The Renate Post
Match13 Dec 2027
Renate refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 26 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad13 Dec 2027
A one-man rearguard from Tommaso Nobile
There were 6 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.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Tempers go at Renate
Francesco Vassallo 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.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
Gavin Vlijter in the eights
A performance of 9.68 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match11 Dec 2027
Renate get the job done against Arzignano
A 2‑1 win over Arzignano, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Renate lose Callum Cliff
31 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
A masterclass from Lorenzo De Leo
Marked 8.22 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Lorenzo De Leo is carrying Renate
9 goals and a season average of 7.24. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
A costly moment from Corrado Riviera
One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at Renate, and it is a cruel one.
In brief
- Player ratings Andrea Bonetti runs at them all day
- Market The Gavin Vlijter talk will not go away
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Gavin Vlijter