📊 Form Guide

St Etienne

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St Etienne will want to continue from where they left off last time out with the 0-2 Ligue 1 triumph against Reims.

In that game, St Etienne had 52% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. For St Etienne, the scorers were Florian Tardieu (3') and Irvin Cardona (41'). Reims had 19 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.

Matches involving St Etienne have usually been engaging affairs lately with high scoring anticipated. Over their past six clashes alone, the sum total of 20 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 9 of them accredited to St Etienne. That kind of trend won’t necessarily be carried forward into this match, though.

Going into this contest, St Etienne haven't beaten Toulouse in their last 2 league matches.

Toulouse

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In the game prior to this, Toulouse drew 1-1 in the Ligue 1 match with RC Lens.

In that game, Toulouse had 40% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Toulouse was Yann Gboho (47'). For their opponents, Lens had 12 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Neil El Aynaoui (61') was the scorer for RC Lens.

The stats tell the story, and Toulouse have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 8 goals in all. At the back, Toulouse have been far from perfect.

Pre-game facts show that Toulouse:

• haven't won against St Etienne when having played them away from home in the previous 5 league matches. Not good at all.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 4 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 29/10/2017 tells us that St Etienne have won 3 of these games & Toulouse 1, with the tally of drawn matches being 2.

A combined total of 16 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 10 from Les Verts and 6 belonging to Toulouse. The average goals per game has been 2.67.

The last league contest featuring these clubs was Ligue 1 match day 15 on 13/12/2024 when it finished Toulouse 2-1 St Etienne.

On that occasion, Toulouse managed 39% possession and 11 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The goals were scored by Shavy Babicka (55') and Zakaria Aboukhlal (85').

St Etienne got 3 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Lucas Stassin (53') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Thomas Leonard.

📋 Team News: St Etienne

We think that Les Verts should use a 4-3-3 system and select Gautier Larsonneur, Dennis Appiah, Maxime Bernauer, Mickael Nade, Leo Petrot, Aimen Moueffek, Pierre Ekwah, Florian Tardieu, Irvin Cardona, Ibrahima Wadji and Zuriko Davitashvili.

ℹ️ Team News: Toulouse

Toulouse manager Carles Martínez Novell has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Niklas Schmidt (Cruciate ligament tear) and Rasmus Nicolaisen (Injury to the ankle) are not able to play.

From our viewpoint, Toulouse seem most likely to elect for a 3-4-3 formation, going with Guillaume Restes, Djibril Sidibe, Mark McKenzie, Jaydee Canvot, Aron Doennum, C. Casseres Jr., Vincent Sierro, Warren Kamanzi, Yann Gboho, Frank Magri and Joshua King.

🧠 Prediction

Our feeling is that Toulouse should get enough chances to find the net against this St Etienne side, but that may not quite be as many as they’ll concede.

Our selection here is for both teams to score in a 2-1 win for St Etienne at the end of the 90 minutes. Could easily see this go either way.

Victor Martins, 18:01 17/05/2025