The Pau FC Sentinel
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
Ali Hassan runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Apr 2028
Thiema Gueye is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Pau FC is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
The game went through Mário Sauer — 7.50
Marked 7.50 on 16 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Squad10 Apr 2028
A falling-out at Pau FC
Antoine Mendy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces10 Apr 2028
Pau FC supporters have found a favourite in Mário Sauer
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Mário Sauer has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match8 Apr 2028
Pau FC get the job done against Le Mans FC
A 1‑0 win over Le Mans FC, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Pau FC lose Patrick Adam
31 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
One of those days for Rayan Touzghar
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.16, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout10 Apr 2028
The team sheet said everything about Gaëtan Coucke
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Gaëtan Coucke.
In brief
- The dugout Pau FC pick somebody else ahead of Gaëtan Coucke
- The dugout A satisfied Jacques Giraud
- Squad Words at Pau FC training over how hard people work