Valenciennes 1-2 Saint-Étienne: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 10 March 2012
Result
Valenciennes 1-2 Saint-Étienne
Ligue 1 · Saturday 10 March 2012, 18:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Valenciennes 1-2 Saint-Étienne: match report
Valenciennes were beaten by Saint-Étienne 1-2 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 10 March 2012. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Vincent Aboubakar opened the scoring in the 69th minute. Valenciennes's goal came from Vincent Aboubakar (69'). Saint-Étienne scored through Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (73') and Bakary Sako (77').
Discipline: Valenciennes received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Saint-Étienne received no yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Valenciennes were 11th on 31 points from 26 and Saint-Étienne 5th on 43 points from 26. Valenciennes went on to finish that season 12th with 43 points, and Saint-Étienne 7th with 57.
Valenciennes lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Saint-Étienne in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Valenciennes wins, 2 draws and 3 for Saint-Étienne.
Going into the match Valenciennes's last five read D-W-D-W-W and Saint-Étienne's L-D-W-W-W.
Key events
- 4'Red card · Carlos Sánchez
- 33'Red card · Jean-Pascal Mignot
- 69'Goal · Vincent Aboubakar
- 73'Goal · Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
- 77'Goal · Bakary Sako
- 90+5'Yellow card · Gaëtan Bong
Head-to-head
Team news
Valenciennes line-up (4-2-3-1)
Nicolas Penneteau, Gil, Nicolas Isimat-Mirin, Rudy Mater, Carlos Sánchez, Remi Gomis, Foued Kadir, Renaud Cohade, Gaël Danic, Vincent Aboubakar, Gaëtan Bong
Saint-Étienne expected line-up (4-4-2)
Stéphane Ruffier, Albin Ebondo, Sylvain Marchal, Faouzi Ghoulam, Jean-Pascal Mignot, Fabien Lemoine, Bănel Nicoliţă, Max Gradel, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Florent Sinama-Pongolle, Jérémy Clément