The Venezia Chronicle
Match4 Nov 2026
The cup run ends for Venezia
0‑1 against Parma, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match7 Nov 2026
Cruel end for Cesena as Venezia pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Venezia scored in the 96th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Both of them Akor Adams's — 9.08
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.08, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market9 Nov 2026
Thierry Rendall Correia wants more than Venezia are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Juan Jesus in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Venezia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Antoine Hainaut beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match7 Nov 2026
Akor Adams sends Venezia past Cesena
It finished 2‑1, and it was Akor Adams’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Venezia.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Cesare D'Amico, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Thierry Rendall Correia asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- Squad Words at Venezia training over how hard people work
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Simone Panada
- The dugout Akor Adams left out for tactical reasons at Venezia