Valenciennes 0-2 Le Mans: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 18 April 2009

Result

Valenciennes 0-2 Le Mans

Ligue 1 · Saturday 18 April 2009, 17:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Valenciennes 0-2 Le Mans: match report

Valenciennes were beaten by Le Mans 0-2 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 18 April 2009. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Grégory Cerdan opened the scoring in the 49th minute. Valenciennes did not score. Le Mans scored through Grégory Cerdan (49') and Anthony Le Tallec (67').

Discipline: Valenciennes received 2 yellow cards; Le Mans received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Valenciennes were 12th on 36 points from 31 and Le Mans 13th on 35 points from 31. Valenciennes went on to finish that season 12th with 44 points, and Le Mans 16th with 40.

Valenciennes lined up in a 4-4-2 and Le Mans in a 4-3-3.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Valenciennes wins, 1 draw and 4 for Le Mans.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Yellow card · GervinhoLe Mans
  • 17'Yellow card · Johan AudelValenciennes
  • 35'Yellow card · Frédéric ThomasLe Mans
  • 47'Yellow card · Dame TraoréValenciennes
  • 49'Goal · Grégory CerdanLe Mans · 0-1
  • 67'Goal · Anthony Le TallecLe Mans · 0-2
  • 76'Yellow card · Ludovic BaalLe Mans

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Valenciennes 0, draws 1, Le Mans 4.

Team news

Valenciennes expected line-up (4-4-2)

Nicolas Penneteau, Guillaume Rippert, Mody Traoré, Carlos Sánchez, Sébastien Roudet, Johan Audel, Jeovânio, Steve Savidan, Éric Chelle, A. Ouaddou, Geoffrey Doumeng

Le Mans expected line-up (4-3-3)

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