Matteo Lovato

Central Defender - Empoli
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The Empoli Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match31 Oct 2026

Pietro Pellegri breaks Palermo hearts

Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Pietro Pellegri scored in the 88th minute, Palermo had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Empoli took the lot.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Stiven Shpendi 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.

Match31 Oct 2026

Pietro Pellegri the difference as Empoli beat Palermo

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Pietro Pellegri. 1‑0 against Palermo, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad2 Nov 2026

No hiding place for Mattia Caldara

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

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

The afternoon belonged to Pietro Pellegri

A mark of 7.98, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad2 Nov 2026

A place in the month's best eleven for Pietro Pellegri

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Pietro Pellegri has come out of that comparison in the side, and Empoli have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

In brief

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The Empoli Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market12 Oct 2026

Joaquín Mattalia puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Empoli, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Empoli

Antonio Candela 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Maj Blažič at Empoli

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Maj Blažič is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Home is on Joaquín Mattalia's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Empoli are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words at Empoli training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stiven Shpendi 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 ratings12 Oct 2026

The afternoon belonged to Marco Curto

A mark of 7.33, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief