The Monza Sentinel
Squad31 Aug 2026
Cyril Ngonge takes the match ball home
4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Match29 Aug 2026
Monza run riot against Reggiana
5‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Market31 Aug 2026
Keita Baldé 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 Monza can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Cyril Ngonge was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.61. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Andrea Colpani at his very best
Marked 8.08. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Monza.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Matteo Pessina did the work nobody counts — 6.98
10 combined actions and 6.98. 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Monza
Jan Ziółkowski 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Monza
9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Adriano Costa: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 5‑0, already talking about the next one.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Monza
- The dugout Patrick Ciurria dropped after a run of poor form
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Pedro Obiang's mistake