The Benevento Herald
Squad5 Oct 2026
Gianmarco Vannucchi damages knee ligaments — 105 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 105 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match3 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Benevento do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Filippo Grilli at Benevento
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Filippo Grilli is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Philipp Simon wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Benevento know it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Jacopo Manconi
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 548% of everything Benevento earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marko Pjaca was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.53. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A masterclass from Matteo Della Morte
Marked 8.19 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- Match Benevento share the spoils with Trapani
- Market The Guglielmo Mignani story refuses to die
- The terraces The press have found their man in Marko Pjaca