However, it was a classic of French Football between two clubs which have long clashed at the top of the French elite. A match which generally attracts crowds on one side or the other. However, the disciplinary committee of the Professional Football League (LFP) imposed two closing matches on the Kop Nord and the Kop Sud, depriving the Cauldron of its two lungs due to the massive use of pyrotechnic devices against the Marseille Olympic.
If proof was needed, the last two meetings in the Cauldron demonstrated that the public also came for the show offered by the Kops. While the Cauldron was practically full with its open kops, it had all the difficulty in the world to fill in a configuration that was nevertheless highly restricted in terms of reception capacity. With 14,201 spectators against Reims, ASSE had already set a record this season. The arrival of Nantes did even worse with only 14,094 spectators attending this draw (1-1). This is the sixth crowd of the day, three stadiums are still worse.
Attendances for the 18th day of Ligue 1:
- Marseille – Strasbourg: 63,992 spectators
- Lyon – Toulouse: 42,592 spectators
- Lille – Nice: 38,325 spectators
- Lens – Paris SG: 38,120 spectators
- Rennes – Brest: 28,238 spectators
- Saint-Étienne – Nantes: 14,094 spectators
- Montpellier – Monaco: 11,371 spectators
- Reims – Le Havre: 11,278 spectators
- Angers – Auxerre: 9,938 spectators
The Geoffroy-Guichard stadium should regain color for the next home match against Stade Rennais. It will be on the occasion of the 21st day of the French Ligue 1 Championship. Before that, two trips are planned to Auxerre, then to Lille.
-Crowds at Geoffroy-Guichard this season:
- Saint-Étienne – Le Havre: 16,958 spectators (Kop Nord and Kop Sud closed)
- Saint-Étienne – Lille: 22,144 spectators (Kop Sud closed)
- Saint-Étienne – Auxerre: 31,445 spectators
- Saint-Étienne – Lens: 36,832 spectators
- Saint-Étienne – Strasbourg: 33,043 spectators
- Saint-Étienne – Montpellier: 33,008 spectators
- Saint-Étienne – Marseille: 35,350 spectators
- Saint-Étienne – Marseille (Coupe de France): 34,547 spectators
- Saint-Étienne – Reims: 14,201 spectators (Kop Nord and Kop Sud closed)
- Saint-Étienne – Nantes: 14,094 spectators (Kop Nord and Kop Sud closed)
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