Marcel Lopez

Right Back - SC Bastia U20
18 Apr 2036
Friday
Process

Marked for Marcel Lopez

452 Edition

The SC Bastia Chronicle

26 Mar 2035
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A fracture rules Marcel Lopez out for 19 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason SC Bastia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

SC Bastia cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Market

SC Bastia may not be able to give Stanley Mills what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Stanley Mills wants continental football; whether SC Bastia can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

A falling-out at SC Bastia

Jules Collet and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Panagiotis Markou falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Another one collected away from home

3 on the bounce on the road for SC Bastia. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Match

Mário Sauer the difference as SC Bastia beat Quevilly-Rouen

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mário Sauer. 1‑0 against Quevilly-Rouen, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Islam Abbaci wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at SC Bastia can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Mário Sauer

Marked 8.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

Back issues
451 Edition

The SC Bastia Chronicle

19 Mar 2035
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

26 days out for Marcel Lopez after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. SC Bastia will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

The dugout

Andrea Primasso: 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.” SC Bastia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Only the photograph left for Nacer Lukaku

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nacer Lukaku will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around SC Bastia the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

SC Bastia make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now SC Bastia have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Tempers go at SC Bastia

David Ozoh 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

Abbati Abdullahi arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Abbati Abdullahi has, at SC Bastia, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Stanley Mills is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.20 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

SC Bastia see off AS Nancy

Three points for SC Bastia, 3‑1 the final word against AS Nancy in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of David Tufekçiç at his very best

Marked 8.42. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at SC Bastia.

In brief