Saint-Étienne 1-4 Lorient: result and report
Ligue 1 · Wednesday 29 October 2008
Result
Saint-Étienne 1-4 Lorient
Ligue 1 · Wednesday 29 October 2008, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Saint-Étienne 1-4 Lorient: match report
Saint-Étienne lost to Lorient 1-4 in Ligue 1 on Wednesday 29 October 2008. The half-time score was 1-1.
J. Morel opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Saint-Étienne's goal came from Bafétimbi Gomis (33'). Lorient scored through J. Morel (20'), Bertrand Robert (56'), Bertrand Robert (70') and André Ayew (89').
Discipline: Saint-Étienne received 1 yellow card; Lorient received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Saint-Étienne were 15th on 10 points from 10 and Lorient 16th on 9 points from 10. Saint-Étienne went on to finish that season 17th with 40 points, and Lorient 10th with 45.
Saint-Étienne lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Lorient in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Saint-Étienne wins, 2 draws and 0 for Lorient.
Going into the match Saint-Étienne's last five read L-L-W-D-W and Lorient's W-L-L-D-D.
Key events
- 20'Goal · J. Morel
- 33'Goal · Bafétimbi Gomis
- 41'Yellow card · Cédric Varrault
- 56'Goal · Bertrand Robert
- 70'Goal · Bertrand Robert
- 89'Goal · André Ayew
Head-to-head
Team news
Saint-Étienne expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jody Viviani, Stathis Tavlaridis, Loïc Perrin, Mouhamadou Dabo, Moustapha Bayal Sall, Christophe Landrin, Pascal Feindouno, Dimitri Payet, Geoffrey Dernis, Bafétimbi Gomis, Blaise Matuidi
Lorient expected line-up (4-4-2)
Fabien Audard, Christophe Jallet, Sylvain Marchal, Jérémy Morel, Fabrice Abriel, Yazid Mansouri, Yohan Hautcoeur, Yann Jouffre, Rafik Saifi, Mickaël Ciani