Matteo Solini

Central Defender - Ravenna
2 Feb 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Matteo Solini

27 Edition

The Ravenna Post

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Nicolas Viola out for 29 days

29 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ravenna lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

A fracture rules Matteo Solini out for 42 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ravenna will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Terms done: Matteo Motti is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Catania waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Ravenna is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Match

A hiding for Ravenna

Beaten 0‑4 by Arezzo, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market

Joyce Anacoura asks to leave Ravenna

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 2 signed and 2 gone

That is the business done at Ravenna until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Transfer targets

Spezia tell Ravenna: Mouhamadou Sarr is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

No hiding place for Stefano Okaka

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Stefano Okaka, and the manager let it.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Ravenna dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief

Back issues
26 Edition

The Ravenna Post

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Nicolas Viola out for 36 days

36 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ravenna lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

50 days out for Matteo Solini after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ravenna will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Matteo Motti asks to leave Ravenna

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Manuel Fischnaller yet — 8.38

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.38 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Lorenzo Lonardi stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Lorenzo Lonardi and Ravenna agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

Ravenna see off Livorno

Three points for Ravenna, 1‑0 the final word against Livorno in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Joshua Tenkorang beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Tempers go at Ravenna

Rodrigo Gallo 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.

The dugout

Joshua Tenkorang gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

25 Edition

The Ravenna Post

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Nicolas Viola out for 44 days

44 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ravenna lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

58 days out for Matteo Solini after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ravenna will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Joshua Tenkorang was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. 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.

Transfer targets

Ravenna rebuffed over Ahmed Farouk

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Wadi Degla have kept their man, and Ravenna go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Torres take the points off Ravenna

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Giacomo Poluzzi

“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.

Squad

A falling-out at Ravenna

Darvin Chávez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Alessio Barbieri answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

When it matters, Simone Rabbi plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

24 Edition

The Ravenna Post

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolas Viola

52 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ravenna lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A fracture rules Matteo Solini out for 65 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ravenna will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Ravenna up to position 3

38 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Player ratings

Manuel Fischnaller, 35, rolls back the years — 8.25

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.25 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings

Joshua Tenkorang was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Ravenna

Giacomo Poluzzi 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.

Market

Lorenzo Da Pozzo attracts admirers

The name of Lorenzo Da Pozzo has come up in conversations Ravenna were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Match

Late, late show earns Ravenna a point

Minute 88, against Vis Pesaro, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

Squad

Darvin Chávez wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Ravenna can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

In brief

23 Edition

The Ravenna Post

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolas Viola

60 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ravenna lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

72 days out for Matteo Solini after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ravenna will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Both of them Stefano Okaka's — 8.98

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.98, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

A falling-out at Ravenna

Philippe Poirier and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Luca Falbo is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Ravenna will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Player ratings

Simone Rabbi was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. 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.

Match

Ravenna find a way past Sambenedettese

Sambenedettese made Ravenna work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Matteo Motti

“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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Ivan Smolčić is in the works

Ravenna have made the call to Como. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

22 Edition

The Ravenna Post

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Nicolas Viola out for 67 days

67 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ravenna lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

80 days out for Matteo Solini after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ravenna will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Giacomo Poluzzi 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 Ravenna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Wages eat 127% of everything Ravenna 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.

Player ratings

Cristiano Bani beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

Philippe Poirier stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.86 on the card, and the Ravenna support went home talking about one name.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Giulio Donati's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Match

Ravenna and Pineto take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

Alessio Barbieri: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief

21 Edition

The Ravenna Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Nicolas Viola damages knee ligaments — 75 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 75 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.

Squad

87 days out for Matteo Solini after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ravenna will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Both of them Manuel Fischnaller's — 8.93

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.93, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Daniele Casiraghi yet — 8.04

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.04 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Daniele Casiraghi reaches 500 appearances

500 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Match

Ravenna find a way past Campobasso

Campobasso made Ravenna work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Match

Ravenna at the halfway mark

Half the programme played, position 3, 33 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.

Player ratings

Cristiano Bani was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. 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.

Squad

Mattia Scaringi 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 Ravenna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

20 Edition

The Ravenna Post

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Nicolas Viola damages knee ligaments — 82 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 82 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.

Squad

Matteo Solini breaks a bone — 94 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 94 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Ravenna refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 30 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Player ratings

Cristiano Bani runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Late, late show earns Ravenna a point

Minute 88, against Carpi, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

Squad

A falling-out at Ravenna

Matteo Rossetti and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Ravenna and Carpi take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

Alessio Barbieri: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

The dugout

No hiding place for Joyce Anacoura

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joyce Anacoura, and the manager let it.

In brief

19 Edition

The Ravenna Post

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolas Viola

89 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ravenna lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Matteo Solini breaks a bone — 101 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 101 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Ravenna taken apart

1‑4 to Ascoli, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match

The run is over for Ravenna

10 matches without defeat, and then Ascoli. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

Squad

Lorenzo Lonardi makes it 200

200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

Player ratings

Joshua Tenkorang runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Ravenna dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Squad

Tempers go at Ravenna

Darvin Chávez 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.

The dugout

Alessio Barbieri: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

18 Edition

The Ravenna Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolas Viola

97 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ravenna lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

108 days out for Matteo Solini after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ravenna will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Whatever happens, Ravenna do not lose

10 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Player ratings

Daniele Casiraghi, 33, rolls back the years — 8.06

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.06 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match

Forli end the Ravenna run at 5

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 5 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Looking ahead

Top-of-the-table clash for Ravenna

Ascoli next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.

Boardroom

Wages eat 127% of everything Ravenna 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Lorenzo Lonardi

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words exchanged at Ravenna

Darvin Chávez 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.

In brief

17 Edition

The Ravenna Post

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolas Viola

104 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ravenna lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

115 days out for Matteo Solini after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ravenna will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Joshua Tenkorang runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Nobody wants to play Ravenna right now

5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Player ratings

Stefano Okaka, 37, rolls back the years — 8.13

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.13 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Tempers go at Ravenna

Giacomo Poluzzi 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.

Match

Another one collected away from home

3 on the bounce on the road for Ravenna. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Match

Ravenna get the job done against Pontedera

A 1‑0 win over Pontedera, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The dugout

Emmanuel Torres gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

16 Edition

The Ravenna Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolas Viola

111 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ravenna lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

122 days out for Matteo Solini after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ravenna will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Cruel end for Ternana as Ravenna pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Ravenna scored in the 93th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Player ratings

A brace, and Philippe Poirier takes the afternoon — 9.17

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Philippe Poirier provided it, and the 9.17 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

Ravenna are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 25 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Match

Ravenna make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Ravenna have 4 straight wins of it.

Squad

Tempers go at Ravenna

Stefano Okaka 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.

Match

Ravenna get the job done against Ternana

A 2‑1 win over Ternana, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces

Ravenna supporters have found a favourite in Lorenzo Da Pozzo

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Lorenzo Da Pozzo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

15 Edition

The Ravenna Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolas Viola

118 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ravenna lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

129 days out for Matteo Solini after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ravenna will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Daniele Casiraghi, 33, rolls back the years — 8.22

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.22 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match

Ravenna cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

A falling-out at Ravenna

Giacomo Poluzzi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Ravenna get the job done against Gubbio

A 2‑0 win over Gubbio, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Philippe Poirier

Marked 8.23 — 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Joshua Tenkorang

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.04, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Lorenzo Lonardi

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief

14 Edition

The Ravenna Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Nicolas Viola out for 125 days

125 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ravenna lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

A fracture rules Matteo Solini out for 137 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ravenna will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Giulio Donati, 36, rolls back the years — 7.90

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.90 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Ravenna lose Giulio Donati

17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Player ratings

Joshua Tenkorang was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. 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.

Match

6 unbeaten for Ravenna

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Ravenna did not have in the autumn.

Match

Ravenna see off Bra

Three points for Ravenna, 1‑0 the final word against Bra in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Boardroom

Wages eat 127% of everything Ravenna 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.

Squad

Another clean sheet for Giacomo Poluzzi

8 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Giacomo Poluzzi has given nobody the chance.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Paolo Rrapaj
  • The dugout Stefano Okaka does not fit this one
9 Edition

The Ravenna Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The cup run ends for Ravenna

1‑2 against Giugliano, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Player ratings

Vintage Manuel Fischnaller — 8.18

At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.18, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Words exchanged at Ravenna

Stefano Okaka 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.

Match

Ravenna rescue it on 95 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 95. Livorno had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Player ratings

Cristiano Bani did the work nobody counts — 6.87

9 combined actions and 6.87. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

The dugout

Emmanuel Torres gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Ravenna share the spoils with Livorno

A 1‑1 draw with Livorno leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

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.” Alessio Barbieri chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

Player ratings

Cristian Spini runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

8 Edition

The Ravenna Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A falling-out at Ravenna

Daniele Casiraghi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Stefano Okaka

“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.

Match

Torres take the points off Ravenna

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Alessio Barbieri to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

No place in the plan for Emmanuel Torres

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Player ratings

Lorenzo Lonardi beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 10. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

A door opens for Matteo Motti

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Squad

Manuel Fischnaller says his piece

“If we are going to be beaten, let it not be because somebody in here could not be bothered.” He stood up and said it in front of everybody, which is a thing a squad remembers about a man for years.

Player ratings

The referee tires of Matteo Solini

Fouls conceded: 5. Some of it was commitment and some of it was frustration, and the free-kick count did not distinguish between the two.

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The Ravenna Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Manuel Fischnaller, 35, rolls back the years — 8.02

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.02 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Cristiano Bani signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Cristiano Bani and Ravenna agree another 4 years.

Match

Ravenna see off Pineto

Three points for Ravenna, 1‑0 the final word against Pineto in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The dugout

Alessio Barbieri has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Alessio Barbieri on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout

No place in the plan for Stefano Okaka

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Player ratings

Daniele Casiraghi was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 12. 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.

Squad

Matteo Solini has seen what the next man earns

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Ravenna that is a harder question to answer.

Squad

“I want to play”: Philippe Poirier speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

The dugout

Lorenzo Lonardi wants a proper job in this side

Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Lorenzo Lonardi has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Ravenna know, and have known for weeks.

In brief