The Ospitaletto Sentinel
Match16 Jan 2027
Ospitaletto throw away a 3-goal lead
3 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Renate the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Ospitaletto will enjoy reviewing.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A day Francesco Galuppini will not forget
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Vintage Francesco Galuppini — 9.90
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 9.90, and nobody on the pitch better.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
No sign of nerves from Eduard Ihnatov at 20 — 8.45
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Eduard Ihnatov did not need any: 8.45, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Simone Cortese says Ospitaletto went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Ospitaletto
Francesco Galuppini 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
Marco Bertoli 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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Ospitaletto rebuffed over Gabriel Vázquez
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Quilmes have kept their man, and Ospitaletto go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Marco Bertoli 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Claudio Messaggi
- Match Ospitaletto share the spoils with Renate
- The dugout Ospitaletto pick somebody else ahead of Alessandro Berardi