The Como Post
Squad28 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Luis Milla
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Como lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Dec 2026
28 days out for Brian Babit after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Como will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Adrian Lahdo, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.89
A mark of 7.89 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Assane Diao is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Como
Trevoh Chalobah and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Dec 2026
Still nobody has beaten Como
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Raúl Quiroga
“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.
Match26 Dec 2026
Como share the spoils with AS Roma
A 1‑1 draw with AS Roma leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Sergio Giordano on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Sergio Giordano after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Tasos Douvikas plays
- The dugout Mattia Liberali dropped after a run of poor form
- Market The Jesús Rodríguez story refuses to die