St Etienne vs Strasbourg Prediction & Betting Tips

The Ligue 1 clash at Stade Geoffroy-Guichard on Saturday will see home side St Etienne take to the field against Strasbourg.

Scroll down to see all of the predictions, poll and statistics for St Etienne v Strasbourg - plus the latest betting odds.

📏 Form Guide

St Etienne DLWDLW ⚖

St Etienne, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 2-0 Ligue 1 success against FC Lorient.

In that game, St Etienne managed 52% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. The scorer for St Etienne was Romain Hamouma (19', 51'). For their opponents, FC Lorient got 6 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target.

Fewer than three goals per game were scored during 5 of the last 6 fixtures where St Etienne have taken part. With regard to the goal attribution from that period, opposition teams scored a total of 6 while Les Verts managed a tally of 6. It will be interesting to find out whether or not that trend can be continued on into this next match.

Heading into this contest, St Etienne are unbeaten in their last 3 league matches at home.

Strasbourg WDDLLL 📉

Following on from a loss in their previous game against Nice in Ligue 1 competition, Strasbourg and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

OGC Nice got 3 shots at goal with 2 on target. Kasper Dolberg (37', 59') was the scorer for Nice.

Thierry Laurey's Strasbourg have managed to stick the ball in the net a total of 5 times in the course of their latest six matches. The total of goals that they have conceded during those same clashes equals 9.

Looking at their past form shows that Strasbourg:

• have not registered a win against AS Saint-Etienne in games played away from home for the previous 3 league games.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 3 league games.

↔️ Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels dating back to 09/02/2008, both clubs have shared the honours with St Etienne winning 2 of those games, Strasbourg 2 and 2 being draws in regulation time.

An aggregate of 16 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 7 from Les Verts and 9 coming from Le Racing. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

The last league meeting between these clubs was Ligue 1 match day 19 on 21/12/2019 when it finished Strasbourg 2-1 St Etienne.

In that game, Strasbourg managed 40% possession and 5 shots on goal with 3 on target. Goals were scored by Ludovic Ajorque (22') and Adrien Thomasson (62').

At the other end, St Etienne had 6 attempts at goal with 1 on target. Ryad Boudebouz (72') was the scorer.

The referee was Oliver Thual.

📋 Team News: St Etienne

St Etienne manager Claude Puel has no fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this match with a fully healthy group to pick from.

It looks as if Les Verts look set to line up in a 4-2-3-1 system in the match with Jessy Moulin, Yvann Maçon, Timothée Kolodziejczak, Wesley Fofana, Mathieu Debuchy, Mahdi Camara, Yvan Neyou Noupa, Arnaud Nordin, Adil Aouchiche, Denis Bouanga and Romain Hamouma.

🗞️ Team News: Strasbourg

Strasbourg manager Thierry Laurey has multiple availability issues to deal with. Matz Sels (Achilles tendon rupture) and Idriss Saadi (Calf Injury) are not able to play.

We are inclined to think that Le Racing appear most likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 system, starting the game with Eiji Kawashima, Kenny Lala, Alexander Djiku, Anthony Caci, Lionel Carole, Mohamed Simakan, Ibrahima Sissoko, Jean-Ricner Bellegarde, Adrien Thomasson, Mehdi Chahiri and Ludovic Ajorque.

⚡ Prediction

We feel that in this game, Strasbourg certainly have the ability to find the back of the net against this St Etienne lineup, although it probably won’t be as many as they will have scored against them.

Our tip is for a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 victory for St Etienne when all is said and done. We’ll have to see what happens.

Peter Guest, 23:12 07/09/2020