1 minute and 51 seconds, the glaring statistic for ASSE in Ligue 1

As after each Ligue 1 match, we come back to the key figures concerning AS Saint-Étienne. After this new away defeat, they are inevitably bad for the Greens.

The numbers after #TFCASSE :

• One minute fifty-one seconds is the time spent leading the score away, where this had never happened.
• Thanks to Le Havre's defeat against Strasbourg, ASSE remains sixteenth
• Olivier Dall'Oglio was without nine players for the trip to Toulouse, eight of whom were injured like against Marseille.
• Thirteen points in fifteen games, or 0.87 on average, is the result of the L1 season for ODO.
• A single point taken outside. Like Rennes and Montpellier, no away victories.
• Ten defeats in fifteen matches only the 2008-2009 season was worse with eleven failures.
• Saint-Étienne is now eleventh at home and still seventeenth away.
• ASSE has the seventeenth attack with twelve goals scored, only Le Havre are behind with one goal less.
• Same ranking for the defense which took thirty-four goals, four less than last Montpellier
• Thirty-four goals conceded in fifteen matches, you have to go back to the 1952-53 season to find worse, it was thirty-nine at the same stage of the championship.

They stood out:

• Larsonneur not very happy with the two goals, especially the second.
• The defense with two goals conceded from two crosses.
  Stassin who finally found the net.
• Appiah author of a magnificent assist on the Belgian's goal.
• Bouchouari very active, but not always followed.

Good or bad stats:

• 61% possession for ASSE, the best of the season.
• It was 67% in the first half. Fourth meeting with superior possession four defeats.
• ASSE opened the scoring in the 53rd minute with its first shot of the match.
• The five players who played the most balls are from Saint-Etienne: Batubinsika (92), Ekwah (91), Bouchouari (90), Abdelhamid (88) and Pétrot (85).
• Eleven shots in the area for Toulouse, only one for Saint-Étienne.
• 44% of successful long passes for TFC, 28% for ASSE, twenty-nine missed out of 40.
• Saint-Etienne domination in ground duels (53%) and Toulouse in aerial duels (52%).

Tribunes and supporters:

• 25,350 people were present at the Toulouse Stadium. 655 supporters present, but some remained stranded in Haute-Loire because of the snow.
• This is the fourth attendance of the day, the average of which is 26,792. For Toulouse it is the fifth attendance out of eight at the Stadium. It is lower than the average for this stage which is 26,587.

Current ASSE series:

• Three consecutive defeats.
• Four away defeats with goals conceded.
• Eight away matches (out of eight) without a win and with goals conceded.

ASSE series completed:

• Two matches without a goal scored.

Referee, discipline, fouls and cards:

• Seven cards drawn by Mr. Léonard, (four for the Greens) which gives him the right to his first “Lucky Luke” of the season, the only one of the day.
• Thirty-five yellow cards (3.89/match) distributed during the day, the average is 4.2.
• Bouchouari, Abdelhamid and Stassin join, with two pending cards, Pétrot and Nadé in the list of “threatened” with suspension. Amougou and Larsonneur come out of this list.
• Thirty-one fouls called, including fifteen from Saint-Etienne (away record). This is the second most sanctioned ASSE match after Brest forty. The average for this fifteenth day is twenty-six, with thirty-seven for Reims-Monaco with Mr. Lissorgue on the whistle.