SM Caen vs St Etienne Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

SM Caen

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It’s not been often in recent games that SM Caen have shown defensive steel. The reality is that SM Caen have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 games, leaking 8 goals along the way.

Heading into this fixture, SM Caen have not emerged victorious against St Etienne in their previous 5 matches in the league.

St Etienne

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In their previous half-dozen clashes, St Etienne have bagged a tally of 12 goals. St Etienne have also not failed to score in every single one of those games. During that period, they have had 10 goals scored by their opponents. Such a pattern might not follow through into this game, though.

Looking at the pre-match facts, St Etienne:

• remain undefeated by SM Caen in away games against them for the last 3 matches in the league.
• are without an away win for the past 2 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 26/02/2017 shows that SM Caen have won 1 of these & St Etienne 4, with the number of draws standing at 1.

15 goals were scored between them in this period, with 4 of them for Caen and 11 netted by Les Verts. That’s an average goals per game of 2.5.

The last league fixture between the two was Ligue 2 match day 17 on 30/12/2022 which ended up with the score at St Etienne 1-1 SM Caen.

The referee was Alexandre Perreau Niel.

💡 Prediction

Our thinking is that St Etienne and SM Caen may well end up cancelling each other out here.

It appears that a draw might be on the cards. We’re therefore expecting a 1-1 score at the conclusion of the game.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 23:23 21/05/2023