Francesco Lepri

Central Midfielder - Livorno U20
11 Sep 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Francesco Lepri

16 Edition

The Livorno Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Mario Noce damages knee ligaments — 53 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 53 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

No end in sight to Livorno's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Livorno has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A falling-out at Livorno

Frédéric Veseli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Tommaso Arrigoni’s goal not enough for Livorno

Tommaso Arrigoni scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Ascoli, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Livorno count the cost of losing Francesco Lepri

19 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Tommaso Arrigoni

Marked 8.08 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The dugout

Federico Dionisi gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Martino Piazza answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Market

Salvatore Monaco told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Salvatore Monaco has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Livorno.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The Livorno Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Mario Noce out for 81 days

81 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Livorno lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

A falling-out at Livorno

Frédéric Veseli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The terraces

Livorno supporters have found a favourite in Lorenzo Malagrida

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Lorenzo Malagrida has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Lorenzo Malagrida the difference as Livorno beat Pineto

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Lorenzo Malagrida. 1‑0 against Pineto, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Livorno lose Francesco Lepri

47 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Lorenzo Malagrida

7.99, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Livorno had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Martino Piazza, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

Nicola Falasco gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

A row about effort at Livorno

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alessio Rizza was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief