The Catania Sentinel
Squad9 Nov 2026
Andrea Dini is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Andrea Dini: 4 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match4 Nov 2026
Cup progress for Catania
A 1‑1 win over Lecce, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad9 Nov 2026
Alessandro Raimo breaks a bone — 117 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 117 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match7 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten Catania
The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Gabriel Lunetta runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Age has not caught Mirko Miceli yet — 8.01
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.01 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Emanuele Cicerelli 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 Catania this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
The kick that got away from Manuel Martic
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Francesco Forte 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Nothing got past Giovanni Di Noia
- Match Point won or two lost for Catania?
- Loan watch Matteo Stoppa keeps scoring at Sambenedettese