The Modena Sentinel
Squad7 Sep 2026
Matteo Cotali damages knee ligaments — 29 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 29 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Luca Zanimacchia runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Modena
Fabio Gerli 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Daniele Montevago attracts admirers
The name of Daniele Montevago has come up in conversations Modena were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad7 Sep 2026
6 new faces, and Modena are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Daniel Tonoli
7.30, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Modena had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Modena pick somebody else ahead of Fabio Gerli
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Modena bring in an old head
Liel is 37 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Match5 Sep 2026
Modena draw a blank against Pescara
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Pescara defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
In brief
- Player ratings Simone Santoro spends the afternoon fouling
- Market Taha Zidouh goes looking for football