“Greens” are going through a period quite good, being unbeaten in their last six games. However, despite recent invincibility, coached by Christophe Galtier nor can boast of much success, noting previous four disputes and four draws. Even if they managed to win the last two games, how they obtained in extremis remises against those of PSG Parc des Princes and against Mainz in Europa League can be considered a success, goals equalizers coming every time in the last minutes. It is also worth noting that Slovenia Beric is the one who saved the day in both games, scoring in overtime against champions France and pointing in dispute with Mainz in the 88th minute Saint-Etienne currently occupies 12th place in Ligue 1 5 points (agg 6-5).

Corsicans started the new season with two wins and two draws, performance that places them at the moment the race in ninth position in the domestic (agg 5-4). Students Francois Ciccolini will be present in this round with a fairly high moral victory achieved thanks to the end of the previous match (2-1) played in the company of Toulouse.

Saint-Etienne won both duels last season (2-1 at home and 1-0 away). Also, the band in the city located 50 km southwest of Lyons won nine of their last 11 direct confrontations with Bastia.

Pierres-Yves Polom Cheikh M’Bengue are injured and will not perform difficult. Florian Raspentino, Ismael Diallo, Alexander Djiku and Farid Boulay continues to have physical problems, they are indiponibili and Stade Geoffroy-displacement Guichard.

Saint-Etienne: Ruffier – Pogba, Perrin, Teophile-Catherine, Malcuit – Pajot, Selnaes, Veretout – Tannane, Beric, Monnet-Paquet

Bastia: Leca – Cioni, Squillaci, Peybernes, Bengtsson – Mostefai, Cahuzac – Saint-Maximin, Diallo, Nangis – Crivelli