The Valenciennes Post
Match15 Aug 2026
Stredair Appuah Owusu settles it late for Valenciennes
The 87th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Stredair Appuah Owusu decided nobody was going anywhere. Dijon had no time left to answer.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nothing got past Rémy Boissier
27 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Valenciennes
Jean Louchet 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Ylan El Hadary
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
3 academy players handed senior numbers at Valenciennes
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Stredair Appuah Owusu 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
One of those days for Stredair Appuah Owusu
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Stredair Appuah Owusu
At 22 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Valenciennes promote Joseph Clément from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Joseph Clément 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Patrick David joins the Valenciennes first team
- Market One of our own: Frédéric Richard joins the Valenciennes first team
- Match Stredair Appuah Owusu the difference as Valenciennes beat Dijon