The Stade Brestois Sentinel
The terraces28 Feb 2028
Supporters organise against the Stade Brestois board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Boardroom28 Feb 2028
The scrutiny sharpens at Stade Brestois
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Stade Brestois is running low.
Match26 Feb 2028
A 2-goal lead gone for Stade Brestois
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. FC Metz kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Stade Brestois will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings28 Feb 2028
Both of them Pathé Mboup's — 8.32
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.32, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Real improvement from Raphaël Le Guen at Stade Brestois
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Raphaël Le Guen is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings28 Feb 2028
Nobody could get near Mama Baldé
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
Mathieu Patouillet gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market28 Feb 2028
One of our own: Laurent Duval joins the Stade Brestois first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Laurent Duval is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market28 Feb 2028
Stade Brestois promote Jacques Faure from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jacques Faure 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 Hervé Giraud steps up from the Stade Brestois academy
- Market One of our own: Laurent Ménard joins the Stade Brestois first team
- The dugout The team sheet said everything about Brendan Chardonnet