Marked for Anísio Cabral
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Crisis
Squad25 Jan 2027
Gastón Brugman damages knee ligaments — 86 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 86 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.
Match20 Jan 2027
Pescara bow out of the cup
AS Roma go through and Pescara go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market25 Jan 2027
Novara come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Pescara did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match23 Jan 2027
4 matches without a win for Pescara
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Pescara are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Lamine Fanne in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pescara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match23 Jan 2027
Pescara make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad25 Jan 2027
12 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Sebastiano Desplanches has given nobody the chance.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gastón Brugman
117 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pescara lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match26 Dec 2026
7 unbeaten for Pescara
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Pescara did not have in the autumn.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Giacomo Olzer 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Andrea Oliveri
“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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Nobody at Pescara will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Match26 Dec 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Davide Faraoni damages knee ligaments — 31 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 31 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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Dec 2026
6 unbeaten for Pescara
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Pescara did not have in the autumn.
Squad21 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pescara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Getting past Sebastiano Desplanches has become the hardest job in the division
9 clean sheets and counting. Forwards used to back themselves here; now they shoot early, shoot wide, and look for somebody to blame.
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
“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 Pescara, and 0 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Shots: 9, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Match19 Dec 2026
Point won or two lost for Pescara?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Palermo? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Davide Faraoni
89 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pescara lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Nov 2026
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.
Match31 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Pescara
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Sebastiano Desplanches 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Lamine Fanne 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Anísio Cabral 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.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
Davide Faraoni damages knee ligaments — 97 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 97 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Pescara
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Lamine Fanne 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Sampdoria left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Luca Valzania 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
Doors closed at Pescara
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“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 Pescara, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Lorenzo Meazzi
“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.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
Davide Faraoni damages knee ligaments — 104 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 104 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Pescara's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Pescara has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Lamine Fanne in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pescara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match17 Oct 2026
Venezia left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Pescara say no — this time
The offer from AlbinoLeffe for Magnus Brøndbo was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pescara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A new face in his position, and Antonio Di Nardo suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Pescara have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.