Serie A | Frosinone 2-0 Como: Unexpected upset with hero Palmisani

Frosinone caused a huge upset by inflicting the first defeat of the season on Como, but while Giacomo Calò and Giorgi Kvernadze scored, Lorenzo Palmisani was the hero in goal.

The Lariani knew a victory would put them joint top with Roma, Inter and Lazio, on a run of four straight wins between Serie A and the Champions League. Jayden Addai returned to the bench for the first time since Achilles tendon surgery, so Como had a full squad. The hosts had a very strong run too, picking up seven points in the last three games, but lost Aleksa Terzic and Florian Grillitsch to injury.

Fares Ghedjemis was causing Trevoh Chalobah problems from the start, repeatedly running at the former Chelsea defender and seeing his cross-shot deflected for a corner.

Como had an astonishing four scoring opportunities in one chaotic move on seven minutes, culminating in a parried Tasos Douvikas header, a Monterisi goal-line clearance on Martin Baturina, then Lorenzo Palmisani pushing the rebound Douvikas effort onto the upright.

Instead, Frosinone opened the scoring when Romano Schmid pulled back from the right for Giacomo Calò to sweep first-time from 12 yards, aided by a big deflection off Luis Milla to wrongfoot Jean Butez.

Ghedjemis also crossed low for Antonio Raimondo for a panicked Jacobo Ramon interception, then the Italian striker turned his volley off target.

Nico Paz drilled just wide of the near post, while a Raimondo back-heel flick was straight at Butez at the near post, along with his cross-shot moments later.

Palmisani showed cat-like reflexes to palm away the Nico Paz diving header on an Assane Diao cross, but just as Como were pouring forward in first half stoppages, they left themselves unbalanced to concede the second.

Schmid went on the counter-attack and laid it off for Giorgi Kvernadze, who shrugged off Baturina and drilled the angled drive to squirm under Butez.

Cesc Fabregas took drastic action with a triple substitution at half-time, but Palmisani continued his heroics with reaction saves on the deflected Nico Paz effort and Moise Kean’s strike at the near post after shimmying away from two defenders.

Palmisani even ended up using his hip to parry another powerful Kean drive, while Nico Paz and Raimondo swept finishes just wide from the D.

It remained wide open, as a Schmid cross-shot skimmed the far post, but Palmisani made another big one-handed save to push the Jesus Rodriguez curler out from under the bar.

Frosinone had the ball in the net again on 86 minutes with Raimondo, but the goal was disallowed for a push on Jacobo Ramon.

Frosinone 2-0 Como

Calò 14 (F), Kvernadze 45+3 (F)

20-09-2026 14:00

MatchDay 5

Player statistic

1st half

2nd half

Frosinone

Starting lineups

22 Lorenzo Palmisani Goalkeeper

20 Anthony Oyono Defender

79 Gabriele Bracaglia Defender

3 Gabriele Calvani Defender

30 Ilario Monterisi Defender 54'

14 Giacomo Calò Midfielder 79'

73 Patrizio Masini Midfielder

10 Romano Schmid Midfielder 88'

9 Antonio Raimondo Attacker

7 Farès Ghedjemis Attacker 88'

17 Giorgi Kvernadze Attacker 80'

Como

Starting lineups

1 Jean Butez Goalkeeper

3 Álex Valle Defender 73'

4 Jacobo Ramón Defender

99 Trevoh Chalobah Defender

27 Yan Couto Defender

6 Luis Milla Midfielder 73'

20 Martin Baturina Midfielder 46'

10 Nico Paz Midfielder

9 Anastasios Douvikas Attacker 46'

11 Assane Diao Attacker

7 Lucas Da Cunha Attacker 46'

Substitutes

91 Sebastiano Desplanches Goalkeeper

12 Matteo Pisseri Goalkeeper

25 Kevin Akpoguma Defender

11 Daniel Birligea Attacker

40 Seydou Fini Attacker

74 Omar Fayed Defender

70 Luis Hasa Midfielder

89 Tomas Bobcek Attacker

90 Enzo Tchato Defender

2 Giorgio Cittadini Defender 54'

16 Matteo Cichella Midfielder 79'

24 Alessio Zerbin Attacker 80'

5 Wisdom Amey Defender 88'

34 Anouar El Azzouzi Defender 88'

18 Edoardo Goldaniga Defender

22 Mauro Vigorito Goalkeeper

8 Maxence Caqueret Midfielder

13 Alberto Dossena Defender

Robert Sánchez Goalkeeper

42 Jayden Addai Attacker

2 Marc-Oliver Kempf Defender

30 Mattia Liberali Midfielder

28 Ivan Smolcic Defender

53 Willy Kambwala Defender

14 Samuele Ricci Midfielder 46'

Moise Kean Attacker 46'

17 Jesús Rodriguez Attacker 46'

5 Máximo Perrone Midfielder 73'

16 Kaiki Defender 73'