Lucas Bonelli

Goalkeeper - Sochaux
16 Oct 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Lucas Bonelli

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The Sochaux Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Silas Ostrzinski 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 Sochaux this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Julien Masson 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Aymen Boutoutaou

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Red Star take the points off Sochaux

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

No hiding place for Max Dean

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

Squad

Costly mistake from Silas Ostrzinski

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Silas Ostrzinski knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

Player ratings

Benjamin Gomel keeps on missing

Shots: 5, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

Player ratings

Max Dean could not find anything

5.68. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

Player ratings

A day to forget for Solomon Loubao

Marked 5.71, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief

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The Sochaux Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Lucas Bonelli gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Lucas Bonelli has just signed for Sochaux, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Julien Masson 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 Sochaux this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

3 academy players handed senior numbers at Sochaux

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

Lucas Bonelli signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lucas Bonelli and Sochaux agree another 4 years.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Samy Baghdadi

Marked 9.30 — 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.

Player ratings

Benjamin Gomel in the eights

A performance of 9.06 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Sochaux find a way past AC Ajaccio

AC Ajaccio made Sochaux work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Boubacar Fofana runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Stéphane Marchal steps up from the Sochaux academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stéphane Marchal has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief