Valenciennes 0-2 Le Mans: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 18 April 2009
Result
Valenciennes 0-2 Le Mans
Ligue 1 · Saturday 18 April 2009, 17:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Valenciennes 0-2 Le Mans: match report
Valenciennes were beaten by Le Mans 0-2 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 18 April 2009. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Grégory Cerdan opened the scoring in the 49th minute. Valenciennes did not score. Le Mans scored through Grégory Cerdan (49') and Anthony Le Tallec (67').
Discipline: Valenciennes received 2 yellow cards; Le Mans received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Valenciennes were 12th on 36 points from 31 and Le Mans 13th on 35 points from 31. Valenciennes went on to finish that season 12th with 44 points, and Le Mans 16th with 40.
Valenciennes lined up in a 4-4-2 and Le Mans in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Valenciennes wins, 1 draw and 4 for Le Mans.
Going into the match Valenciennes's last five read L-W-D-W-D and Le Mans's W-L-L-D-D.
Key events
- 10'Yellow card · Gervinho
- 17'Yellow card · Johan Audel
- 35'Yellow card · Frédéric Thomas
- 47'Yellow card · Dame Traoré
- 49'Goal · Grégory Cerdan
- 67'Goal · Anthony Le Tallec
- 76'Yellow card · Ludovic Baal
Head-to-head
Team news
Valenciennes expected line-up (4-4-2)
Nicolas Penneteau, Guillaume Rippert, Mody Traoré, Carlos Sánchez, Sébastien Roudet, Johan Audel, Jeovânio, Steve Savidan, Éric Chelle, A. Ouaddou, Geoffrey Doumeng
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