The FC Lorient Herald
Match2 Jan 2027
10 matches without a win for FC Lorient
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around FC Lorient are no longer polite ones.
Market4 Jan 2027
Sambou Soumano asks to leave FC Lorient
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Robin Risser keeps FC Lorient in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at FC Lorient
Montassar Talbi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Isak Jensen
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match2 Jan 2027
A bad afternoon for FC Lorient against Stade Rennais
2‑3 to Stade Rennais, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at FC Lorient training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arthur Avom Ebong 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
FC Lorient rebuffed over Gaël Nsombi
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. US Creteil have kept their man, and FC Lorient go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
One of those days for Aiyegun Tosin
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Igor Silva
- The dugout A promise honoured for Aiyegun Tosin
- The dugout Vincent Bonnet: “No excuses”