Marked for Aimen Mahious
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Steady
Match20 Feb 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 27 matches without defeat is a foundation JS Kabylie did not have in the autumn.
Squad22 Feb 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 60 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match22 Feb 2027
JS Kabylie refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 49 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad22 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” JS Kabylie may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Ahmed Hassan was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match20 Feb 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Aimen Mahious. 1‑0 against JS Saoura, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad22 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mehdi Boudjemaa, and the manager let it.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
7.82, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. JS Kabylie had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Uneasy
Match13 Feb 2027
Still nobody has beaten JS Kabylie
The unbeaten run reaches 26. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad15 Feb 2027
68 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. JS Kabylie lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match13 Feb 2027
15 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Market15 Feb 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at JS Kabylie, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market15 Feb 2027
USM Alger come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and JS Kabylie did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Ahmed Hassan in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at JS Kabylie this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Yassine Rami falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Steady
Match23 Jan 2027
Still nobody has beaten JS Kabylie
The unbeaten run reaches 23. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad25 Jan 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 90 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match25 Jan 2027
41 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market25 Jan 2027
USM Alger come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and JS Kabylie did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match23 Jan 2027
The run at home goes on for JS Kabylie
13 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Market25 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what JS Kabylie can pretend not to have heard.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match23 Jan 2027
4 matches without a win for JS Kabylie
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around JS Kabylie are no longer polite ones.
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Upbeat
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 44. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Abdel Medioub breaks a bone — 61 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 61 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match2 Nov 2026
23 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Match31 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play JS Kabylie right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Match31 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Aimen Lahmeri’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to JS Kabylie.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at JS Kabylie training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yassine Rami is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
Abdel Medioub breaks a bone — 77 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 77 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match17 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, JS Kabylie do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at JS Kabylie this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Youcef Izem is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Aimen Lahmeri. 2‑0 against CS Constantine, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Ahmed Hassan
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Triumph
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 44. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Abdel Medioub breaks a bone — 93 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 93 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match3 Oct 2026
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Billal Messaoudi scored in the 87th minute, ES Setif had already begun thinking about the journey home, and JS Kabylie took the lot.
Match3 Oct 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now JS Kabylie have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at JS Kabylie this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Walid Khermouche is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.