Ligue 1 Superthread 2017/18

Amirani

Yup, not the prettiest he'll score for them, but he's off the mark. They've looked much better here second half.

3-0 Neymar
Was always on the cards

Mr.Nice Guy

3-0 to PSG. Comfortable result for them in the end.

I thought Neymar had a great start to his PSG career. Really enjoyed watching him operate in a free role. He got his goal and provided an assist and linked up well with his new teammates. Can't ask for much more from a player making his debut really.

irishguitarlad

Falcao's second goal was spectacular from yesterday. What a player he is still.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Hilarious own goal from Guingamp.

Mr.Nice Guy

Monaco are in action away to Metz at 7.45. The game is on BT Sport 3. Team news:

Metz XI: Didillon; Rivierez, NiakhatDiagne, Assou-Ekotto; Poblete, Cafú; Jouffre, Cohade, Jallow; Roux

Monaco XI: Subasic; Sidibe, Jemerson, Glik, Jorge; Fabinho, Moutinho, Lopes, Lemar; Diakhaby, Falcao.

No Mbappe in the squad again. Is he Man City-bound I wonder?

Didillon is a keeper I like. He will be tested a fair bit I would think.

ERG89

Been a poor watch so far, I got a good laugh out of seeing Assou-Ekotto is playing tho

An Ciarraioch

Guess it's the hallmark of chanpions to grind out a win, even while playing poorly - Falcao's revival shows the difference 100% fitness can make to personal form, perhaps he would have been a success in England without that horrific run of injuries.

Mr.Nice Guy

Yeah it's great to see Falcao continuing to do well. There's big pressure on him to keep up the goals while this Mbappe saga rolls on.

Mr.Nice Guy

Saturday's results:

Nice 2-0 Guingamp
Montpellier 1-1 Strasbourg
Rennes 2-2 Dijon
Saint-Etienne 3-0 Amiens
Troyes 0-1 Nantes
Lyon 3-3 Bordeaux

Nice and Nantes picked up their first points of the season. Saint-Etienne continue their good form. No goals conceded from them so far.

Lyon vs Bordeaux looks like it was a great game. Malcom got two goals for Bordeaux. He's a player I like a lot. I can see him attracting attention from bigger clubs soon. I think he'd be a good fit at Monaco actually.

Mr.Nice Guy

Lille lost 2-0 to Caen at home earlier. Very surprised at that result. Some early pressure on Bielsa now after a good start. Marseille held to a 1-1 draw at home to Angers as well. Angers have had a fine start to the season.

PSG vs Toulouse is kicking off at 8 pm. Here are the teams:

PSG XI: Areola; Daniel Alves, Kimpembe, Thiago Silva, Kurzawa; Verratti, Thiago Motta, Rabiot; Di Mar Cavani, Neymar.

Toulouse XI: Lafont; Amian, Jullien, Diop, Moubandje; Gradel, Somalia, Blin, Durmaz; Delort, Toivonen.

Two young promising keepers on show tonight. Nice to see Diop back in defence alongside Jullien. I like those two defenders but they have one hell of a test facing them tonight.

martyos121

Blin looks a serious prospect, it'll be interesting to see how he gets on up against the calibre of PSG's midfield.

Mr.Nice Guy

Toulouse lead! Gradel! The most blatant example of a team scoring against the run of play you'll see as PSG have been all over them. :pac:

Mr.Nice Guy

Neymar scores!

He's deserved that.

Update: And Rabiot makes it 2-1 now. Lovely strike.

He's developing into such a great player.

Half-Time: PSG lead the game 2-1 and are worthy of the lead. Neymar has caught the eye again and caused Toulouse plenty of problems. He went close twice before his goal, and also floated a lovely pass to Cavani which Cavani couldn't finish.

Rabiot and Verratti have been very enjoyable to watch in midfield. Toulouse have struggled to live with PSG but have had some joy down the right flank going forward. Amian provided a lovely assist for Gradel's goal. I can only see more goals in this for PSG though.

Mr.Nice Guy

Verratti's been given a second yellow. Twenty minutes left to go.

Mr.Nice Guy

PSG penalty. Silly foul by Delort on Neymar.

And Cavani scores it. 3-1 and that should be the game for PSG despite being a man down.

Mr.Nice Guy

Oh hang on, it's 3-2 now! Jullien powers in a great header from a corner.

