Lucas Da Cunha, The Constant Inside The Como Change

Lucas Da Cunha is the kind of player a modern club tries to build around without making a ceremony of it. The ones who turn up every week. The ones who accept change and make it feel like a plan. The ones who do not just play football but give shape to it.

Como has changed quickly. The squad has shifted. The league has changed. The expectations have risen. Yet Da Cunha keeps surfacing in the same place. Close to the ball. Close to the coach. Close to the idea of what this team is meant to be.

On 28 November 2025 Como beat Sassuolo 2 0 at the Sinigaglia and Da Cunha reached 100 appearances for the club. The official match report stated it plainly. Captain Lucas Da Cunha also reached 100 appearances for the club. No grand unveiling. Just another night where he was in the middle of things again.

That is the quiet truth of his Como story. He has become the constant inside a project that refuses to stand still.

He arrived from Nice in January 2023 and took his time to belong. In an interview carried by Sky Sport in late November 2025 he admitted the beginning was difficult and he did not expect things to change so much from the moment he arrived. Then he explained the key shift that has shaped his last year. Fabregas changed his position and he feels it is better. He is not an out wide player who lives on constant one v one duels. Now he is in midfield and he feels better there.

That is not a small adjustment. It is a statement of identity. At Como Da Cunha stopped being a winger who waits for his moment and became a midfielder who makes moments happen for others. The role asks for awareness. It asks for courage on the turn. It asks for an appetite for contact and for responsibility. In short it asks for the things Cesc Fabregas values most.

After Da Cunha scored at San Siro against Milan the manager summed him up with a line that became a kind of club shorthand. If you have followed Como from last year in Serie B to now you will understand why I said I would play with eleven Da Cunhas.

Fabregas was talking about trust and about the way Da Cunha carries instructions onto the pitch. But also about something else. Availability. In a team built on movement and rotations he is the player you can rotate around.

Da Cunha talks about leadership the same way. Not as a badge. More as a duty. When Como speaks about him it leans on the same themes. Humility. Work ethic. Commitment. And the habit of being an example every day.

The journey matters because Da Cunha has not followed a straight line. Rennes gave him the education. Nice gave him the platform. Loans at Lausanne Sport and Clermont offered minutes and context. Como offered something different. A place where the fragments became a player with a clear role and a clearer voice.

He is also the kind of cover star who fits BLU because he carries two narratives into one face.

One is football. A French player born 9 June 2001 who has found his best self in a demanding new position and reached 100 Como appearances at 24.

The other is Como. A club rebuilding its identity and asking certain players to become part of its spine, not just its style.

Da Cunha feels like the bridge between those stories. The constant inside the change. The player who makes a coach’s idea look simple until you realise how difficult it is to keep doing it.

One hundred appearances against Sassuolo did not need a speech. It was the evidence. He belongs here. And he still wants more.