Marked for Thomas Battistella
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Uneasy
Match4 Nov 2026
Vicenza ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
No sign of nerves from Adrian Przyborek at 19 — 7.67
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Adrian Przyborek did not need any: 7.67, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match7 Nov 2026
4 matches without a win for Juve Stabia
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Juve Stabia are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Salim Diakité 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“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.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad21 Sep 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 Juve Stabia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
14 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad21 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Modena will be the happier side with the point.
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Crisis
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alessandro Gabrielloni, and the manager let it.
Match5 Sep 2026
Reggiana left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Juve Stabia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabio Maistro 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Fabio Miretti's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
4.28. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.