Ligue 1 Predictions | Round 5: Marseille host PSG in Le Classique | OneFootball

Ligue 1 Predictions, Round 4

GFFN editor-in-chief  Luke Entwistle, and sub-editors Raphaël Jucobin and Bastien Cheval face off in our Ligue 1 predictions competition. This season, GFFN will also be hosting guests. Earlier this season, The Athletic’s Alex Barker participated and is the first name on our guest leaderboard. This week, we are joined by French football expert Julien Laurens. It’s three points for a correct score, two points for a correct score difference, and one point for a correct result. Who will come out on top at the end of the season?

SCORES

Raphaël: 32

Luke: 29

Bastien: 36

Guest leaderboard:

Alex Barker: 7

Game of the week: Olympique de Marseille v Paris Saint-Germain, Sunday 19:45 (UK)

PSG may have had one less day to prepare for this game, having played Atalanta in the Champions League on Wednesday night, but they are nonetheless the overwhelming favourites, as they have been in all recent editions of le Classique. They haven’t started the season emphatically and are without key figures in the form of Ousmane Dembélé and Désiré Doué, but they have begun to click into gear. The ease with which Atalanta was brushed aside 4-0 is a clear example of that. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia’s performance, easily his best of the campaign so far, is another source of optimism for PSG, who will enter into a hostile environment at the Vélodrome, extremely confident of securing the result that they want and that they are expected to achieve.

It is not that OM are in bad form. They easily beat Lorient last weekend and were, in fact, unlucky to take nothing away from the Bernabeu. Real Madrid were reliant on a very fortuitous penalty to secure a slender 2-1 win. However, Real Madrid were incredibly open in the first half, affording spaces that PSG simply will not. Evidencing a defensive fragility, too, and reliant on a big performance from Gerónimo Rulli, you would think that they would struggle to keep PSG at bay, even if they are without some of their most prolific forward players.

Julien Lauren’s full predictions

Raphael’s full predictions

Luke’s full predictions

Bastien’s full predictions

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