These two teams are among the biggest teams in the Ligue 1, while they aren’t necessarily doing poorly, they should be doing better than they are doing at the moment.
Lyon finished third in Ligue 1 last season and they are currently 4th on the league table. They have been very devastating at some points this season like when they beat Marseille 4-2, but they seem to be very vulnerable at the back.
They conceded 43 goals last season, that is more than Amiens who finished 13th conceded and they have already conceded 17 goals in this new campaign. They have also kept just a single clean sheet this season, this could see them drop points here again.
Saint Etienne have also collected 17 points from a possible 24 so far this season, but they seem to have won games that Lyon would have dropped points in.
They come into this game having secured 5 solid wins against the likes of Monaco, Reims, Angers, and Toulouse. They did struggle to beat Angers and Toulouse, but that was down to the resilience of those opponents.
Lyon have lost four of their last nine Ligue 1 games against St Etienne (W3 D2), after losing only one of their previous 27 (W16 D10). Lyon have won only three of their last 10 home games against St Etienne in Ligue 1 (D5 L2), after winning eight of their previous nine (D1).
