Match Report
The table gap was wide: 27 points between Saint-Étienne (3rd, 65 pts) and Quevilly Rouen (18th, 38 pts). On recent form Saint-Étienne sat only 8th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 3rd overall. Per game in the league, Quevilly Rouen were scoring 1.34 and conceding 1.45, Saint-Étienne 1.26 and 0.82, against a competition average of 1.23 goals per team per game.
Quevilly Rouen's winless run stood at 5. Saint-Étienne carried a 5-game unbeaten run into this. From the last five rounds, Quevilly Rouen held 3 points of 15 and Saint-Étienne 11.
Stade Robert Diochon in Le Petit-Quevilly, capacity 12,018, hosted the game. It was 0-0 at the break, and the second half added 3 goals for the 2-1 full-time score.