This year's Serie A drama "Cagliari Relegation Road" is being staged as scheduled, this time they sit at the home Santa Elia Stadium to meet Bologna, who have only won one in the last five rounds, this is a good opportunity they definitely want to seize, after all, due to a series of previous riots they have had an 11-round winless schedule, which has also caused them to fall into the relegation zone now. The most important thing about their glorious Serie A football resume is that they are able to stay in Serie A for a long time and they don't want to break their traditions this season.
Also affected by the Africa Cup of Nations, Cagliari's striker Keita Balde has been called up by the Senegalese national team and made his debut in yesterday's match. Their striker combination in this game is Joao Pedro, who has still played well this season, with The Italian veteran striker Pavoletti. The injuries of midfielders Strromán and Nandez have made their midfield slightly tighter, and after this season, the two Uruguayan veterans Cáceres and Godin in the back line have confirmed that they will leave, so they will also send other members to replace them.
As a visiting team, Bologna doesn't have so many concerns, the team, coached by former Inter Milan meritorious midfielder Mihajlovic, has a strong configuration of Arnautovic and Orsolini in front of them, and in their 3-1-4-2 squad, single-back Argentine player Nicolas Domingos is the focus of the team, while he is fronted by players like Sweden international Swanberg.
Race conditions
Cagliari deserves to come with a mission in this game, and they must win the opposite side when they are at home. Their possession of the game reached 56% to outperform their opponents, and the number of shots on goal was higher than that of their opponents by 9, and the number of dangerous attacks was also 55 times greater than that of their opponents 29.
They realized at the beginning that this could be a crucial game, and in the 14th and 15th minutes the two sides entered a hand-to-hand battle, cagliari player Caboni and Bologna player Tite each received a yellow card, and then in the 19th minute Cagliari player Al Tare received another yellow card, and the two sides became more and more incessant. However, the first half may be due to the two sides getting too caught up in this tug-of-war, and neither side's performance threatens the opponent's door.
And then the two sides entered the second half, and the good drama was officially staged! In the 54th minute, Bologna took advantage of an opponent's foul to get a free kick in the front of the box, and then the free kick directly completed by Orsolini, and the Cagliari goalkeeper was also beyond the reach of the whip, and the score became 0-1.
Cagliari, despite his poor start, was still using the strength of the whole team to press the opponent's attack, and in the 71st minute they finally completed their goal, also taking advantage of the opportunity of set-pieces, Bologna failed to release the ball in the melee in the penalty area, and then Pereiro stopped the ball to Pavoletti and the latter scored a successful equalizer.
And then the two sides are standing on the same running line, the regular time of the game is only 20 minutes left, and both sides are also trying to seize the opportunity to kill the opponent, but in the end Cagliari is still skilled! In the 90th+2nd minute of the game, Cagliari received the ball in the attack and then Joao Pedro picked the ball up and passed it to Pereiro, who had already assisted his teammates to score a goal before leaning on the defender and then scoring a low shot through the Bologna gate to complete the final moment!
After the game
After winning this game as expected, Cagliari is also 1 point away from leaving the relegation zone in the table, while Bologna is not painful, for them relegation is not a problem, and further into the top six is completely hopeless, perhaps their goal this season is to train some young players and then sell them.