All the Cagliari players were talking in the dressing room about their last league match of the year with the last game being a draw they still managed to keep 5th place but the most impressive was the 1st and 2nd place in the league
1st Inter 91 Pts
2nd Juventus 77 Pts
5° Cagliari 69 Pts
8 games ago they were practically 10 points ahead of our team and we were glued to taking 2nd place as soon as Cagliari faced them we dropped to 4th place and we never managed to return to the top 3 really showing what giants of the it was
The last match will be against Chievo Verona , Usman would participate in that game , but he is not in such good shape that he is ready to play well so his results today will not be what he would expect for a final game of the season .
GK Agazzi 1
CB Ariaudo 3 Astori 13 RB G. Perico 24 LB Smit 6
DMF Conti 5 © CMF Dessena 21 Eriksson 16 AMF Cossu 7
CF Nenê 18 27 and Usman 10
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GK Ruzittu 12 CB Rossettini 15 SB Pisano 14 Camilleri 2 CMF Nainggolan 4 and AMF Cepellini 32 CF Sau
The Chievo Verona turns with
GK Sorrentino
CB Dainelli and Papp RB Sardo LB Dramé
DMF Bentivoglio and L. Rigoni CMF Hetemaj AMF M. Rigoni
CF Pellissier and Paloschi
The game starts with Nenê playing for Usman.
Usman plays for Cossu who drives the ball and dribbles Hetamaj and passes the ball back to Usman, Usman pulls it to the left wing and plays for Nenê who cannot control the ball because he is marked by 2 Verona players.
The ball is left for Papp after the tackle and he kicks it forward towards Pelisser who wins the header touching it to M. Rigoni , M dominates and goes towards the Cagliari goal , he makes a throw over to L , but Astori heads the ball out of his direction and sends it to Dessena , Dessena dominates and touches Usman .
Usman dominates and plays for Nenê, when he dominates the ball Nene leads it and dribbles the Verona players until he reaches the half-moon, where he tries to finish in Verona's goal but the Verona defender enters in front of the ball and blocks the kick with the body, the ball is deflected back in a direction close to Smit who runs to it and catches it.
He dominates it and tries to dribble Sardo, but ends up losing 1-1 against him and the Verona team kicks the ball out of his court.
The ball is disputed by L in the air with Conti , L manages to head back at his teammate , but his teammate returns the ball to him with a low pass in which Conti takes advantage of this error and steals the ball , passing it to Eriksson after stealing -there .
Eriksson sees Usman running alone and makes a low throw for him, Usman manages to dominate the ball alone and even enter the Verona area, but Usman was slow compared to his opponents as two arrived to mark him and managed to block him from kicking and steal the ball from him by kicking it to the side.
Smit takes the ball and throws the ball at Eriksson , Eriksson dominates and brings the defense close to the corner line taking the ball and touches it back to Usman , Usman dominates the ball observes inside Verona 's area and goes to the center of the area the half moon driving the ball, upon reaching half moon, Usman realizes the emptiness he had in front of him and finishes from outside the area the ball comes out stronger than he wanted and passes by scraping the right side of the crossbar on the top going out .
Sorretino starts with a kick and the ball and dominates by M who dribbles Conti and touches Pellissier so hard the pass goes out that Pellissier has to chase the ball close to the sideline where he dominates it and goes through there to the baseline from Cagliari, where he simply crosses into the penalty area.
Agazzi ends up receiving the ball from the cross in his hands as the pass came out with a very tight curve to the point of going straight into the goal.
Agazzi kicks forward and the ball is disputed in the center of the midfield by Cossu and M in which M wins and heads towards L , L does not manage to dominate because Cossu presses the ball back to M who hits the ball with the body and L and Conti chase the ball.
Conti manages to win the race and dominates the ball , touches Eriksson , Eriksson touches Cossu .
Cossu turns the game playing for Dessena , Dessena holds the rhythm of the game and hits Cossu again who was already much ahead than him in the Verona field close to the goal , Cossu receives the pass and touches Usman who is in his forward, Usman manages to dominate the ball and faces the goalkeeper with Nenê at his side so close that he gets in the way of the shot and Danelli, the Verona defender reaches him before he manages to kick the ball into the goal, thus preventing Cagliari from increasing the score .
