Players and coaches · 9 dispatches
Ousmane Dembélé
All dispatches about Ousmane Dembélé. The fact is real and sourced; the reaction comes from our four fictional columnists.
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PSG miss three penalties in a row but win shootouts: Louise looks for the difference
PSG won 1-3 at Strasbourg on Saturday in Ligue 1, but Ousmane Dembélé missed a penalty there, after Désiré Doué against Le Mans and Ferran Torres against Manchester City. Luis Enrique admitted…
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Luis Enrique makes four changes at once, PSG score on the first touch
PSG beat Le Mans 3-1 on Saturday at the Parc des Princes in the sixth round of Ligue 1. After a quadruple substitution by Luis Enrique, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia scored on his first…
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Belgium lead 1-0 until the 77th minute, lose 4-1: the thermometer has seen it all
France beat Belgium 4-1 at the Stade de France in the Nations League, scoring four goals in 14 minutes after Dodi Lukebakio’s opener. Nathan Ngoy told Sporza that Belgium had sat too…
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Zidane defends Dembélé after the 4-1, and Freddy still defends his captain
France beat Belgium 4-1 in the Nations League on Monday evening. Captain in the absence of Kylian Mbappé, Ousmane Dembélé was replaced on 60 minutes by Michael Olise, who scored twice and…
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Van Bommel rotates everywhere but the back: Louise hunts the rotation that won’t turn
Mark van Bommel changed several starters in his first Nations League spell, but Senne Lammens, Timothy Castagne, Nathan Ngoy and Brandon Mechele played every minute. Zinédine Zidane made more changes on the…
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Zidane says Van Bommel used to give him ‘little boxes’, Louise looks for the boxes
At a press conference at King Baudouin Stadium, Belgium’s national ground, on 27 September 2026, before Belgium-France in the Nations League, Zinédine Zidane was asked about Mark van Bommel, an old on-pitch…
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Zidane scraps the Clairefontaine carpet, Louise wonders where players arrive now
New France head coach after Didier Deschamps’s fourteen years in charge, Zinédine Zidane has scrapped Clairefontaine’s “blue carpet” and closed the players’ arrival to photographers and journalists.
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Zidane picks four France captains, Marcel remembers just one armband
For his first match on Friday against Turkey, Zinédine Zidane named four captains by seniority with the Blues: Kylian Mbappé, Ousmane Dembélé, Adrien Rabiot and Jules Koundé.
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Mbappé Gives Interview After Interview for the Ballon d’Or, Freddy Does Too
Kylian Mbappé spoke out again on Tuesday, this time to RFI and The Athletic, to defend his case for the Ballon d’Or 2026 after AS and France Football. The trophy will be…