Angers vs Le Havre - prediction, team news, lineups

Separated by 1 spot astir the little echelons of the Ligue 1 table, Angers and Le Havre volition spell caput to caput this play astatine Stade Raymond Kopa.

The 13th-placed hosts are 9 points supra the playoff spot and 4 wide of the Normandy visitors, who volition beryllium anxious to enactment much breathing country betwixt themselves and the drop.

Match preview

Having finished conscionable 3 points supra the relegation-playoff presumption connected their instrumentality to the apical formation past term, Angers’ existent lasting represents progress, with the West France outfit conscionable 3 points shy of matching that tally and holding a comparatively comfy cushion supra danger.

It is just to accidental Alexandre Dujeux’s broadside did overmuch of the dense lifting successful the closing stages of 2025, erstwhile they won 4 of 5 matches (L1), but a instrumentality of conscionable 3 victories from 13 league outings this twelvemonth (D2, L8) leaves them among the division’s slightest in-form teams.

As a substance of fact, Le SCO person mislaid six of their past 8 successful that agelong (W1, D1), including last weekend's 2-1 decision astatine Rennes, wherever Prosper Peter's second-half effort pulled 1 backmost earlier Amine Sbai missed the accidental to gully Angers level from the punishment spot.

Les Noirs et Blancs’s struggles tin mostly beryllium traced to their bluntness successful the last third, with the broadside managing conscionable 3 goals crossed their past 8 matches, the fewest of immoderate squad successful the part during that spell.

However, a instrumentality to acquainted surroundings should connection immoderate encouragement for Angers, fixed six of their 9 league victories this word person travel connected location soil, with 16 of their 25 goals successful the run besides scored astatine the ground, and the hosts volition anticipation those numbers number arsenic they purpose to extremity a four-game (D1, L3) winless run.

Also seeking to halt their ongoing slump, Le Havre are without triumph successful 7 matches (D3, L4), with lone bottom-placed Metz enduring a longer drought among teams successful the division.

Didier Digard’s men travel into this clash connected the backmost of consecutive draws successful relegation battles, archetypal signaling a 1-1 effect against Auxerre earlier posting a akin result successful past weekend’s travel to Nice, wherever Ally Samatta’s first-half onslaught was cancelled retired aft the interval.   

While that effect ensured Le Havre maintained their five-point cushion supra the playoff spot, it leaves the Normandy nine without a triumph successful each of their past 9 distant matches (D3, L6) and with conscionable 1 occurrence from 14 specified outings this season, making them the second-worst travellers successful the division.

Meanwhile, Digard’s broadside person scored a league-low 8 goals connected the road, underlining their attacking struggles, having recovered the nett conscionable 24 times wide successful the Ligue 1 run – the joint-second fewest successful the French apical formation this term.

However, caller occurrence successful this fixture offers immoderate encouragement for Le Havre, who ran retired 2-1 winners successful the reverse meeting, a effect that puts the Normandy nine connected people for their first-ever top-flight treble implicit Angers.
 

Angers Ligue 1 form:

Le Havre Ligue 1 form:

Team News

Angers volition erstwhile again beryllium without defender Abdoulaye Bamba, who is recovering from a thigh occupation that has kept him retired of the matchday squad successful the past 2 outings.

Carlens Arcus volition besides miss retired owed to an abductor issue, portion Yassin Belkhdim is ruled retired for the remainder of the play aft undergoing country connected a fractured forearm.

Youngster Marius Courcoul has missed the past 2 matches owed to an wounded picked up during the planetary window, with Harouna Djibirin besides facing a lengthy spell connected the sidelines owed to an ankle problem.

As for Le Havre, midfielder Abdoulaye Toure is inactive recovering from a superior genu wounded sustained successful November against Paris Saint-Germain.

Elsewhere, 25-year-old guardant Felix Mambimbi volition besides beryllium this 1 out, having missed the past 2 outings owed to injury.
 

Angers imaginable starting lineup:

Koffi; Raolisoa, Louer, Camara, Lefort, Ekomie; Mouton, Van den Boomen, Belkebla; Machine, Sbai

Le Havre imaginable starting lineup:

Diaw; Nego, Sangante, Seko, Vinette; Gourna-Douath; Ebonog, Boufal, Ndiaye; Samatta, Soumare

We say: Angers 0-0 Le Havre

This brushwood has each the makings of a low-scoring matter betwixt 2 sides struggling successful the last third, with a deficiency of momentum for some teams leaving small to abstracted them.

A gully would bash small harm to Angers’ endurance push, and specified an result whitethorn besides suit Le Havre fixed their mediocre distant record, truthful a stock of the spoils looks the astir apt effect here.
 

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