No victory for ASSE in its last six matches against Reims

This will be the ninetieth meeting between Rémois and Stéphanois which will take place this Saturday in the cauldron, deprived of both lungs, North and South.

Stade de Reims, it should be remembered, is a historic French football club, the first to have earned this distinction. Six French championship titles, two European Champions Club Cup finals (lost to Real Madrid)two Coupe de France. The 1958 French team, the first to finish on the podium in a World Cup, had a structure from Reims, and was led by the Reims coach Albert Batteuxhimself seconded by Jean Snella. Two characters who will also write the history of ASSE. At that time, coaches of the national team could also be stationed in a club.

Before the first meetings between Foréziens and Champenois in a D1 championship, the two clubs had crossed paths, from 1935, ten times, in the second division and Coupe de France. In this competition the Rémois had the upper hand but that would not last.
In the D2 Championship, on the other hand, the Greens won the first three duels, scoring fifteen goals against six conceded.
Clear domination of Saint-Etienne in the sixties and seventies with 19 victories, 8 draws and 4 defeats. It was against the Rémois that ASSE won the Coupe de France for the last time, it was in 1977 (2-1).

A long period of twenty-three years without confrontation will follow. It would be necessary to wait until 2002 for the Rémois to cross paths with the Greens again, but there the results would be very different and almost balanced. Six ASSE victories for seven draws and five Champagne successes. Saint-Étienne has not won any of the last six matches, two draws and four victories for Reims, including two in the last two played.

The last confrontation played behind closed doors in 2022 was won by the men of Oscar Garcia and Yunis Abdelhamid (1-2). It was the penultimate match of the season and ASSE was going to be condemned to the play-offs with the consequences that we know.

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History Ligue 1 in Saint-Étienne: