The AJ Auxerre Sentinel
Squad21 Sep 2026
Donovan Léon 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.
Match16 Sep 2026
Cup progress for AJ Auxerre
A 2‑2 win over Le Havre AC, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Tony Mendy runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Sep 2026
A European lesson for AJ Auxerre
0‑1 against Fenerbahce. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for AJ Auxerre
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around AJ Auxerre are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A chastening introduction for Youssef Khoudda — 5.40
It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.40 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Romain Faivre 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 AJ Auxerre this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Tony Mendy at AJ Auxerre
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tony Mendy is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Clément Akpa
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Player ratings The cruellest goal, and it is Lasso Coulibaly's
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Donovan Léon
- Player ratings The one thing Romain Faivre could not do