The Modena Sentinel
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Hamilton out for 24 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Modena will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A first appearance Samuel Wiafe will want to forget — 5.77
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.77, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Alessandro Dellavalle is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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 Sep 2026
Francesco Zampano 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 Modena this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Pedro Mendes could have had three
9 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Manuel De Luca
“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.
In brief
- Match A bad afternoon for Modena against Cesena
- Player ratings The one thing Simone Santoro could not do
- Player ratings An afternoon Niklas Pyyhtiä will want back