Toulouse vs. Saint-Étienne

Paulo Machado's early strike gave an advantage to the hosts, but that seemed momentarily as Emmanuel Riviere leveled matters.

But, Toulouse's good and better number of openings meant that second half goals through Andre-Pierre Gignac and Moussa Sissoko, sealed the game for the home side.

Saint-Etienne started the game more promisingly than their counter parts but with their offensive weaknesses, after they failed to score at home against Nice last weekend, again showed in the early stages.

And they received a blow in the opening minutes when Machado fired Toulouse to a lead from 35-yards out with a curling free kick into the Saint-Etienne net.

But Saint-Etienne would battle back into the match via a goal from youngster Riviere.

Yohan Hautcoeur swung in a delivery from the right flank to Blaise Matuidi at the back post, who would knock a header back to the young striker.

And the youngster would make no mistake by lovercoming some challenges and lashing a shot into the roof of the net from 8 yards.

And Andre-Pierre Gignac should have put his side ahead on three occasions side ahead but he failed to do so as Toulouse went in search of a second to seal the game.

Although Saint-Etienne looked relatively comfortable, but a Moustapha Bayal Sall’s slip allowed Gignac room 25-yards to have a shot at goal and France striker scored via both posts.

Les Verts would suffer from one colossal lapse, and it would come from center-back Stathis Tavlaridis. He charged into a challenge with Sissoko in the center of the park, getting nowhere near the ball and allowing the energetic midfielder to run in on goal. With only Janot to beat, the youngster, who was called into the French international setup for the midweek encounter against the Faroe Islands, finished consummately.

There was some encouragement for les Verts late on, Matuidi skimming a dangerous cross along the six-yard box and Bakary Sako cracking a low drive at goal that was turned onto the post by the under-employed Olivier Blondel, but it proved little more than a death rattle for the disappointing visitors.

While Toulouse will have taken a great deal of confidence from their first league win of the season, defeat poses a raft more questions for Alain Perrin and his under-performing Saint-Etienne troops, who remain pointless.