Le Havre vs Guingamp betting preview: Even match expected

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Competition: France Ligue 2
Competition: Sat 23.January
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Océane (25181 seats)

The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Le Havre are in the 13th position while the guesting Guingamp worry at 14th.

Insights:
  • Guingamp has the fewest scored goals in the first half (3) in Ligue 2

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Le Havre form and stats

When playing at home in the Ligue 2, Le Havre have managed 2 wins, 4 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 9 games.

Havre haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 191 minutes ago. H. Abdelli scored that one.

The Le Havre fans got no joy from their last match, a Coupe de France game also here at Stade Océane: A 0-1 defeat against Paris (placed 6th). Preceding that game was the away draw at Amiens SC that finished 0-0.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Havre have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found ten matches with the results: Won five, drawn three and lost two.

Havre aren't scoring a lot here at Stade Océane in the league, with only 6 goals from 9 games. Havre are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stade Océane in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 8 from 9 matches.

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Guingamp form and stats

Guingamp have only collected 10 points from their away games in the Ligue 2, after 2-4-4 (10 played).

The manager M. Baždarević was unhappy after their last game, a Coupe de France match played at their home ground Stade du Roudourou. Guingamp suffered a 1-3 loss to Caen (placed 9th). A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Nancy in the Ligue 2.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Guingamp in our archives, and the results are: one win for Guingamp, three draws and five defeats.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Guingamp have scored 11 goals in 10 league games away. In the opposite end, Guingamp have conceded 15 goals in their away games. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Guingamp - Havre 1-3. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Havre five wins, one draw and Guingamp four victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

GuingampY. N'Gbakoto
Y. N'Gbakoto
5 goals
GuingampA. Gomis
A. Gomis
4 goals
GuingampR. Rodelin
R. Rodelin
3 goals

Le Havre missing players

Guingamp missing players

Le Havre Guingamp
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
20 9 3 Played P 1 10 20
6 2 1 Won W 0 2 4
6 4 2 Drew D 0 4 9
8 3 0 Lost L 1 4 7
17 6 3 Scored S 0 11 21
25 8 2 Conceded C 1 15 26
90% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 90% 85%
60% 56% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 60% 60%
30% 11% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 45%
15% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 40% 35%
5% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 10%
40% 44% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 50%
35% 33% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 30%
35% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 40% 35%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2 2 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.2 1.8
6 3 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
7.1 7.1 8.3 Shots (avg) S ( 6 8.4 9.3
3 2.7 3.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.2 3.6
28% 25% 30% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 34% 29%
Key stats in Ligue 2 this season:
  • Guingamp has the fewest scored goals in the first half (3) in Ligue 2
  • Guingamp have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Troyes 20 12 5 3 29 15 10 8 2 0 17 6 10 4 3 3 12 9 14 41
2 Toulouse 20 11 6 3 39 23 11 6 3 2 21 13 9 5 3 1 18 10 16 39
3 Clermont 20 10 7 3 30 10 10 6 3 1 20 5 10 4 4 2 10 5 20 37
4 Auxerre 20 10 6 4 41 23 11 7 2 2 27 10 9 3 4 2 14 13 18 36
5 Grenoble Foot 38 20 10 5 5 27 17 9 7 2 0 20 6 11 3 3 5 7 11 10 35
6 Paris 19 9 5 5 26 20 10 5 3 2 13 10 9 4 2 3 13 10 6 32
7 Sochaux 20 6 10 4 26 19 10 4 4 2 17 13 10 2 6 2 9 6 7 28
8 Amiens SC 20 7 7 6 18 14 10 3 5 2 6 5 10 4 2 4 12 9 4 28
9 Caen 20 7 7 6 20 22 10 4 5 1 10 9 10 3 2 5 10 13 -2 28
10 Valenciennes 19 7 6 6 25 22 9 3 3 3 10 10 10 4 3 3 15 12 3 27
11 Ajaccio 20 6 7 7 17 23 10 4 3 3 9 9 10 2 4 4 8 14 -6 25
12 Niort 19 7 4 8 20 29 10 4 3 3 11 10 9 3 1 5 9 19 -9 25
13 Le Havre 20 6 6 8 17 25 9 2 4 3 6 8 11 4 2 5 11 17 -8 24
14 Guingamp 20 4 9 7 21 26 10 2 5 3 10 11 10 2 4 4 11 15 -5 21
15 Dunkerque 20 6 3 11 15 26 10 3 3 4 9 9 10 3 0 7 6 17 -11 21
16 Nancy 20 4 7 9 24 30 9 2 4 3 16 18 11 2 3 6 8 12 -6 19
17 Chambly 19 4 7 8 21 29 10 3 1 6 9 14 9 1 6 2 12 15 -8 19
18 Rodez 20 3 10 7 18 28 11 3 4 4 10 13 9 0 6 3 8 15 -10 19
19 Pau 20 3 5 12 15 31 9 2 3 4 8 12 11 1 2 8 7 19 -16 14
20 Chateauroux 20 3 4 13 15 32 10 2 1 7 8 16 10 1 3 6 7 16 -17 13

Read more about Ligue 2

Ligue 2 is the second highest division in French football. Most games are played at Fridays and Mondays, allowing the top league Ligue 1 “ownership” of the weekend days. 20 teams play 380 fixtures in total, creating a league table where the top three teams promote and the bottom three relegate.