CAGLIARI. Cagliari defeats Salernitana 4-2. Salernitana was unquestionably better in terms of ball possession (71%).
The match was played at the Sardegna Arena stadium in Cagliari on Saturday and it started at 3:00 pm local time. The referee was Francesco Fourneau with the help of Emanuele Prenna and Domenico Palermo. The 4th official was Gianluca Manganiello. The weather was few clouds. The temperature was cold at 14.62 degrees Celsius or 58.32 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 67%.
Match Statistics
- ! 29 Ball Possession 71
Shots
- 12 Total 12
- 7 On Target 5
- 3 Off Target 5
- 3 Shots blocked 3
- 59 Attack 117
- 22 Dangerous attack 54
- 80 Ball safe 100
- 0 Penalties 0
- 5 Corners 4
- 4 Off Sides 2
Fouls
- 15 Total 9
- 1 Yellow Cards 2
- 0 Double Yellow 0
- 0 Red Card 0
Other
- 5 Substitutions 5
Ball possession
Salernitana had a strong ball possession 71% while Cagliari was struggling with a 29% ball possession.
Attitude and shots
Salernitana was more aggressive with 54 dangerous attacks and 12 shots of which 5 were on target. Nonetheless, Cagliari was able to find the solution to win this match.
Cagliari shot 12 times, 7 on target, 3 off target. On the other side, Salernitana shot 12 times, 5 on target, 5 off target.
Cards
Cagliari received 1 yellow card (Tommaso Augello). Talking about the opposition, Salernitana received 2 yellow cards (Grigoris Kastanos and Junior Sambia).
Match Timeline
Standings
After this encounter, Cagliari has 26 points to remain in the 13th place. Talking about the opposition, Salernitana will stays with 14 points to hold in the 20th place.
Next matches
In the next match in the Serie A, Cagliari will play away against Monza on the 17th of March with a 0-0 head to head statistic.
Salernitana will host Lecce on the 17th of March with a 7-3 head to head stats in favor of Lecce (2 draws).
Cagliari – Formation
Cagliari started with a 4-4-1-1 line-up (4-4-1-1).
The manager Claudio Ranieri decided to play with the following team: Simone Scuffet
, Gabriele Zappa , Yerry Mina , Alberto Dossena , Tommaso Augello , Nahitan Nández , Antoine Makoumbou , Alessandro Deiola , Jakub Jankto , Gianluca Gaetano and Gianluca Lapadula .The home team had on the bench: Boris Radunović, Nicolas Viola
, Matteo Prati, Pantelis Hatzidiakos, Simone Aresti, Mateusz Wieteska , Adam Obert, Kingstone Mutandwa, Paulo Azzi , Eldor Shomurodov , Alessandro Di Pardo and Gaetano Oristanio .Substitutions
Cagliari made 5 changes: Nahitan Nández for Nicolas Viola (66′), Gianluca Lapadula for Gaetano Oristanio (66′), Jakub Jankto for Paulo Azzi (66′), Gianluca Gaetano for Eldor Shomurodov (46′) and Tommaso Augello for Mateusz Wieteska (77′).
Player of the match: Eldor Shomurodov
Following our analysis, the most impressive player for Cagliari was Eldor Shomurodov .
His rating is
with 2 goals, 3 passes (67% accurate) and 0 key passes. He won 4 duels out of 7. He performed 1 cross.His performance was exceptional also because he began the encounter from the bench before entering in the 46′.
Salernitana – Formation
Salernitana started with a 4-3-1-2 line-up (4-3-1-2).
Fabio Liverani played with: Guillermo Ochoa
, Alessandro Zanoli , Konstantinos Manolas , Federico Fazio , Domagoj Bradaric , Lassana Coulibaly , Giulio Maggiore , Grigoris Kastanos , Antonio Candreva , Loum Tchaouna and Shon Weissman .The following players were sitting on the bench: Triantafyllos Pasalidis, Junior Sambia
, Agustín Martegani, Simy , Iron Gomis , Chukwubuikem Ikwuemesi, Tommaso Ferrari, Emanuel Vignato, Benoît Costil, Pasquale Allocca, Lorenzo Pirola , Mateusz Legowski, Marco Pellegrino and Toma Bašić .Substitutions
Salernitana made 5 changes: Shon Weissman for Simy (65′), Konstantinos Manolas for Lorenzo Pirola (46′), Alessandro Zanoli for Junior Sambia (74′), Lassana Coulibaly for Iron Gomis (74′) and Grigoris Kastanos for Toma Bašić (87′).
Player of the match: Giulio Maggiore
As per our analysis, the most impressive player for Salernitana was Giulio Maggiore.
His rating is
with 1 goal, 61 passes (90% accurate) and 1 key pass. He won 6 duels out of 10.Results of the day
These are the results of the day in the Serie A.