This Saturday, AS Monaco travels on the field of Le Havre for the 31st day of Ligue 1. A golden opportunity to glean three theoretically “easy” points. However, the adversary should not be underestimated. Le Havre is currently fighting to avoid relegation and occupies a barrage position, tied with the first direct relegable Saint-Étienne AS. While Le Havre’s players have won two of their last five games against Montpellier (0-2) and Nantes (3-2), they still have difficult matches against Auxerre, Marseille and Strasbourg. The match will be arbitrated by Clément Turpin, assisted by Nicolas Danos and Benjamin Pagès, with Geoffrey Kubler as fourth referee and Alexandre Castro as well as Ludovic Zmyslony in the VAR truck.

However, some supporters believe that 4-4-2 tactics are one of the main causes of team failure in recent years. Sold as the club’s DNA, this system was used for a long time because Ben Yedder could not play alone at the cutting edge, before also being used by Leonardo Jardim. However, it is no longer suitable for modern football, which is partly won in the middle of the field. The middle of Monegasque terrain lacks consistency and, despite the arrival