Lens vs Le Havre Prediction & Match Preview

Lens’ European ambitions suffered a big blow with back-to-back defeats to direct rivals Nice and Lille in the last two rounds.

Franck Haise’s men fell to 6th position in the Ligue 1 table as a consequence. They will have a nice opportunity to return to winning ways on Saturday afternoon, though. Lens play host to relegation-threatened Le Havre in Matchday No 28 at Stade Bollaert-Delelis.

• Le Havre go into this off the back of four defeats in the last five league affairs.
• Lens can ill afford another slip-up in the battle for European positions.
• Le Havre scored three goals in the last seven league fixtures.

Lens were powerless in the away clash against Lille last Friday. Head coach Haise can be worried regarding his team’s recent defensive showings. Lens shipped five goals in the two mentioned losses to Nice and Lille. The match against Le Havre will give them a chance to improve this poor defensive form.

Le Havre are in much bigger problems down in the relegation scrap. The 0-2 home defeat to Montpellier left them just one point above Lorient in the red zone. Luka Elsner’s troops suffered four defeats in the previous five league games. It is very hard to see them bouncing back against European hopefuls away from home.

• The two teams shared spoils in a goalless draw in the reverse game played in October last year at Stade Oceane.
• Lens managed 7 wins, 6 draws, and only 4 defeats in the previous 17 home matches against Le Havre.
• Both teams scored just once in the previous four head-to-head games.

Lens vs Le Havre Prediction

Lens have a fantastic opportunity to rebound from recent failures with a victory over struggling Le Havre on the home patch on Saturday evening. Le Havre have not been pulling up any trees of late. They won only one of the last nine league games and they will go into this off the back of four defeats in the previous five affairs.

Elsner’s squad offered a particularly weak performance last Sunday. They left too much space behind in a 0-2 home loss to Montpellier. Lens just can’t afford a home slip-up against such an out-of-form opposition. As we expect the hosts to dominate the pitch from the start to the end, we will back Lens to have the lead at the half time and win the match at the end at the 2.50 odds.

Le Havre scored only three goals in the last seven league outings. Lens have not been particularly efficient of late either, scoring fewer than two goals in each of the last three Ligue 1 matches. Since we did not see goals in the return game between these two rivals either, the Under 2.5 goals pick looks like a decent betting option at the odds of 1.80.

Steffen Schmidt- April 4, 2024

Lens vs Le Havre Betting Tips

HT/FT Lens/Lens

OK

2.50 Odds

Under 2.5 goals

OK

1.87 Odds

Correct Score: Lens 2-0

OK

7.00 Odds