Saint-Étienne and Monaco are going to play on Saturday the 23rd of April at 7:00 pm in the 34th week of the Ligue 1. The match is going to take place in Saint-etienne at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard. The chosen referee is Bastien Dechepy.
Saint-Étienne sits in the 18th position in the table with 31 points. It comes from a 2-2 draw against Bordeaux in its last match in the Ligue 1. Up to now, it has won 7 times, draw 10 times, and lost 16 times.
Monaco occupies the 5th position in the standings with 56 points. It comes from a 1-0 win against Nice in its last match in the Ligue 1. Until now, it has won 15 times, draw 8 times, and lost 9 times.
Monaco won the last 5 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 13th of March against Strasbourg and the score was 1-0.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 3-4-1-2 and 4-2-3-1 (6 times or 18.18% each of them).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-1-2 (6 times), 4-2-3-1 (6 times), 4-3-3 (5 times), 3-4-3 (4 times), 5-4-1 (3 times), 3-4-2-1 (3 times), 4-4-2 (3 times), 4-3-1-2 (2 times) and 4-4-1-1 (once).
Pascal Dupraz is expected to play against Monaco with the following players: M. Nade, N. Sissoko, M. Trauco Saavedra, G. Antunes da Silva, T. Kolodziejczak, M. Camara, L. Gourna Douath, A. Nordin, D. Bouanga and R. Boudebouz.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed, the average age of Saint-Étienne would be 26.70.
Pascal Dupraz will probably not be able to employ R. Hamouma because of injury.
J. Gnagnon, S. Sow, M. Rivera and B. Sako will definitely miss the match.
Monaco
Monaco has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (13 times or 40.63%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (13 times), 4-4-2 (8 times), 4-1-4-1 (6 times), 3-4-3 (2 times), 3-2-4-1 (once), 3-4-2-1 (once) and 4-4-1-1 (once).
Philippe Clement is expected to play against Saint-Étienne with the following players: A. Nübel, C. Oliveira Silva, B. Badiashile Mukinayi, A. Disasi, D. Sidibé, V. de Oliveira Campos, Y. Fofana, A. Tchouaméni, A. Golovin, K. Volland and W. Ben Yedder.
In case that the line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Monaco would be 25.45.
R. Aguilar, K. Diatta and F. Fàbregas i Soler will definitely miss the match.