The Mouscron Gazette
Squad9 Nov 2026
Umar Collins damages knee ligaments — 65 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 65 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match8 Nov 2026
7 matches without a win for Mouscron
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Mouscron are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A masterclass from Timothy Vertonghen
Marked 8.12 — 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thorgan Tielemans 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Mouscron
Zinho Januzaj 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Toby Boyata
“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.
Match8 Nov 2026
Honours even between Mouscron and KV Oostende
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Hans Carrasco: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The form table has caught Toby Boyata
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Lois De Bruyne plays
- Player ratings Thorgan Tielemans beats them one at a time
- Squad Mees Kreekels walks taller at Mouscron