2026/2027 league phase

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Como
Head coach: Cesc Fàbregas · 4-2-3-1
Rank
12th
Pts
3
P
2
Form
🟡 Average

The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings
9/10
Attack
7/10
Defence
5/10
Form
5/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:—

12th with 3 pts from 2 matches: 1 win, 0 draws, 1 defeat.

6 goals scored, 4 conceded.

Vanoli faces Fabregas al Franchi: all the info to follow the Serie A challenge live, the official formations

Corriere dello Sport · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

The young forward of the Como stops again for a resentment to the flexor of the left thigh accused in the Champions League: details

Tuttosport · 17 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Compared to the winnings on Como in the Champions League, four new faces are kicking off in Velsen-Zuid.

Voetbal International · 17 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches
Lvs Feyenoord Rotterdam (A) · 2-3
Wvs RB Leipzig (H) · 4-1
WL
6 scored / 4 conceded over 2 matches played
Rest: 4 days since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days
Home form
1W - 0D - 0L
Away form
0W - 0D - 1L
Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match
3.0
Goals conceded per match
2.0
At home
4 scored · 1 conceded in 1 match
Away
2 scored · 3 conceded in 1 match
Over 2.5 goals
2 of 2
Both teams score
2 of 2
Clean sheets
0 of 2
Failed to score
0 of 2
Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How Como play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing identity
Preferred system
4-2-3-1
Philosophy
Attacking strengths
Defensive solidity
Pressing
Transitions
Strength
Weakness

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood
Squad confidence
Four points from two matchdays, a win at the Maradona and a head coach named manager of the year: Como are enjoying a run of confidence rare for a club of their size. Fàbregas nonetheless called for restraint on 3 Sep 2026, asking his squad to “work and stay calm” before judging the season. Having only one unavailable player, Jayden Addai, and new depth in the squad reinforces that composure. The trip to Marassi, opening the matchday on Friday, looks like the first test of a status they now openly accept.
Coach / players / board relationship
The relationship between the head coach and his board remains excellent, but Fàbregas now allows himself public candour: he felt goalkeeper Noel Törnqvist had “forced” his move to Monza and that he had “not liked it”, before praising the club's quick reaction in registering Robert Sánchez on loan from Chelsea in the last minutes of the window. The UEFA list illustrates the new complexity of squad management: nineteen of twenty-one places already allocated and an impossible choice between Caqueret, a back-up goalkeeper and a fourth centre-back. The Catalan also claims a policy of trusting young players, citing Paz, Chalobah, Milla and Liberali.
Mood with the supporters
Champions League qualification, secured with fourth place, has changed the nature of expectation around the Sinigaglia, and the Gran Galà del Calcio double — Fàbregas as best coach and Nico Paz as Serie A's best young player — made it public nationally. The Argentine responded directly to supporters' anxiety by owning his decision to stay: “here in Como I am happy, the fans love me”. The European fixtures to come and a home Coppa Italia last-16 tie against Cremonese in December offer season-ticket holders unprecedented occasions. The enthusiasm remains tied, however, to a stadium of modest capacity, which concentrates demand.
Pressure on the head coach
Cesc Fàbregas is in the most comfortable position of his young coaching career: named manager of the year, a win at Napoli as early as matchday 2 and a heavily strengthened squad. He still chooses a defensive message, refusing to comment on a change of status and repeating that the work has to come first. His real constraint is managing egos and playing time, between Kean and Douvikas up front and Butez and Sánchez in goal. The first real risk would be a gap between the expectation created and the points collected.
Club objectives
The Champions League is no longer a hypothesis but a schedule: the club had to settle its UEFA list on 2 September, which fixes the European ambition as the season's central thread. Fàbregas adds an explicit line of conduct, developing young players by allowing them the right to make mistakes, citing Paz, Chalobah, Milla and Liberali. In the Coppa Italia, a home last-16 tie against Cremonese is already secured. In the league, the immediate objective is to back up the win at Napoli as early as Friday in Genoa.
Recent internal tensions
No internal conflict is reported, but two subjects are open publicly. The first is goalkeeper Törnqvist's departure, which Fàbregas criticised bluntly. The second is the composition of the UEFA list, which will inevitably leave a squad player out, Maxence Caqueret being the most exposed name. The Kean case, by contrast, having arrived amid a tense atmosphere in Florence, has been defused by the head coach, who argued for judging the man as a whole rather than on his lapses.
Absences
InjuredJayden Addai — The squad's only unavailable player according to Fàbregas on 2 Sep 2026, still recovering from his ruptured Achilles tendon.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

Como — Manchester United

At homeWednesday 21 October at 18:45Matchday 3
In 3 days. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says

No preview found for this fixture. The press mostly covers the big games, and usually the day before.

