Saint-Étienne 2-0 Rennes: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 19 January 2008
Result
Saint-Étienne 2-0 Rennes
Ligue 1 · Saturday 19 January 2008, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Saint-Étienne 2-0 Rennes: match report
Saint-Étienne beat Rennes 2-0 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 19 January 2008. The half-time score was 1-0.
Geoffrey Dernis opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Saint-Étienne's goals came from Geoffrey Dernis (13') and Bafétimbi Gomis (84'). Rennes did not score.
Discipline: Saint-Étienne received 3 yellow cards; Rennes received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Saint-Étienne were 12th on 25 points from 20 and Rennes 10th on 28 points from 20. Saint-Étienne went on to finish that season 5th with 58 points, and Rennes 6th with 58.
Saint-Étienne lined up in a 4-4-2 and Rennes in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Saint-Étienne win, 2 draws and 2 for Rennes.
Going into the match Saint-Étienne's last five read L-L-L-W-D and Rennes's W-D-L-L-L.
Key events
- 13'Goal · Geoffrey Dernis
- 17'Yellow card · Bruno Cheyrou
- 45'Yellow card · Mouhamadou Dabo
- 56'Yellow card · Christophe Landrin
- 60'Yellow card · Nivaldo
- 84'Goal · Bafétimbi Gomis
Head-to-head
Team news
Saint-Étienne line-up (4-4-2)
Jérémie Janot, Nivaldo, Stathis Tavlaridis, Mouhamadou Dabo, Loïc Perrin, Dimitri Payet, Geoffrey Dernis, Christophe Landrin, Ilan, Bafétimbi Gomis, Blaise Matuidi
Rennes line-up (4-3-3)
Simon Pouplin, Elderson Echiejile, Rod Fanni, Petter Hansson, Olivier Thomert, Bruno Cheyrou, Fabien Lemoine, Étienne Didot, Olivier Sorlin, Sylvain Wiltord, Jimmy Briand