Marked for Ezechiel Oumar
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad23 Nov 2026
70 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Galactik lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.31, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Ousmane Biani 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
AS DGSSIE made Galactik work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.74 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑1, Ali Allamine could afford to be generous.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Ezechiel Oumar is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Looking ahead23 Nov 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Mahamat Ali Hassan’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Galactik needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Moussa Hissein has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Galactik 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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Saleh Mbainaissem
91 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Galactik lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match31 Oct 2026
A 2-goal lead gone for Galactik
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Stars Jeunes Talents kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Galactik will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Match31 Oct 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Galactik
5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.44 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Youssouf Abdraman is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 3‑3 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 14 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad19 Oct 2026
105 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Galactik lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match17 Oct 2026
Chastening afternoon for Galactik
A 2‑5 beating by Gazelle was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Djibrine Hissein: 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.” Galactik have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A brace, and Mahamat Ali Hassan takes the afternoon — 8.79
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mahamat Ali Hassan provided it, and the 8.79 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match17 Oct 2026
7 goals in one match, Mahamat Ali Hassan on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Galactik and Gazelle.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 29 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Galactik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Galactik dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.