The Pineto Courier
Match13 Mar 2027
The wait goes on for Pineto
12 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Stefano Amadio keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Pineto may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match13 Mar 2027
6 matches without a goal for Pineto
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 6 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Pineto count the cost of losing Roberto Bertolini
28 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Pineto
Tommaso D'Orazio 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at Pineto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filippo D'Andrea 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.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Vincenzo Landi chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Matteo Borsoi was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad15 Mar 2027
No place for Camilo Hernández in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Pineto are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
- Match Pineto draw a blank against Pianese
- Market Diego Andrada linked with a move away
- The dugout Stefano Amadio left out for tactical reasons at Pineto