Saint-Étienne 3-1 Metz: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 14 October 2017
Result
Saint-Étienne 3-1 Metz
Ligue 1 · Saturday 14 October 2017, 18:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Saint-Étienne 3-1 Metz: match report
Saint-Étienne defeated Metz 3-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 14 October 2017. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Fallou Diagne opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Saint-Étienne's goals came from Vincent Pajot (74'), an own goal by Cafú (85') and Habib Maïga (90+5'). Metz scored through Fallou Diagne (20').
Discipline: Saint-Étienne received 2 yellow cards; Metz received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Saint-Étienne were 8th on 14 points from 8 and Metz 20th on 3 points from 8. Saint-Étienne went on to finish that season 7th with 55 points, and Metz 20th with 26.
Saint-Étienne lined up in a 4-3-3 and Metz in a 4-5-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Vincent Pajot of Saint-Étienne (7.7), level with Fallou Diagne (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Saint-Étienne wins, 2 draws and 0 for Metz.
Going into the match Saint-Étienne's last five read L-D-W-D-L and Metz's L-L-W-L-L.
Key events
- 20'Goal · Fallou Diagne
- 21'Yellow card · Fallou Diagne
- 45+1'Yellow card · Romain Hamouma
- 74'Goal · Vincent Pajot
- 85'Missed penalty · Bryan Dabo
- 85'Own goal · Cafú
- 90+2'Yellow card · Bryan Dabo
- 90+5'Goal · Habib Maïga
Head-to-head
Team news
Saint-Étienne line-up (4-3-3)
Stéphane Ruffier, Kévin Théophile-Catherine, Léo Lacroix, Gabriel Silva, Saidy Janko, Vincent Pajot, Bryan Dabo, Assane Dioussé, Loïs Diony, Rémy Cabella, Romain Hamouma
Metz line-up (4-5-1)
Eiji Kawashima, Fallou Diagne, Matthieu Udol, Moussa Niakhaté, Iván Balliu, Gerónimo Poblete, Nolan Roux, Matthieu Dossevi, Renaud Cohade, Cafú, Emmanuel Rivière