Caen 2-0 Saint-Étienne: result and report
Ligue 1 · Sunday 14 September 2008
Result
Caen 2-0 Saint-Étienne
Ligue 1 · Sunday 14 September 2008, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Caen 2-0 Saint-Étienne: match report
Caen defeated Saint-Étienne 2-0 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 14 September 2008. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Fahid Ben Khalfallah opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Caen's goals came from Fahid Ben Khalfallah (28') and Benjamin Nivet (90'). Saint-Étienne did not score.
Discipline: Caen received no yellow cards; Saint-Étienne received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Caen were 14th on 4 points from 4 and Saint-Étienne 18th on 3 points from 4. Caen went on to finish that season 18th with 37 points, and Saint-Étienne 17th with 40.
Caen lined up in a 4-4-2 and Saint-Étienne in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Caen wins, 0 draws and 2 for Saint-Étienne.
Going into the match Caen's last five read L-D-W-L and Saint-Étienne's L-L-W-L.
Key events
- 28'Goal · Fahid Ben Khalfallah
- 81'Yellow card · Christophe Landrin
- 84'Yellow card · Paulo Machado
- 90'Goal · Benjamin Nivet
Head-to-head
Team news
Caen expected line-up (4-4-2)
Vincent Planté, Jérémy Sorbon, Cédric Hengbart, Reynald Lemaître, Grégory Leca, Yoan Gouffran, Grégory Proment, Benjamin Nivet, Remi Gomis, Nicolas Florentin
Saint-Étienne expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jody Viviani, Stathis Tavlaridis, Loïc Perrin, Mouhamadou Dabo, Moustapha Bayal Sall, Christophe Landrin, Pascal Feindouno, Dimitri Payet, Geoffrey Dernis, Bafétimbi Gomis, Blaise Matuidi