Montpellier 1-0 Saint-Étienne: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 24 March 2012
Result
Montpellier 1-0 Saint-Étienne
Ligue 1 · Saturday 24 March 2012, 18:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Montpellier 1-0 Saint-Étienne: match report
Montpellier beat Saint-Étienne 1-0 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 24 March 2012. It was 0-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Olivier Giroud of Montpellier in the 89th minute.
Discipline: Montpellier received 5 yellow cards; Saint-Étienne received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.
Going into the game Montpellier were 2nd on 57 points from 28 and Saint-Étienne 6th on 46 points from 28. Montpellier went on to finish that season 1st with 82 points, and Saint-Étienne 7th with 57.
Montpellier lined up in a 4-3-3 and Saint-Étienne in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Montpellier win, 1 draw and 3 for Saint-Étienne.
Going into the match Montpellier's last five read L-W-D-W-D and Saint-Étienne's L-W-L-D-W.
Key events
- 20'Yellow card · Florent Sinama-Pongolle
- 23'Yellow card · G. Bocaly
- 58'Yellow card · Younès Belhanda
- 70'Yellow card · John Utaka
- 77'Red card · Jean-Pascal Mignot
- 86'Yellow card · Marco Estrada Quinteros
- 89'Goal · Olivier Giroud
- 90+2'Yellow card · Souleymane Camara
Head-to-head
Team news
Montpellier line-up (4-3-3)
Geoffrey Jourdren, Garry Bocaly, Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, Henri Bedimo, Younès Belhanda, Benjamin Stambouli, Jamel Saihi, John Utaka, Olivier Giroud, Souleymane Camara, Vitorino Hilton
Saint-Étienne expected line-up (4-4-2)
Stéphane Ruffier, Albin Ebondo, Sylvain Marchal, Faouzi Ghoulam, Jean-Pascal Mignot, Fabien Lemoine, Bănel Nicoliţă, Max Gradel, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Florent Sinama-Pongolle, Jérémy Clément