Marked for Matteo Scanzi
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match3 Nov 2027
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Jacopo Deratti obliged against Bari. 3‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Lumezzane.
Match3 Nov 2027
Lumezzane win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 118th minute. Bari will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad8 Nov 2027
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Lumezzane — 7.84
1 for Jacopo Deratti, marked 7.84, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Match6 Nov 2027
1‑2 to Pergolettese, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad8 Nov 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 Lumezzane this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces8 Nov 2027
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lorenzo Andrenacci, and the manager let it.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Fabrizio Paghera 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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
The dugout30 Aug 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Lumezzane may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
The deal with Inter is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
$180.0K was the most the club would pay and Torino were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Torino have kept their man, and Lumezzane go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Lorenzo Carvalho 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.
Match28 Aug 2027
The drought breaks for Lumezzane
5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Arzignano were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Match28 Aug 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Michele Rocca. 1‑0 against Arzignano, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Matteo Scanzi and Lumezzane agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Lumezzane are still strangers to each other
14 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
In brief
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Player ratings
The afternoon belonged to Michele Rocca
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Jacopo Deratti gets it from the manager
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
The offer went to Empoli this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lorenzo Andrenacci commits to Lumezzane for another 2 years.
The dugout9 Aug 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.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
A loan move for Marco Carraro is in the works
Lumezzane have made the call to Vicenza. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad9 Aug 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 Lumezzane this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Aug 2027
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Lumezzane has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.