Como midfielder Máximo Perrone did not score against Parma on matchday four, but the lariani won anyway — 2-1, with goals from Jacobo Ramon and Kaiki — and that result tells its own story about how Fàbregas's side is being built. Perrone's role is not to finish moves. It is to connect them, and Como's third consecutive Serie A victory suggests that connection is working.
The so-what is this: Como sit third in Serie A with ten points from four unbeaten matches, and Perrone has featured throughout that run. His assist against Parma, the first of his 2026-27 campaign, was the visible contribution. The less visible ones — the passes that keep possession moving, the positioning that gives teammates options — are harder to quantify but no less real. An average rating of 6.95 across four matches is not a headline number, but it is consistent, and consistency is what a young midfielder needs to establish himself in a title conversation.
Perrone is 23 years old. His AI overall of 72 out of 100, with a potential of 78, marks him as a player still ascending rather than one who has arrived. The gap between those two figures is not a criticism; it is an argument for patience. Fàbregas — who has spoken publicly about Como learning from Arsenal and beginning to understand what the club could become — is building something that requires exactly the kind of midfielder Perrone appears to be: composed, positional, unspectacular in the best sense.
The Parma match was not Como at their sharpest. The win came after Champions League commitments had taken something from the squad, and the 2-1 scoreline reflected a team managing rather than dominating. That Como ground out the win without their best football is the kind of detail that separates contenders from pretenders early in a season. Perrone's presence in the midfield structure, even on a difficult day, is part of what made that possible.
With Inter, Roma, and Como now cited as the early three-way pressure group at the top of the table, the fixtures will harden. Perrone's next test is whether his 6.95 average holds when the opposition improves. Four matches is a small sample. The trend, for now, points upward.