their home ground. I hope PSG, Monaco and Marseille can compete fiercely this season so that Ligue1 can look more competitive than last season because when there are three or more teams that are able to compete fiercely in terms of the championship this season with the number of points that are always close until the end of the season, of course Ligue1 will be a very enjoyable League to watch because PSG is no longer as strong as before in Ligue1 this season. And what's more interesting is about the next match for Marseille who will host PSG so that it will definitely be a very interesting match because the points from both teams are still quite close at this time.

La Liga is of course a lot stronger than Ligue 1, but not quite as strong as the Premier League. But there is still a huge and important difference. In La Liga you have Real Madrid and Barcelona (and a few years ago Atletico). So there is at least one outstanding top team that you have to beat over the course of the season in order to win the title.  In Ligue 1 there isn't really any competition at all for PSG. I think I have brought up this before that they can only beat themselves. If they play a bad season, then maybe some other team can take the first spot. But if all teams play according to their potential, there is no way that PSG doesn't win the title.

I still can't believe how many years Mbappe wasted with that club. He could have been a Real Madrid icon by now but instead went for the money. Then again he now owns a few hundred million and still has some years to go. But if he signed a contract with Real Madrid instead of PSG, he would have been a 3x Champions League winner by now.

Their game with PSG is not for a while yet, so anything can change until then, Monaco could be out of this race by then, or they could be holding firm and occasionally look at the top of the table. In my opinion this is a good thing, even if they don't win the championship, a healthy competition is very necessary for this league, so that it would not be boring to follow because of the dominance of PSG in recent years

I really enjoyed what the club president said to his players. Imagine in the school, you sack the teacher because his bad students don't want to study rather than imposing some discipline and help him with other methods.
Montpellier is deep in the relegation zone and things aren't well at all. I don't know if the decision to replace the coach could be helpful or not since it will take time to adapt. The only positive thing I found is that the players might be shaken by the whole situation and woke up after their humiliating defeat and the coach being fired.
In the next games, Montpellier will face teams sitting in the last places so they should try to collect at least 6 points from the upcoming 3 games.

Marseille easily won the match. Before Montpellier received the red card, the match was already 4-0 ahead of Marseille. Marseille, who scored a goal after the red card, showed that they are a top-level team in the French league with the score they got in this match. Although PSG seems like a team for the championship on its own in the French league, the competition continues this year.

The Ligue 1 for long now have been the league for PSG. Every year they gets to win the league title as though it’s theirs to win always. PSG have been playing very well in my opinion and with the way they’re going this season, it is also going to be a big win for them and will be taking the Ligue 1 title home this time around too. Only Monaco are showing some kind of resilience and fights for this title with them, and as it is now, they’re keeping up with the pace but I don’t know how far they can keep up with this. Monaco should know that it won’t be an easy one for them especially when they meet with PSG head to head. But we shall get to see how they farewell to the end of the season. I see their performance great and encouraging but I can’t actually vouch for them any further to get that big result and win the league title.

Only 3 points adrift, Marseille shouldn't be forgotten. Though the limelight shines more on Monaco and PSG at the moment, the journey of the season is long, and everything can happen.

Marseille has the potential to catch up so long as they keep up the good work. A poor result or two from PSG or Monaco can open up great opportunities for Marseille to press and threaten the top position. So, yes, competition in Ligue 1 is still very open. It will be interesting to see how these three teams compete until the end of the season.


 The defense line of Montpellier is a big problem that is clearly needed to be fixed right away.

With fragile defense such as this, it is difficult for them to compete competitively. They become an easy target for the opposing team to score goals. And if they do not have funds to strengthen the team through transfer, then the only way is to improve the performance of existing players, and in this case, specifically to strengthen defense, more intensive training.

Montpellier performance under Michel Der Zakarian is compeletely messed up because from 8 matches in Ligue 1 Montpellier only get 1 win and 1 draw and their defensive lines also very poor that from those matches Montpellier have already to conceded 26 goals which mean for each match Montpellier conceded 3.25 goals average and these statistics makes Montpellier as the team with the poorest defense in Ligue 1 so i think it's normal if the president starting to worried about this team because they don't want Montpellier to relegated to Ligue 2 and probably the president decision when they sacked Michel Der Zakarian is a good decision because with changing the manager Montpellier performance will be much better and according to the news Montpellier president has been considering want to hire Jean-Louis Gasset as their new manager

Marseille managed to destroy Montpellier with a big score and this shows how they are starting to get back to winning way after the last two matches failed to win, the 0-5 score that managed to get  in away match actually makes them now able to maintain the championship competition with PSG and Monaco, their performance is indeed very commendable especially since they played very impressively throughout the match,  But indeed one match with a big score still cannot be our reference to say that they are strong candidates to win, because after all their performances are still very inconsistent at the moment, just like you, I have also never thought of another team that will win in Ligue 1 other than PSG, because it is undeniable that they are the most dominant team and have a 90% chance of defending the title this season in Ligue 1.

Marseille team is in very good form this season. If this consistency can be maintained then I believe this team will be able to compete for the title. The performance of the forward players of this team is very good. However, the performance of the defenders is somewhat erratic. In 8 matches, Marseille players managed to score 21 goals and conceded 8 goals. I wouldn't call Marseille's defense weak, but Marseille's defenders need some stability in performance.

In the last match against Montpellier we saw the great dominance of Marseille. Marseille's players took advantage of Montpellier's weak defense. Marseille players managed to score 5 goals in this match. Marseille lost points in the last two matches. So Marseille needed this big win to boost the confidence of the players. However, Marseille are going to face PSG in the next match. Marseille is likely to lose in this match.