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1 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody scored more than Andrea Mattioli

The month closes with Andrea Mattioli out in front — 6 goals in 3 games, and Arzignano have the division's most feared finisher.

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The month belonged to Andrea Mattioli

Marked 8.48 across it, 6 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Arzignano have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.

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The division's brightest kid this month plays for Pergolettese

Gabriele Pessolani was marked 7.30 and had a hand in 2 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.

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Christian Donadio asks to leave Novara

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

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Nobody made more than Lucien Littbarski this month

3 assists, 7.51, and a Dolomiti Bellunesi player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.

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Andrea Mattioli is the division's best-marked player — 8.48

The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.48 across 3 matches for Arzignano.

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Stefano Gori wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Union Brescia hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

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Claudio Morra makes the list

4 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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Luca Clemenza makes the list

4 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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Niccolò Corti is right behind him

3 goals in 4 appearances for Pergolettese, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

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Eljon Toci makes the list

4 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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The Alberto Spagnoli story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Alberto Spagnoli signs something — a contract at Union Brescia or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

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Lorenzo De Leo tops the scoring charts

Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 7 goals in 5 appearances for Renate.

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The month belonged to Lorenzo De Leo

Marked 8.11 across it, 7 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Renate have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.

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The division's brightest kid this month plays for Renate

Lorenzo De Leo was marked 8.11 and had a hand in 7 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.

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Simone Potop puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at AlbinoLeffe, and it is not being withdrawn.

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Joseph Ekuban leads the division for assists — 7.51

The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 8 of them made by a Renate player marked 7.51, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.

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Samuele Careccia up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Pergolettese — 5 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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Still scoring: Alessandro Faggioli

6 in 4 for Triestina. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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Eljon Toci makes the list

5 appearances, 5 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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Marvin Ducksch makes the list

4 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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Gaetano Monachello named among the month's best — 7.42

4 appearances at that mark for Lumezzane. The team of the month is chosen against every player in the division who does his job, which makes it a quieter compliment than an award and a harder one to dispute.

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Pro Patria and Christian Travaglini are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

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The Manuel Marras question follows Union Brescia around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Manuel Marras’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

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Nobody scored more than Juan Manuel Cruz

The month closes with Juan Manuel Cruz out in front — 6 goals in 4 games, and Trento have the division's most feared finisher.

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Mattia Iori is the division's player of the month — 7.79

A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Lumezzane man on 7.79 with 4 goal contributions.

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The division's brightest kid this month plays for Lecco

Ismaël Konaté was marked 7.60 and had a hand in 4 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.

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Luigi Samele hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Giana Erminio can pretend not to have heard.

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Michele Ambrosini leads the division for assists — 7.41

The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a AlbinoLeffe player marked 7.41, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.

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Highest marks in the league belong to a Trento man

Juan Manuel Cruz averaged 8.01 over 4 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.

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Francesco Amatucci wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Cittadella hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

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So close: Joaquin Dalmasso’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Vicenza moved on, Joaquin Dalmasso reports back to Lecco, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

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Only the photograph left for Lorenzo Lancellotti

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lorenzo Lancellotti will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Pro Vercelli the goodbyes have quietly begun.

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Emile Samyn up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Dolomiti Bellunesi — 3 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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Óttar Magnús Karlsson up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Renate — 3 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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Giacomo Sali is right behind him

4 goals in 4 appearances for AlbinoLeffe, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

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Thomas Alberti tops the scoring charts

Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 2 goals in 1 appearances for Novara.

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Eetu Vertainen puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Triestina, and it is not being withdrawn.

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Union Brescia say no — this time

The offer from Vicenza for Mattia Zennaro was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

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Nobody made more than Michael Fabbro this month

2 assists, 8.31, and a Virtus Verona player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.

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The Sorrento deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Leonardo D'Alessio reports back to Novara with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

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Michael Fabbro is right behind him

1 goals in 1 appearances for Virtus Verona, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

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Mbarick Fall makes the list

1 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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Marvin Ducksch keeps the pressure on

2 goals in 1 appearances for Pro Patria leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

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Gabriel Pellegrino up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Lecco — 2 goals from 1 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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Simone Rabbi: 2 assists this month — 8.19

Next on a chart nobody frames. 8.19 for a Cittadella player whose month is measured in other people's goals.

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Mattia Tordini keeps making them — 2 this month

7.95 for a Alcione Milano player whose contribution is measured entirely in other people's celebrations. The providers' chart is the one nobody frames and everybody in a dressing room reads.

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Talks stall between Novara and Lorenzo Villa

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

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Joaquin Dalmasso asks to leave Lecco

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

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Stefano Gori wants more than Union Brescia are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

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The clock runs on Riccardo Gagno's contract

11 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.