The Angers SCO Courier
Match16 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Angers SCO
1‑2 against Dijon, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Harouna Djibirin, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.83
A mark of 7.83 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Haris Belkebla 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 Angers SCO this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Goduine Koyalipou 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Anthony Lopes gets it from the manager
“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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The game went through Ruben Macedo Da Costa — 6.24
Marked 6.24 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Amine Sbaï
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Anthony Lopes wants out of the spotlight
The ambition story running the other way, and the one nobody tells: a footballer asking for a smaller stage, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is very rarely reported as anything else.
Match19 Sep 2026
Honours even between Angers SCO and AJ Auxerre
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
In brief
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Jim Allevinah’s exile
- Player ratings Amine Moussaoui ran the game
- Market The Lanroy Machine talk will not go away