National preview: Can Orléans edge out victory against Le Mans?

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Competition: France National
Competition: Fri 09.April
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade de la Source (5849 seats)

3rd position in the National table for Orléans so far, a good performance. The home supporters hope for more joy as 10th-placed Le Mans visits Stade de la Source.

Insights:
  • Orléans have the most points from losing position (16) in National

Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!

This stadium uses grass, unlike Le Mans's home stadium. The visitors last 46 games on grass have ended in 14 wins, 11 draws and 21 losses.

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Orléans form and stats

The story so far in the National for Orléans, who have the most scored goals (26) at home in National, at their home stadium (Stade de la Source) is 7 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats.

An away draw last time out for Orléans, facing Boulogne in a game that ended 2-2. Ahead of that match, Orléans won a home game hosting Bastia (2-1).

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Orléans have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found eight games) they have won two times, drawn two and lost four.

The Orléans fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 26 goals in 14 league matches. Orléans's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 15 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Le Mans form and stats

There's been little loot from Le Mans's travels as they have only collected 14 points from 14 away games in the National. Le Mans only have 3 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 5 draws. It's all red in the travel logs of Mans, having lost five matches in a row as the visiting team. Recent form does not give Mans much hope, as the visitors have lost three games in a row. Orléans will be a tough nut to crack.

Two away games in a row for Mans, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 versus Laval in the National. A loss against Concarneau was the result prior to that, in a home game.

Mans are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, two draws and five defeats. From a total of eight matches.

After this away game Le Mans return home for a National game against Créteil. That game is only four sleeps after this.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Mans as they have only managed to score 13 times from 14 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Le Mans have conceded 18 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Le Mans - Orléans 0-0. As for the last three games between these two teams, there's zero Orléans victories, two draws and one Le Mans win. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

OrléansG. Perrin
G. Perrin
11 goals
OrléansC. Antoine
C. Antoine
9 goals
OrléansI. Soumaré
I. Soumaré
8 goals

Orléans missing players

Le Mans missing players

Orléans Le Mans
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
28 14 4 Played P 4 14 27
10 7 2 Won W 1 3 8
10 4 0 Drew D 1 5 11
8 3 2 Lost L 2 6 8
42 26 5 Scored S 1 13 29
33 15 5 Conceded C 3 18 29
89% 93% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 86% 85%
71% 71% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 25% 71% 74%
50% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 29% 30%
36% 36% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 21% 19%
7% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 4%
61% 57% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 43% 44%
25% 36% 25% Clean Sheets C S 50% 29% 37%
25% 14% 25% Failed to Score F T 75% 43% 33%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.9 1.8 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.8 1.1 1.3
5 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
10.5 13 11.2 Shots (avg) S ( 7 6.5 8.5
4.4 5.4 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.5 2.5 3.7
34% 34% 28% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 41% 30%
Key stats in National this season:
  • Orléans have the most points from losing position (16) in National
  • Orléans have the most scored goals (26) at home in National

  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 28 16 6 6 46 27 15 8 3 4 23 11 13 8 3 2 23 16 19 54
2 Bastia 27 14 8 5 46 24 14 8 4 2 25 9 13 6 4 3 21 15 22 50
3 Orléans 28 10 10 8 42 33 14 7 4 3 26 15 14 3 6 5 16 18 9 40
4 Stade Briochin 28 9 12 7 27 25 14 7 5 2 13 9 14 2 7 5 14 16 2 39
5 Villefranche 28 10 9 9 22 22 14 4 6 4 9 11 14 6 3 5 13 11 0 39
6 Red Star 27 9 11 7 31 26 14 5 6 3 12 11 13 4 5 4 19 15 5 38
7 Cholet 28 10 8 10 30 34 14 7 3 4 24 19 14 3 5 6 6 15 -4 38
8 Concarneau 27 8 13 6 27 24 12 2 7 3 9 10 15 6 6 3 18 14 3 37
9 Bourg-en-Bresse 28 8 12 8 22 26 14 5 5 4 11 13 14 3 7 4 11 13 -4 36
10 Le Mans 27 8 11 8 29 29 13 5 6 2 16 11 14 3 5 6 13 18 0 35
11 Avranches 28 10 5 13 30 35 14 6 1 7 19 20 14 4 4 6 11 15 -5 35
12 Laval 26 8 10 8 27 24 12 4 3 5 15 15 14 4 7 3 12 9 3 34
13 Sète 27 7 11 9 24 24 14 5 7 2 15 7 13 2 4 7 9 17 0 32
14 Annecy 28 7 10 11 34 43 15 4 7 4 20 21 13 3 3 7 14 22 -9 31
15 Créteil 26 7 9 10 24 30 13 6 3 4 15 13 13 1 6 6 9 17 -6 30
16 Bastia-Borgo 28 6 12 10 30 41 14 4 7 3 19 17 14 2 5 7 11 24 -11 30
17 Lyon Duchere 28 3 15 10 25 39 14 1 7 6 10 20 14 2 8 4 15 19 -14 24
18 Boulogne 25 3 14 8 18 28 12 0 9 3 9 12 13 3 5 5 9 16 -10 23

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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.