While he was one of the main animators of the recently ended winter transfer window and has several players who have not yet been aligned this season in Ligue 1 Uber Eats (Mangala, Crivelli, Sacko, Gnagnon), theAS Saint Etienne are already at the top of the ranking of the teams having used the most players this season. Before J22 and the match against Montpellier (Saturday, 5 p.m.), they are thus 36 Greens to have been aligned since the opening of the season by Pascal Dupraz and before him Claude Puel, including five neophytes in the elite. This is also the highest total among the five major championships.
Top 5 teams using the most players in the league this season:
1. AS Saint-Etienne: 36
2. Genoa (ITA) and FC Barcelona (ESP): 35
4. Venezia (ITA) and FC Metz: 34
Among the Greens, Mahdi Camara (21 games) is the player with the most appearances and also the longest playing time (1833 minutes). The midfielder is ahead of Nordin and Aouchiche (20), then Kolodziejczak and Khazri (19). Among his latest recruits, Bakary Sako (2 games, 84 minutes), Sada Thioub (3 games, 155 minutes) and Paul Bernardoni (3 games, 270 minutes) are among the 36 players used. In addition, the Saint-Etienne club has also fielded three different goalkeepers (Green, Bajic, Bernardoni): as many as Stade Rennais (Gomis, Salin and Alemdar) and PSG (Navas, Donnarumma and Rico).
Ranking of teams by number of players used this season in Ligue 1 Uber Eats:
1. AS Saint-Etienne: 36
2. FC Metz: 34
3. Stade de Reims and Paris Saint-Germain: 32
5. Bordeaux Girondins: 31
6. BODY: 30
7. RC Lens: 28
8. Stade Rennais, Angers SCO and AS Monaco: 27
11. OL, Clermont Foot and FC Lorient: 26
14. OM and RC Strasbourg Alsace: 25
16. FC Nantes, Stade Brestois, OGC Nice and Montpellier HSC: 24
20: LOSC: 23
Clermont, n°1 of new experiences
Among these players, some are discovering the elite this season. In this ranking, ASSE is far from the top with only 5 neophytes. Since the first place is logically occupied by the promoted Clermont (20), ahead of ESTAC (15), titled in Ligue 2 BKT last season and Stade de Reims (11).
Clermontois who also have in their ranks the top scorer of “beginners” in Ligue 1 Uber Eats, with Mohamed Bayo (9 goals), ahead of Alberth Elis (Bordeaux, 8).
Still on the player side, goalkeepers Marco Bizot (SB29), Gauthier Gallon (ESTAC) and Alexander Nübel (AS Monaco) are the two new ones to have played the entire 22 days. And among field players, Akim Zedadka (CF63) has the longest playing time this season (1975 minutes). The right side is ahead of Luan Peres (OM, 1837 minutes) and his counterpart in Auvergne, Vital N’Simba (1776 min).