The Padova Post
Market31 Aug 2026
Christian Pastina says no to Pianese
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Christian Pastina had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Gianluca Caprari yet — 8.14
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.14 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Andy Diouf 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Siracusa watching Giovanni Giunti
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Padova have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Amit Mamut 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
14 new faces, and Padova are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Padova training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sebastiano Previato 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 dugout31 Aug 2026
Edoardo Pugliese 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.” Edoardo Pugliese on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
In brief
- Player ratings Filippo Sgarbi was immovable
- The dugout No place in the plan for Kevin Lasagna
- Squad Andy Diouf remains an outsider