The Le Havre AC Chronicle
Squad5 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Kwider Benmakrelouf
41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Le Havre AC lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match4 Oct 2026
6 matches without a win for Le Havre AC
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Le Havre AC are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Benoît Sida is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Sofiane Boufal falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match4 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Le Havre AC
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Le Havre AC can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Le Havre AC
Felix Mambimbi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Sota Nakamura
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Timothée Pembélé stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.43 on the card, and the Le Havre AC support went home talking about one name.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Philippe Gauthier was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Le Havre AC dressing room was either.
In brief
- Match Le Havre AC draw a blank against FC Nantes
- The dugout Adama Niane left out for tactical reasons at Le Havre AC
- The dugout Yanis Beau-Djellel gets picked when it counts