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With St. Etienne and Monaco, two form-strong teams face each other on Matchday 12 in Ligue 1. After both clubs laid a miserable start to the season, the shape curve showed in recent weeks, significantly upwards.
Looking back at the last five games, the Monegassen have been the second strongest team after PSG. The record champion takes in the context of this flashback a little less respectable fifth place. In the home side, especially the change of coach has paid off.
Instead of the inexperienced Ghislain Printant, who took over in the summer of the office as a former assistant coach, now Claude Puel holds the sporting responsibility. The 58-year-old can not be accused of lacking expertise, as he has already worked at Lyon, Lille or the upcoming opponent in the course of his long coaching career.
His last employer can also be seen, because this was the Foxes from Leicester. At Monaco, the upturn is linked above all to the commitment of Wissam Ben Yedder. The French international came from Sevilla and already has nine goals in as many appearances.
Thanks to the 29-year-old Monegasques have after the departure of the club icon Falcao again a sure attacker. In the upcoming match between St. Etienne and Monaco, our tip is that both teams will meet and guest striker Ben Yedder will once again tackle the personal goal.
St. Etienne:
St. Etienne achieved a great finish fourth in the previous year, which had only been successful six years ago since relegation to Ligue 1 in 2004. At the same time, however, coach Jean-Louis Gasset retired.
The decision to hand over the office to his former assistant coach Ghislain Printant turned out in retrospect as a mistake. Under his aegis, the Verts scored very little on the first eight matchdays and found themselves on the penultimate rank in the table again.
His farewell match Printant was then still able to complete in the Europa League against Wolfsburg. Then the club officials pulled the ripcord and ended his commitment. Under the successor Claude Puel it is now noticeably better. Thus, the new coach has not lost any of his four games with St. Etienne.
Instead, Lyon and Bordeaux were defeated and last reached a draw against Amiens. In addition, on the plus side, a points division with Oleksandriya in the Europa League could be booked. Thanks to the upward trend, the table cellar has been abandoned.
Monaco:
The Monegas are still alive! After the catastrophic past season, in which they had gone as runner-up and at the end was almost the descent, the AS started again very weak. With each 0: 3 had the eight-time champion Lyon and promoted Metz defeated.
Then it was only partially better, because until the seventh matchday lasted the drought, before the first three could be achieved. The 3: 1 against Nice was apparently the long-awaited initial spark to finally turn back on the road to success.
Although there was in the episode again a slip-up in the guise of a bankruptcy at the neighbor from Montpellier, but the remaining games were consistently won. Above all, the Rouge et Blancs again have a powerful offensive: Twelve goals have been scored on the last five matchdays – only the champion from Paris can top this yield by one goal.
But a construction site remains the defense. This is the shooting gallery of the Ligue 1 with 21 goals. Also in the recent successful weeks conceded goals remained the rule, which is why the games of Monaco are currently the top scoring in the French House of Lords.
The positive trend on the part of the guests was further confirmed this week, as the AS prevailed in the League Cup against Olympique Marseille.
St Etienne vs Monaco head to head matches
05.05.19 L1 Monaco St Etienne 2 : 3
28.09.18 L1 St Etienne Monaco 2 : 0
12.05.18 L1 Monaco St Etienne 1 : 0
15.12.17 L1 St Etienne Monaco 0 : 4
17.05.17 L1 Monaco St Etienne 2 : 0