Saint-Étienne 2-0 Caen: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 10 December 2011
Result
Saint-Étienne 2-0 Caen
Ligue 1 · Saturday 10 December 2011, 18:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Saint-Étienne 2-0 Caen: match report
Saint-Étienne defeated Caen 2-0 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 10 December 2011. The half-time score was 1-0.
B. Nicoliţă opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Saint-Étienne's goals came from B. Nicoliţă (10') and Bakary Sako (74'). Caen did not score.
Discipline: Saint-Étienne received 1 yellow card; Caen received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.
Going into the game Saint-Étienne were 8th on 24 points from 16 and Caen 10th on 19 points from 16. Saint-Étienne went on to finish that season 7th with 57 points, and Caen 18th with 38.
Saint-Étienne lined up in a 4-4-2 and Caen in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Saint-Étienne wins, 1 draw and 2 for Caen.
Going into the match Saint-Étienne's last five read D-W-W-D-L and Caen's L-L-D-W-L.
Key events
- 10'Goal · B. Nicoliţă
- 43'Red card · L. Nabab
- 45+2'Yellow card · B. Nicoliţă
- 47'Yellow card · Yannick M'Bone
- 74'Goal · Bakary Sako
Head-to-head
Team news
Saint-Étienne line-up (4-4-2)
Stéphane Ruffier, Sylvain Marchal, Jean-Pascal Mignot, Faouzi Ghoulam, Albin Ebondo, Fabien Lemoine, Bănel Nicoliţă, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Max Gradel, Florent Sinama-Pongolle, Jérémy Clément
Caen line-up (4-2-3-1)
Alexis Thébaux, Yannick M'Bone, Thomas Heurtaux, Jerry Vandam, Jérémy Sorbon, Grégory Proment, Frédéric Bulot, Lenny Nangis, Romain Hamouma, Livio Nabab, Nicolas Seube