Ligue 2 MISSED 2–0
Sat, Oct 10 · 20:00 · Stade Geoffroy-Guichard
Saint Etienne Home
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Rodez Away
Saint Etienne vs Rodez — Ligue 2
Tipster's pick Over 2.5 Goals
Confidence Low
Odds 1.44 Odds via Bet365
Expert analysis

Saint Etienne Host Rodez in Open Ligue 2 Encounter

Saint Etienne occupy first place with sixteen points from seven games and score 2.7 goals per game overall. Their home matches have produced three or more goals in all seven league games played this season. Rodez sit fourteenth and concede 2.3 goals a game, with that figure rising to 2.7 away from home. Five of Rodez’s seven league games have featured both teams scoring. Saint Etienne enter with three wins one draw and one defeat in their last five, while Rodez have managed one win one draw and three defeats. Head to head meetings between the pair have gone over two and a half goals in only three of the last nine. The game may see Saint Etienne press forward early against a Rodez side that struggles to keep clean sheets on the road.

AcePredictor Analysis by AcePredictor 68.5% win rate
Result
2–0 MISSED

Our pick “Over 2.5 Goals” at odds 1.44 didn’t land — final score 2–0.

Match timeline
  1. First half
  2. Thierno Ballo assist Jakob Breum 15'
  3. Ryan Ponti ↓ Luzolo Vangi 27'
  4. Jordan Mendes 37'
  5. Mathis Saka 45+2'
  6. Second half
  7. Augustine Boakye assist Jakob Breum 55'
  8. Áron Csongvai 66'
  9. Mathis Touho ↓ Nachon Nsingi 68'
  10. Kelian Nsona ↓ Steven Luyambula Biwa 68'
  11. Joshua Duffus ↓ Irvin Cardona 71'
  12. Adam Baallal ↓ Jakob Breum 72'
  13. Marco Essimi ↓ Mathis Saka 77'
  14. Octave Joly ↓ Kenny Nagera 77'
  15. elyes dhaoui ↓ Augustine Boakye 79'
  16. Nathan Kasia Nkondo ↓ Ben Old 80'
  17. I. Cathro 87'
  18. Mamour Ndiaye ↓ Gautier Larsonneur 88'
This season
Saint Etienne Rodez
Over 2.5 goals 100% 71%
Clean sheet 29% 0%
Failed to score 0% 29%
Scored per game 2.7 2.0
Conceded per game 1.1 2.3
Scored home / away 3.3 / 2.3 2.0 / 2.0

Across 7 and 7 matches played this season.

League table position
# Team PWDLPts
1 SAI Saint Etienne ▲ 7 5 1 1 16
2 RED RED Star FC 93 7 4 2 1 14
3 REI Reims 7 3 4 0 13
4 MON Montpellier 7 3 3 1 12
5 MET Metz 7 2 4 1 10
6 NAN Nancy 7 3 1 3 10
7 ANN Annecy 7 3 1 3 10
8 SOC Sochaux 7 2 4 1 10
9 DIJ Dijon 7 2 3 2 9
10 PAU PAU 7 2 2 3 8
11 GUI Guingamp 7 2 2 3 8
12 DUN Dunkerque 7 2 2 3 8
13 GRE Grenoble 7 2 2 3 8
14 ROD Rodez ▲ 7 2 1 4 7
15 NAN Nantes 7 2 1 4 7
Recent form · last 5 finished matches
Saint Etienne WWLDW
W @ Dijon 3–2 Aug 31
W vs Montpellier 3–1 Sep 5
L @ Dunkerque 1–2 Sep 12
D @ Metz 2–2 Sep 19
W vs FC Sion 5–1 Oct 2
Rodez DLLLW
D vs PAU 2–2 Aug 28
L @ Metz 1–4 Sep 5
L vs Grenoble 0–1 Sep 11
L vs Nancy 3–4 Sep 18
W vs Inter Club d'Escaldes 2–0 Oct 3
Goals trend · last 5 matches
Saint Etienne
Scored 2.8 avg
3 3 1 2 5
Conceded 1.6 avg
2 1 2 2 1
Rodez
Scored 1.6 avg
2 1 0 3 2
Conceded 2.2 avg
2 4 1 4 0
Head-to-head · last meetings
2 Saint Etienne
4 Draws
3 Rodez
May 2026 Saint Etienne 0–0 Rodez Draw
May 2026 Rodez 2–1 Saint Etienne Rodez
Aug 2025 Saint Etienne 4–0 Rodez Saint Etienne
May 2024 Saint Etienne 2–0 Rodez Saint Etienne
May 2024 Saint Etienne 1–1 Rodez Draw

Over 2.5 goals in 3 of the last 9 meetings.

Confirmed lineups
Saint Etienne 4-4-2
  • 30 G. Larsonneur G
  • 23 K. Pedro D
  • 13 João Ferreira D
  • 18 S. Nair D
  • 11 B. Old D
  • 20 A. Boakye M
  • 6 M. Bernauer M
  • 14 Á. Csongvai M
  • 8 T. Ballo M
  • 7 I. Cardona F
  • 10 J. Breum F
Bench Adam Baallal, T. Teillol, E. Dhaoui, N. El Jamali, L. Lavallée, J. Duffus, Mamour Ndiaye, N. Kasia Nkondo, T. Svetlin

Ian Cathro

Rodez 5-3-2
  • 1 Q. Braat G
  • 28 S. Luyambula Biwa D
  • 24 L. Quenabio D
  • 4 M. Magnin D
  • 3 R. Lipinski D
  • 17 L. Vungele Vangi D
  • 10 M. Saka M
  • 6 J. Mendes M
  • 29 Antonin Cartillier M
  • 7 K. Nagera F
  • 9 N. Nsingi F
Bench M. Touho, E. Crombez, M. Essimi Ateba, E. Jean-Lambert, O. Joly, K. Nsona, D. Pavlović, R. Ponti, M. Sylla

D. Santini