The 2022/2023 season is still ongoing for every top European League. The leagues are becoming challenging, and every team has more matches. We are looking at the Ligue 1 league as it is becoming an exciting season and a must-match for everyone to watch.
Ligue 1 Standings
Pars Saint-Germain won the 2022/2021 season. This season, we’re looking forward to whoever will lift the title.
PSG Is a Top Contender in the Ligue 1 Standings
PSG is one of the top contenders to win the title and one of the teams to top the France Ligue 1 standings.
They are one of the teams with the strongest squad, with players like:
- Neymar
- Messi
- Mbappe
They want to do their best again this season and hope to defend the title as they are the current champion.
The season is still fresh to predict what will end the season. However, we can tell that some teams want it more than others.
Title Race Back-to-Back
Paris Saint-Germain is one of the top teams in the league, and we believe they can win the title race back-to-back.
As we enter the sixth week, let’s see how both teams might line up, their Ligue 1 player stats and the Nantes vs. PSG score predictions.
Nantes vs. PSG Preview
On Saturday, the 3rd of September, Nantes will host the defending champion, Paris Saint-Germain, in another exciting France Ligue 1 schedule.
Both teams would be hoping to earn all three points, and we would expect them to put up a fight throughout the 90 minutes. The match will take place at the Nantes Venue, Stade de la Beaujoire, France.
The kick-off time is set to 02:00 PM, and we would expect to enjoy exciting games. Every team aims to earn extra three points to increase their tally for the new season.
Nantes vs. Paris Saint-Germain Odds Breakdown
| Nantes | Draw | Paris Saint-Germain |
|---|---|---|
| +850 | +550 | -345 |
PSG Odds for this Matchup
The battle line is drawn, and the France league, one odds for the tie, is ready. As usual, Paris Saint-Germain odds is always the favorite to win most matches, probably because of their current performance as the defending champion.
So we expect them to win the match even though they are the away team. Paris Saint-Germain’s odds of winning this match are st to -345 odds. They would have an expected winning chance of about 78%, which gives us the actual pick over them.
This team has won 81% of these particular odds anytime it is given to them, so it’s a solid backup to bank on them.
Nantes Odds for this Matchup
We can’t downgrade Nantes, even though they have +850 odds. Nantes has shown they can play well even as the underdogs in the tie, according to one of their head-to-head games at home. They can push for a surprising win or a draw with the +850 odds.
Nantes vs. Paris Saint-Germain Betting Preview
In the last five games, the away team has been the better side in this matchup. PSG won three from the last five, and Nantes got two wins; one was when they were the hist while the other was away from home. Therefore, there is still a possibility that they can still use the home advantage.
In three of the five games, both teams score against each other, and the total goals are over 2.5 goals. However, the last match gave us a different result as Paris Saint-Germain was the host, and the game was a 4-0 victory.
Nantes
Nantes’s first game for the 2022/2023 season was against Anger, where the game ended on a goalless draw. It was a challenging game where Nantes was the away team and could not put a goal in their opponent’s net.
Moussa Sissoko received a yellow card in the 37th minute and Anger’s Pierrick Capelle in the 42nd minute.
In the second game, Nantes faced Lille OSC, and they played a 1-1 draw, which earned them an additional one point.
Nantes Took the Leadership
Nantes took the lead when Moses Simon scored in the 28th minute, and Lille equalized in the 76th minute from a goal scored by David Ismaily.
Their third game was played on the 20th of August when they lost the game to Olympique de Marseille 2-1 away from home. Halftime ended on a goalless draw, and Marseille scored their first goal in the 70th minute.
Nantes equalized in the 78th minute, after two minutes when Marselie received a red card, but still, Nicolas Pallois scored an own goal to give Marseeile a win.
Fast forward to their first and only winning of the season, which was when they faced Toulouse, and they were the host. The game ended on a 3-1 and earned them three points.
Paris Saint-Germain
The current champion and winner of the 2021/2022 season are in another round of France Ligue 1 games. They began the new season campaign with a win over Clermont Foot 63.
They were the away and scored five goals to beat the home team. Goals were scored by Neymar, Hakimi, Marquinhos, and Messi, who scored twice.
They scored another five goals again in their second game of the season against Montepellier, but this time, they conceded two goals.
The game ended on a 5-2 in favor of PSG. The France Ligue 1 games won PSG’s third game. You need to watch the highlights; they scored seven goals and conceded just one. The match was against Lille.
In the Search of Winning Runs
During the game, Mbappe scored the opening game less than a minute immediately after kick-off. Others that scored in the game were Messi, Hakimi, Neymar, who scored twice, and Mbappe, who scored twice again to make it a hattrick.
So far now, PSG has won four matches and drawn just one in their Ligue 1 schedule. Therefore, they will look forward to continuing their winning runs as they are number one in the league standings.
Nantes vs. Paris Saint-Germain Pick and Prediction
Nantes vs. Paris Saint-Germain score prediction is a challenging bet to predict. Providing France Ligue 1 predictions for this tie is not easy as both teams are looking forward to earning three-point or three, but the away team has won more in their last five games.
And PSG being the better side based on their season stats so far, we think the trend will continue. In that case, our Ligue 1 predictions will favor the away team as they charge to defend their title.
Below is our final Nantes vs. PSG score prediction and betting pick.
Score Prediction: Nantes (0) vs. Paris Saint-Germain (3)
Pick: Paris Saint-Germain to win (-365)