Marked for Petros
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market18 Jan 2027
Ospitaletto come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Frosinone did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Riccardo Marchizza 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
22 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market18 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Lumezzane have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Gabriele Bracaglia. The answer from Frosinone has not changed — yet.
Match16 Jan 2027
Still nobody has beaten Frosinone
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
The terraces18 Jan 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Giorgi Kvernadze has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match16 Jan 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Giorgi Kvernadze. 1‑0 against Bari, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petros 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.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
7.98, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Frosinone had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Steady
Market11 Jan 2027
Frosinone say no — this time
The offer from Perugia for Matteo Cichella 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Lorenzo Palmisani is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Frosinone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces11 Jan 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Seydou Fini has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Petros 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 ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
The afternoon belonged to Seydou Fini
A mark of 7.22, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match9 Jan 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Catanzaro will be the happier side with the point.
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Upbeat
Squad4 Jan 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Frosinone will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Riccardo Marchizza 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.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market4 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Perugia have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Matteo Cichella. The answer from Frosinone has not changed — yet.
The terraces4 Jan 2027
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Seydou Fini is the division's best young player this month
At 20 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Frosinone will try very hard not to make too much of it.
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Upbeat
Match28 Dec 2026
Frosinone are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 32 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
No sign of nerves from Kevin Barcella at 20 — 8.14
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Kevin Barcella did not need any: 8.14, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match26 Dec 2026
Nobody wants to play Frosinone right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Frosinone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces28 Dec 2026
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match26 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kevin Barcella. 1‑0 against Modena, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Petros 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Edoardo Vergani, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lorenzo Palmisani trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Upbeat
Match5 Dec 2026
Frosinone win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 93th minute. Spezia will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Up for the corner, and Anthony Oyono delivers — 7.76
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Anthony Oyono scored, was marked 7.76, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Match5 Dec 2026
Still nobody has beaten Frosinone
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Riccardo Marchizza 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Spezia made Frosinone work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Antonio Raimondo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petros 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Seydou Fini is the division's best young player this month
At 20 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Frosinone will try very hard not to make too much of it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Petros
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Steady
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Frosinone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lorenzo Palmisani, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.05 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Lorenzo Palmisani 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Francesco Gelli’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Frosinone.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Petros dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for Frosinone
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Frosinone are no longer polite ones.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Frosinone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Francesco Gelli
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match24 Oct 2026
Juve Stabia left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petros 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Lorenzo Palmisani is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Frosinone
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Frosinone are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Frosinone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Petros
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Petros, and the manager let it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriele Bracaglia 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A mark of 7.79, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Monza leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Frosinone were going nowhere until he came on.
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Upbeat
Match19 Sep 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Avellino, and it could have been more.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A brace, and Seydou Fini takes the afternoon — 8.34
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Seydou Fini provided it, and the 8.34 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Lorenzo Palmisani is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Frosinone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.02 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Petros gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
Sergio Kalaj 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 Frosinone can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Frosinone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Frosinone
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mario Monti 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Angelo Damico 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gianmarco Tedesco 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.