Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 760. (Read 189232 times)

A good start for Luis Enrique in Ligue 1, even though they couldn't get full points the PSG squad didn't lose. Mbappe and Neymar are very influential players, every player in the squad relies heavily on them. Ball possession touched eighty percent, but no final completion, I mean no goals were created.

The first week of Ligue 1 will close with the match between Strasbourg vs Lyon, the match will take place soon.

Yes, PSG should be able to beat Lorient like you said. Anyway, also PSG are playing at home they should be able to win easily. But unfortunately this match ended in a draw results. It doesn't really matter because new players need time to adaptation so they can play great next, after all it was their first game and there are many matches waiting for them ahead, I believe that if their opponent was not Lorient maybe PSG would win.

PSG management does not want to keep Neymar in the squad due to high wages. They are trying to sell Neymar. But the big clubs of Premier League, La Liga or Serie A are not interested in taking Neymar. Saudi Arabian club Al Hilal have expressed interest in signing Neymar. Saudi clubs are ready to sign basically any star player. At the same time, PSG management is also interested in selling Neymar to Al Hilal. Now we don't know if Neymar will go to AL Hilal. All decisions depend on Neymar.



Neymar's fitness is not good. He is not fit for the Premier League. He suffered few injuries. But I think Barcelona is suitable for Neymar. Gameplay in La Liga is not as fast as Premier League. Also Barcelona does not play very attacking strategy. So moving to Barcelona would be good for Neymar's career.

When you play against the 10th of Ligue 1 of the season 2022/2023 and you have a home game and you are PSG, it needs a lot of creativity to come to the conclusion that this was not a bad start. You mean that for a club like PSG "winning" a point against Lorient at home is not bad?

It is ok if it's your opinion, but I don't think that today anyone at PSG will say that this wasn't bad. The level these clubs play on is all about winning. If they tie a game in the Champions League against Real Madrid, that is when you could perhaps say that it wasn't bad. But in any other game against mediocre teams from France ending it with a draw at home is bad. These top clubs are not in the position to only see the good things when they throw away 2 points.

Actually, PSG played well when they played against Lorient. unfortunately, they were unable to score a goal for their victory in yesterday's game. not a bad start for Luiz Enrique's squad, moreover they really controlled the game. let's see the line-up, played by Enrique. The 3 players who play up front, are newcomers. also, kang-in Lee played not in his natural position. it would be very reasonable, if in the end the results are not so satisfying.
but in terms of tactics and opportunities, PSG is much better than the opposing team. they had 20 attempted shots, although only 4 shots were on target, they also had 1 big chance but unfortunately they couldn't take advantage of it properly. besides that, PSG still has Dembele who hasn't been played yet. maybe with his presence later, it will bring more changes to the team squad itself. Goncalo Ramos also seems to need adaptation, because this match is his first debut match with PSG.

Other news, it seems that the PSG management has a middle point regarding Mbappe. most likely, the player will return to join the PSG core squad. as Romano reports, PSG President Nasser Al Khelaifi, is in charge of negotiations with Kylian Mbappe. Mbappe's return to the PSG squad will help Enrique maximize his squad and remain a formidable team in this competition.

Last match for week 1 Lyon will fight against Strasbourg today and actually i was highly doubt Lyon will be able to overcomes Strasbourg today because during friendly matches Lyon had poor results and Lyon even was failed to scores in the last 4 matches and conceded 5 goals so it's clearly Lyon have a problem with their consistency and compared to them Strasbourg performance was slightly better

If we see from head to head statistics Lyon is not too dominant because Strasbourg too can able to beat them several times and according to the odds Strasbourg is slightly the favourite than Lyon because they have odds @2.39 and Lyon @2.90 and this actually risky bets but i was thinking maybe Strasbourg will be able to beat Lyon this because Lyon recent matches results which is very poor makes me a bit confident Strasbourg will gets 3 point from this match

I think it's only natural that, for example, PSG agrees for Neymar to move to Al-Hilal because of course, Al-Hilal can pay the transfer fee and can also pay Neymar salary with a large nominal, of course. Apart from that, PSG still has other players to be able to replace Neymar position and also, considering the amount of Neymar salary at PSG as well. So at least, selling Neymar will reduce PSG expenses as well, so it makes sense that Al-Hilal proposal doesn't get rejected. Thus, maybe the drama about Neymar will soon be resolved and then, Mbappe will still be attached to PSG or will definitely leave now or later.

