After their draw in the first leg (1-1), Stéphanois and Auxerrois are neck and neck and will try, on Sunday, to win their ticket to play in the top flight next season.
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Out of breath after a physically and mentally exhausting season, Saint-Etienne is playing its survival in Ligue 1, Sunday May 29 (7 p.m.) at the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium, in a return play-off against Auxerre.
In the first leg on Thursday, the two teams separated in a draw (1-1) which gave ASSE a slight advantage thanks to the goal scored outside by Zaydou Youssouf. To meet this ultimate challenge and save its season on the wire, ASSE will once again be able to count on the support of a boiling Cauldron.
On the Auxerre side, Jean-Marc Furlan, who mentioned Thursday “a slight hope after a not great result”put on a certain detachment. “Here, everyone wants Ligue 1, but you have to succeed in putting the players in a bubble”he said at a press conference on Saturday. “We can only free ourselves and have fun. We don’t have to worry about it”he insisted.