The Stade Malien Chronicle
Match7 Nov 2026
Stade Malien tear Afrique Foot Elite apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Afrique Foot Elite, and it could have been more.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Moussa Maréga scores twice — 9.15
Two goals and a mark of 9.15 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match7 Nov 2026
Stade Malien cannot stop winning
5 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Stade Malien
Moussa Maréga 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Samba Diallo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
One of their own: Abdullah Monkhallah
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
One of those days for Mamadou Traoré
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.16, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Djigui Diaby kept it short after the 4‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Stade Malien training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mamadou Doumbia is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- Squad The division's best last weekend was a Stade Malien man
- Market The Abdoul Salam Dembélé talk will not go away
- Squad Abdullah Monkhallah scores his first for Stade Malien