Lille vs Le Havre

Lille will play Le Havre at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy during a Ligue 1 encounter on Saturday shortly after their strange Coupe de France defeat midweek.

The subsequent defeat of Dunkerque against Bruno Genesio's Lille occurred because his team seemingly allowed a victory slip through multiple potential wins in two separate occasions which made the Mauroy stadium completely despondent.

The Lille Stadium experienced two opposite emotions as their fans saw their team beat Feyenoord 6-1 to qualify for the Champions League last 16 yet the team suffered an unsettling loss against Le Havre.

The team from Lille played their third match at home against Ligue 2's Dunkerque one day after a 4-0 victory over Saint-Etienne at the same stadium. Thought Lille should easily win the competition, Andre Gomes scored their only goal with four minutes left in regulation to move them ahead.

The late penalty kick from Dunkerque leveled the score in addition to forcing penalties. Lille moved ahead 3-0 quickly but their hosts astonishingly missed their next shots in the shootout thus extending the match to sudden death.

After all visitors scored their spot kicks Dunkerque's teenage goalkeeper Ewen Jaouen stepped forward to secure promotion to the quarter-finals much to the Lille fans' shock and dismay as Benjamin Andre missed his penalty.

The Ligue 1 struggle of Lille will resume as they maintain their position to qualify for the Champions League while the team encounters familiar unfortunate outcomes in recent matches.

During this point of the season Lille holds the exact same number of points while sitting at the same position in fourth place as they were at during the previous campaign.

Given that their last loss in 18 home games versus Le Havre was in 1951, LOSC could feel optimistic about making up for the midweek disaster ahead of their fourth consecutive home encounter.
Le Havre has only scored once in their past seven trips, while Lille has maintained a clean sheet in more than half of its 37 Ligue 1 encounters with the visitors.

The bottom-of-the-table team's statistics don't get any better; they have lost all ten of their games against Ligue 1 clubs who are presently in the top half this season, and it looks like they are headed for relegation.