PSG vs St Etienne Prediction & Betting Tips (12 January)

It is with a lead of 7 points over its runner-up, Marseille, that PSG completes the first phase of Ligue 1. Exercise in which it presents the best attack 44 goals and the most solid defense 14 goals. The capital club started the year well by winning the Champions Trophy last Sunday against AS Monaco 1-0, who they beat in their last Ligue 1 meeting, then on December 18, 2 -4. Between these two duels against the Monegasques, the Parisians ensured their qualification for the round of 16 of the Coupe de France by eliminating Lens 1-1, 3-4 on penalties. In the red to end the previous year, Saint-Etienne started 2025 on the right track.

The Greens, who were left with defeats in Ligue 1 against Rennes 5-0, Marseille 0-2 and Toulouse 2-1, overthrew Reims 3-1 last weekend at the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium. This success, its first in the Championship since November 23, allows the Forez club to no longer be the virtual roadblock. ASSE is now 15th, making it the first non-relegation team. His lead over the virtual barrage, however, remains tiny, only one point. 

PSG should be at full strength again. Defender Kimpembe, in the group for the Champions Trophy, has not played again since the end of his convalescence and remains the only question in the Parisian squad. The transfer window is in full swing and the capital club wants to part ways with central defender Skriniar and French international Kolo Muani, both of whom are rarely used by Luis Enrique. In attack, Dembélé delivered his team by scoring the winning goal in the Champions Trophy at the end of the suspense. He has achieved 9 goals in the current financial year, one less than Barcola who has not scored for two months. Saint-Etienne approaches a second meeting in a row without its striker Sissoko (3 goals), suspended for this match and the following three.

Return, however, of important defender Abdelhamid who served this sanction last weekend. After seeing Nadé, Boakye, Bouchouari, Cornud and Pétrot return to the squad last weekend, Horneland is hopeful that other of his players will experience the same outcome against PSG. This is the case of the influential winger Davitashvili (5 goals), then ill against Reims, and the replacement midfielder Amougou. This meeting in Paris should, however, arrive too quickly for the offensive players Old (no goals in 6 matches) and Wadji (no goals in 4 matches), the midfielder Monconduit (no matches) and the executive full-back Maçon.