Plenty of good and bad for these two contenders so far this season, holding positions near the midsection of the National table. Here's the Le Mans - Cholet latest:
- Le Mans have the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in National
- Cholet have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
Cholet could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Coupe de France game only three sleeps ago. That game was also an away game, at Club Franciscain. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
This ground has artifical turf, which is not Cholet's familiar surface at their own football field. When appearing on artifical turf Cholet have performed like this: Played four matches resulting in 1 win, 2 draws and 1 defeat with the goal data 3-4 (scored/conceded).
Le Mans form and stats
4 victories, 2 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Le Mans have to build on here at MMArena in the National.
Begue was the last player to score a league goal for Le Mans and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Mans haven't scored in 213 minutes.
Mans faced defeat in their previous match, away at Bastia-Borgo (0-1).
Before that, Mans played out a Coupe de France draw 1-1 when visiting Laval (after extra-time, 6-6 on penalties).Le Mans has scored 9 league goals at home this season, in 8 matches. Mans are not conceding a lot of goals here at MMArena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 8 matches.
Cholet form and stats
There's been little loot from Cholet's travels as they have only collected 7 points from 8 away games in the National. Cholet only have 2 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 1 draw.
Cholet play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-1 victory visiting Club Franciscain.
Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Avranches.Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Cholet have scored 9 goals in 8 league games away. The Cholet manager Déziré has some worries about the defense as 19 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last six matches): Le Mans three wins, two draws and Cholet one victory. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  Y. Jarju 6 goals |  B. Camara 4 goals | J. Bègue 3 goals |
Le Mans missing players
Cholet missing players
| Le Mans | Cholet | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 8 | 3 | Played | P | 0 | 8 | 15 |
| 5 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 15 | 9 | 3 | Scored | S | 0 | 9 | 26 |
| 14 | 6 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 19 | 29 |
| 87% | 88% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 73% | 75% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 33% | 25% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 75% | 67% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 38% | 47% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 27% |
| 47% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 62% | 73% |
| 33% | 50% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 33% | 38% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 38% | 20% |
| 2.9 | 3.9 | 4.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 2.7 | 2.2 | 1.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5.1 | 4.9 |
| 2.5 | 2.5 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.1 | 1.3 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 7.7 | 9.9 | 13 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 5.2 | 6.8 |
| 2.7 | 3.8 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2.4 | 3.3 |
| 38% | 30% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 47% | 53% |
| 9.2 | 8.2 | 5.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 9.4 | 8.5 |
| 3.7 | 3.6 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 4.8 | 4.3 |
- All of Cholet's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Cholet have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Cholet have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Cholet have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Cholet haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Le Mans have the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) 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 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 24 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 34 |
| 2 | Villefranche | 16 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 33 |
| 3 | Annecy | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 25 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 32 |
| 4 | Bourg-en-Bresse | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 33 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 9 | 18 | 31 |
| 5 | Laval | 16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 29 |
| 6 | Chateauroux | 16 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 27 |
| 7 | Sedan | 15 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 23 |
| 8 | Cholet | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 26 | 29 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 19 | -3 | 21 |
| 9 | Avranches | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 27 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 14 | -9 | 21 |
| 10 | Le Mans | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 20 |
| 11 | Sete | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 20 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 11 | -1 | 20 |
| 12 | Orleans | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -3 | 17 |
| 13 | Stade Briochin | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 10 | -5 | 17 |
| 14 | Red Star | 15 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 21 | 27 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 16 | -6 | 16 |
| 15 | Chambly | 16 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 20 | 28 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 15 | -8 | 15 |
| 16 | Creteil | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 13 | -12 | 13 |
| 17 | Boulogne | 16 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 23 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 12 | -8 | 11 |
| 18 | Bastia-Borgo | 16 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 34 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 21 | -19 | 8 |