St Etienne Team News
Just in time for the derby…
By: Benj |
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The Saint Etienne blog is back! My name is Ben and I will be writing for the Saint Etienne Offside as of today. With the derby coming up, we have a lot on our plate, so let’s jump right in.
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Where were we?
By: Jonathan | 5 Comments
Time to get this blog going again. That was a bit of a long break – sorry about that, my wife gave birth to our first child towards the end of 2008 and I have been quite busy since then! It’s a boy, so I intend to bring him up as a Francophile and a [...]
Category: St Etienne Team NewsSt Etienne 1 PSG 0
By: Jonathan | 2 Comments
That’s more like it. Out of the relegation zone, and a superb goal to boot:
Thank you, Mouhamadou Dabo. I doubt we’ll see a better goal all season. Hopefully, following the UEFA Cup win against Tel Aviv last Thursday, this will enable Les Verts to get their season back on track. They are still only 16th [...]
Category: St Etienne Team NewsCaen 2 St Etienne 0
By: Jonathan | No Comments
Well that’s it I think, the start of the new season is now officially a disaster for St Etienne. Five games, four defeats and only two goals scored has left les Verts in the relegation zone, pretty much the exact opposite of where pre-season expectations had placed them. (Not quite as bad as Spurs in [...]
Category: St Etienne Team NewsSt Etienne 0 Lyon 1
By: Jonathan | 2 Comments
Not sure if this is one of St Etienne’s worst ever starts to a season, but it is now officially really bad. Three defeats in the first four games. Sheesh. And the team has failed to score in each of those defeats. Not looking good so far.
Yet more poor defending on Saturday. They simply allowed [...]
Category: St Etienne Team NewsUEFA Cup draw
By: Jonathan | 2 Comments
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 [...]
Category: St Etienne Team NewsPre-Lyon round-up
By: Jonathan | No Comments
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
By: Jonathan | 1 Comment
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
By: Jonathan | No Comments
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
By: Jonathan | 2 Comments
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 [...]
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