Danelli catches the ball from Usman and kicks it to the center of midfield.
Palosshi and Astori position themselves at the ball's landing spot to head it, Astori wins the header touching it to Conti who finds it difficult to dominate the ball completely by dominating it in the chest L appears behind him and hits him with the shoulder unbalancing Conti and stealing the ball, when stealing the ball L leads it against Cagliari's goal where even Ariaudo trying to stop him trying to go in the body he dribbles.
Even managing to pass the defenders he was very slow handling the ball because all the defenders of Cagliari manage to pass him recovering position, as he was tired he ends up touching the ball to M who reaches him, M dominates the ball and returns it in L , L spins and sees Hetemaj running down the right side of the field plays for him .
Hetemaj dominates the ball towards the baseline and crosses into the area, the ball is cleared with a header by Perico who jumps high enough to clear it from the area.
But luck is on Verona's side as the ball goes to Bentivoglio's foot, where he dominates the ball in his foot and drives it into Cagliari's area.
As he enters the area he continues to be marked by Ariaudo who manages to block him after stealing the ball and touching Perico, Perico dominates the ball and plays for Usman who was further ahead, Usman dominates the ball and continues to lead it across the field until Verona's area where he sees Cossu passing by and plays for him, Cossu dominates and follows until the half moon driving the ball, but ends up losing possession of it when Papp appears to mark him.
Papp steals and passes to Bentiglovio, while Bentiglovio dominates the ball, Papp goes forward to receive the pass back, Bentiglovio notices the move and returns the ball, Papp dominates it again and drives it to the center of the midfield where he is Marked by Smit, Smit easily manages to steal the ball from Papp's foot and the ball goes to the foot of L. who was well positioned behind Papp, who practically tries to make a launch for M, but this launch fails because Ariaudo was attentive to the pass and reaches the ball first kicking it to his right side towards the touchline.
What Ariaudo didn't count on is that his strength wasn't enough to make the ball leave the field and Dramé managed to reach the ball and dominate it on the sideline, not allowing it to leave the field.
L dominates and heads towards Cagliari's goal dribbling the Cagliari players he can't get into the area and touches Bentiglovio behind , Bentiglovio also can't think of anything to get past the Cagliari team and tries a high shot but this shot is withdrawn by the defense and the ball returns to the center of the game.
After this move, the referee whistles the end of the 1st half.
Cagliari's players leave the field without expressions of happiness or sadness because they wouldn't know what to feel they were staying in a worse position than before, but it's in a better position than the team's 40 years in history so they were being the best players in 40 years for the team.
Usman was silent watching his companions who were also with expressions confused between joy and disappointment.
Ivo didn't say anything at all times to him who was considered the best coach after Cagliari's 70's champion there was nothing he needed to say in this last game of the year.
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The second half begins
Paloschi and Pelliesser start by playing for M who drives the ball and dribbles Usman then touches Hetemaj on the side , but they did not expect that Perico predicted this pass and positioned himself to catch the ball .
Perico tries to drive the ball and pass it to someone , but he makes the pass without looking right and the ball stops at the foot of M who touches the ball to Pelliessier , Pelliessier touches it to L who is behind , L takes the ball to the center and touches it M , M leads and plays for Hetemaj.
Hetemaj dominates the ball and drives between the Cagliari defenders playing for Pellissier who was trapped in the defensive circle of Cagliari, where Conti takes the ball from him and passes it to Dessena, Dessena receives the pass and touches Usman.
Usman drives the ball for a short time and ends up being marked by L , then Usman plays for Smit on the left end , Smit leads the ball to vVerona's bottom line and crosses inside the area with all his strength where Dessena appears on the 2nd pole of the crossbar for a header in the goal, but the header goes wrong and goes to the side of the goal close to the bottom line. Verona defenders catch the ball and head it out of their area.
The ball is left for Usman who tries to drive it, but Conti fumbles with positioning and crashes with Usman who is driving the ball.