Mr.Nice Guy

Gorgeous goal from Pastore to make it 4-2. That really ought to be it. :pac:

Update: Scratch that, PSG aren't done! Kurzawa with an acrobatic effort from a Neymar corner makes it 5-2. Another great goal.

martyos121

Sweet Jesus, what a goal Kurzawa! :eek:

Mr.Nice Guy

Neymar taking the piss big time there! I love it.

https://twitter.com/amir_suti/status/899373821375000578

martyos121

Take a bow Neymar. Absolute class right there, 6-2 PSG.

Mr.Nice Guy

6-2! Neymar! What a player.

irishman86

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

PSG penalty. Silly foul by Delort on Neymar.

And Cavani scores it. 3-1 and that should be the game for PSG despite being a man down.

Thought Neymar would have been on penalties :eek:

Mr.Nice Guy

Full-Time and it ends 6-2. Anyone who didn't see that game might think it was a walk in the park but Toulouse were still in the contest with twenty minutes to go after Verratti was sent off. Even when PSG made it 3-1 to their credit they clawed it back to 3-2 but once PSG made it 4-2, the game was beyond them. PSG scored some great goals and were just too good, even with a man less.

Rabiot played very well in midfield. Kurzawa was a threat going forward and scored a great goal. And Neymar? Well it's early days but that transfer looks like super business. He's such fun to watch as the main man who the team revolves around.

ERG89

Nice goal & feet by Neymar tonight, defending was so bad for it Toulouse made Dejan Lovren look like Franco Baresi.

- bo -

Ah I've only copped this thread now, I was wondering the other day why there was no 17/18 version.

Anyways, Nantes are back to their old tricks. Lost the 2 games I sat down to watch, then won the one I missed (with 10 men)

I'll be watching on Saturday.. stick all your money on Lyon.

Mr.Nice Guy

PSG vs Saint-Etienne about to kick off in fifteen minutes. Teams are in:

PSG XI: Areola; Meunier, Kimpembe, Marquinhos, Kurzawa; Motta, Rabiot, Pastore; Di Maria, Cavani, Neymar.

Saint-Etienne XI: Ruffier - Janko, T-Catherine, Perrin, Pierre-Gabriel, Gabriel Silva - Maiga, Selnes, Dabo - Bamba, Hamouma.

Very much looking forward to this one. Both sides have 9 points from 9 so far. PSG are scoring goals for fun, Saint-Etienne have yet to concede. The irresistible force meets the immovable object.

Bamba and Hamouma have been in good form so far. Ruffier is one of the best keepers in the league. Not to mention Neymar features who has been superb.

This could be a great game.

irishman86

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

PSG vs Saint-Etienne about to kick off in fifteen minutes. Teams are in:



Very much looking forward to this one. Both sides have 9 points from 9 so far. PSG are scoring goals for fun, Saint-Etienne have yet to concede. The irresistible force meets the immovable object.

Bamba and Hamouma have been in good form so far. Ruffier is one of the best keepers in the league. Not to mention Neymar features who has been superb.

This could be a great game.

Ruffier has to be one of the most unlucky keepers around. Just as he comes to the fore so does Lloris and Mandanda

HalloweenJack

How was Janko not sent off? He was the last man. Also, didn't look like it was inside the box, looked right on the edge.

Thumping pen from Cavani.

Mr.Nice Guy

Good effort from Ruffier but too much power in that peno.

HalloweenJack

Great save by Areola.

Mr.Nice Guy

1-0 at half-time to PSG. I think Saint-Etienne will be reasonably satisfied with that half even though they are behind. They contained PSG and Neymar pretty well and by the end of the half they were causing problems. If Bamba had taken that chance which Areola saved it would have been a very good half.

Update: 2-0 to PSG. Motta scores from a Neymar set-piece.

Update II: Cavani scores from a Draxler cross. 3-0.

Mr.Nice Guy

Full-Time and PSG win it 3-0, inflicting a first defeat on Saint-Etienne and scoring the first goals against them.

Neymar was involved in all three goals and looked lively. I thought Di Maria was underwhelming though.

Saint-Etienne will be disappointed. Conceding a second early in the second half was a killer for them. There was only going to be one winner after that.

