Saint-Étienne 2-0 Arles: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 18 December 2010
Result
Saint-Étienne 2-0 Arles
Ligue 1 · Saturday 18 December 2010, 18:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Saint-Étienne 2-0 Arles: match report
Saint-Étienne won against Arles 2-0 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 18 December 2010. The half-time score was 0-0.
Laurent Batlles opened the scoring in the 51st minute. Saint-Étienne's goals came from Laurent Batlles (51') and Emmanuel Rivière (52'). Arles did not score.
Discipline: Saint-Étienne received no yellow cards; Arles received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Saint-Étienne were 7th on 25 points from 17 and Arles 20th on 7 points from 17. Saint-Étienne went on to finish that season 10th with 49 points, and Arles 20th with 20.
Going into the match Saint-Étienne's last five read W-D-D-D-D and Arles's L-D-L-L-D.
Key events
- 21'Yellow card · J. Fanchone
- 31'Yellow card · Loïc Abenzoar
- 51'Goal · Laurent Batlles
- 52'Goal · Emmanuel Rivière
- 58'Red card · Sébastien Piocelle
- 78'Yellow card · Deme N'Diaye
Team news
Saint-Étienne expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jérémie Janot, Sylvain Marchal, Loïc Perrin, Gelson Fernandes, Guirane N'Daw, Emmanuel Rivière, Sylvain Derome Monsoreau, Blaise Matuidi
Arles expected line-up
Cyrille Merville, Bakary Soro, Fabien Laurenti, Francisco Pavón, Jean-Alain Fanchone, Alvaro Mejia, Camel Meriem, Deme N'Diaye, Jamel Aït Ben Idir, Franck Dja Djedjé