Defeats are linked to Saint-Etienne. Beaten Thursday in the Europa League by the Belgian club Gantoise (3-2), the Greens sank again Sunday in Angers (4-1) and recorded a third defeat in six games in Ligue 1.
The Casimir Ninga show
However, it was the players of Ghislain Printemps who opened the scoring through Arnaud Nordin (34th). But as soon as the locker room came back, Saint-Etienne found herself overwhelmed by the Angevin waves. Pierrick Capelle first equalized (48th) before the show Casimir Ninga, author of a hat-trick (78th, 86th, 88th).
This new setback is already plunging ASSE into crisis. Saint-Etienne (17th, 5 pts) is only one point ahead of the first relegation Metz. All goes well however for Angers (2nd, 12 pts), who returns to Paris Saint-Germain before his duel against Olympique Lyonnais at 21:00.