Aspiring to establish themselves permanently in the Top 5, the Greens intend to take advantage of this trip to a Toulouse team in poor shape to see life in rosy terms. The TFC, which remains on four losses in a row and is not able to field Andy Delort, still not qualified, will prove incapable of stopping the bleeding and redressing the situation. The Greens, on the other hand, will firmly stay the course and plunge the Haut-Garonnais into troubled waters and an abyss of perplexity. From the 9th minute, on an opening from captain Perrin, responding to Romain Hamouma’s call, the Stéphanois obtained a penalty conceded by the Toulouse goalkeeper. The path to success was set: Nolan Roux opened the scoring before Wergiton Somalia, guilty of a nasty sole on Jordan Veretout, left his teammates struggling at 10.
Kévin Monnet-Paquet, with a header level with the upright from a good cross delivered by Florentin Pogba, doubled the lead before Romain Hamouma, again, was caught in the area again. The sanction will inevitably fall. Nolan Roux will take Alban Lafont on the wrong foot and sign the two pass from the penalty spot. We had to go back to May 6, 1995 and a certain Laurent Blanc to find traces of a Stéphanois, a double scorer from the penalty spot, in this case against Jean Fernandez’s LOSC (3-3).
In the end, a large and undisputed success. Enough, in short, to see life in pink one week before a derby that Christophe Galtier’s men will win thanks to achievements by Kévin Monnet-Paquet and Romain Hamouma who are definitely in spirit and this winter 2017 (2-0).
Referee: Bartolomeu Varela; 12,950 spectators.
Goals for Saint-Étienne: N. Roux (9th, sp, 67th sp), Monnet-Paquet (55th).
Warnings in Toulouse: Lafont (9th), Braithwaite (61st).
Warnings in Saint-Étienne: Veretout (12th), Malcuit (26th), N. Roux (51st), Théophile-Catherine (57th).
Expulsion to Toulouse: Somalia (47th).
TOULOUSE. Lafont – Amian, Diop, Jullien, Moubandje – Blin, Somalia – Jean (Toivonen, 64e), Trejo (Pi, 74e), Durmaz (Ninkov, 69e) – Braithwaite (cap.). Entertainer: Pascal Dupraz.
AXIS. J. Moulin – Malcuit, Théophile-Catherine, Perrin (cap.), F. Pogba – Monnet-Paquet, Veretout (Lemoine, 69e), Selnaes, Keyta (Nordin, 73e) – Hamouma (B. Dabo, 82e), N Roux. Entraîneur: Christophe Galtier.
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