The Union Brescia Gazette
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Andrea Cisco runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Union Brescia
Valerio Crespi 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Union Brescia against Lumezzane
1‑2 to Lumezzane, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Stefano Gori
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Davide Guglielmotti 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Davide Guglielmotti's mistake decides it
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Union Brescia needed to.
In brief
- Squad Union Brescia pick somebody else ahead of Tommy Maistrello
- Market Matteo Grandi brings the grey hairs Union Brescia lacked
- Market The Tommy Maistrello talk will not go away
- Player ratings The referee tires of Davide Balestrero