Oh that it’s going to be expensive, this late game of the 34th day of League 2… On the side of the port of Havre, it is not likely to dance the Alphonse Brown funk more than that tonight. The HERE (14th) receives Toulouse (3rd), as the two teams chase victory, in opposing dynamics, each with a different end-of-season objective. It will in any case Calvados courage for the brave at 7 p.m., in a meeting to follow on MaLigue2, marked by the absences of each other. Presentation of a match that smells of powder, and the power of the wind from Le Havre, a breath that could well turn a season in the good direction, or the bad, this evening.
The challenge
Badly defeated at home against Chambly this Saturday (2-4), for the 36th day of Ligue 2, Le Havre must take points. One, three, it doesn’t matter for Paul Le Guen, you have to win against a big team. Two days from the end, the HAC must move away from the red zone (three pawns ahead of Caen, play-off), and a victory tonight would help the Norman club, perhaps decisively, to maintain. For Toulouse, it is quite the opposite, finally, in the finality. If the TFC of course wants to win, it is the second place that the club of the pink city is aiming for. Seven units from Clermont, runner-up to Troyes who won yesterday in Grenoble (1-2), the team of Patrice Garande will seek to revert to the CF63. Because next Saturday (May 8), Clermont receives Sochaux, while Toulouse will do the same, but with Caen… Before catching up with another late match, on May 12 against Pau, in Toulouse! Everything is crazy, and everything can still switch in favor of TFC, despite its defeat at Paris FC this Saturday (3-1).
The full standings for both teams
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The workforce (or #LePointCovidAToulouse)
Three returns, but three absent. This is the end of the season for Toulouse, quasi-imperial behind Troyes for a long time, but which suffers the full brunt of its Covid episode. The TFC certainly records the return of the goalkeeper Maxime Dupé, orAntiste in attack, but still missing Brecht Dejaegere, his master playing in the midfield, as Amian or Machado in defense. On the side of Le Havre, bad news, with the confirmation of the end of the season Jean-Pascal Fontaine, affected in the face and which presents multiple fractures… The player will be operated this Thursday.
The duel to follow: Dupé vs Boutaïb.
He scored his first goal since May 2017, but it seemed like a thousand years for Khalid Boutaïb, the center forward of Le Havre. Returning from a long injury, having to find the rhythm following an imbroglio with his former club, the Moroccan international striker ended up finding his way back to goals against Rodez a week ago. Then as Maxime Dupé also returns, but in the cages of TFC and after a much shorter absence, that a clean-sheet would help Toulouse to pick up in second place, but that the HAC must score to free itself from the pressure of maintenance, the duel may well be worth its weight in gold.
The probable lines
Le Havre : Gorgelin – Coulibaly, Mayembo, Gibaud, Meras – Abdelli, Lekhal, Basque, Bonnet (capitaine) – Thiaré, Boutaïb.
Toulouse FC : Dupé – Rouault, Dewaest, Gabrielsen (captain) – Moreira, Koné, Spierings, Van den Boomen, Diarra – Adli, Healey.
The state: 7
It has been seven meetings outside, in reality since the end of January, that Toulouse has not imposed itself outside its land. One of the reasons for the loss of second place, and the slowing down of such a young and attractive team. With two points taken during these seven meetings, the calculations are not good for Patrice Garande and his men. Worse, out of nine games played away from the pink city in 2021, the record amounts to three draws, five defeats, for only one small victory. Ligue 1 and the awakening go through a new conquest this evening.
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