Noah Benito

Right Forward - Lausanne-Sport U18
5 Jul 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Noah Benito

65 Edition

The Lausanne-Sport Herald

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Nicky Beloko damages knee ligaments — 56 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 56 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

A European night to remember for Lausanne-Sport

0‑0 against Standard Liege, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

The dugout

Souleymane N'Diaye: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Lausanne-Sport have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Lausanne-Sport

Beyatt Lekoueiry 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.

Squad

Words at Lausanne-Sport training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jamie Roche 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.

Squad

Lausanne-Sport count the cost of losing Noah Benito

43 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout

No hiding place for Seydou Traoré

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Seydou Traoré, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Lausanne-Sport keep their word to Alban Ajdini

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Sekou Fofana

7.31, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Lausanne-Sport had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief