Toulouse 3-1 Saint-Étienne: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 13 December 2008
Result
Toulouse 3-1 Saint-Étienne
Ligue 1 · Saturday 13 December 2008, 18:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Toulouse 3-1 Saint-Étienne: match report
Toulouse defeated Saint-Étienne 3-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 13 December 2008. It was 2-1 at half-time.
A. Gignac opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Toulouse's goals came from A. Gignac (5'), Étienne Didot (44') and A. Gignac (55'). Saint-Étienne scored through Paulo Machado (37').
Discipline: Toulouse received 2 yellow cards; Saint-Étienne received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Toulouse were 7th on 27 points from 17 and Saint-Étienne 17th on 16 points from 17. Toulouse went on to finish that season 4th with 64 points, and Saint-Étienne 17th with 40.
Toulouse lined up in a 4-5-1 and Saint-Étienne in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Toulouse wins, 2 draws and 2 for Saint-Étienne.
Going into the match Toulouse's last five read D-D-L-W-D and Saint-Étienne's W-W-L-L-L.
Key events
- 5'Goal · A. Gignac
- 32'Yellow card · Cédric Varrault
- 37'Goal · Paulo Machado
- 44'Goal · Étienne Didot
- 55'Goal · A. Gignac
- 63'Yellow card · Mohamed Fofana
- 79'Yellow card · Pantxi Sirieix
- 82'Yellow card · Y. Benalouane
Head-to-head
Team news
Toulouse expected line-up (4-5-1)
Nicolas Douchez, Albin Ebondo, Mohamed Fofana, Jérémy Mathieu, Achille Emana, Nicolas Dieuze, Fodé Mansaré, Johan Elmander, Dominique Arribage, Laurent Batlles
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