The US Creteil Herald
Market10 Jan 2028
Zakaria Belkouche asks to leave US Creteil
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match8 Jan 2028
The wait goes on for US Creteil
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match8 Jan 2028
The goals have deserted US Creteil
5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at US Creteil can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Tempers go at US Creteil
Ahmad Ngouyamsa 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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Words at US Creteil training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohamed Ben Fredj is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces10 Jan 2028
The crowd has taken to Julián Vignolo
At 21 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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
US Creteil lose Roger Vidal
19 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
The afternoon belonged to Julián Vignolo
7.25, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. US Creteil had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad10 Jan 2028
The manager makes an example of Lenny Leonil
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Player ratings Omar El Manssouri runs at them all day
- Match US Creteil and Sochaux cancel each other out
- Player ratings Tochukwu Nnadi spends the afternoon fouling