Saint-Étienne 1-1 Olympique Lyonnais: result and report
Ligue 1 · Sunday 27 January 2008
Result
Saint-Étienne 1-1 Olympique Lyonnais
Ligue 1 · Sunday 27 January 2008, 19:55 UTC · half-time 1-0
Saint-Étienne 1-1 Olympique Lyonnais: match report
Saint-Étienne drew with Olympique Lyonnais 1-1 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 27 January 2008. The half-time score was 1-0.
Bafétimbi Gomis opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Saint-Étienne's goal came from Bafétimbi Gomis (45+2'). Olympique Lyonnais scored through Karim Benzema (90+2').
Discipline: Saint-Étienne received 1 yellow card; Olympique Lyonnais received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Saint-Étienne were 14th on 28 points from 22 and Olympique Lyonnais 1st on 45 points from 22. Saint-Étienne went on to finish that season 5th with 58 points, and Olympique Lyonnais 1st with 79.
Saint-Étienne lined up in a 4-5-1 and Olympique Lyonnais in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Saint-Étienne wins, 1 draw and 4 for Olympique Lyonnais.
Going into the match Saint-Étienne's last five read L-W-L-L-L and Olympique Lyonnais's W-L-W-D-D.
Key events
- 12'Yellow card · Nivaldo
- 24'Yellow card · Francois Clerc
- 39'Yellow card · Mathieu Bodmer
- 45+2'Goal · Bafétimbi Gomis
- 65'Yellow card · Fred
- 90+2'Goal · Karim Benzema
Head-to-head
Team news
Saint-Étienne line-up (4-5-1)
Jody Viviani, Cédric Varrault, Nivaldo, Stathis Tavlaridis, Mouhamadou Dabo, Loïc Perrin, Geoffrey Dernis, Christophe Landrin, Ilan, Bafétimbi Gomis, Blaise Matuidi
Olympique Lyonnais expected line-up (4-3-3)
Rémy Vercoutre, Sébastien Squillaci, Anderson Beraldo, Anthony Reveillere, Mathieu Bodmer, Nadir Belhadj, Jérémy Toulalan, Hatem Ben Arfa