Le Mans will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 3 points behind Cholet.
Le Mans form and stats
1-5-1 (win-draw-lost) are the National numbers at home for Le Mans so far this season. Mans has four consecutive draws when playing at home, an interesting stat.
Mans enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Lyon Duchère's place. The match ended 3-1 with J. Bègue and B. Brahimi (2) scoring. The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 0-0 versus Orléans.
The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Le Mans handle that role? We have found seven games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are two wins, two draws and three defeats.
Mans aren't scoring a lot here at MMArena in the league, with only 6 goals from 7 games. On the other hand, Mans have conceded 7 goals.
Cholet form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their National travels is 2 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a National home defeat versus Boulogne with 1-2 on the scoreboard. That result followed a home victory 4-2 versus Annecy.
Cholet are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is four wins, three draws and nine defeats. From a total of 16 matches.
The attacking power of Cholet when travelling is not overwhelming with 5 goals scored from 7 league matches away. As opposed to that, Cholet have seen the ball go into their own net 10 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last four meetings): Mans won two games, one match ended with a draw and Cholet has one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: zero / fourTop Goalscorers
  Y. N'Chobi 7 goals |   B. Brahimi 6 goals | A. Konaté 4 goals |
Le Mans missing players
Cholet missing players
| Le Mans | Cholet | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 7 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 18 | 6 | 3 | Scored | S | 1 | 5 | 24 |
| 16 | 7 | 5 | Conceded | C | 4 | 10 | 24 |
| 75% | 71% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 71% | 81% |
| 62% | 57% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 43% | 69% |
| 31% | 29% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 43% | 56% |
| 31% | 29% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 29% | 38% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 19% |
| 56% | 57% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 43% | 62% |
| 44% | 43% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 43% | 25% |
| 25% | 29% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 43% | 31% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.6 | 2.1 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.7 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 9.6 | 11.9 | 16 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.5 | 6.3 | 8.5 |
| 4.2 | 5.4 | 7.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 2.3 | 3.5 |
| 27% | 16% | 14% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 14% | 31% | 43% |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Quevilly Rouen | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 29 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 13 | 31 |
| 2 | Bastia | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 27 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 29 |
| 3 | Red Star | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 23 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 29 |
| 4 | Cholet | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 24 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 25 |
| 5 | Laval | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 24 |
| 6 | Concarneau | 16 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 20 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 23 |
| 7 | Créteil | 16 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 23 |
| 8 | Le Mans | 16 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 18 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 22 |
| 9 | Stade Briochin | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -1 | 21 |
| 10 | Orléans | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 20 |
| 11 | Avranches | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 19 | 21 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | -2 | 20 |
| 12 | Sète | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 16 | -1 | 19 |
| 13 | Bourg-en-Bresse | 16 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 10 | -5 | 19 |
| 14 | Bastia-Borgo | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 23 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 14 | -8 | 18 |
| 15 | Boulogne | 16 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -5 | 17 |
| 16 | Villefranche | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 7 | -5 | 16 |
| 17 | Annecy | 16 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 18 | 29 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 17 | -11 | 12 |
| 18 | Lyon Duchère | 16 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 13 | 23 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -10 | 11 |