The Forli Post
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Gabriele Perretta
Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Nov 2026
34 days out for Jacopo Scaccabarozzi after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Forli will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Iván López, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 8.00
A mark of 8.00 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 147% of the Forli income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
The crowd has taken to Tommaso Gabellini
At 20 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Iván López sends Forli past Gubbio
It finished 1‑0, and it was Iván López’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Forli.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Lorenzo Saporetti
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Jacopo Scaccabarozzi slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Jacopo Scaccabarozzi is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Nicola Mandrelli 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.
In brief
- Squad Words exchanged at Forli
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout The form table has caught Diego Rossi