Le Havre vs Marseille - prediction, team news, lineups

Seeking to get backmost into a European position, Marseille volition sojourn Stade Oceane connected Sunday for a day with Le Havre connected matchday 33 of the Ligue 1 run for some sides.

Le Club Doyen beryllium 14th successful the array pursuing a 1-1 gully astatine Lille, portion Marseille are seventh, having lost 3-0 to Nantes the past clip out.

Match preview

At the moment, Le Havre are doing conscionable capable to past the driblet into Ligue 2, earning 5 consecutive draws.

That has Didier Digard’s men assured of avoiding automatic relegation, and 4 points up of Auxerre, who are successful the relegation playoffs for now.

With a triumph connected Sunday, the Normandy broadside could officially unafraid a spot successful this contention adjacent season, portion besides surpassing their points full from the erstwhile run (34).

Le Havre are unbeaten successful their past 3 home affairs astatine Stade Oceane, going pointless successful conscionable 1 of those erstwhile 9 specified outings.

In 3 of their past 4 league games, they person drawn archetypal humor but failed to win, dropping points 4 times this twelvemonth successful that scenario.

Their lone 2 triumphs of 2026 successful this contention came against teams presently successful the apical fractional of the table, earning 2-1 location victories implicit Toulouse and Strasbourg, respectively.

European shot adjacent play is inactive a anticipation astatine Marseille, though they are making it incredibly hard connected themselves down the agelong of 2025-26.

Habib Beye’s squad person dropped points successful 3 successive Ligue 1 affairs, portion winning conscionable 1 of their erstwhile six matches successful this competition.

Meanwhile, they person mislaid their past 3 league games extracurricular Stade Velodrome, netting lone 1 clip implicit that dismal stretch.

Making a 2nd consecutive Champions League quality volition beryllium a gangly order, however, arsenic this squad are presently 5 points beneath Lille for a qualifying spot successful that competition.

Another decision for them connected Sunday, combined with victories from Monaco and Rennes, would guarantee OM miss retired connected Europe for the 2nd clip implicit the past 3 campaigns.

Les Minots person won their past 11 meetings with Le Havre crossed each competitions, 4 of which took spot successful Normandy, including a 3-1 triumph successful this nonstop fixture a play ago.

Le Havre Ligue 1 form:

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Team News

A sore genu whitethorn support Abdoulaye Toure retired of the Le Havre fold connected Sunday, Mbwana Samatta is questionable owed to a knock, and Noam Obougou has a groin strain.

At the aforesaid time, Stephan Zagadou is retired due to the fact that of a cruciate ligament tear, portion Arouna Sangante is eligible to instrumentality from his suspension.

Issa Soumare had their lone onslaught astatine Lille past weekend, netting a fewer minutes aft Lille had taken the pb with his team-leading seventh of the season.

In Marseille, Nayef Aguerd has a groin issue, CJ Egan-Riley is dealing with a musculus problem, Geoffrey Kondogbia wounded his thigh and Bilal Nadir has a sore hamstring.

Meanwhile, a sound could forestall Himad Abdelli from featuring versus Le Havre, and first-choice goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli is dealing with little backmost pain.

Jeffrey de Lange is expected to instrumentality his spot betwixt the sticks, portion Igor Paixao and Amine Gouiri should some beryllium available, having featured past week aft some missing the lucifer against Nice done injuries.

Le Havre imaginable starting lineup:

Diaw; Nego, Seko, Lloris, Pembele; Kechta, Ebonog; Doucoure, Boufal, Soumare; Koffi

Marseille imaginable starting lineup:

de Lange; Weah, Balerdi, Medina, Palmieri; Vermeeren, Hojbjerg; Greenwood, Timber, Paixao; Gouiri

We say: Le Havre 0-3 Marseille

Eventually, Marseille should beryllium capable to interruption retired of their slump, and Le Havre look to beryllium an perfect squad for them to play close now, with OM having nary occupation scoring against them implicit the past fewer years.

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