AS Saint-Etienne : the Mastiffs with Yilmaz and David, Ikoné replacing | ASSE News

For their last home game of the season, potentially the title, LOSC host AS Saint-Etienne (9pm). Araujo started on the right side instead of Ikoné, only a substitute.

A misstep by PSG in Reims could offer LOSC its first title of champion of France for ten years from this Sunday evening, in the event of victory. Other scenarios exist for the Mastiffs to celebrate their coronation at Pierre-Mauroy at the end of this multiplex, but a success would bring them closer to the French trophy anyway.

LOSC is missing 4 points to be titled

Lyon and Monaco, who challenge Nîmes and Rennes, are not mathematically excluded from this race for the title but it would take a hell of a combination of circumstances for the coronation to escape Lille or Paris. The Northerners know it, 4 points will be enough for them by the end of the championship to be champions, regardless of the performance of PSG.

Only Issac Lihadji, who has started only once since the start of the season, is missing in the Lille group, which therefore has all the cards in hand to win against Saint-Etienne, an opponent who is doing well at LOSC. The Greens have won only one of their last seven games against Lille, and have not won in the North since 1993.

The Yilmaz-David duo renewed, Araujo on the right

For this crucial meeting, Christophe Galtier lines up his usual 4-4-2, with, as in Lens, Araujo starting in place of Ikoné in the right lane. The Soumaré-André pair are aligned in the midfield, like the Yilmaz-David duo. On the side of the Greens, the very young goalkeeper Etienne Green (20 years old) knows his seventh consecutive tenure. For this game without a stake, Puel will still be deprived of Moulin, Cissé, Mason, Moukoudi or Modeste, injured.

The Lille composition

Maignan – Celik, Botman, Fonte, Reinildo – Bamba, Soumaré, André, Araujo – Yilmaz, David

The Saint-Etienne composition

Green – Trauco, Kolodziejczak, Sow, Debuchy – Neyou, Camara – Nordin, Bouanga, Khazri, Hamouma