The Stade Lavallois Courier
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Eros Maddy runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mamadou Samassa keeps Stade Lavallois in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Stade Lavallois
Owen Kouassi 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Stade Lavallois
4 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Dylan Mbayo 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Malik Sellouki at his very best
Marked 8.90. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Stade Lavallois.
Market17 Aug 2026
Stade Lavallois promote Benoît Breton from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Benoît Breton has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market17 Aug 2026
Stade Lavallois promote Rémy Masson from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rémy Masson has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market17 Aug 2026
Paul Morel steps up from the Stade Lavallois academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Paul Morel has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Jérôme Bonnet joins the Stade Lavallois first team
- Squad The manager makes an example of Mamadou Camara
- Match Malik Sellouki rescues a point for Stade Lavallois