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31 Dec 2026
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Process

Marked for

22 Edition

The US Moursal Sentinel

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Both of them Abdoulaye Abba's — 8.31

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.31, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

Still nobody has beaten US Moursal

The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match

US Moursal are at home on the road

6 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Squad

Ezechiel Souleymane is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match

US Moursal get the job done against Aiglons

A 3‑2 win over Aiglons, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

A row about effort at US Moursal

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mbogo Acyl was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Moses Ali

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

a squad player 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 US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

No hiding place for Hassan Doungous

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hassan Doungous, and the manager let it.

In brief

  • Loan watch Adam Abakar wants to come home
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Player ratings Moses Ali runs at them all day
Back issues
18 Edition

The US Moursal Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

US Moursal 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.

Player ratings

Moses Ali runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A row about effort at US Moursal

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mbogo Acyl was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

US Moursal get the job done against Renaissance

A 2‑1 win over Renaissance, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Saleh Djimet in the eights

A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of a squad player

“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.

Loan watch

Adam Abakar counts the days

“I watch every US Moursal game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Gazelle runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad

A falling-out at US Moursal

Adam Moustapha and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Marius Souleymane has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Marius Souleymane on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

In brief

16 Edition

The US Moursal Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The step up is real for Clinton Aboubakar

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Mbogo Acyl falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Words exchanged at US Moursal

a squad player 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Abdoulaye Abba

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abdoulaye Abba, and the manager let it.

Loan watch

Marius Allamine has seen enough of Foullah Edifice

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at US Moursal, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout

Mbogo Acyl has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at US Moursal will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

Mahamat Abakar placed on the list

US Moursal have made Mahamat Abakar available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

The dugout

Idriss Ndoram knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Idriss Ndoram trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The Idriss Haroun talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. US Moursal know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

10 Edition

The US Moursal Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

A debut Idriss Ndoram will not forget — 7.43

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.43 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Player ratings

Moses Ali, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.90

A mark of 7.90 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Boardroom

Graduation day at US Moursal

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Match

US Moursal get the job done against Gazelle

A 3‑1 win over Gazelle, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Mbogo Acyl falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The terraces

US Moursal supporters have found a favourite in Moses Ali

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Moses Ali has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

a squad player 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 US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

One of our own: Hassan Doungous joins the US Moursal first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hassan Doungous is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Abdramane Mbainaissem joins the US Moursal first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Abdramane Mbainaissem is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief