Anderlecht 2-3 Saint-Étienne: result and report
Europa League · Thursday 8 December 2016
Result
Anderlecht 2-3 Saint-Étienne
Europa League · Thursday 8 December 2016, 18:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Anderlecht 2-3 Saint-Étienne: match report
Anderlecht lost to Saint-Étienne 2-3 in the Europa League on Thursday 8 December 2016. The half-time score was 2-0.
A. Chipciu opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Anderlecht's goals came from A. Chipciu (21') and Nicolae Stanciu (31'). Saint-Étienne scored through Alexander Söderlund (62'), Alexander Söderlund (67') and K. Monnet-Paquet (74').
Discipline: Anderlecht received 5 yellow cards; Saint-Étienne received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Anderlecht were 7th on 17 points from 7 and Saint-Étienne 28th on 13 points from 9. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
Anderlecht lined up in a 4-3-3 and Saint-Étienne in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Alexander Søderlund of Saint-Étienne (8.5), ahead of Léo Lacroix (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Anderlecht wins, 1 draw and 0 for Saint-Étienne.
Going into the match Anderlecht's last five read W-W-D-D-W and Saint-Étienne's D-W-W-D-D.
Key events
- 21'Goal · A. Chipciu
- 31'Goal · Nicolae Stanciu
- 53'Yellow card · J. Vancamp
- 54'Missed penalty · Henri Saivet
- 62'Goal · Alexander Söderlund
- 67'Goal · Alexander Söderlund
- 74'Goal · K. Monnet-Paquet
- 87'Yellow card · Łukasz Teodorczyk
- 87'Yellow card · S. Hanni
- 87'Yellow card · Lukasz Teodorczyk
- 90'Yellow card · Emmanuel Sowah
- 90'Yellow card · Oussama Tannane
Head-to-head
Team news
Anderlecht line-up (4-3-3)
Davy Roef, Uros Spajic, Bram Nuytinck, Ivan Obradović, Emmanuel Sowah Adjei, Stéphane Badji, Frank Acheampong, Leander Dendoncker, Alexandru Chipciu, Jorn Vancamp, Nicolae Stanciu
Saint-Étienne line-up (4-3-3)
Stéphane Ruffier, Kévin Théophile-Catherine, Pierre-Yves Polomat, Léo Lacroix, Florentin Pogba, Bryan Dabo, Henri Saivet, Kévin Malcuit, Kévin Monnet-Paquet, Alexander Søderlund, Arnaud Nordin