The MC Alger Courier
Match3 Nov 2029
The run at home goes on for MC Alger
38 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Match3 Nov 2029
Still nobody has beaten MC Alger
The unbeaten run reaches 18. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings5 Nov 2029
Both of them Parfait Guiagon's — 9.31
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.31, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
The dugout5 Nov 2029
Stephane Keller says MC Alger went back on their word
“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.
Squad5 Nov 2029
Parfait Guiagon is carrying MC Alger
18 goals and a season average of 7.55. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market5 Nov 2029
Alhassane Bangoura has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around MC Alger they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad5 Nov 2029
Tempers go at MC Alger
Parfait Guiagon 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.
Squad5 Nov 2029
A row about effort at MC Alger
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jean was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Nov 2029
Stephane Keller stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Stephane Keller and MC Alger agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- Match MC Alger find a way past Paradou
- Player ratings Aiman Yahya in the eights
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Josh Koroma