Ligue 1 predictions this weekend: every fixture and our call
Nine games from Friday to Sunday, with Brest against PSG closing it out. Every Italian kick-off time and our call on each fixture. Predicted line-ups land on Friday.
Ligue 1 plays from Friday 11 to Sunday 13 September. Nine games, and Sunday night closes with PSG away at Brest, three days after they put six past Slovan Bratislava in the Champions League.
Below is every fixture with the Italian kick-off time and our call.
Friday 11 September
Saturday 12 September
17:15 Strasburgo v Monaco. Our call: the away side to score, confidence 7 out of 10.
20:45 Paris FC v Lione. Our call: under 4.5 goals, confidence 6 out of 10.
20:45 Lorient v Tolosa. Our call: over 1.5 goals, confidence 6 out of 10.
20:45 Le Havre v Angers. Our call: under 3.5 goals, confidence 6 out of 10.
20:45 Auxerre v Nizza. Our call: under 4.5 goals, confidence 7 out of 10.
Sunday 13 September
15:00 Lille v Troyes. Our call: under 4.5 goals, confidence 7 out of 10.
17:15 Le Mans v Lens. Our call: under 4.5 goals, confidence 7 out of 10.
20:45 Brest v PSG. Our call: over 1.5 goals, confidence 7 out of 10.
The games that count
Rennes against Marseille opens the round on Friday night: we have under 4.5 goals, confidence 6.
Brest against PSG, Sunday at 20:45, is the headline game: over 1.5 goals, confidence 7. And Strasbourg against Monaco on Saturday carries the away side to score, at the same confidence.
Predicted line-ups
They do not exist yet, and anyone publishing them today is guessing: managers speak the day before the game. This page is updated on Friday with a predicted line-up for every fixture, and again when the confirmed team sheets land, about an hour before each kick-off.
How to read these calls
Every call carries a confidence from 1 to 10, our measure of how solid the picture is: not a promise, a weight. On Monday, with the round closed, we count all of them in the recap, the ones that missed included.
Every game with our calls is on the Ligue 1 page. The record of our settled calls is in the results history, and the individual calls are in player predictions.
