Hervé Boua Dié

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Valenciennes
28 Dec 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Hervé Boua Dié

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The Valenciennes Post

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Théo Le Bris shuts the door

Defensive actions: 34, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Jean Louchet

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Hervé Boua Dié: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Valenciennes have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Alexandre Coeff 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 Valenciennes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Valenciennes get the job done against Dijon

A 1‑0 win over Dijon, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Charles Abi in the eights

A performance of 8.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Nathan Mbala runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

No hiding place for Brad Mayo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Brad Mayo, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Alexandre Coeff shuts the door

Defensive actions: 14, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

In brief

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The Valenciennes Post

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Justin Lacombe decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match

Hervé Boua Dié sends Valenciennes through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Hervé Boua Dié obliged against Stade Rennais. 3‑3 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Valenciennes.

Squad

Tempers go at Valenciennes

Théo Le Bris 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.

Player ratings

Erin Airhiavbere in the eights

A performance of 10.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

One of those days for Hervé Boua Dié

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.71, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Nathan Mbala misses from twelve yards

It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.

Player ratings

Yuliwes Bellache runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

No hiding place for Rento Takaoka

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rento Takaoka, and the manager let it.

Match

Charles Abi rescues a point for Valenciennes

It needed Charles Abi to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Clermont Foot, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

17 Edition

The Valenciennes Post

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Mabrouk Rouaï hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Valenciennes can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Valenciennes

Alexandre Coeff 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Daou Diomandé

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daou Diomandé, and the manager let it.

In brief