The Venezia Chronicle
Squad24 Apr 2028
Words exchanged at Venezia
Juan Jesus and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Words at Venezia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bartol Franjić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match22 Apr 2028
Venezia get the job done against Cosenza
A 2‑1 win over Cosenza, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces24 Apr 2028
The crowd has taken to Junior Ligue
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
Ninety minutes of Lamine Fanne at his very best
Marked 8.04. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Venezia.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
One of those days for Antonio Casas
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.01, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
A promise honoured for Bartol Franjić
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Venezia told Bartol Franjić something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
Nobody could get near Junior Ligue
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
One moment undoes Max Davies
There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.
In brief
- The dugout A satisfied Ciro Sanna
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Ahmed Sidibé
- Loan watch 8 goals on loan for Andrea Adorante