The Padova Post
Squad31 Aug 2026
Gianluca Caprari 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 Padova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Alejandro Gómez
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Daniele Ghilardi
At 23 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Padova find a way past Pescara
Pescara made Padova work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Daniele Ghilardi
Marked 8.13 — 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Padova training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mattia Buniotto 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.
In brief
- Squad 5 new faces, and Padova are still learning each other
- Squad Angelo Baraldi stays put
- Market Padova borrow Daniele Ghilardi
- Market The Jacopo Bacci story refuses to die