The Ascoli Gazette
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Enrico Oviszach runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Francesco De Witt damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match4 Nov 2026
Cup progress for Ascoli
A 1‑0 win over Cesena, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Giacomo De Pieri, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.10
A mark of 8.10 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Ascoli
Francesco Galuppini 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Giovanni Corradini 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.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
Ascoli supporters have found a favourite in Giacomo De Pieri
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Giacomo De Pieri has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad9 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Simone Corazza
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Simone Corazza, and the manager let it.
Match7 Nov 2026
Ascoli and Pontedera take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- Market The Simone Corazza story refuses to die
- Boardroom Ascoli were not finished after all
- The terraces The press have found their man in Samuele Vitale