Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Saint-Lo Manche 10th with 36 points, ES du Mont-Gaillard 14th with 14, 22 apart. Recent form flatters Saint-Lo Manche's table spot — 5th league-wide over the last five rounds while sitting 10th. Scoring rates set the scale: ES du Mont-Gaillard 0.73 scored and 2 conceded per game, Saint-Lo Manche 1.19 and 1.62, with the league averaging 1.46.
A win had eluded ES du Mont-Gaillard for 6 matches. The five-game form split read 1/15 points for ES du Mont-Gaillard against 9/15 for Saint-Lo Manche.
With 15 matches recorded and 0.0 yellow cards per game, D. Herouard was the man in the middle. It was 1-1 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 1-1.