CAGLIARI (ITALPRESS) – Cagliari and Genoa are not hurting each other in the red-and-blue challenge at the Unipol Domus that opens the 28th day of Serie A. One half apiece and a point apiece: ahead the hosts through Viola, final 1-1 by Cornet at the dawn of the second half.
Three men in the three-quarter for Davide Nicola, who launches Zortea, Viola and Coman to support Piccoli. Vieira doesn’t want to give points of reference and sacrifices Pinamonti: a light attack with Miretti free to range, Ekhator and Cornet on the outsides and Ekuban up front.
The classic initial study phase is abruptly interrupted by a brilliant verticalization of Obert for Piccoli who under goal does not miss but sees his scream for the goal, cancelled due to a millimeter offside, choked in his throat. On the quarter-hour mark, Coman was dangerous on a free kick from the three-quarter line taken suddenly: surprised Leali and the Genoa defense, the ball, however, hit the outside post and the Ligurians breathed a sigh of relief. Postponed for only a few minutes was Cagliari’s deserved lead. On 18′ Piccoli defended possession by his fingernails, then swerved on the defender and launched Viola, who was also lucky with his control and icy with his left to beat the goalkeeper for 1-0. The only blemish of the Sardinian first half was the ankle sprain that knocked out Coman and forced Nicola to insert Augello, in the final Piccoli did not get the goal on Zortea’s low cross and Genoa made themselves dangerous for the first time on the developments of a scrum in the area in which Ekuban failed to take the winning deflection.
He makes up for it at the beginning of the second half, the Italian-Ghanaian striker: on a nice invention by Miretti in space, Ekuban takes Luperto’s time and serves a ball in the center that Cornet only has to push into the net for the equalizer. Vieira’s team completely changes course in the second half and with graft from the bench, Zanoli and Pinamonti above all, tries to close in on the comeback. De Winter ate his hands when he broke away in the box but failed to score on Martin’s perfect cross, Pinamonti, on the other hand, protested shortly afterwards for a prolonged contact with Zappa that was not worth a penalty kick for Fabbri.
With 15 minutes to go, Cornet is injured, but the good news for Genoa is that Malinovskyi returns to the field after nearly six months. The last minutes are orphaned of great emotions. Cagliari also claims a penalty, not awarded for an alleged hand by Vasquez, who will later be providential in closing in on Gaetano. It ends in a draw, the rankings move and on balance, for both, it’s okay.
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