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Nantes

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Nantes will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 3-2 Ligue 1 loss in their previous game against RC Lens.

In that match, Nantes had 33% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. For Nantes, goals were scored by Moses Simon (36') and Nicolas Cozza (71'). For their opponents, Lens had 15 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Przemysław Frankowski (21'), Hamzat Ojediran (86') and Adrien Thomasson (90') scored for RC Lens.

Nantes have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets recently, although they have also found ways to score goals themselves. Over their last 6 matches, Nantes have been punished defensively in 6 of them as well as scoring in 5 of those matches.

Leading up to this clash, Nantes:

• are unbeaten in the league by Havre AC in their previous 9 games. Quite a long unbeaten run against them.
• are without a home win in the past 4 league matches. Fans are getting restless.

Havre AC

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Following on from tasting defeat last time out to Reims in Ligue 1 action, Havre AC will be aiming to make amends here.

In that game, Havre AC managed 55% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. On the other side, Reims had 18 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. Oumar Diakité (15'), Keito Nakamura (21') and Junya Ito (57') scored for Reims.

The trend of at least one side getting a clean sheet in games featuring Havre AC has been apparent of late. Looking at their last 6 outings shows that it has happened 6 times. During those clashes, opposing sides have hit a goal total of 13 and Havre AC have scored 1. That sort of trend won’t necessarily be continued into this game, however.

Leading up to this clash, Havre AC:

• have not beaten Nantes when having played them away from home in the previous 5 matches in the league. They really have not been travelling well at all.
• are without a win away from home in their last 4 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their prior head-to-head meetings stretching back to 01/10/2011 shows that Nantes have won 3 of them and Havre AC 0, with the tally of drawn games being 3.

An aggregate of 8 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 6 from Les Canaris and 2 belonging to Le club doyen. The average number of goals per game works out to 1.33.

The last league match between these clubs was Ligue 1 match day 29 on 14/04/2024 and the score finished Havre AC 0-1 Nantes.

On that occasion, Havre AC had 44% possession and 10 shots at goal with 1 on target.

For their opponents, Nantes had 12 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Kader Bamba (93') was the scorer.

The referee was Hakim Ben El Hadj.

🗞️ Team News: Nantes

Johann Lepenant (Calf injury) and Fabien Centonze (Cruciate ligament tear) will not be taking part for Nantes gaffer Antoine Kombouaré.

We are thinking that Les Canaris look set to opt for a 3-4-2-1 system in the match, beginning the first half with Alban Lafont, J. Castelletto, Jean-Philippe Gbamin, Jean-Kevin Duverne, Kelvin Amian, Nicolas Cozza, Pedro Chirivella, Douglas Augusto, Matthis Abline, Moses Simon and Mostafa Mohamed.

📰 Team News: Havre AC

Havre AC manager Didier Digard has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Yann Kitala (Injury to the ankle), Josué Casimir (Injury to the ankle) and Andy Logbo (Cruciate ligament tear) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

We are inclined to think that Le club doyen might play in a 5-3-2 system, giving starts to Arthur Desmas, Timothee Pembele, E. Youte Kinkoue, Gautier Lloris, Loic Nego, Christopher Operi, Daler Kuzyaev, Oussama Targhalline, Yassine Kechta, Emmanuel Sabbi and Andre Ayew.

💡 Prediction

In our view, Havre AC have it in them to put a goal past this Nantes lineup, but that is unlikely to be as many as they will have scored against them.

We reckon that it will be a narrow 2-1 victory for Nantes after the 90.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 15:03 24/11/2024