Our prediction for this Europa League match:
St Etienne
Match Time & Date:
03/10/2019
12:55 PM
Prediction: 1-1
Wolfsburg
Saint-Etienne have been struggling in all competitions in the 2019/2020 season. Saint-Etienne sit in the relegation zone in the Ligue 1 standings, with the team suffering a 3-2 loss to Gent in the opening match of their Europa League campaign. Les Verts are eager to give fans something to cheer about, but beating Bundesliga side Wolfsburg is easier said than done. The Wolves have been in a fine form of late, with the team beating Mainz on the road in their last league match.
The German club aim to cement top position in Group I, but, no doubt, they would be happy with one point from the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard clash. The two teams meet for the first time ever in European competitions and, taking everything into account, we believe that they are going to share the spoils in their second group game.
Highlighted Player (Yann M Vila):
Formerly a blistering talent and one of the most promising youngsters in French football, Yann M’Vila ended up being a class book example of a player who made all the wrong choices. Having started his career at the age of six with ES Sains-Saint-Fussein, M’Villa was quick to turn heads of the big boys. He was given a chance to move through youth ranks at Rennes where he was given a professional debut in 2009 but it was not long after that his problematic lifestyle came back to haunt him.
Yann M’Villa got suspended from all national teams after an unauthorized night out while on U21 duty with France, a ban which left mark on his club career as well. Despite interest from the likes of Arsenal and Tottenham, M’Villa was sold to Rubin kazan in January 2013 which was the time his nomadic experience as a footballer began.
Spells as Inter Milan and Sunderland failed to help him get back to prominence and meet the early expectations, however. Currently a St Etienne player, M’Villa is hoping to re-establish himself back in his homeland.
Highlighted Team (Wolfsburg):
Wolfsburg are a German football club founded in the aftermath of the World War II (1945). Die Wolfe (The Wolves) wear green and white shirts and they play their home games at Volkswagen Arena. The capacity of the stadium is 30,000 and it was opened on 13 December, 2002.
It is well known that German car manufacturer Volkswagen are the club’s main sponsors. Wolfsburg won the Bundesliga trophy in 2009 and the likes of Edin Dzeko, Grafite and Zvjezdan Misimovic were part of the club’s golden generation.
You should bear in mind that Grafite and Dzeko scored 54 goals between each other in the 2008/2009 Bundesliga campaign and that the team clinched the trophy thanks to a 5-1 win over Werder Bremen on 23 May, 2009. Die Wolfe won the German Cup trophy in 2015, with the team beating star-studded Borussia Dortmund 3-1 in the title game. Wolfsburg are a team that has no bitter rivals in German football.
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