Toulouse vs Le Havre - prediction, team news, lineups

Two teams seeking their archetypal Ligue 1 victories this play volition quadrate disconnected connected matchday 5 this play arsenic Toulouse invited Le Havre to Stadium de Toulouse connected Saturday.

Both sides are connected 2 points, with Toulouse successful 17th aft drafting Lorient 2-2, and the Normandy nine conscionable supra them connected extremity quality aft a 0-0 location gully with Angers.

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It has been thing but a bully commencement to Jens Berthel Askou’s tenure arsenic the Toulouse boss, with his broadside successful an aboriginal slump.

The nine that person been a mainstay successful Ligue 1 implicit the past fewer years are presently successful the past automatic relegation spot aft 4 matchdays, though they fought backmost from a two-goal shortage to gain a constituent the past clip out.

This is their worst commencement to a play since returning to the apical formation successful 2022-23, dropping points successful 5 successive Ligue 1 affairs dating backmost to the past campaign.

A deficiency of subject has been evident with them truthful far, with this radical starring the league successful mean fouls per lucifer (16.8) portion conceding aggregate strikes successful 3 of their 4 league outings this season.

As a result, they hazard going winless successful their archetypal 5 Ligue 1 affairs for the archetypal clip since the 2013-14 campaign, erstwhile they finished ninth.

Le Tefece are unbeaten successful their past 2 Ligue 1 outings against Le Havre astatine Stadium de Toulouse, without conceding a azygous extremity successful either game.

Close but nary cigar has been a recurring taxable for Le Havre implicit the past fewer seasons, and it has remained their individuality aboriginal into this campaign.

The nine from Normandy look to person mastered the creation of keeping games close, but person triumphed successful lone 1 of their past 16 top-flight affairs, dating backmost to past season.

Since the commencement of 2026, lone 2 of their home affairs ended successful either a triumph oregon nonaccomplishment by aggregate goals, portion 8 of their matches implicit that agelong finished successful a one-goal triumph oregon defeat.

That said, Didier Digard’s broadside tin widen their unbeaten tally distant from location successful this contention to six matches connected Saturday, arsenic they drew 1-1 with Lyon earlier this season.

One of the lowest-scoring teams a play agone (32 goals) person continued to conflict successful the attacking 3rd successful 2026-27, with lone Nice (one) netting less goals than Le Havre (two) truthful acold this season.

A large portion of the occupation is their deficiency of originative players, with Le Club Doyen tied with last-place Nice for the fewest large chances successful the league truthful acold (five).

Toulouse Ligue 1 form:

Le Havre Ligue 1 form:

Team News

Toulouse mightiness beryllium missing Aron Donnum and Rasmus Nicolaisen done wounded again, portion Abu Francis has a sore hamstring and Guillaume Restes is questionable with a thigh strain.

Casper Tengstedt and Thomas Jorgensen some recovered the backmost of the nett for them connected matchday four, arsenic their broadside erased a 2-0 shortage and collected a point.

A musculus strain whitethorn support Felix Mambimbi connected the Le Havre sidelines this weekend, portion Rassoul Ndiaye has a sore groin and Lionel Mpasi is recovering from an Achilles tendon rupture.

Timothee Pembele and Kaito Mizuta are questionable with knocks, portion Junior Mwanga is eligible to instrumentality from his reddish paper suspension.

Toulouse imaginable starting lineup:

Niflore; Messali, McKenzie, Koumbassa, Tape; Casseres, Schmidt; Hidalgo, Jorgensen, Vossah; Russell-Rowe

Le Havre imaginable starting lineup:

Gallon; Jelert, Seko, Touba, Ouziad; Ebonog; Nakamura, Richardson; Koffi, Maja, Samatta

We say: Toulouse 0-0 Le Havre

Neither broadside person been capable to enactment successful a beardown 90-minute show this season, and we expect a dull gully betwixt 2 teams lacking assurance astatine the moment.

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