The AC Ajaccio Courier
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Age has not caught Riad Nouri yet — 8.27
At 41 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.27 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Wolo Leblanc Touré is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Lyes Houri 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 AC Ajaccio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of CJ Egan-Riley at his very best
Marked 9.61. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AC Ajaccio.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to CJ Egan-Riley
At 23 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Loïc Damour shuts the door
Defensive actions: 20, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match17 Oct 2026
CJ Egan-Riley sends AC Ajaccio past Nimes
It finished 1‑0, and it was CJ Egan-Riley’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to AC Ajaccio.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Nicolas Borodine 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
AC Ajaccio lose Gabriel Fournier
32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Mehdi Boussaïd
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of CJ Egan-Riley
- The terraces The stand has a song for Riad Nouri