📊 Form Guide

Rennes

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Rennes will be wanting a better result here after the 1-0 Ligue 1 defeat last time out to Lille.

In that match, Rennes had 47% possession and 4 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. At the other end, Lille had 5 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Edon Zhegrova (45') scored for Lille.

Rennes have really struggled up front in more recent games. Their sum of goals equals just 3 against opposition teams over the course of their previous six fixtures. In those meetings, Rennes have also seen the tally of goals that have gone against them total 10.

Coming into this contest, Rennes haven't been beaten in the league by St Etienne in their previous 2 games.

St Etienne

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St Etienne come into this match following on from a 1-0 Ligue 1 win to defeat Montpellier in their most recent outing.

In that game, St Etienne managed 33% possession and 11 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The only player to score for St Etienne was Benjamin Bouchouari (47'). Montpellier got 11 attempts on goal with 3 on target.

In the course of their six latest matches, Olivier Dall’Oglio's St Etienne have slotted home 8 times, yielding them the goals scored per game average of 1.33.

Heading into this fixture, St Etienne are without a win away from home in their last 8 league games. Very poor, indeed.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their past head to head clashes stretching back to 01/12/2019 shows that Rennes have won 4 of these and St Etienne 2, with the tally of drawn matches being 0.

A combined total of 18 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 13 for Rennes and 5 belonging to Les Verts. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.

The previous league encounter between these clubs was Ligue 1 match day 35 on 30/04/2022 when it finished Rennes 2-0 St Etienne.

In that match, Rennes managed 73% possession and 13 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Lovro Majer (41', 84').

St Etienne got 8 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.

The referee was Jérémy Stinat.

ℹ️ Team News: Rennes

Alidu Seidu (Cruciate ligament tear) and Doğan Alemdar (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be playing for Rennes manager Jorge Sampaoli.

It looks as if Rennes may well use a 3-4-3 system and select Steve Mandanda, Leo Oestigard, Christopher Wooh, Mikayil Faye, Lorenz Assignon, Ludovic Blas, Azor Matusiwa, Adrien Truffert, Albert Groenbaek, A. Kalimuendo-Muinga and Amine Gouiri.

📰 Team News: St Etienne

We reckon that Les Verts seem most likely to play in a 4-1-4-1 formation, going with Gautier Larsonneur, Dennis Appiah, Dylan Batubinsika, Yunis Abdelhamid, Leo Petrot, Pierre Ekwah, Mathieu Cafaro, Louis Mouton, Benjamin Bouchouari, Zuriko Davitashvili and Ibrahim Sissoko.

🧠 Prediction

It’s likely that St Etienne will have a difficult task to find the net against a Rennes outfit who look likely to get the goals that they need to set up a big win here.

We can see a very comprehensive 3-0 winning scoreline for Rennes at the end of the 90 minutes.

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

Peter Guest, 15:05 30/11/2024