Paris Saint Germain 3-0 Saint-Étienne: result and report
Ligue 1 · Friday 25 August 2017
Result
Paris Saint Germain 3-0 Saint-Étienne
Ligue 1 · Friday 25 August 2017, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-0
Paris Saint Germain 3-0 Saint-Étienne: match report
Paris Saint Germain beat Saint-Étienne 3-0 in Ligue 1 on Friday 25 August 2017. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Edinson Cavani opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Paris Saint Germain's goals came from Edinson Cavani (20', penalty), Thiago Motta (51') and Edinson Cavani (89'). Saint-Étienne did not score.
Discipline: Paris Saint Germain received 2 yellow cards; Saint-Étienne received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Paris Saint Germain were 1st on 9 points from 3 and Saint-Étienne 3rd on 9 points from 3. Paris Saint Germain went on to finish that season 1st with 93 points, and Saint-Étienne 7th with 55.
Paris Saint Germain lined up in a 4-3-3 and Saint-Étienne in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Edinson Cavani of Paris Saint Germain (8.7), ahead of Marquinhos (8.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 7 Paris Saint Germain wins, 2 draws and 1 for Saint-Étienne.
Key events
- 19'Yellow card · Saidy Janko
- 20'Penalty goal · Edinson Cavani
- 39'Yellow card · Thomas Meunier
- 45+1'Yellow card · P. Kimpembe
- 50'Yellow card · Kévin Théophile-Catherine
- 51'Goal · Thiago Motta
- 87'Yellow card · Oussama Tannane
- 89'Goal · Edinson Cavani
Head-to-head
Team news
Paris Saint Germain line-up (4-3-3)
Alphonse Areola, Presnel Kimpembe, Marquinhos, Thomas Meunier, Layvin Kurzawa, Thiago Motta, Adrien Rabiot, Javier Pastore, Edinson Cavani, Neymar, Ángel Di María
Saint-Étienne line-up (3-4-3)
Stéphane Ruffier, Kévin Théophile-Catherine, Loïc Perrin, Ronaël Pierre-Gabriel, Gabriel Silva, Habib Maïga, Saidy Janko, Ole Selnæs, Bryan Dabo, Jonathan Bamba, Romain Hamouma