Stéphane Roux

Striker - Monaco
5 Aug 2043
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Stéphane Roux

868 Edition

The Monaco Sentinel

16 Mar 2043
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

9 matches without a win for Monaco

The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Monaco are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A fracture rules Pierre Guérin out for 95 days

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

Player ratings

A brace, and Stéphane Roux takes the afternoon — 8.57

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Stéphane Roux provided it, and the 8.57 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Chris Brady

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Monaco and FC Nantes in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad

Tempers go at Monaco

Noham Diop 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.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Monaco

4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Squad

Monaco lose Stéphane Charpentier

34 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match

Honours even between Monaco and FC Nantes

3‑3, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

Back issues
817 Edition

The Monaco Sentinel

24 Mar 2042
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Ansu Fati breaks a bone — 134 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 134 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

The small margins put Monaco out

Out, 1‑2 to Stade Rennais, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Chris Brady

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

No end in sight to Monaco's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Monaco has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

Monaco are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Match

LOSC Lille take the points off Monaco

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Stéphane Roux

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Nacim Dendani in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Monaco this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Monaco pick somebody else ahead of Lamine Camara

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief