FC Lorient vs St Etienne Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

FC Lorient

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FC Lorient will be looking to improve on their last outing here following a 1-0 Ligue 1 losing effort in their last game against Nîmes.

In that match, FC Lorient managed 51% possession and 11 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. On the other side, Nîmes had 7 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Renaud Ripart (88') scored for Nîmes.

It’s been seldom in recent times where FC Lorient haven’t conceded. In fact, Les Merlus have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 9 goals in the process. Previous results aside, time will tell if that trend might be maintained here in this game or not.

Ahead of this meeting, FC Lorient have not beaten St Etienne in their last 2 matches in the league.

St Etienne

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Previously, St Etienne drew 1-1 in the Ligue 1 match with Reims.

In that game, St Etienne managed 48% possession and 18 shots at goal with 8 on target. The only player to score for St Etienne was Charles Abi (89'). Stade de Reims had 4 attempts at goal with 2 on target. El Bilal Touré (72') scored for Reims.

A succession of outstanding performances by the St Etienne defence has seen their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 3 from their previous 6 fixtures combined. In that period of time, their forwards have scored 6.

Going into this contest, St Etienne have not been beaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 08/03/2015 tells us that FC Lorient have won 1 of these games and St Etienne 5, with the number of drawn results being 0.

14 goals were produced between them in these games, with 2 of them for Les Merlus and 12 coming from Les Verts. The average goals per game has been 2.33.

The last league match between the two was Ligue 1 match day 2 on 30/08/2020 and the score finished St Etienne 2-0 FC Lorient.

In that match, St Etienne managed 52% possession and 13 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Their only player to score was Romain Hamouma (19', 51').

At the other end, FC Lorient had 6 attempts on goal with 1 on target.

The referee was Florent Batta.

ℹ️ Team News: FC Lorient

FC Lorient manager Christophe Pélissier has zero fitness worries to speak of ahead of this game thanks to a fully healthy group to choose from.

📋 Team News: St Etienne

Owing to a completely injury-free squad to pick from, St Etienne manager Claude Puel does not have any fitness concerns at all ahead of this match.

🔮 Prediction

We envisage that St Etienne and FC Lorient should both get enough opportunities to score, although it’s hard to separate the two.

It’s looking like it could well end up as a draw. We’re therefore tipping a hard-fought 1-1 draw at the end of this one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 00:24 24/02/2021