Le Havre and Lens will face on Friday the 20th of October at 9:00 pm in the 9th week of the Ligue 1. The match will be played in Le Havre at the Stade Océane. The referee will be François Letexier.
Le Havre sits in the 13th place in the table with 9 points. It comes from a 3-0 loss against Olympique Marseille in its last match in the Ligue 1. Thus far, it has won twice, draw 3 times, and lost 3 times.
Lens sits in the 15th place in the league with 8 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against LOSC Lille in its last match in the Ligue 1. To date, it has won twice, drawn twice, and lost 4 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Le Havre
Le Havre has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (4 times or 50.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (4 times), 3-5-2 (2 times), 4-3-3 (once) and 4-4-2 (once).
Luka Elsner is expected to play against Lens with the following players: Arthur Desmas, Christopher Operi, Gautier Lloris, Arouna Sangante, Loïc Nego, Abdoulaye Touré, Yassine Kechta, Daler Kuzyaev, Josué Casimir and Nabil Alioui.
Presuming that this will be the line-up, the estimate average age of Le Havre would be 26.20.
There are doubts about the presence of Mohamed Bayo.
Luka Elsner will probably not be able to employ Aloïs Confais and Antoine Joujou because of injury.
Yoni Gomis and Oussama Targhalline will definitely miss the match.
Luka Elsner will not be able to have the presence of Rassoul Ndiaye who is suspended.
Lens
Lens has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up most used during the season (7 times or 87.50%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (7 times) and 3-4-3 (once).
Franck Haise is expected to play against Le Havre with the following players: Brice Samba, Kevin Danso, Facundo Medina, Abdukodir Khusanov, Deiver Machado, Salis Abdul Samed, Andy Diouf, Przemysław Frankowski, Adrien Thomasson, Florian Sotoca and Wesley Saïd.
In case that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Lens would be 26.27.
Franck Haise will probably not be able to employ Massadio Haïdara because of injury.
Wuilker Fariñez Aray, Jimmy Cabot and David da Costa will definitely miss the match.
Franck Haise will not be able to have the presence of I. El Adoua who is suspended.
