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UEFA Cup draw
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Right then, it’s Hapoel Tel Aviv. Not a name to set the pulses racing, but a decent team with plenty of experience in Europe. St Etienne will need to be on good form to progress – but they will be glad to have avoided teams like Hamburg and Feyenoord. Olympiakos would have been tough as [...]
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Pre-Lyon round-up
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It’s a big week for St Etienne. The draw for the UEFA Cup takes place at 13h on Friday. This will provide Les Verts with their first opponents from outside France in 26 years (unless you count the Intertoto Cup in 2005).
Then, on Sunday, le derby against Lyon. St Etienne, who have held their training [...]
Category: St Etienne Team NewsA good crowd
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Some clubs would be glad to get this many supporters at a normal game, let alone at a training session. So come on, les Verts, how about a decent performance against Lyon to give the fans something to shout about?
Category: St Etienne Team NewsLe Mans 1 St Etienne 0
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Dear oh dear. Another away game, another defeat. This was not the best way to prepare for next weekend’s crucial derby clash with Lyon. Was last season’s fifth place a false dawn?
The match report on the club site makes it sound as if St Etienne had plenty of possession, but were caught out by a [...]
Category: St Etienne Team NewsPiquionne’s fit of pique
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You may have heard of Frédéric Piquionne. He played for St Etienne for two and a half seasons, scoring 23 goals before being loaned to Monaco. He now plays for Olympique Lyonnais and has decided to stir things up ahead of the derby with les Verts by claiming that even while he was at St [...]
Category: St Etienne Team NewsSt Etienne 2 Sochaux 1
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Sorry, I got the time of the game wrong in the last post – it was at 19h, not 21h. Oops! Anyway, the main thing is that St Etienne won it, even though the visitors, by all accounts, had the better of the second half. Manager Laurent Roussey was really disappointed with the way the [...]
Category: St Etienne Team NewsA new record
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There was more evidence of St Etienne’s popularity yesterday when the club revealed that it had sold 17,419 season tickets for 2008/9. This beats the previous record of 17,144, set in 2005 when les Verts had just achieved their best league position (6th) for many years. Last season, of course, they finished 5th and qualified [...]
Category: St Etienne Team NewsJanot to Lille?
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Goalkeeper Jérémie Janot could leave St Etienne before the end of the month, according to French national sports daily l’Equipe. Janot missed part of the 2007/8 Ligue 1 season through injury, and when he returned to fitness, he could not regain his place in the side from Jody Viviani. He is not prepared to remain [...]
Category: St Etienne Team NewsGeoffroy-Guichard Mark II?
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St Etienne could move to a new stadium in the next few years, according to club president Bernard Caïazzo. In an interview with local paper Le Progrès, he said it would be better to start from scratch than to redevelop the current arena, the legendary Stade Geoffroy-Guichard. “It’s difficult to turn old into new and [...]
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