CAGLIARI (ITALPRESS) – A still unbeaten Empoli routs the Unipol Domus Arena and momentarily reaches Napoli on 9 points and in second place in the standings. In the match that opens the program of the fifth day, goals by Colombo and Esposito fold Cagliari 2-0: a bad blow for the Sardinians, still second-to-last, who leave the field of play amid the contained protests of the home crowd. Bland rhythms and few chances at the start. Pezzella kicks and catches the outside of the net, on the opposite side Vasquez misses the exit but Esposito anticipates Deiola on the most beautiful and saves the result: this and little else in the first half hour of the match in which Cagliari makes ball possession, albeit sterile, and Empoli defends giving however the impression of being able to be dangerous. The Tuscan threat suddenly becomes concrete in minute 33 when the guests go through with a nice all vertical action: Esposito, Henderson and then Anjorin imbue for Colombo, kept in play by Makoumbou, who comes face-to-face with Scuffet and slips it in with a nice diagonal. The reaction of the hosts was not long in coming. Providential low exit of Vasquez on Luvumbo, then Luperto takes a header, but sends it high and the Empoli goalkeeper returns to the forefront with a super save on Deiola’s shot from a safe distance in the middle of the area.A possible goal would still have been the subject of analysis by the Var because the action seemed vitiated by an earlier foul by Piccoli on Ismajli, also recognized by referee Sozza. At the start of the second half, Nicola immediately played the Pavoletti card and tried with the three forwards, but it was again the traveling team that went into the net: Scuffet rejected a conclusion by Esposito however, the striker ventured on the rebound, anticipating Augello, and pierced the opponent’s extreme defender after also seating Luperto. Ice shower for the ambitions of a bewildered Cagliari, which did not frighten with a high attempt by Luvumbo and had to wait for the entrance of Gaetano to come close to scoring with the beautiful acrobatic turn of the former Napoli, finished very slightly high over the crossbar. In the last bars Esposito’s 3-0 goal by Cacace was cancelled out for offside while the same Esposito came close to a personal double and Empoli’s hat trick with a missile that ended not far from the post to Scuffet’s left. Cagliari tried generously until the end of the extra minutes, but the result did not change anymore thanks to Vasquez who again opposed Gaetano. – Photo Ipa Agency -(ITALPRESS).
