Saint-Étienne 3-1 Montpellier: result and report

Ligue 2 · Saturday 5 September 2026

Result

Saint-Étienne 3-1 Montpellier

Ligue 2 · Saturday 5 September 2026, 18:00 UTC · Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-etienne · half-time 1-1

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Saint-Étienne 3-1 Montpellier: match report

Saint-Étienne defeated Montpellier 3-1 in Ligue 2 on Saturday 5 September 2026 at Stade Geoffroy-Guichard. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Maxime Bernauer opened the scoring in the 41st minute. Saint-Étienne's goals came from Maxime Bernauer (41'), Augustine Boakye (49') and Joshua Duffus (71'). Montpellier scored through Daylam Meddah (45+5').

Discipline: Saint-Étienne received 2 yellow cards; Montpellier received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Saint-Étienne were 1st on 12 points from 4 and Montpellier 5th on 8 points from 4. In the current table Saint-Étienne are 1st on 25 points and Montpellier are 2nd on 24 points.

Saint-Étienne lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Montpellier in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Tamar Svetlin of Saint-Étienne (7.3), level with Daylam Meddah (7.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Saint-Étienne wins, 1 draw and 3 for Montpellier.

Going into the match Saint-Étienne's last five read W-W-W-W and Montpellier's D-W-W-D.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 41'Goal · Maxime BernauerSaint-Étienne · 1-0
  • 42'Yellow card · Zoumana CamaraMontpellier
  • 45'Yellow card · Augustine BoakyeSaint-Étienne
  • 45+5'Goal · Daylam MeddahMontpellier · 1-1
  • 49'Goal · Augustine BoakyeSaint-Étienne · 2-1
  • 59'Yellow card · Naoufel El HannachMontpellier
  • 59'Yellow card · Ian CathroSaint-Étienne
  • 67'Yellow card · Daylam MeddahMontpellier
  • 71'Goal · Joshua DuffusSaint-Étienne · 3-1

Form and table

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1Saint-Étienne118122311+1225DWWWL
2Montpellier11731166+1024DWWWW

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Head-to-head

10 meetings: Saint-Étienne 6, draws 1, Montpellier 3.

Team news

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Saint-Étienne line-up (4-2-3-1)

Gautier Larsonneur, Kévin Pedro, Julien Le Cardinal, Sohaib Naïr, Maxime Bernauer, Tamar Svetlin, Áron Csongvai, Augustine Boakye, Zuriko Davitashvili, Thierno Ballo, Irvin Cardona

Montpellier line-up (4-1-4-1)

Simon Ngapandouetnbu, Naoufel El Hannach, Julien Laporte, Yaël Mouanga, Théo Sainte-Luce, Daylam Meddah, Nicolas Pays, Hichem Abderrebi, Florian Tardieu, Nordan Mukiele, Laciné Megnan-Pavé

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