Marseille vs LE Havre

Marseille have scored at least five goals three times in 16 Ligue 1 games this season (5-1 at Brest, 5-0 at Montpellier, 5-1 against Le Havre tonight), as many as in their previous 177 in the top-flight.

Marseille have not lost any of their last six games in all competitions (W5 D1), their longest unbeaten run in a single season since December 2023-January 2024 (6).

Le Havre have lost 12 of their first 16 Ligue 1 matches this season (W4), their highest tally of defeats at this stage of a top-flight campaign. HAC are also the fourth team not to draw after 16 Ligue 1 games in the 21st century after Marseille in 2003-04, Guingamp in 2014-15 and Paris SG in 2019-20.

Marseille are on a 20-game unbeaten run against Le Havre in Ligue 1 (W13 D7), having only had a longer streak without defeat against a single opponent once before (Toulouse – ongoing run of 21). OM even has a 100%-win rate in six matches against Le Havre in Ligue 1 in the 21st century, the opponent they have faced the most over that period while posting such a perfect record.

Marseille have lost only one of their 20 home matches against Le Havre in Ligue 1 (W13 D6) and it came in the first of those back in December 1938 (0-2). OM have only faced Bastia (28 – 1 defeat) more often at home while losing at most once in the top-flight.

Marseille have won nine of their 15 Ligue 1 matches so far this season and only in 2014/15 (11) have they won more at this stage of a campaign in the 21st century (finished 4th).

No team have failed to score in more Ligue 1 matches so far this season than Le Havre (8 – level with St-Étienne).

Marseille have conceded at least once in each of their last five home matches in Ligue 1 (9 goals conceded). The Phocaeans last went longer without a home clean sheet in the competition between December 2022 and August 2023 (12 games).