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Chapter 44 - Chapter 44 Torino Vs Cagliari

In the 27th match, the team would be facing Torino at their home, a team that was simply considered a monster in Italy in the 40s, where it gained rivalry with the old lady "Juventus", the Torino team had already won the national championship 7x and 5 x the Italian Cup but nowadays it was considered a mid-table team as it does not participate in cups or continental championships

The formation of the team would come with

GK Avramov 25

CB Rossettini 15 Astori 13 RB Pisano 14 LB Smit 6

DMF Conti 5 © CMF Dessena 21 Eriksson 16 AMF Cossu 7

CF Nenê 18 and Usman 10

and the banks

GK Agazzi 1 CB Ariaudo 3 SB Camilleri 2 Danilo Avelar 8 CMF Nainggolan 4 e Ekdal 20 SMF AMF Cepellini 32 CF Pinilla 51 Sal 27

In this game Ivo watched all of his starters and noticed that both Usman and Dessena were feeling some slight discomfort from their expressions

Ivo was hoping that in these last 12 games he managed to keep his team winning to stay at the top of the table, creating a new great chapter in the history of Cagliafi after 40 years

Well, now the Torino team will come with

gk gillet

CB Di Cesare and Ogbonna RB D'Ambrosio LB Caceres

DMF Brighi© and Gazzi AMF Verdi and Santana

CF A. Diop and Meggiorini

The game started with possession of the ball with Torino

Brighi receives the pass and touches Gazzi who dominates and tries to dribble Nene who manages to steal the ball

The stolen ball goes behind Gazzi and Usman takes it and drives it and dribbles Obgonna and faces the goal while being chased by the defender

The defender manages to reach him and disrupt the finalization, helping the goalkeeper to defend by going to the corner

The corner kick is taken and Nenê manages to head the ball but it goes out on the left side of the goal and the goalkeeper restarts the game with a forward kick.

The ball is stolen by Eriksson and he passes it to Cossu who makes a pass to Nene, but Caceres manages to reach the ball first and send it to the right wing where he runs to remove it completely from his field.

He retreats dominating the ball and touches Obognna who throws it towards the center of the midfield to Brighi who loses it in the head to Conti and the ball stops at the foot of Cossu who touches Usman inside the area he spins with the ball pulls it towards the left of the goal dribbling the defenders and shoots diagonally to the right side of the goal, but the goalkeeper manages to jump and capture the ball in the air

The Torino team restarts the game kicking it forward and manages to keep possession of the ball while they attack the ball reaches Diop's foot with Meggirini's pass and he ends up almost losing it touching Santana on the left side of the field who tries to cross inside from the area the defense takes and the ball stops at the foot of Caceres who tries to get in dribbling and fails ends up touching Santana again

The ball is intercepted after Santana's pass to Meggirini and passes to Rossetini who takes the ball out of his area, passing it to Usman in midfield who dominates the ball and touches Cossu

Cossu dominates and dribbles his marker waiting for Usman to position himself he touches Nene from above , Nenê heads the ball towards Usman but it curves and goes straight to the goalkeeper

The game restarts touching Ambrósio , Ambrosio dominates and touches Brighi and they keep touching the ball in his court until De Cesare makes the wrong pass and stops at Usman's foot who touches the ball in Nenê and goes to the Torino area

He manages to receive the pass from Nenê and is face to face with the goalkeeper, but his finish goes over the goal, losing another opportunity to increase the score.

The game is restarted by the goalkeeper who makes the Torino team fully attack the Cagliari team they manage to get close to the Cagliari area and Smit fouls Gazzi

They hit the free kick and the ball hits the barrier and Cagliari's team tries a final counterattack, but they can't produce anything, because in the last pass before entering the area, Nene's pass to Usman is intercepted by the defender with a header

2nd Period

The game starts with Cagliari trying to make a quick attack at the beginning of the 2nd half, they manage to get close to the entrance of the area and enter the area with a pass from Usman to Nenê who is inside the area on the left side of the goal

At 53 minutes after Nenê's failed shot on goal, Ivo removes Usman from the game and puts Sal on to try to increase the score

With the game going on with short passes, the teams started to miss fewer passes and steal more balls with tackles, but in exchange none of the teams managed to set up moves to enter their opponent's field.

With 70 minutes of play, Torino manages to make an attacking play on the right side of the field touching the ball from Meggiorini to Santana who tries to cross inside the area for Brighi, but the ball is removed by the defenders of Cagliari and they manage a counterattack with Sal and Cossu following with the ball until Dessena appears and he passes the ball to Agostini who dominates the ball, goes down the right wing and crosses into the area

The ball is dominated by Sal in the chest, but he can't finish it because Brighi, who was there beside him, puts his foot on the ball, taking it out of his area, the ball rolls and stops at the foot of Santana, who manages to pass by Conti and touch it. it stops Diop who makes it 1-2 with Meggirini and gets close to the edge of the area, but can't get past the defenders who recover the ball and go on the attack making the pass to Agostini and trying again to cross into the area

This time it was Dessena who crossed it after receiving a pass from Agostini the ball manages to reach Sau who fights for it inside the area manages to dominate it and kicks it in the goal in the left corner of the goal the goalkeeper defends sending it to corner

The last move in the attack is the cross from the corner that is knocked into the area, but the Torino team was fully prepared and took it out of the area, ending the game when the referee's whistle sounded.

The Cagliafi players leave the pitch disappointed as it was a one-sided game for them but the goalkeeper managed to save all of his shots protecting the goal completely against them

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