Saint-Étienne and Strasbourg are going to face off on Sunday the 20th of February at 3:00 pm in the 25th week of the Ligue 1. The match will be staged in Saint-etienne at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard. The appointed referee is Antony Gautier.
Saint-Étienne is in the 19th place in the standings with 21 points. It comes from a 1-2 win against Clermont in its last match in the Ligue 1. So far, it has won 5 times, draw 6 times, and lost 13 times.
Saint-Étienne won the last 3 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 21st of January against Olympique Lyonnais and the score was 1-0.
Strasbourg is in the 4th place in the league with 41 points. It comes from a 0-1 win against Angers SCO in its last match in the Ligue 1. Up to now, it has won 12 times, draw 5 times, and lost 7 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (6 times or 25.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (6 times), 4-3-3 (5 times), 3-4-2-1 (3 times), 4-4-2 (3 times), 5-4-1 (2 times), 4-3-1-2 (2 times), 3-4-1-2 (once), 3-4-3 (once) and 4-4-1-1 (once).
Pascal Dupraz is expected to play against Strasbourg with the following players: M. Nade, S. Sow, T. Kolodziejczak, R. Boudebouz, L. Gourna Douath, A. Nordin, D. Bouanga, B. Sako, M. Camara and W. Khazri.
Granting that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Saint-Étienne would be 26.60.
Pascal Dupraz will probably not be able to employ H. Moukoudi, A. Moueffek and Y. Neyou Noupa because of injury.
J. Gnagnon, Y. Macon, M. Trauco Saavedra and M. Rivera will definitely miss the match.
Strasbourg
Strasbourg has mostly adopted the 5-3-2 line-up most used during the season (18 times or 75.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 5-3-2 (18 times), 3-5-2 (5 times) and 4-4-2 (once).
Julien Stéphan is expected to play against Saint-Étienne with the following players: M. Sels, A. Djiku, G. Nyamsi, L. Perrin, D. Liénard, I. Sissoko, A. Thomasson, S. Prcić, F. Guilbert, K. Gameiro and L. Ajorque.
Presuming that this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Strasbourg would be 28.64.
M. Le Marchand will definitely miss the match.