Saint-Étienne 4-1 Le Mans: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 5 April 2008

Result

Saint-Étienne 4-1 Le Mans

Ligue 1 · Saturday 5 April 2008, 18:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Saint-Étienne 4-1 Le Mans: match report

Saint-Étienne defeated Le Mans 4-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 5 April 2008. The half-time score was 1-1.

Anthony Le Tallec opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Saint-Étienne's goals came from Geoffrey Dernis (43'), Bafétimbi Gomis (59'), Geoffrey Dernis (64') and Pascal Feindouno (87'). Le Mans scored through Anthony Le Tallec (31').

Discipline: Saint-Étienne received 2 yellow cards; Le Mans received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Saint-Étienne were 11th on 40 points from 30 and Le Mans 5th on 44 points from 31. Saint-Étienne went on to finish that season 5th with 58 points, and Le Mans 9th with 53.

Saint-Étienne lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Le Mans in a 4-5-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Saint-Étienne wins, 0 draws and 2 for Le Mans.

Going into the match Saint-Étienne's last five read W-D-L-D-W and Le Mans's D-D-D-D-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 31'Goal · Anthony Le TallecLe Mans · 0-1
  • 39'Yellow card · Bafétimbi GomisSaint-Étienne
  • 39'Yellow card · GéderLe Mans
  • 43'Goal · Geoffrey DernisSaint-Étienne · 1-1
  • 44'Yellow card · Stéphane SessègnonLe Mans
  • 52'Yellow card · M. SamassaLe Mans
  • 59'Goal · Bafétimbi GomisSaint-Étienne · 2-1
  • 64'Goal · Geoffrey DernisSaint-Étienne · 3-1
  • 76'Yellow card · Fredy GuarinSaint-Étienne
  • 87'Goal · Pascal FeindounoSaint-Étienne · 4-1

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Saint-Étienne 3, draws 0, Le Mans 2.

Team news

Saint-Étienne line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jody Viviani, Stathis Tavlaridis, Mouhamadou Dabo, Loïc Perrin, Moustapha Bayal Sall, Dimitri Payet, Geoffrey Dernis, Pascal Feindouno, Christophe Landrin, Bafétimbi Gomis, Blaise Matuidi

Le Mans expected line-up (4-5-1)

Yohann Pelé, Marko Baša, Jean Calve, Gregory Cerdan, Mathieu Coutadeur, Romaric, Túlio de Melo, Gervinho, Anthony Le Tallec