Le Mans 2-2 Niort: result and report
Ligue 2 · Friday 21 September 2012
Result
Le Mans 2-2 Niort
Ligue 2 · Friday 21 September 2012, 16:45 UTC · half-time 0-1
Le Mans 2-2 Niort: match report
Le Mans drew with Niort 2-2 in Ligue 2 on Friday 21 September 2012. The half-time score was 0-1.
Jérôme Lafourcade opened the scoring in the 26th minute. Le Mans's goals came from Frédéric Thomas (57', penalty) and Frédéric Thomas (76', penalty). Niort scored through Jérôme Lafourcade (26', penalty) and Mouhamadou Diaw (90').
Discipline: Le Mans received 4 yellow cards; Niort received 5 yellow cards.
Going into the game Le Mans were 9th on 10 points from 7 and Niort 15th on 7 points from 7. Le Mans went on to finish that season 18th with 40 points, and Niort 16th with 42.
Going into the match Le Mans's last five read W-W-L-W-L and Niort's D-L-D-L-W.
Key events
- 25'Yellow card · M. Koné
- 26'Penalty goal · Jérôme Lafourcade
- 55'Yellow card · Johan Letzelter
- 56'Yellow card · Jérôme Lafourcade
- 57'Penalty goal · Frédéric Thomas
- 63'Yellow card · Mouhamadou Diaw
- 72'Yellow card · Amara Baby
- 73'Yellow card · Nicolas Pallois
- 75'Yellow card · Rodolphe Roche
- 76'Penalty goal · Frédéric Thomas
- 85'Yellow card · Mekeme Tamla Zito
- 87'Yellow card · M. Sanson
- 90'Goal · Mouhamadou Diaw
Team news
Le Mans line-up
Jérémie Janot, Mamadou Doumbia, Joffrey Cuffaut, Mory Kone, Frédéric Thomas, Anthony Derouard, Zito, Jason Buaillon, Amara Baby, Hilaire Momi, Idrissa Sylla
Niort line-up
Rodolphe Roche, Johan Letzelter, Quentin Bernard, Djibril Konaté, Nicolas Pallois, Jimmy Juan, Johan Gastien, Mouhamadou Diaw, Simon Hébras, Luigi Glombard, Jérôme Lafourcade