St Etienne vs FC Lorient Ligue 1 Match Preview or Key Statistics ♌
♌St Etienne have won five of their last six Ligue 1 games against Lorient (L1), keeping a clean sheet in each of those five wins.
♌St Etienne and Lorient have never drawn a Ligue 1 game when they played at Geoffroy-Guichard (7 wins for St Etienne, 4 for Lorient).
♌St Etienne are winless in their last seven Ligue 1 games (D2 L5), the longest current run in the division.
♌Lorient won their first Ligue 1 game this season against Strasbourg (3-1) but have never won their two opening games in a Ligue 1 campaign.
♌St Etienne have won just one of their last six home Ligue 1 games (D2 L3), it was against Nimes in January 2020 (2-1). In their previous Ligue 1 campaign in 2016/17,
♌Lorient lost 14 of their 19 away games in the top-flight (w3 D2), their worst tally in a single Ligue 1 season.
♌St Etienne have failed to keep a clean sheet in each of their last 14 Ligue 1 games, the worst current run and their longest run in the top-flight since January-April 2009 (14).
♌They haven't registered a longer run since September 1971-February 1972 (17).
♌Former Lorient player (who played 5 Ligue 1 games for Lorient, scoring once) Denis Bouanga has scored three goals in his last four Ligue 1 games, after scoring none of his previous six. He has scored three of St Etienne's last four goals in the top-flight.
♌Pierre-Yves Hamel has scored two goals with just three shots attempted in Ligue 1: one goal from two shots attempted against Nantes in October 2016 and one goal with his only shot attempted against Strasbourg in the first matchday this season, each time with Lorient.
♌St Etienne manager Claude Puel has lost just three of his 19 Ligue 1 games against Lorient (W7 D9).
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