Marco Burch

Central Defender - Servette
19 Jan 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Marco Burch

17 Edition

The Servette Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Joël Mall

54 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Servette lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The dugout

Steve Rouiller says Servette went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

A falling-out at Servette

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

Match

A bad afternoon for Servette against St. Gallen

0‑1 to St. Gallen, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at Servette training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miroslav Stevanović 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.

The dugout

Djibril Comert: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Looking ahead

Marco Burch faces his old club

Luzern next, and one man in the Servette dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

The dugout

Lilian Njoh has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Servette will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ablie Jallow

Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
14 Edition

The Servette Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Joël Mall

78 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Servette lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Cup progress for Servette

A 2‑1 win over Thun, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Match

Lamine Fomba wins it after the whistle should have gone

121 minutes played. Lamine Fomba found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Thun went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Player ratings

Lamine Fomba pops up at the right end — 7.75

7.75, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Player ratings

Steve Rouiller goes up and wins it — 7.25

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.25 for the rest of it.

Squad

A row about effort at Servette

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Houboulang Mendes was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Timothé Cognat sends Servette past Young Boys

It finished 1‑0, and it was Timothé Cognat’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Servette.

Player ratings

Timothé Cognat stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.79 on the card, and the Servette support went home talking about one name.

Loan watch

Téo Allix counts the days

“I watch every Servette game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Aarau runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief