Saint-Étienne 1-1 Le Mans: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 17 January 2009

Result

Saint-Étienne 1-1 Le Mans

Ligue 1 · Saturday 17 January 2009, 18:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Saint-Étienne 1-1 Le Mans: match report

Saint-Étienne drew with Le Mans 1-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 17 January 2009. The half-time score was 0-0.

Bafétimbi Gomis opened the scoring in the 53rd minute. Saint-Étienne's goal came from Bafétimbi Gomis (53'). Le Mans scored through Thorstein Helstad (87').

Discipline: Saint-Étienne received no yellow cards; Le Mans received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Saint-Étienne were 17th on 19 points from 20 and Le Mans 12th on 24 points from 19. Saint-Étienne went on to finish that season 17th with 40 points, and Le Mans 16th with 40.

Saint-Étienne lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Le Mans in a 4-3-3.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Saint-Étienne wins, 0 draws and 3 for Le Mans.

Going into the match Saint-Étienne's last five read L-W-L-W-W and Le Mans's L-L-L-W-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 44'Yellow card · Modibo MaígaLe Mans
  • 53'Goal · Bafétimbi GomisSaint-Étienne · 1-0
  • 87'Goal · Thorstein HelstadLe Mans · 1-1

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Saint-Étienne 4, draws 0, Le Mans 3.

Team news

Saint-Étienne expected line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jody Viviani, Stathis Tavlaridis, Loïc Perrin, Mouhamadou Dabo, Moustapha Bayal Sall, Christophe Landrin, Pascal Feindouno, Dimitri Payet, Geoffrey Dernis, Bafétimbi Gomis, Blaise Matuidi

Le Mans expected line-up (4-3-3)

Yohann Pelé, Marko Baša, Ibrahima Camara, Gregory Cerdan, Mathieu Coutadeur, Romaric, Túlio de Melo, Gervinho, Anthony Le Tallec