The Renate Post
The terraces25 Dec 2028
The mood at Renate has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Player ratings25 Dec 2028
Nothing got past Éder
25 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 ratings25 Dec 2028
Nobody could get near Andrea Bonetti
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad25 Dec 2028
Andrea Bonetti 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.
Squad25 Dec 2028
Riccardo De Zen 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 Renate this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces25 Dec 2028
The crowd has taken to Alejandro Vergaz
At 22 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.
Squad25 Dec 2028
Éder is carrying Renate
6 goals and a season average of 7.32. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings25 Dec 2028
Alejandro Vergaz takes the honours
Marked 7.69 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Renate had the best player on the pitch.
Market25 Dec 2028
A long bet from Renate on Ruben Odegaard
He is 19, and nobody at Renate signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
In brief
- Squad Andrea Delcarro dropped after a run of poor form
- Player ratings Gianluca Esposito was immovable
- Match No goals between Renate and Giana Erminio