Ligue 1 · Matchday 10 
Our pick Home win Missed
Le Havre seek a way up as Lorient visit
Le Havre are 18th after nine matches, with a five-game losing run leaving them searching for a response. Lorient arrive seven places and ten points higher, but their recent results have also been mixed.
📍 Stade Océane
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Match report
Final result: Le Havre 0-2 Lorient.
Match statistics (home team first). Shots: 21–7; Shots on target: 5–3; Corners: 5–0; Expected goals: 0.99–1.67.
Goals
- 18' Isaak Touré · Arsène Kouassi · Lorient
- 90+5' Jean-Victor Makengo · Mamadou Kone · Lorient
Cards
- 67' Souleymane Faye · Lorient
- 85' Noah Cadiou · Lorient
- 90+6' Ahmed Touba · Le Havre
- 90+6' Jean-Victor Makengo · Lorient
Match stats
⭐ Top-rated player: J. Makengo (Lorient) 8.1
Ratings and statistics: API-Football.
Confirmed lineups
Le Havre · 3-4-2-1
- 16A. BodartG
- 23V. SassoD
- 27E. Koffi VinetteD
- 5A. ToubaD
- 20D. OuziadM
- 26S. EbonogM
- 6J. MwangaM
- 17K. MizutaM
- 38R. FofanaM
- 25M. SamattaM
- 9J. MajaF
Coach: Jair Karam
Lorient · 3-4-2-1
- 38Y. MvogoG
- 32N. AdjeiD
- 3M. TalbiD
- 95S. TouréD
- 20D. SyllaM
- 8N. CadiouM
- 62A. AvomM
- 43K. KouassiM
- 17J. MakengoM
- 33G. BernardeauM
- 15A. TosinF
Coach: A. Dujeux
Match facts
Recent form
Last 5 league games, latest on the right
Goals per game
| · | Scored | Conceded |
|---|---|---|
| Le Havre | 1.0 | 2.2 |
| Lorient | 0.8 | 0.9 |
League position
| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Lorient | 9 | -1 | 12 |
| 18 | Le Havre | 9 | -11 | 2 |
Last meetings
- 2026 Lorient 0-2 Le Havre
- 2025 Le Havre 1-1 Lorient
- 2024 Lorient 3-3 Le Havre
- 2023 Le Havre 3-0 Lorient
- 2023 Le Havre 0-2 Lorient
PreviaXI model
Model confidence: Open game
- Expected goals (model)
- 1.23 – 1.20
- Double chance
- 12 · 72%1X 65% · X2 63%
- Over 2.5 goals
- 44%Over 1.5: 71% · Over 3.5: 23%
- Both teams score
- 50%
- Clean sheet
- 30% – 29%Le Havre–Lorient
- Half-time result
- X · 44%1 28% · 2 28%
- Half-time / full-time
- 1/1 · 21%2/2 20% · X/X 18%
- Expected corners
- 9.05.6 – 3.4 · Over 9.5: 42%
- Expected cards
- 3.82.1 – 1.7 · Over 3.5: 51%
Statistical model based on expected goals (xG), results and match statistics from the last two seasons. For information only. How our model works →
The climb begins with a response
Le Havre have gone nine league matches without a win, including five defeats in a row. That run has left them 18th of 18 with two points, ten behind 11th-placed Lorient, as they look for a result to begin climbing the standings. Le Havre have scored nine goals and conceded 20 across their nine matches, while Lorient have 12 points and a goal difference of -1.
The home side’s record at Stade Océane makes the challenge clear: one draw and four defeats in five league games, with three goals scored and 11 conceded. Lorient’s away record is steadier, with one win, two draws and one defeat in four trips, and only two goals conceded.
Recent results point to contrasting strengths
Le Havre’s last five league matches have all ended in defeat, despite seven goals scored; they conceded 16 in that spell. Lorient have taken two wins and a draw alongside two defeats in their last five, scoring three and conceding four. Both teams come into this meeting after a defeat, so the immediate task is to halt that setback.
Lorient’s season has been built on defensive resilience: they have kept five clean sheets in nine league matches, including three in four away games. Le Havre have managed one clean sheet in the league.
Le Havre have the recent H2H edge
Le Havre have won two of the last five meetings, while Lorient have one victory and two matches have been drawn. Three of those five games featured no more than two goals. The latest encounter, in May 2026, ended with a 2-0 Le Havre win away to Lorient.
Players to watch
Le Havre’s attack has found the net seven times across its last five league games, even as results have gone against them. Turning that scoring into a result will be central to their bid to start moving up the table.
Lorient’s defensive record offers a clear counterpoint: just two goals conceded in four away league matches. Their capacity to keep Le Havre quiet could shape a contest between a home side seeking a breakthrough and visitors who have been difficult to score against on the road.
Our prediction
Le Havre’s home struggles make a win far from certain, but their stronger recent head-to-head record and Lorient’s modest away scoring point towards a tight match. PreviaXI’s model narrowly favours the home side, with the teams’ projected attacking output close.
Le Havre 1-0 Lorient
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