The ball was caught by M who tried to retreat into his area and start a counterattack play, but Usman chased him and hindered his conduction and the ball ended up at the foot of Nenê who was next to Hetamaj.
Nenê dominates the ball and plays for Cossu who was free , Cossu dominates the ball and tries to dribble the defenders , as he can not touch Eriksson on the left wing
Eriksson was free, but he was too advanced and ended up being offside.
The free kick is taken, stopping at the foot of the Cagliari team who exchange passes in the midfield until the ball stops at Smit's foot who plays for Usman, Usman dominates the ball and goes into Verona's area where he manages to make a pass to Cossu perfect diagonally, but Cossu can't control the ball correctly and finishes and ends up stopping next to the rtave outside the direction of the goal. He shoots with a tight angle to the goal.
The ball lasts a while in the air and the goalkeeper has time to recover, getting up and ending Cagliari's chance to increase the score.
The goalkeeper returns the game to the field throwing the ball at Dramé , Dramé controls the ball and passes it to Bentivoglio who touches the ball over to M , but M does not reach it and the ball stops at the foot of Conti who touches it to Perico , Perico touches it to Dessena and Dessena try to touch Usman, but the pass goes wrong and stops at Hetamaj's foot.
Hetamaj plays for M , M is blocked by Dessena who steals the ball and leads it to the attack seeing Usman again free he makes the pass .
Usman dominated the ball and drove it to the attack.
Usman was already showing signs of exhaustion on the field he was no longer performing enough to be kept on the field.
Usman plays for Conti who was at his side and Conti runs to reach the ball arriving at the same time as the player of the opposing team he manages to touch the ball hitting it forward towards Cossu , but the ball is deflected by Dramé for out going to the corner on the right end.
In the 78th minute of the game, Ivo takes Usman and Cossu out and puts Thiago Ribeiro and Nainggolan on the field, seeing his players tired.
Nainggolan takes the corner kick and the ball is headed out of the area by Papp and Conti sees it flying out of the area and catches it with a volley in the air sending the ball over the goal without any danger other than the scare they had with the ball stopping at the foot of a Cagliari player, the Verona players restarted the game and kept possession of the ball for the last 10 minutes of the game without being able to make a dangerous move because of the tiredness of the players in this game and they did not have to defend because of keep possession of the ball in the team until the referee whistles the end of the game.
The Verona players leave the pitch disappointed while the Cagliari players keep a neutral expression on their faces.
Upon arriving at the dressing room, all players receive news from the coach that they would be celebrating at the Bflat bar, one of the best theaters in Cagliari, and all players should be there, as interesting people and proposals could appear, as well as getting along with the team's fans. .
Upon reaching his room Usman lay down on his bed and closed his eyes until he heard a plim sound.
Attack 77/99 Defense 38/99 Body Balance 77/99
Stamina 76/99 Top Speed 78/99 Acceleration 78/99 Agility 75/99
Responsiveness 72/99 Dribble accuracy 70/99 Dribble Speed 72/99 FK accuracy 63/99
Short Pass accuracy 67/99 S.Pass Speed 66/99 Long Pass accuracy 68/99 L.Pass Speed 69/99
Shot accuracy 73/99 Shot Power 77/99 Shot Techinque 71/99 Techinque 67/99
Swerve 62/99 Header 74/99 Jump 75/99 Aggression 85/99 Tenacity 79/99 Teamwork 68/99
The Sound of Growth, Usman was once again getting his capabilities evolution
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O p Q R S t U v w x y z
Attack 78/99 Defense 38/99 Body Balance 77/99
Stamina 76/99 Top Speed 78/99 Acceleration 78/99 Agility 75/99
Responsiveness 72/99 Dribble accuracy 70/99 Dribble Speed 72/99 FK accuracy 63/99
Short Pass accuracy 67/99 S.Pass Speed 66/99 Long Pass accuracy 68/99 L.Pass Speed 69/99
Shot accuracy 73/99 Shot Power 78/99 Shot Techinque 71/99 Techinque 67/99
Swerve 62/99 Header 74/99 Jump 75/99 Aggression 86/99 Tenacity 79/99 Teamwork 68/99