Saint-Étienne or Angers: Who will earn promotion to Ligue 1 tonight? | OneFootball

By the end of this Friday evening, we’ll know 17 out of the 18 teams who will play in Ligue 1 next season. After Auxerre earned promotion back to the first tier at the first time of asking, Saint-Étienne and Angers are fighting it out for the second promotion spot this evening in the final evening of Ligue 2 action.

Angers will host Dunkerque, whilst Saint-Étienne make the trip north to Quevilly Rouen. Les Verts will no longer have their fate in their own hands, after two costly draws against Rodez and Guingamp put their promotion rivals in the hot-seat on Friday evening. If France’s second-most successful Ligue 1 side are to get back to the big time, they will need Angers to stumble…

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ASSE will have to rely upon a slip-up from Angers at home. Les Angevins have won two games in a row since their last loss to Paris FC at the end of April, the latest coming in the dying seconds against FC Annecy (1-2) thanks to an injury-time goal from Loïs Diony.

Olivier Dall’Oglio, the coach of Saint-Étienne, emphasised the importance of focusing on their game but acknowledged the need to be aware of Angers’ result. “First, we have to beat QRM. (…) We’ll keep abreast of the Angers result, but we won’t be focusing on that all the time,” he stated in his pre-match press conference.

GFFN | George Boxall