I hope this deal will be completed as soon as possible. Neymar has no interest anymore to play on PSG. Moving to the al hilal gonna be his best move. Neymar will get a lucrative salary once he accepts al hilal's offer. He will be also playing with so many talented players as well. he will not alone there. PSG is interesting to take al hilal's offer. Neymar was always injured, and it's the time for PSG to replace him. I just note that if PSG has been completed, dembele's transfer. He will become the most suitable winger to replace neymar at this moment.
PSG doesn't need him anymore. I wonder how much fees gonna be paid by al hilal for him. I have heard that if al hilal wanna pay a lot of money. Enrique is on the way to building the new team. Mbappe already included in the plan, but not for neymar. It's time for neymar to go to the new club.

Of course everything needs time to go through the process of forming a mature squad, PSG must give time and trust to Luis Enrique to overhaul his squad like Guardiola did at Manchester City. Luis Enrique has just started a new challenge at PSG, a draw in the first match cannot be concluded about the direction of PSG journey this season.

As has happened in previous seasons, PSG may dominate Ligue 1, but in the Champions League they are still having difficulties, especially since the club's current situation is unstable after the Mbappe transfer process is still experiencing problems. PSG must focus on the competition that has just started, they need to forget about Mbappe who has no desire to play for the team. The less than optimal results achieved must be evaluated in the next match in order to increase the confidence of the players.

PSG's performance in the new season is not really promising. Mbappe and Dembele did not play in the match. Think about what will happen to PSG if Mbappe is not in the team.

This is going to fuel the Mbappe discussion in public like we have never seen before so far. This makes it only more difficult for the PSG bosses to let Mbappe go and how would they justify it in the face of the fans and the club? Real Madrid won their game in a solid way and looked ok without Mbappe, and now PSG doesn't even nominate him because they wanted to demonstrate strength, but really this could go very wrong for them. If another game ends without a goal and they still don't let Mbappe play, we as observers of the story will have exciting time ahead of us.

It was a very poor performance by PSG even at their own home ground they failed to score just a goal to take all the three point from Lorient very poor performance. I think PSG was expected to win despite not using the players you listed because they are a better team with more quality players and a solid team not like the Lorient team with few quality players but good for them they were able to hold the home team to a goaless draw. Looking at their performance yesterday, I think PSG's performance was not so good despite making four goal attempt without hitting the back of the net and dominating with ball possession and chances created I think they lacked finishing touches to get the goals as expected.

From all indications, I don't think Neymar has a future with the Paris Saint Germaine again hence it'll be a wise decision to join Saudi Arabian club Al Hilal now that his worth is still high.
From reports, the deal is a very lucrative offer for the Brazilian star to join other European based stars who left Europe for the Saudi League and I think Neymar would definitely want to go to Saudi and save his career that's dying because of his constant injuries

Well, today I saw this news:


source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cv4hyp-IIo3/

it was very obvious that PSG management would end up understanding that they need mbappe to play this season while he still has an active contract and this will also give PSG more time to organize the team so that when mbappe leaves the team, psg will be able to have wins, get far in the champions league even without having the mbappe. It was a good decision by PSG's management. now something that didn't surprise me was the announcement of neymar's departure, he is a player who wants to enjoy life and for that he needs time and in league1 with injuries and criticism from fans and now that psg has brought gonçaloRamos e mbappe is leaving, so the only choice neymar had was to choose to leave the team

see that no big team in europe wanted to hire neymar after his announcement that he was leaving PSG, but something that shocked me was this:


source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cv3I0szoLwc/

 

I confess that I had to read it many times, do the Arabs really know about neymar's behavior? and will neymar be able to respect the religion and laws of saudi arabia? it seems to me that neymar's decision to go to saudi arabia could create several problems in the future, he was always at the center of many controversies everywhere he played and the arab fans are not very peaceful like the french ones, when or if neymar stays injured and the fans in saudi arabia will start to criticize a lot, they manage to become much worse than the french, the question I ask myself: will neymar be able to stand not getting into any controversy while he is playing in saudi arabia?

that's something we'll see if he's going to play in the Arab league.

