The SM Caen Sentinel
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Facundo Pellistri beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 47. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Valentin Henry, 33, rolls back the years — 7.85
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.85 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match27 Feb 2027
Nobody wins at SM Caen
12 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
Daouda Koné says SM Caen 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.
Match27 Feb 2027
SM Caen make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now SM Caen have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Home is on Anthony Mandréa's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; SM Caen are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at SM Caen
Gautier Lloris and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match27 Feb 2027
Gustaf Nilsson sends SM Caen past Paris 13 Atletico
It finished 1‑0, and it was Gustaf Nilsson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to SM Caen.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Karl Madianga 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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Fidélis
- Market SM Caen and Silas Gnaka are talking past each other
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Gustaf Nilsson