The Monza Sentinel
Player ratings9 Oct 2028
Matteo Pessina scores twice — 7.88
Two goals and a mark of 7.88 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad9 Oct 2028
A row about effort at Monza
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alessandro Sersanti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match7 Oct 2028
Matteo Pessina’s goal not enough for Monza
Matteo Pessina scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to AC Milan, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Loan watch9 Oct 2028
Joaquín Obdrzalek has seen enough of Frosinone
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Monza, and 0 appearances in 11 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout9 Oct 2028
No hiding place for Semuel Pizzignacco
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Semuel Pizzignacco, and the manager let it.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Home is on Alvin Didriksson's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Monza are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Words exchanged at Monza
Alessandro Berretta 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.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Too much change too quickly at Monza
9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout9 Oct 2028
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 2‑3 Sebastiano Altieri left the room before anybody could ask which.
In brief
- Market The Patrick Cutrone talk will not go away
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Federico Accornero
- The dugout Samuele Birindelli has been promised minutes