A double from Gaëtan Charbonnier allowed Brest to win in Saint-Etienne (2-1), Saturday in the match of the 34th day of Ligue 1 and to take a big step towards maintenance.
The Stade Brestois which only won its third victory in the return phase and which had not won since March 3 in Dijon (3-1), goes back to 13th place with 40 points, passing in front of ASSE (14th) which Mathematically remains under threat with eight points ahead of Nîmes (18th and play-off) four games from the end of the championship.
The Greens, who are therefore still not immune to a bad surprise, must still play in Montpellier and Lille and receive Marseille and Dijon.
Brest will play against Nantes, Nice and Montpellier before concluding against Paris SG.
The Stéphanois got off to a good start with a quick goal from Wahbi Khazri, after having benefited from a good pressing from Arnaud Nordin on Lilian Brassier (11).
A man in the form of the Foréziens, Kahzri scored his seventh goal this season, his sixth in the last six days.
The Stéphanois then missed the opportunity to widen the gap on actions of Zaydou Youssouf (56), Mahdi Camara (63) and on a volley of Romain Hamouma (65).
But Saint-Etienne had a complicated match and his young goalkeeper Etienne Green (20), of which it was the fourth professional match, long delayed the deadline in the face of the reaction of the Brestois, noted at the end of the first period and who deserved to win.
The Saint Etienne goalkeeper was decisive in front of Gaëtan Charbonnier (20), Hugo Magnetti (42), Irvin Cardona (45 + 1, 71) while the latter also placed a header on the bar (44).
However, he had to bow on a free kick from Charbonnier lodged in the skylight and awarded for a foul by Youssouf (66) on Cardona at the entrance to the area before the Brest striker added a second goal, his sixth this season in Ligue 1, after having escaped Harold Moukoudi (79).
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