Sofiane Bellahcene

Defensive Midfielder - MC El Bayadh U18
3 Dec 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Sofiane Bellahcene

68 Edition

The MC El Bayadh Herald

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The mood at MC El Bayadh has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

Silas Nwankwo 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

Tempers go at MC El Bayadh

Mohamed Toumi 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.

Match

USM Khenchela take the points off MC El Bayadh

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Sofiane Bellahcene

“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.

Squad

MC El Bayadh keep their word to Anis Aït-Amarat

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

In brief

Back issues
66 Edition

The MC El Bayadh Herald

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Silas Nwankwo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Every point is an argument now for MC El Bayadh

Position 14 and 6 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Squad

Hamza Yacoub: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” MC El Bayadh have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

The wait goes on for MC El Bayadh

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Tempers go at MC El Bayadh

Abdelkadir Salhi 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.

Match

Ibrahim Morsli answers Olympique Akbou immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Ibrahim Morsli had MC El Bayadh level again within 1 minutes, and Olympique Akbou never got to play with a lead at all.

In brief