The Crotone Gazette
Squad4 Jan 2027
The season belongs to Guido Gomez
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Crotone have had the benefit of it.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Antonio Energe runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Cristian Andreoni 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 Crotone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
No hiding place for Vinícius
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vinícius, and the manager let it.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Mattia Sandri in the eights
A performance of 8.33 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Costly mistake from Davide Merelli
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Davide Merelli knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Match2 Jan 2027
Honours even between Crotone and Cavese
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
The one thing Guido Gomez could not do
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Market4 Jan 2027
The Guido Gomez question follows Crotone around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Guido Gomez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Antonino Musso
- Market Mattia Novella placed on the list
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Mattia Sandri