Marked for Antonio Prisco
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market25 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Benevento can pretend not to have heard.
Match23 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Benevento's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Benevento has to find a result from somewhere.
Match23 Jan 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Benevento did not have in the autumn.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Mattia Maita 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 Benevento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match23 Jan 2027
Benevento cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
The afternoon belonged to Mattia Maita
7.80, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Benevento had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match23 Jan 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Cavese defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad21 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 Benevento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Benevento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mattia Maita 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.53 on the card, and the Benevento support went home talking about one name.
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Crisis
Squad23 Nov 2026
Mattia Maita 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
The goals have deserted Benevento
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Benevento can tell you which week it ends in.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Upbeat
Match4 Nov 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Matteo Del Gaudio obliged against Pisa. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Benevento.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Mattia Maita 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 ratings9 Nov 2026
21 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
At 18 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Leonardo Sernicola 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 ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 7.54. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Nobody at Benevento 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.