Frosinone thrash Sassuolo with Raimondo hat-trick

Frosinone beat Sassuolo 4-2 in the early match of matchday seven of Serie A, thanks to a hat-trick from Antonio Raimondo. An individual performance that decided the match and places the forward among the most in-form players of this start to the season across European leagues.

Raimondo is in fact one of only three players to have recorded at least three matches with multiple goals in the top five European leagues in the 2026/27 season, a group that also includes Lamine Yamal and Raphinha. A statistic that places yesterday’s hat-trick in a context that goes beyond the single match: it is not an isolated episode, but confirmation of a level of performance that the Frosinone player is maintaining match after match.

Serie A’s weekend continues with a packed schedule of significant fixtures. Venezia-Napoli, Bologna-Inter and Roma-Genoa are on the calendar, the latter marked by Daniele De Rossi’s return to the Genoa bench, as his side face Roma at the Stadio Olimpico. A debut carrying particular significance, given De Rossi’s ties to the Roman club, and one that falls within a matchday especially rich in high-profile clashes.

Frosinone’s victory, coming in the early match, thus opens a Serie A matchday featuring several top-table and mid-table teams involved in fixtures with anything but a predictable outcome. Three points that allow the Ciociaria side to move up the table on the very eve of the weekend’s big matches, on a matchday where the result of Frosinone-Sassuolo risks being overshadowed by the fixtures involving the leading teams.

Raimondo’s hat-trick, however, remains the most immediate headline of the day: four goals scored, two conceded, and a forward confirming himself among the most prolific of the moment in the top European leagues, alongside names such as Lamine Yamal and Raphinha in a ranking that concerns the entire continent and not just Serie A.