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Lens lost in a very sad way, even though they were leading 2 - 0, when it looked like they would come out of this game with victory, they suffered 3 penalties and a red card, with that they conceded 3 goals, this was definitely a bad form of start the league, I hope they can recover in the next game. meanwhile PSG drew as expected yesterday, to be honest I didn't expect them to win in this game and no doubt the management must have seen that mbappe was missing on the field.

other games of this round, monaco won the game against clermont, in a game in which monaco scored 3 goals and conceded 2 goals, it seems that monaco is still very fragile in defense. nantes failed to win in the game against toulouse.

It is reported that his father and Neymar's agent have agreed to the offer from Al-Hilal and it is estimated that his salary per season is around 100 million euros and that is almost the same as the salaries of several other stars such as Ronaldo and Benzema. I think if this news is true, of course it remains to be Neymar's next decision whether he will choose to go to the saudi league to earn a lot of money or stay in Europe even if he does not join a top team later.

Because what is clear is that PSG will be very happy to sell him, moreover getting large funds without negotiations like other European teams will make it easier for PSG to immediately agree on an offer from Al-Hilal. I think that with this injury vulnerability, Neymar cannot be forced into European competition which is so intense and maybe if in the Saudi league he will be injured less frequently because the league is not as competitive as in Europe.

Along with Mbappe, Neymar also has a conflict with the PSG board.  PSG received many attractive offers in Saudi Arabia related to Neymar.

Recently, many speculations about the possibility that Neymar will reunite with Barcelona. His desire also wants to leave because he is fed up with the mess of the team, while Neymar's biggest desire is to return to Barcelona. But Barcelona's financial problems will not be able to meet this transfer. With the current situation, it will be difficult for any European club to have the courage to spend a large amount of money to free him. Realizing the problem, he was also intrigued by the offer from Al-Hilal. This Arab club will pay all the transfer fees that PSG needs, and Neymar will receive a high salary + bonus.

It took time for Luis Enrique to bring PSG to the pinnacle of glory, both in Ligue 1 and in the Champions League. There are a lot of problems PSG are currently experiencing and they need to solve them as quickly as possible so they don't affect the team. The loss of several important pillars in the team can affect the outcome of every match and it was proven when they drew against Lorient, PSG's front line was completely unable to do much in the match and there were still many wasted opportunities.

This condition is very serious because they have to draw with a team that is not much better than them. If Luis Enrique doesn't try to solve this problem then I'm afraid they will only become a team that is not taken into account in the Champions League, because talking about the quality of PSG's play in that match did not go well at all

Rumor is only rumor before it comes true and we must be very suspicious with rumor. If we are only fans, we don't need to trust or distrust such rumor is it is no harmful with us. Neymar has very big potential to move to Saudi Arabia as PSG already sheds a light to sell him and he no longer has big reason and ambition to play in Europe. Messi left, Cristiano Ronaldo left, Zlatan retired, Bale retired, Hazard now is almost nothing, Neymar already won Champions League years ago with Barcelona too.

Premier League is a very risky league with Neymar as he is very sensitive with injuries. If Neymar got some serious injuries in Ligue 1, he will be very carefully consider about Premier League as he will have bigger risk to get injuries there.

However, there are strong rumors that Neymar is going to join a club in Saudi Arabia. Because clubs in Saudi Arabia offer high wages and many benefits. PSG wants to sell Neymar because Neymar's wages are too high. He is also not able to perform well with PSG due to injuries. However, none of the major clubs in the Premier League or La Liga are interested in adding Neymar to the team at a high price. This is why the Saudi club has the possibility of selling Neymar.

But personally I don't think Neymar will join the club of Saudi Arabia so soon. Neymar is only 31 years old. He will definitely want to play in a competitive and premier league like La Liga. My guess was that Neymar would return to Barcelona. Let's see what he decides in the end.

I'm confused. PSG settling for a draw with Lorient despite their reputation and roster? Unbelievable. Neymar, Mbappe, and Veratti, their three stars, are undoubtedly missed. Teamwork, rather than individual talent, makes a team strong. Lorient had a fantastic defense, which I absolutely admire, but PSG still needed to score. In all honesty, I would really reconsider my tactics if I were Luis Henrique. Let's hope he avoids making the same mistakes against Toulouse. It's a new start, so perhaps he'll pleasantly surprise us all