In the match of the 26th round of the French championship Lyon will play at home with Le Havre. Both teams are solving important tasks but at different levels of the standings. Lyon is in sixth place and is only two points behind Lille, five points behind Nice and Monaco. Paulo Fonseca's team are close to breaking into the Champions League zone. Although it is being chased from behind by Strasbourg, who are two points behind, and Lance are three points behind. In this zone, everything is very tight - each match depends on the position of teams in this or that European Cup.

Le Havre is fighting for survival. He occupies a place in the zone of knockout matches, but only one point ahead of St Etienne, which is in the departure zone. Le Havre's gap from Reims is also one point, from Angers and Nantes - six points. There are not so many teams in the fight, but their position is very tight.

Last round Le Havre played a draw with Saint-Etienne (1:1), before that he snatched victory from Lance (4:3), and earlier lost to Toulouse (1:4) and Nice (1:3). In the last six matches with Le Havre both teams scored at least a goal. The meetings turn out to be very productive. The same applies to Lyon. He won the last four matches in a row in all tournaments. Last week Lyon defeated FCSB in the Europa League (4-0), and in the last round of Ligue 1 they beat Nice (2-0), earlier - Brest (2-1). Lyon has six wins in the last seven duels. Note that in the first round of the current championship Lyon defeated Le Havre with a score of 4:0.