The US Bougouni Herald
Squad22 Oct 2035
John Otieno damages knee ligaments — 53 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 53 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.
Squad22 Oct 2035
A fracture rules Cheick Fofana out for 23 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason US Bougouni will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings22 Oct 2035
Mohamed Slimi runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings22 Oct 2035
Both of them Kénan Glougbé's — 8.30
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.30, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match20 Oct 2035
US Bougouni are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 7 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Match20 Oct 2035
Nobody could stop scoring
8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about US Bougouni and US Bougouba in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Player ratings22 Oct 2035
One of those days for Achille Kouadio
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.53, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings22 Oct 2035
Ninety minutes of Otutu Young at his very best
Marked 8.00. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at US Bougouni.
Match20 Oct 2035
Honours even between US Bougouni and US Bougouba
4‑4, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
In brief
- Squad No hiding place for Hamari Sidibe
- Squad Pederson Ajong signs on for more
- Market The Kénan Glougbé story refuses to die