The Ascoli Gazette
Squad13 Oct 2031
The knee: Petar Mišić out for 73 days
73 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ascoli lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match11 Oct 2031
No mercy from Ascoli
Gubbio will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Ascoli were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings13 Oct 2031
A brace, and Gabriele Gori takes the afternoon — 9.46
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Gabriele Gori provided it, and the 9.46 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings13 Oct 2031
Stefano De Luca, 19, steals the show — 9.15
Marked 9.15 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Match11 Oct 2031
Ascoli cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad13 Oct 2031
Words exchanged at Ascoli
Federico Gattoni and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom13 Oct 2031
The numbers do not look good at Ascoli
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
The terraces13 Oct 2031
The crowd has taken to Stefano De Luca
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.
Squad13 Oct 2031
Francesco Galuppini 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
- The dugout news_h_reunited_with_his_manager
- Squad Home is on Pedro Blanco's mind
- The dugout A satisfied José Moya