Can Le Mans outperform Nancy in Stade de La Pincenardière clash?

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Competition: France National
Competition: Fri 17.February
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stade de La Pincenardière (25000 seats)

National: What this fixture might lack in glitz it should compensate in guts and attitude. Get set for Le Mans - Nancy!

Insights:
  • Le Mans have the most scored goals (34) in National
  • Le Mans have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Nancy have scored away.

Le Mans and Nancy should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Le Mans form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Stade de La Pincenardière as Le Mans have scored 26 goals to get 22 points from 10 games. The overall stats in the National are 6-4-0 (wins-draws-losses).

The home team returns to Stade de La Pincenardière after drawing with Red Star (placed 3rd) on their last time out; the game ended 0-0.

Before that game, the 3-2 home victory against Concarneau.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Le Mans handle that role? We have found 14 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 7 wins, 5 draws and 2 defeats.

Le Mans are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Stade de La Pincenardière in their league games, having scored an impressive 26 goals in 10 matches. Mans have only conceded 7 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Nancy form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Nancy so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-4 (win-draw-lose).

Two away games in a row for Nancy, whose coach Cartier could celebrate last time after the win against Dunkerque. Those three points felt good as this side had gone four league fixtures without winning.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Orléans.

Nancy are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 4 draws and 6 defeats. From a total of 11 matches.

Nancy have conceded 13 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these teams meet on the pitch this campaign, as the history books show this recent match: Nancy - Le Mans 2-0. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - three - three (Le Mans wins - draws - Nancy wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Le MansA. Gnanduillet
A. Gnanduillet
10 goals
NancyD. Sakho
D. Sakho
4 goals

Le Mans missing players

Nancy missing players

Le Mans Nancy
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
20 10 2 Played P 3 9 19
7 6 2 Won W 0 2 6
7 4 0 Drew D 1 3 5
6 0 0 Lost L 2 4 8
34 26 9 Scored S 0 9 19
22 7 1 Conceded C 3 13 22
90% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 89% 89%
85% 90% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 67% 63%
50% 50% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 44% 42%
25% 40% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 16%
15% 30% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 11% 5%
50% 60% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 56% 53%
30% 40% 50% Clean Sheets C S 33% 11% 26%
30% 10% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 44% 32%
 
4.3 4 5 Corners for (avg) C F 3.7 3.7 4.9
3.6 3.7 4 Corners against (avg) C A 2.7 4.9 4.1
1.6 1.2 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.7 2.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 4
 
11.7 13.2 18 Shots (avg) S ( 7 8.4 8.9
5.3 6.7 9.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.3 3.2 3.3
32% 39% 47% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 31% 31%
 
8.1 5.5 7 Shots against (avg) S A 8.7 10.9 8.5
3.8 2.6 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.3 5 3.5
Key stats in National this season:
  • Le Mans have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Le Mans have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Le Mans have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Nancy have scored away.
  • Le Mans have the most scored goals (26) at home in National
  • Le Mans have the most scored goals (34) in National
  • Le Mans have the the best goal difference (+19) at home in National
  • Nancy have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Nancy have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Martigues 20 9 9 2 29 21 9 6 3 0 16 8 11 3 6 2 13 13 8 36
2 Versailles 20 10 6 4 29 22 11 7 3 1 19 10 9 3 3 3 10 12 7 36
3 Red Star 20 9 8 3 29 15 10 5 3 2 13 8 10 4 5 1 16 7 14 35
4 Cholet 20 8 8 4 29 24 11 6 4 1 17 10 9 2 4 3 12 14 5 32
5 Concarneau 19 9 4 6 31 23 10 5 2 3 15 9 9 4 2 3 16 14 8 30
6 Dunkerque 20 9 3 8 26 22 10 4 2 4 13 9 10 5 1 4 13 13 4 30
7 Sedan 20 8 6 6 26 27 10 5 2 3 13 11 10 3 4 3 13 16 -1 30
8 Le Mans 20 7 7 6 34 22 10 6 4 0 26 7 10 1 3 6 8 15 12 28
9 Bourg-en-Bresse 20 7 6 7 28 29 9 2 4 3 14 16 11 5 2 4 14 13 -1 27
10 Orléans 20 5 11 4 22 17 9 2 6 1 8 5 11 3 5 3 14 12 5 26
11 Villefranche 20 5 9 6 23 25 10 4 4 2 14 11 10 1 5 4 9 14 -2 24
12 Avranches 20 7 4 9 22 26 9 3 2 4 11 13 11 4 2 5 11 13 -4 24
13 Châteauroux 20 6 6 8 22 27 11 4 3 4 15 15 9 2 3 4 7 12 -5 24
14 Nancy 19 6 5 8 19 22 10 4 2 4 10 9 9 2 3 4 9 13 -3 23
15 Stade Briochin 20 3 9 8 20 26 11 2 5 4 10 12 9 1 4 4 10 14 -6 18
16 Le Puy F.43 Auvergne 20 3 9 8 15 27 9 1 4 4 7 11 11 2 5 4 8 16 -12 18
17 Gobelins 20 3 8 9 16 23 9 1 6 2 9 8 11 2 2 7 7 15 -7 17
18 Bastia-Borgo 20 4 4 12 19 41 11 4 2 5 14 23 9 0 2 7 5 18 -22 16

Read more about National

The Championnat de France National, often referred to as just National or Division 3, is the third highest division in French football. It has 18 teams, each playing 34 fixtures to decide the champion. The top three teams in the league table in May are promoted, the four lowest placed sides are relegated.