Comments and predictions for Monaco vs Le Havre: Pogba's dream start

Latest Monaco vs Le Havre team information

Monaco will be without Soungoutou Magassa for their opening game, having been suspended since the final round of last season. This could be an opportunity for Paul Pogba, who has returned to professional football after nearly two years, to start in a friendly against Inter. Barcelona loanee Ansu Fati could make his Ligue 1 debut, while goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky – a Bundesliga winner with Leverkusen – is ready to start his first game.

Le Havre will be without coach Didier Digard, who is suspended for accumulating yellow cards. Young striker Elysee Logbo is absent with a shoulder injury, but the squad is otherwise fully fit. Former Aston Villa striker Ally Samatta has joined on a free from PAOK and will lead the attack, while Thomas Delaine and Hungary international Loic Nego will be at the back.

Latest expected lineup Monaco vs Le Havre

Monaco:

Hradecky; Vanderson, Dier, Kehrer, Henrique; Golovin, Zakaria, Pogba, Fati; Balogun, Biereth

Le Havre:

Diaw; Nego, Sangante, Kinkoue, Delaine; Namli, Toure, Ndiaye, Kechta; Soumare, Samatta

Latest football commentary Monaco vs Le Havre

Since Lille’s spectacular 2020-21 campaign, no Ligue 1 side has been able to break Paris Saint-Germain’s dominance. Last season was no exception, as PSG continued their march to the title, while Monaco fell into the familiar race to be the “best of the rest” – losing out to Marseille, settling for third place, just one point ahead of Nice and Lille.

However, that one point has a big meaning: it helps Monaco go straight to the Champions League group stage, instead of having to participate in the qualifying round or go down to the Europa League. Coach Adi Hütter and his team will know their group stage opponents on August 28. Preparing for the new season, Monaco had 8 friendly matches, unbeaten in 7 matches before losing 1-2 to Inter Milan in the final match. In Ligue 1, they also have an 8-match unbeaten streak at home - the longest in the league at the moment.

Le Havre – a regular in Ligue 2 at the turn of the century – are now preparing for their third successive season in Ligue 1 after two successive 15th-place finishes. Under Didier Digard and before that Luka Elsner, they have successfully stayed up, finishing last season with 34 points – one point ahead of play-off place Reims and four points ahead of direct relegation favourites Saint-Etienne.

Last season’s relegation was sealed in dramatic fashion: Abdoulaye Toure scored a penalty in the 99th minute of the final round to give Le Havre a 3-2 win over Strasbourg – and that proved invaluable as Reims lost to Metz in the play-offs. However, their form this summer has been poor, with five games without a win (lost to Deportivo, Brest, Le Mans; drawn with Angers, Paris FC).

Head-to-head statistics offer some hope for Le Havre: they have lost just one of their last five Ligue 1 games against Monaco and have picked up 17 away points in 2025 – only bettered by PSG (22).

Latest Monaco vs Le Havre score prediction

Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Monaco vs Le Havreas follows:

• Sportsmole:Monaco 3-0 Le Havre

• WhoScore:Monaco 2-0 Le Havre
• Our newspaper predicts:Monaco 3-0 Le Havre

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