Antonio Raimondo, Frosinone's 22-year-old forward, travels to face Genoa this weekend carrying the weight of four Serie A goals in three matches — a return that has made him the most conspicuous attacking presence in the ciociari's early campaign and the player Massimiliano Alvini's side will need most if they are to extend their promising start.
The numbers are not incidental. Four goals in three league appearances, an average match rating of 7.89, and a brace against Venezia that kept Frosinone alive when the match threatened to slip away from them — these are the markers of a forward who has arrived in Serie A 2026-27 with something to say. Frosinone sit seventh with six points, their only defeat the single blemish across three outings. Raimondo has been central to all of it.
The fixture at Genoa arrives at an interesting juncture. The hosts have yet to register a point this season, and their coach has spoken publicly about the pressure on his side to respond. That pressure cuts both ways: a Frosinone side with momentum and a forward in this kind of form is precisely the opponent a struggling team does not want to face. Raimondo, for his part, has already demonstrated he can perform when the scoreline is uncomfortable — the Venezia match swung to 2-2 before his brace and Saba Kvernadze's decisive goal settled it 3-2.
There is a broader question worth sitting with. An AI overall of 75 out of 100, with a potential of 82, suggests a player whose ceiling has not yet been reached. At 22, Raimondo is producing at a rate that would flatter forwards several years his senior, and the consistency of his output — no assists yet, but goals at a frequency that relieves pressure on the rest of the attack — points to a forward who understands his primary function and executes it.
Alvini's Frosinone have also shown they can score without relying on a single source: Kvernadze's contribution against Venezia is evidence of that. But Raimondo's four goals in three matches mean opponents must plan around him first, which in turn creates space for others. That dynamic, if it holds, gives Frosinone genuine options in the final third rather than a single predictable threat.
The Ghedjemis situation — Alvini has stated publicly that the winger must win back his place following a transfer dispute — adds a layer of squad complexity that Raimondo's form helps absorb. When your first-choice forward is producing at this rate, peripheral disagreements carry less weight.
Genoa away is the kind of test that separates early-season form from genuine substance. Raimondo has given every indication he is the latter.