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Match Focus: Wily Galtier Helps St Etienne to Undo Decimated Lyon

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Match Focus: Wily Galtier Helps St Etienne to Undo Decimated Lyon When your rival is wounded, of course, you have to go for the throat. Since 1994, Saint Etienne had won only one derby against their bitter adversaries Lyon (thanks to Dimitri Payet's fantastic free-kick at the Stade Gerland in 2010) going into Sunday's clash - the 108th between the pair. Having fou...

League Focus: Can Anybody Stop Lille Finishing Third in Ligue 1?

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League Focus: Can Anybody Stop Lille Finishing Third in Ligue 1? Having began Sunday evening knowing a win would take them into second place in Ligue 1, Lille had the opportunity to build further on a stunning first half of the campaign in which they garnered 40 points - a pre-Christmas record for a third-placed team. In the end, the surprise home defeat to an un...

Team Focus: How to Win a Derby the Olympique Lyonnais Way

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Team Focus: How to Win a Derby the Olympique Lyonnais Way “We’re at home without actually being at home.” The way Lyon’s Samuel Umtiti described how his team feels about playing at local rivals Saint Etienne’s Stade Geoffroy Guichard (‘Le Chaudron’, or ‘The Cauldron’, no less) must hurt Les Verts almost...

Team Focus: Team Effort Sees Saint Etienne Flying High

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Team Focus: Team Effort Sees Saint Etienne Flying High Whenever Brandão scored for Saint Etienne last season, he would usually dust down the same celebration, running off and miming taking snaps with an imaginary camera. He is not just a footballer, but also a music impresario and songwriter - the goal choreography mimicked the “flashy flas...

EXCLUSIVE: WhoScored Interviews Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

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EXCLUSIVE: WhoScored Interviews Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is a 24 year old Gabonese forward, son of Pierre senior, a former Ligue 1 player himself, and brother of two other young players, Catilina and Willy. Having grown up in Italy, where their father worked as a talent scout for AC Milan, all the three sons played with the Rosso...

WhoScored Tipster: Big Match Betting

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WhoScored Tipster: Big Match Betting As the seasons wear on across Europe's major leagues, likely title winners are giving themselves increasingly good chances of holding off the competition in the run-in, but there is still a great deal to be decided and important points to be won. Here, the WhoScored Tipster takes a look at 4 of the ...

Team Focus: Could Saint Etienne Qualify for the Champions League?

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Team Focus: Could Saint Etienne Qualify for the Champions League? It's fair to say that PSG aren't romping to success in Ligue 1 as many expected, which is undoubtedly a positive for the league’s reputation. The Parisians have lost to lowly Sochuax and Reims in recent weeks and while Ancelotti's side stutter one team is charging up the table at quite a pace....

WhoScored Tipster: Bets to End the Season on a High

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WhoScored Tipster: Bets to End the Season on a High Man City vs QPRA huge game at both ends of the table, but make no mistake, City will be winning this and they will be winning this by a few.Sides have come to the Etihad all season to defend and have still been picked apart. They boast a record of seventeen wins and one draw from their eighteen home...

Team Focus: Saint Etienne Praying for Goals

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Team Focus: Saint Etienne Praying for Goals If there was ever a word to describe Saint-Etienne’s season so far then “mediocre” couldn’t be further from the truth. Sitting smack bang in the middle of the table with a record of four wins, four defeats and five draws. There was hope that this season was going to promise s...

Can Mignot Stop Remy’s Scoring Streak?

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Can Mignot Stop Remy’s Scoring Streak? Likely Line-UpsMarseille will be without centre half Stephane M’Bia until October- he suffered a broken foot in last week’s match at Auxerre, with the injury confirmed after he’d played the 90 minutes. With Andre-Pierre Gignac also still injured, the in-form pair of Mathieu Valbuen...