Marked for Nemanja Milojević
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Alessandro Sorrentino: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match4 Nov 2026
Padova through in the cup
A 0‑0 win over Reggiana, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match7 Nov 2026
7 matches without a win for Padova
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Padova are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
24 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Squad9 Nov 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 Padova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Gianluca Caprari 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 ratings9 Nov 2026
The kick that got away from Jonas Harder
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Padova, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Padova's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Padova has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad2 Nov 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 Padova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Marco Perrotta 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
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Match31 Oct 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Crisis
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Padova
Gianluca Caprari 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Louis Mouquet 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Daniele Ghilardi 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Padova
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Padova can tell you which week it ends in.
Match17 Oct 2026
Palermo left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Triumph
Squad28 Sep 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 Padova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Edoardo Zanaga is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Carrarese made Padova work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
17 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 7.66 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Padova had the best player on the pitch.
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Triumph
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Padova
Mattia Fortin 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Louis Mouquet 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.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
At 19 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Three points for Padova, 1‑0 the final word against Cesena in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Marco Perrotta 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Lecce
Paulinho Boia 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Kialonda Gaspar 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Everyone has stopped pretending: Portimonense will make the call about Nemanja Milojević this week. Lecce have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A season on the outside for Paulinho Boia
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Lecce has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A wage question at Lecce
Paulinho Boia has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
Market17 Aug 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Oumar Ngom may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Sassuolo paid $4.2M and Lecce took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Wladimiro Falcone and Lecce agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Lecce
Antonino Gallo 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Lecce heard it as anything else.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Lecce training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Paulinho Boia 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Nemanja Milojević again, and this time the name on the line is Padova. Lecce are listening politely and promising nothing.