The Monaco Sentinel
Match23 Feb 2036
No mercy from Monaco
Angers SCO will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Monaco were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings25 Feb 2036
Lasso Coulibaly, 33, rolls back the years — 8.40
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.40 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad25 Feb 2036
Paul Eymard 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 Monaco this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings25 Feb 2036
Paul Eymard in the eights
A performance of 8.42 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout25 Feb 2036
A satisfied Interim Coach
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑0, Interim Coach could afford to be generous.
Player ratings25 Feb 2036
Nothing got past Ben Old
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 13 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings25 Feb 2036
Pierre Mounguengue runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout25 Feb 2036
When it matters, Lasso Coulibaly plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Looking ahead25 Feb 2036
A reunion for Gabin Bernardeau
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against RC Lens in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
In brief
- Squad A first senior shirt for Daniel Perrot
- The dugout Ismail Ka does not fit this one
- Squad The shirt is Enzo Tacafred’s