Prediction
EstimateComo — Manchester United
54 %
1 · Como
19 %
X · draw
27 %
2 · Manchester United
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 2 matches played by Como, 2 matches by Manchester United. Confidence: low
The calculation rests on only 2 matches per team. Shrinkage deliberately pulls the estimate close to a neutral split: it barely tells the two teams apart.
The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures
  1. League average. 141 goals scored over 68 team-matches played (34 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 2.07 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
  2. Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
    TeamGoalsRawKept
    Como — attack6 in 2 matches1.451.11
    Como — defence4 in 2 matches0.960.99
    Manchester United — attack4 in 2 matches0.960.99
    Manchester United — defence2 in 2 matches0.480.87
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.25 for Como and 0.25 for Manchester United. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
  3. Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 2.47 goal scored on average by the host against 1.68 by the visitor, over the 34 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.47; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.36, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.15. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
  4. Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
    Como at home: 3.00 pts/match versus 1.50 overall over 1 match → ×1.111
    Manchester United away: 0.00 pts/match versus 1.50 overall over 1 match → ×0.889
  5. Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
    λComo = 2.07 × 1.11 × 0.87 × 1.15 × 1.111 = 2.57
    λManchester United = 2.07 × 0.99 × 0.99 × 0.889 = 1.81
  6. Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 54.4%, draw 18.6%, away win 27.0% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 2-1 (only 7.5%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).
Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.
  • It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
  • The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
  • γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
  • The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
  • No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.
What other sources say
No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.
This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Squad not documented for this team yet.

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss18 Oct 2026
Serie A: Fiorentina-Como in campo alle 15 DIRECT
Source: ANSA Sport
rss18 Oct 2026
Where to see Fiorentina-Como? Dazn or Sky, schedule
Source: Corriere dello Sport
rss16 Oct 2026
Serie A: Fiorentina-Como in campo Sunday alle 15 DIRECT
Source: ANSA Sport
rss14 Oct 2026
Feyenoord 'on' and cherishes Hadj Moussa in victory on Como: "Player for the top"
Source: NOS Voetbal
rss16 Oct 2026
Champions, Inter and Naples forbidden to go wrong again. Roma at least 5 victories, Como playoff possible
Source: Corriere dello Sport
rss16 Oct 2026
"Atta ko, Mastantuono has a screw in his hand, Goncalves..." Fiorentina, Vanoli prepares for the Como
Source: Tuttosport
Club3 Sep 2026
Cesc Fàbregas was voted coach of the year at the Gran Galà del Calcio AIC, at La Scala in Milan, after Como's fourth place and historic Champions League qualification. “What we achieved last season is a masterpiece and I believe the Champions League was deserved,” he said, before calling for restraint: “We have to work, stay calm, and then we will see where we have got to.”
Source: Calcio Como
Club3 Sep 2026
Also honoured at the Gran Galà, Nico Paz publicly owned his decision to stay despite the summer's European interest: “I made the right choice for my moment, for my career. Here in Como I am happy, the fans love me and Cesc trusts me a great deal.” He added that he wanted to “stay here another year” and spoke of his “strong desire to play in the Champions League”.
Source: Calcio Como
Head coach2 Sep 2026
At his press conference before the trip to Genoa, Cesc Fàbregas said he was “very happy the window is over” and judged his squad “strong”. He defended Moise Kean, credited with “a big heart” and whose mistakes he puts down to temperament, confirmed he would travel, and said Jayden Addai remained the only unavailable player.
Source: Europa Calcio
Transfers2 Sep 2026
Como have completed the signing of goalkeeper Robert Sánchez, on a straight loan from Chelsea, the contract registered in the final minutes before 20:00 on 1 September. Fàbregas justified the choice: “Robert brings experience at the highest level and quality that fits our game perfectly.” The 28-year-old Spaniard, with more than 170 Premier League appearances, replaces Noel Törnqvist, who left for Monza.
Source: Calcio Como
European competition2 Sep 2026
Como had to submit their UEFA Champions League list before midnight on 2 September, with nineteen of twenty-one places already allocated and three needs impossible to meet at once: registering Maxence Caqueret, having a reliable back-up in goal alongside Robert Sánchez, or adding a fourth centre-back (Dossena or Goldaniga). There is no such constraint for the Serie A list, where every player is eligible.
Source: Calcio Como
Club2 Sep 2026
With Cremonese having qualified by beating Parma in the last 32, Como will host the Lombards at the Sinigaglia in the Coppa Italia last 16, in December; the date and kick-off time are not yet official. If they go through, the Lariani would host the winner of Milan v Monza.
Source: Calcio Como
Result2 Sep 2026
Como open matchday 3 on Friday 4 September 2026 at 20:45 at the Stadio Ferraris. Fàbregas is expected to line up in a 4-2-3-1 with Butez; Couto, Chalobah, Ramón, Valle; Da Cunha, Perrone; Diao, Nico Paz, Baturina; Douvikas.
Source: Calcio Genoa
Transfers1 Sep 2026
Como have carried out the most spectacular transfer window in their history with around €126m invested, including €60m for Nico Paz from Real Madrid, €30m for Trevoh Chalobah from Chelsea and €12m for Álvaro Morata from Milan.
Source: Tuttomercatoweb
Transfers1 Sep 2026
On deadline day, the Lombard club also secured Moise Kean on loan from Fiorentina.
Source: Fanpage
Result1 Sep 2026
A statement result on matchday 2: Como went to Napoli and won 2-1, inflicting on Massimiliano Allegri his first defeat in the partenopeo dugout.
Source: Calcio Casteddu
News last verified on 18 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.
Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.