Liam Mitchell

Right Midfielder - Benevento
9 Dec 2040
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The Benevento Herald

24 Sep 2040
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match19 Sep 2040

Benevento march on in the cup

Picerno are out and Benevento go through, 3‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings24 Sep 2040

Both of them Liam Mitchell's — 8.23

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.23, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings24 Sep 2040

A debut Simon Batshuayi will not forget — 7.23

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.23 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Player ratings24 Sep 2040

Luke Taylor, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.07

A mark of 8.07 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad24 Sep 2040

Domenico Caprioli keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Benevento may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings24 Sep 2040

Andrii Demydenko, 36, rolls back the years — 8.00

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.00 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match22 Sep 2040

8 unbeaten for Benevento

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Benevento did not have in the autumn.

Squad24 Sep 2040

Matteo Del Gaudio 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.

Match22 Sep 2040

Benevento see off Giugliano

Three points for Benevento, 2‑1 the final word against Giugliano in a contest settled by the finer margins.

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The Benevento Herald

28 Feb 2039
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad28 Feb 2039

Federico Esposito damages knee ligaments — 95 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 95 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market28 Feb 2039

Mario Sosa hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Benevento can pretend not to have heard.

Squad28 Feb 2039

Tempers go at Benevento

Mario Perlingieri 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.

Boardroom28 Feb 2039

Wages eat 130% of everything Benevento earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad28 Feb 2039

The manager makes an example of Andrii Demydenko

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad28 Feb 2039

Words at Benevento training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristiano Dell'Orzo 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.

Market28 Feb 2039

The Antonio Prisco story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Antonio Prisco signs something — a contract at Benevento or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Market28 Feb 2039

Still no signature from Ilja Gribakin

3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Benevento could get for him.

Boardroom28 Feb 2039

Benevento keep producing them

114 graduates from an academy now rated 9 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.

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