Season predictions!

By: Evilo | August 5th, 2009

With the season about to kick off, it’s time for the predictions…

Fighting against relegation :

Boulogne : a team with a lot of will, but lack of talent.

Grenoble : again, lack of talent is obvious.

Le Mans : lost some key players (Pele, Gervinho) yet again.

Lens : only a few game breakers up on the team.

Lorient : lost Ciani and Abriel, that’s a lot.

Montpellier : more individual talent then the other two promoted teams, but still will it be enough for L1?

Nancy : lost a few veterans leaders (Biancalani and N’Guemo for instance), a team searching for a new identity.

Valenciennes : Loss of Kambouaré will hurt.

Mid-table :

Auxerre : average team in ever sense of the word.

Monaco : too young to play a top spot, lack of offensive impact as well. Still some individual talents.

Nice : didn’t lose anything huge this offseason, but lack of offensive talent outside Rémy.

St Etienne : should be better than last year, but still some question marks all over the place.

Sochaux : loss of Erding will hurt, but the quality of play will still be there.

Top 7 :

Lille : Adding Gervinho will ease the loss of Bastos. Hazard could take this team in the top 3 though.

PSG : Some game breaking talent no doubt. Should be a tough team to beat.

Rennes : Lateral moves again this season.

Toulouse : should be tough to crack again, but still too limited to play a top 3 role.

Top 3 :

Bordeaux : basically the same team as last year.

Lyon : Lots of changes, big question marks all over the place. Still the individual talent should secure a top 3 spot.

Marseille : Great transfer period really, adding big profiles like Diawara, Mbia and Lucho has helped a lot, but adding key guys like Abriel, E. Cissé, Bocaly will also help. They only lost Ziani and the leadership of Cana. Heavy favourites in my opinion.

Complete rankings :

1- Marseille
2- Bordeaux
3- Lyon
4- Lille
5- PSG
6- Toulouse
7- Rennes
8- Auxerre
9- Nice
10- Monaco
11- Sochaux
12- St Etienne
13- Nancy
14- Montpellier
15- Le Mans
16- Valenciennes
17- Lens
18- Lorient
19- Grenoble
20- Boulogne

L1 top scorer : Hoarau
Cup winners : PSG



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  • Luka |  August 5th, 2009 at 6:36 am

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    Hazard needs to start every game, period. Also, Jelen’s form and fitness will determine Auxerre’s place in the table (but then again, who doesn’t already know that?). I think Lens should have a comfortable return to the top flight.

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  • Luka |  August 5th, 2009 at 8:31 am

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    Ok, Jelen is out for two months, while Licata is out as well.

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  • richard |  August 5th, 2009 at 3:14 pm

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    you give Hazard too much credit on this blog. he’s good, really good in fact, but he isn’t the eighth wonder of the world or anything.

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  • Evilo |  August 5th, 2009 at 3:48 pm

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    He is really.
    You’ll soon agree with us.

    For instance, Lille played their first leg of Europa League last week, and they won 2-0.
    Hazard created the first goal and got the assist and he scored a beauty on a solo effort on the second.
    Without Hazard it’s a 0-0 draw.

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  • Thomas |  August 6th, 2009 at 2:22 pm

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    Thanks for the confidence in le PSG. Lets hope your right.

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