Le Mans vs Toulouse Prediction & Betting Tips

How both sides have fared in recent Ligue 1 games

Le Mans's last five league outings read win, draw, draw, loss, draw - a 2-1 home win over Lorient sandwiched between draws with Lens, Nice and Brest, and a defeat away at Rennes. It's a pattern of avoiding heavy losses but not quite kicking on either.

Le Mans: 20 completed matches; Toulouse: 20 completed matches.

Le Mans

20 matches

Win

45% 9 / 20

Draw

40% 8 / 20

Loss

15% 3 / 20

Scored

36

Conceded

24

Difference

+12

Toulouse

20 matches

Win

30% 6 / 20

Draw

30% 6 / 20

Loss

40% 8 / 20

Scored

28

Conceded

37

Difference

-9

Toulouse have been similarly up and down: a 3-2 home win over Le Havre, a draw at Lorient, then back-to-back defeats to Lille and Lyon either side of a draw with Brest. Neither team has found consistency, but Le Mans have at least lost less often.

Both teams are drawing plenty of games, which hints at fairly even matches rather than one-sided results.

Comparative Team Statistics: Le Mans vs Toulouse

Where they sit in the table

Five games in, Le Mans are ninth with six points from one win, three draws and a loss. Toulouse sit a little further back in 13th with five points from one win, two draws and two defeats.

The gap is small - just a point and a few places - and both sides have scored and conceded roughly similar numbers of goals. This isn't a case of one team clearly outclassing the other on early season form.

Who's carrying the goal threat

Le Mans have shared the scoring load, with Bourabaa and Mafouta both on three goals from five appearances. Bourabaa has also chipped in with two assists, suggesting he's involved in most of the build-up too.

Le Mans:

Best scorers:

A. Bourabaa - 3

L. Mafouta - 3

Best assist providers:

A. Bourabaa - 2

L. Mafouta - 1

Penalty cards:

D. Sidibé x 1 x 1

A. Lauray x 3

N. Boissé x 2

Toulouse:

Best scorers:

C. Tengstedt - 3

T. Jørgensen - 2

Best assist providers:

C. Cásseres - 4

Penalty cards:

N. Schmidt x 2

For Toulouse, Tengstedt has been their sharpest finisher with three goals in just three matches, while Cásseres has been the main creative outlet with four assists from five games. If Toulouse are to trouble Le Mans, a lot may run through those two.

What kind of game this could be

Both teams have been leaking goals at a similar rate this season, and neither has managed a clean sheet-heavy run so far. That points towards a match where both sides carry some attacking threat rather than a cagey, low-scoring affair.

Given how tight the underlying numbers are between them, this looks like it could go either way, with goals at both ends a reasonable expectation based on how each side has played recently.