Le Mans 3-2 Saint-Étienne: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 10 November 2007
Result
Le Mans 3-2 Saint-Étienne
Ligue 1 · Saturday 10 November 2007, 16:10 UTC · half-time 2-2
Le Mans 3-2 Saint-Étienne: match report
Le Mans won against Saint-Étienne 3-2 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 10 November 2007. It was 2-2 at half-time.
Túlio de Melo opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Le Mans's goals came from Túlio de Melo (19', penalty), Romaric (43') and Túlio de Melo (70', penalty). Saint-Étienne scored through Cédric Varrault (21') and D. Gigliotti (42', penalty).
Discipline: Le Mans received no yellow cards and 1 red card; Saint-Étienne received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Le Mans were 5th on 20 points from 13 and Saint-Étienne 8th on 18 points from 13. Le Mans went on to finish that season 9th with 53 points, and Saint-Étienne 5th with 58.
Le Mans lined up in a 4-5-1 and Saint-Étienne in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Le Mans win, 0 draws and 3 for Saint-Étienne.
Going into the match Le Mans's last five read L-D-L-W-W and Saint-Étienne's L-D-W-W-L.
Key events
- 19'Penalty goal · Túlio de Melo
- 21'Goal · Cédric Varrault
- 27'Red card · Stéphane Sessègnon
- 42'Yellow card · D. Gigliotti
- 42'Penalty goal · D. Gigliotti
- 43'Goal · Romaric
- 69'Yellow card · Cédric Varrault
- 70'Penalty goal · Túlio de Melo
- 81'Yellow card · Mouhamadou Dabo
Head-to-head
Team news
Le Mans line-up (4-5-1)
Yohann Pelé, Gregory Cerdan, Jean Calve, Marko Baša, Ibrahima Camara, Romaric, Mathieu Coutadeur, Martin Douillard, Stéphane Sessègnon, Túlio de Melo, Gervinho
Saint-Étienne line-up (4-4-2)
Jérémie Janot, Cédric Varrault, Stathis Tavlaridis, Mouhamadou Dabo, Loïc Perrin, Moustapha Bayal Sall, Dimitri Payet, Geoffrey Dernis, Christophe Landrin, David Gigliotti, Blaise Matuidi