Le Havre 0-1 Monaco result, stats and report

Monaco beat Marseille 2-0 in Ligue 1, with Paris Brunner scoring twice to expose a visiting side that dominated possession but couldn't convert their chances when it mattered.

Monaco came from a position of dominance to survive a Górnik Zabrze fightback and claim a 3-2 victory in the UEFA Europa Conference League, with the decisive third goal arriving via a well-worked header in the 58th minute.

Both Toulouse and Le Havre arrive at the Stadium Municipal on Saturday without a point to their name after the opening weekend, making this a fixture that carries more weight than the calendar date might suggest.

Monaco welcome Lens to the Principality on Saturday in a Ligue 1 fixture that sets two sides with attacking momentum against one another, though neither has yet demonstrated they can defend consistently away from home.

Le Havre have not won a home game in their last five attempts, and Angers arrive in Normandy having conceded 20 goals in their last ten matches. Something has to give on Saturday evening.

Strasbourg host Monaco on Saturday carrying the weight of a four-goal opening-day defeat and a pattern of defensive fragility that stretches back months. Monaco arrive as one of the early pacesetters, and the structural mismatch between these two sides makes this fixture far more one-sided than the table currently suggests.

Ismaïla Sarr's agent, Diomansy Kamara, has accused clubs of treating African players as commodities after Crystal Palace blocked a Liverpool bid for Sarr and Monaco reneged on a deal that would have sent Lamine Camara to Chelsea. Both players are Senegalese internationals now left in limbo after chaotic deadline-day breakdowns.

Liverpool are chasing Chelsea's Estêvão and other wide forwards as their deadline-day frontline scramble intensifies, but a more concrete story has slipped under the radar: Chelsea appear to have already beaten Liverpool to Monaco's Lamine Camara.