The Gazelle Garoua Courier
Match7 Oct 2026
Cup progress for Gazelle Garoua
A 2‑1 win over PWD Bamenda, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match10 Oct 2026
No mercy from Gazelle Garoua
Unisport Bafang will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Gazelle Garoua were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad12 Oct 2026
3 goals for Lizwe Nxele
The match ball belongs to Lizwe Nxele, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Junior Leboum Meli at 20 — 8.48
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Junior Leboum Meli did not need any: 8.48, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Housseini Ousmanou keeps Gazelle Garoua in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Jordy Doumbe Youmba at Gazelle Garoua
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jordy Doumbe Youmba is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match10 Oct 2026
Gazelle Garoua keep winning on the road
4 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
One of those days for Lizwe Nxele
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Dave Tessa 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 Gazelle Garoua this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- The terraces Gazelle Garoua supporters have found a favourite in Colbert Binni
- Player ratings Marius Kalgong in the eights
- Match Gazelle Garoua settle it inside twenty minutes