The Padova Post
Squad14 Sep 2026
Gianluca Caprari 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Padova
Mattia Bortolussi 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Padova cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Carlo Faedo gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Mattia Bortolussi takes the honours
Marked 7.11 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Padova had the best player on the pitch.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Antonio Barreca dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
- Match No goals between Padova and Juve Stabia
- Player ratings Alejandro Gómez runs at them all day
- Market The shop window has Louis Mouquet in it
- Market Window shut, Jacopo Bacci still here