Mr.Nice Guy

Saturday results:

Nantes 0-0 Lyon
Amiens 3-0 Nice
Bordeaux 2-1 Troyes
Caen 1-0 Metz
Dijon 2-1 Montpellier
Toulouse 3-2 Rennes

The misery continues for Nice. Knocked out of the Champions League by Napoli and now thrashed 3-0 by promoted side Amiens. They only lost 4 games in total in the league last season; here we are still in August and they've already lost 3 times.

Ranieri got a decent result against Lyon.

Mr.Nice Guy

Guingamp beat Strasbourg 2-0 and Angers and Lilles drew 1-1 in the early games.

Monaco vs Marseille is coming up at 8 pm. Mbappe is on the bench and if speculation is to be believed, this is likely to be his final involvement with Monaco. Teams:

Monaco XI: Subasic; Sidibe, Jemerson, Glik, Jorge; Fabinho, Moutinho, Lopes, Lemar; Diakhaby, Falcao.

Marseille XI: Mandanda; Sakai, Doria, Rolando, Hubočan, Amavi; Sanson, Gustavo, Sertic; Thauvin, Germain.

Looking forward to this one. It could be very interesting. Germain going up against Monaco for the first time since his move.

Mr.Nice Guy

Glik scores!

What a start.

And then nearly two. Mandanda tips Diakhaby's shot on to the post. Marseille all over the place in the opening minutes.

martyos121

Falcao penalty, 2-0 Monaco. No way back for Marseille now I fear.

Mr.Nice Guy

Lovely header from Falcao to make it 3-0.

Update: 4-0 now. Diakhaby taps in after good work from Lopes. Awful from Marseille.

Half-Time now. Wretched stuff from Marseille. Worse than Arsenal.

Amirani

Surprised this has been quite so one-sided. Monaco have murdered them.

Mr.Nice Guy

Sidibe gets in on the act to make it five. I think the commentators said three more goals will take Monaco top on goal difference.

Update: Well Marseille get one back through Cabella.

Mr.Nice Guy

6-1 to Monaco. Fabinho from the spot. Shame Falcao was substituted as he could have got another hat-trick.

Mr.Nice Guy

Full-Time. 6-1. Marseille put out of their misery. They were so bad at the back it was unreal. I don't think Aston Villa will want Jordan Amavi back from his loan spell. He was really bad.

Falcao did very well for Monaco. Lopes looked a real threat down the right. Diakhaby had some nice moments.

Very good evening for Monaco but a dispiriting loss for Marseille. On this evidence it's highly unlikely they can challenge PSG and Monaco this season.

Mr.Nice Guy

Mbappe makes his debut for PSG tonight against Metz. Game kicks off at 7.45 on BT Sport 3.

Metz XI: Kawashima; Balliu, Bisevac, Niakhate, Ekotto; Philipps, Cafu; Dossevi, Cohade, Riviere; Roux.

PSG XI: Areola; Meunier, Marquinhos, Kimpembe, Yuri Berchiche; Motta, Rabiot; Mbappe, Draxler, Neymar; Cavani.

Neymar, Mbappe, Cavani and Draxler in the same team. Wow.

Looking forward to seeing how Berchiche gets on too.

greendom

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Mbappe makes his debut for PSG tonight against Metz. Game kicks off at 7.45 on BT Sport 3.



Neymar, Mbappe, Cavani and Draxler in the same team. Wow.

Looking forward to seeing how Berchiche gets on too.

4 2 4 back to the 70s!

Mr.Nice Guy

1-0. Cavani breaks Metz's stubborn resistance. He hit the post earlier in the half.

irishman86

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Mbappe makes his debut for PSG tonight against Metz. Game kicks off at 7.45 on BT Sport 3.



Neymar, Mbappe, Cavani and Draxler in the same team. Wow.

Looking forward to seeing how Berchiche gets on too.

Who needs defence when you can score 40 goals

Mr.Nice Guy

Equaliser! Riviere scores for Metz. Meunier poor in defence.

Half-Time: The teams go in level. Metz have done a good job making things difficult for PSG. Mbappe has had a lot of attention whenever he has got on the ball but he had some nice moments, especially a cross with the outside of his foot to set up Cavani who had his header saved.

I'd still expect PSG to go on and win it comfortably but credit to Metz for making a game of it.

Mr.Nice Guy

Oh what a stunning miss from Riviere to get a second for Metz. :eek:

https://twitter.com/CuriosidadesEUR/status/906244706996289536

ERG89

Was that a red?
I mean Assou-Ekotto is a mess but it wasn't that bad.

irishman86

Never a red card that