Le Mans will plan to draw on their home advantage to get one over today’s opponents. The team playing at home are currently 7 points behind Châteauroux.
- Le Mans have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in National
- Châteauroux have won significantly less corners away then at home.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Châteauroux have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 0-0-1 (win-draw-loss) from one match.
Both squads have had a decent time to rest since their previous exertion in an official match. Let's look for an energetic fixture!
Le Mans form and stats
The complete National statistics at home this season for Le Mans are 4-2-2 (wins-draws-losses).
A good away victory last time out for Mans, who won 3-2 against Créteil (placed 16th). Some amazing scenes last match, when Bègue scored the winning goal four minutes into stoppage time.
Heartbreak before that as Le Mans lost 0-1 at Bastia-Borgo's place.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Le Mans have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found twelve matches with the results: Won four, drawn six and lost two.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Le Mans, as the National home game vs Cholet is only four days away.
The Le Mans fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 9 in 8 matches. Mans have only conceded 6 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Châteauroux form and stats
2 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Châteauroux playing as the away team in the National this season.
Robinet (2) and Fortuné scored in Châteauroux's previous match, the home game against Avranches that ended 3-0.
Prior to that match, the Châteauroux manager Chabert faced defeat when travelling to Bastia-Borgo and losing 0-2.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by Châteauroux in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Châteauroux, one draw and four defeats.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Châteauroux as they have only managed to score 7 times from 8 away games in the league. Châteauroux have conceded 9 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
This duo encountered each other earlier on this season: Châteauroux - Le Mans 2-1. Head to head totals (for the previous eight meetings): Le Mans won two games, zero matches ended with a tie and Châteauroux have six wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: three / fiveTop Goalscorers
  T. Robinet 10 goals |  J. Bègue 4 goals | B. Camara 4 goals |
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| Le Mans | Châteauroux | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 8 | 18 |
| 6 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 18 | 9 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 7 | 22 |
| 16 | 6 | 3 | Conceded | C | 3 | 9 | 15 |
| 88% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 88% | 83% |
| 75% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 75% | 72% |
| 38% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 25% | 33% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 12% | 11% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| 50% | 25% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 44% |
| 31% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 39% |
| 31% | 38% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 38% | 33% |
| 2.9 | 3.9 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.9 | 5.6 |
| 2.7 | 2.2 | 1.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| 2.6 | 2.5 | 3.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.4 | 1.5 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| 7.9 | 9.9 | 8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 9.2 | 13.3 |
| 2.9 | 3.8 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 4 | 5.5 |
| 38% | 30% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 22% | 22% |
| 9.5 | 8.2 | 8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 11.5 | 10.1 |
| 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 8 | 4.9 | 4 |
- Châteauroux have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Le Mans have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in National
- Le Mans have the fewest scored goals in the second half (5) in National
- Le Mans have won significantly more corners at home than away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Concarneau | 17 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 26 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 14 | 37 |
| 2 | Annecy | 17 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 27 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 35 |
| 3 | Villefranche | 17 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 33 |
| 4 | Bourg-en-Bresse | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 33 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 16 | 32 |
| 5 | Laval | 17 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 32 |
| 6 | Châteauroux | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 22 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 30 |
| 7 | Sedan | 17 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 26 |
| 8 | Le Mans | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 23 |
| 9 | Cholet | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 26 | 29 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 19 | -3 | 21 |
| 10 | Stade Briochin | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 11 | -4 | 21 |
| 11 | Avranches | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 30 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 17 | -12 | 21 |
| 12 | Sète | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 20 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 11 | -1 | 20 |
| 13 | Red Star | 17 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 25 | 30 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 17 | -5 | 19 |
| 14 | Orléans | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -3 | 17 |
| 15 | Chambly | 18 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 21 | 31 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 15 | -10 | 16 |
| 16 | Créteil | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 13 | -13 | 13 |
| 17 | Bastia-Borgo | 18 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 34 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 21 | -17 | 12 |
| 18 | Boulogne | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 24 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 13 | -9 | 11 |
