Lorient 3-1 Saint-Étienne: result and report

Ligue 1 · Sunday 22 March 2009

Result

Lorient 3-1 Saint-Étienne

Ligue 1 · Sunday 22 March 2009, 16:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Lorient 3-1 Saint-Étienne: match report

Lorient won against Saint-Étienne 3-1 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 22 March 2009. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Morgan Amalfitano opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Lorient's goals came from Morgan Amalfitano (12'), M. Vahirua (13') and Rafik Saifi (90'). Saint-Étienne scored through Y. Benalouane (39').

Discipline: Lorient received 1 yellow card; Saint-Étienne received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Lorient were 13th on 32 points from 28 and Saint-Étienne 18th on 29 points from 28. Lorient went on to finish that season 10th with 45 points, and Saint-Étienne 17th with 40.

Lorient 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 1 Lorient win, 2 draws and 2 for Saint-Étienne.

Going into the match Lorient's last five read D-L-L-L-D and Saint-Étienne's L-W-D-D-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 12'Goal · Morgan AmalfitanoLorient · 1-0
  • 13'Goal · M. VahiruaLorient · 2-0
  • 24'Yellow card · Geoffrey DernisSaint-Étienne
  • 39'Goal · Y. BenalouaneSaint-Étienne · 2-1
  • 44'Yellow card · Christophe JalletLorient
  • 87'Yellow card · Y. BenalouaneSaint-Étienne
  • 90'Goal · Rafik SaifiLorient · 3-1

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Lorient 1, draws 2, Saint-Étienne 2.

Team news

Lorient expected line-up (4-4-2)

Fabien Audard, Christophe Jallet, Sylvain Marchal, Jérémy Morel, Fabrice Abriel, Yazid Mansouri, Yohan Hautcoeur, Yann Jouffre, Rafik Saifi, Mickaël Ciani

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