The Chamois Niortais Herald
Match16 Sep 2026
Chamois Niortais through in the cup
A 2‑1 win over OGC Nice, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Alexandre Barbier
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Chamois Niortais
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Chamois Niortais
Nicolas Lemaire 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.
Match16 Sep 2026
Chamois Niortais settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. OGC Nice spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A masterclass from Luc Rodriguez
Marked 8.17 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Alexandre Moreau was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.18. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Julien Olivier
“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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Chamois Niortais and Tours take a point apiece
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- Squad Alexandre Moreau has become a man the manager trusts
- Squad Nicolas Garnier dropped after a run of poor form
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Benoît Poirier