Marked for Edoardo Masciangelo
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match13 Feb 2027
14 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Seydou Fini, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.71
A mark of 7.71 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Farès Ghedjemis: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Frosinone have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market15 Feb 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Frosinone they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Riccardo Marchizza 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giacomo Calò 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 terraces15 Feb 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Antonio Raimondo 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.
Match13 Feb 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Antonio Raimondo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Frosinone.
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Steady
Match2 Jan 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Frosinone did not have in the autumn.
Squad4 Jan 2027
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. Frosinone will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Frosinone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giacomo Calò 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.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market4 Jan 2027
Campobasso are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Frosinone will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Loan watch4 Jan 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Frosinone, and 2 appearances in 21 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
7.29, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Frosinone had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Antonio Raimondo
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Antonio Raimondo has come out of that comparison in the side, and Frosinone have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ben Lhassine Koné
14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Frosinone lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
A brace, and Antonio Raimondo takes the afternoon — 9.02
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Antonio Raimondo provided it, and the 9.02 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
No sign of nerves from Seydou Fini at 20 — 8.01
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Seydou Fini did not need any: 8.01, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match26 Dec 2026
Still nobody has beaten Frosinone
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match26 Dec 2026
11 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Frosinone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lorenzo Palmisani 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 terraces28 Dec 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match26 Dec 2026
A 2‑0 win over Modena, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Steady
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 43. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Matteo Pisseri decides it from twelve yards
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match4 Nov 2026
Frosinone bow out of the cup
Torres go through and Frosinone go home, 0‑0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market9 Nov 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Frosinone, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Frosinone may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Riccardo Marchizza 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giacomo Calò 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Frosinone cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
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.