Usman had arrived early for the game against Lazio and saw Ivo talking to the captain of the team to talk to all the players who today wanted to receive the victory as it is a rematch of what they did to him in the first leg at Lazio's home
Lazio is a much more capable team than Cagliari in everything these days so the players would have to play in a way that would make the Lazio team cautious on the pitch.
Cagliari, despite being weaker, is in 3rd place while Lazio is in 5th place, it would be a match in which the team that lost would lose positions in the championship standings
That's why today's team will start with
GK Avramov 25
CB Ariaudo 3 Astori 13 RB G. Perico 24 LB Danilo Avelar 8
DMF Dessena 21 CMF Nainggolan 4 Cepellini 32 AMF Cossu 7 ©
CF Pinilla 51 and Usman 10
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GK Agazzi 1 CB Rossettini 15 SB Camilleri 2 Pisano 14 Smit 6 CMF Conti 5 e Ekdal 20 SMF AMF Eriksson 16 CF Nenê 18 Sal 27
The Lazio team will play with
GK
CB André Dias and Biava RB Scaloni LB Konko
DMF Hernanes and Ledesma LMF Candreva RMF M.Zárate AMF Ederson
CF Klose
The game was taking place in the afternoon the sun was in the sky and the temperature was 13°C
The announcers were talking about the classification of the national and how dangerous this game will be
1° inter 70 Pts 2° Milan 56 Pts 3° Cagliari Calcio 53 Pts 4° Juventus 52 Pts 5° S.S Lazio 51Pts 6° A.S. Roma 47 Pts 7° Genoa 44 Pts 8° S.S.C Napoli 40 Pts 9° Udinese Calcio 36 Pts 10° Turin 33 Pts 11° A.C Siena 32 Pts 12° Fiorentina 32 Pts 13° Palermo 32 Pts 14° Parma 31 Pts 15° Sampdoria 2 8 Pts 16° Calcio Catania 27 Pts 17° Chievo Verona 27 Pts 18° Bologna 26 Pts 19° Atalanta 23 Pts 20° Pescara 15 Pts
With the players positioning themselves on the field the Lazio team provoked the Cagliari players who simply did not respond
The match starts with Cagliari making a backwards pass, reaching Astori who makes the pass to Usman, Usman dominates and touches Cossu who makes the pass to Eriksson
Eriksson touches the left wing to Danilo Avelar , Danilo Avelar crosses into the area from Pinilla's head into the goal
Gooooool! 5 minutes into the first half, with a quick play created by Cagliari, Lazio conceded the first goal Cagliari 1 x 0 Lazio
The game restarts in the midfield and Pinilla manages to intercept a pass and play it to Usman who starts leading, enters the area without being marked and shoots at the goal.
Goooooolllllllllllllllllllll!!!! Cagliafi attacks again and scores 2 Lightning goals at the start of the game making the score Cagliari 2 x 0 Lazio
The game restarts again with Ledesma exchanging passes with Ederson and losing the ball to Dessena who touches the ball to Pinilla
Pinilla tries a pass to Usman , but André Dias intercepts the pass kicking the ball forward where the ball goes to Klose but is removed by Ariaudo with a header and it stops at the head of Nainggolan who heads it forward also stopping at the foot of Pinilla who return the game to the defense
Cagliari's team keeps possession of the ball between the midfielders, giving passes until the ball reaches Usman who makes a low throw for Ceppelini who takes the ball badly and sends it to the moon
The game restarts with a kick to the center of the midfield the ball is disputed by Pinilla and Candreva from above, Pinilla does not reach the ball as he is pulled in the air by Candreva and falls to the ground while Candreva dominates the ball in the chest and touches it to Konko who pulls the ball back on Hernanes who is being guarded by Pinilla at this moment
Pinilla puts his foot on the ball stealing it and plays for Usman who drives the ball dribbling the defenders into the Lazio area, but as the Lazio team had conceded 2 goals at the start of the game 8 of their field players were returning to defend
Which left Usman with no angle to shoot on goal risking a long shot trying to surprise the goalkeeper, but the ball goes wide of the goal going out
The game restarts with Chutão and dispute in the air between Candreva and Pinilla, this time Pinilla wins dominates the ball and touches Usman
Usman dominates the ball, drives and passes to Cossu, Cossu sees no chance of entering the area and touches Cepellini backwards who tries to make a move dribbling inside, but is completely blocked by Ledesma so he touches Golan who follows on the right wing driving the ball and ends up losing it to Candreva
Candreva steals the ball and kicks it towards Klose who heads the ball towards the goal and the Cagliari defense chases the ball takes it and kicks it into the Lazio field where Konko chases the ball dominates it and starts an attack on the right side of the field and crosses inside the area where Zarate arrives inside the area and heads it
The ball goes down the left side of the goal
Avramov restarts with a forward kick and this time Lazio gains possession of the ball and loses it to Dessena who touches Usman , Usman touches Cossu and passes
Cossu returns the ball in front, Usman dominates near the edge of the area, but Andre Dias, who was accompanying him, manages to reach him and touch the ball, taking it to the side
Cagliari throws the ball and tries to make one last attack before the whistle blows, but the team loses possession of the ball to Lazio, thus ending the first half.
Ivo was very happy as all the players were excited he scored 2 goals in the first half dominating the whole first half game
Statistics
Cagliari 2-0 Lazio
Kicks 4 (2) x 1 (0)
Ball possession 60% x 40%
The team resumes the second half excited and Usman was so adrenaline having scored his 4th goal for the team that he didn't realize he was tired he started the game the game pressing the Lazio players who received the ball in their defense
Lazio managed to regain possession of the ball before Usman enters the area and begins his attack in midfield Hernanes finds Klose and plays for him
Klose dribbled past Dessena and Astori but couldn't pass them so he retreated and tried to touch Ledesma who failed to dominate the ball, and the ball returned to Cagliari's foot who played it to Usman
Usman keeps driving the ball through the middle of the field and moving towards the right end until he touches the ball in Ceppelini who misses it, but it is left to Dessena who was behind
Dessena tries to pass the ball to Cossu, but the ball is intercepted by Biaca who throws the ball back at the goalkeeper.
Cepellini spins and touches Usman who dribbles André Dias faces Marchetti and finishes the ball goes right into the goal, but it comes out weak and the goalkeeper defends it by throwing himself in his direction and grabbing it
The game restarts on Konko's side and they try to attack with plays on that side fail and they take a counterattack from Golan who plays for Pinilla and Pinilla goes to the bottom line with the ball as there is no one in the area he takes the ball back for Usman who is behind him already exhausted, Usman dominates the ball pulls towards the half moon and finishes from outside the area
The ball just goes up and up and out, with the ball out of Usman and replaced by Sau.
After restarting the game, the Lazio defenders kept possession of the ball for a while so that the midfield team positioned themselves until they touched the ball to Hernanes who made a pass to Klose
Klose dominates, spins and finishes the goal from outside the area, the Cagliari goalkeeper jumps towards the ball and grabs it, protecting the goal against Lazio
The ball is put on the field with a kick forward and the Cagliari team tries to make an attack against Lazio , but their last attacks fail , one by intercepting a pass by the defense and the ball is sent by the lateral and another by Sal's impediment after throw-in
The game ends with the Cagliari team celebrating their 2-0 home victory with the crowd. at Touluose who didn't even realize he was considered the game's MVP with a 7.5 grade
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