Olympique Lyonnais 3-2 Le Mans: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 1 September 2007

Result

Olympique Lyonnais 3-2 Le Mans

Ligue 1 · Saturday 1 September 2007, 18:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Olympique Lyonnais 3-2 Le Mans: match report

Olympique Lyonnais beat Le Mans 3-2 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 1 September 2007. The half-time score was 0-1.

Stéphane Sessègnon opened the scoring in the 43rd minute. Olympique Lyonnais's goals came from Sidney Govou (71'), Karim Benzema (76') and Milan Baros (78'). Le Mans scored through Stéphane Sessègnon (43') and Stéphane Sessègnon (55').

Discipline: Olympique Lyonnais received 3 yellow cards; Le Mans received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Olympique Lyonnais were 9th on 9 points from 5 and Le Mans 8th on 10 points from 6. Olympique Lyonnais went on to finish that season 1st with 79 points, and Le Mans 9th with 53.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Olympique Lyonnais wins, 0 draws and 0 for Le Mans.

Going into the match Olympique Lyonnais's last five read W-W-L-L-W and Le Mans's L-L-D-W-W.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Yellow card · C. LouvionLe Mans
  • 43'Goal · Stéphane SessègnonLe Mans · 0-1
  • 55'Goal · Stéphane SessègnonLe Mans · 0-2
  • 64'Yellow card · Jérémy ToulalanOlympique Lyonnais
  • 71'Goal · Sidney GovouOlympique Lyonnais · 1-2
  • 76'Goal · Karim BenzemaOlympique Lyonnais · 2-2
  • 78'Yellow card · Milan BarosOlympique Lyonnais
  • 78'Goal · Milan BarosOlympique Lyonnais · 3-2
  • 80'Yellow card · Kim KällströmOlympique Lyonnais

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Olympique Lyonnais 4, draws 0, Le Mans 0.

Team news

Olympique Lyonnais expected line-up

Gregory Coupet, Sébastien Squillaci, Eric Abidal, Antônio Augusto Ribeiro Reis Junior, Florent Malouda, Jérémy Toulalan, Tiago, Cris, Sidney Govou, Fred

Le Mans expected line-up

Yohann Pelé, Marko Baša, Olivier Thomas, Ibrahima Camara, Gregory Cerdan, Romaric, Stéphane Sessègnon, Ismael Bangoura, Grafite