Chapter 39 1st game in Italy

On the day of the game, coach Ivol prepared the players mentally for the game against Sampdoria, dictating the list of players who would participate

GK Agazzi 1

CB Aruaudo 3 Astori 13 RB Pisano 14 LB Smit

DMF Conti 5 © CMF Nainggolan 4 and Ekdal 20 AMF Cossu 7

CF Nenê 18 and Pinilla 51

and the banks

GK Avramov 25 CB Camilleri 2 SB Danilo Avelar 8 CMF Dessena 21 SMF Eriksson 21 AMF Cepellini 32 CF Usman 10

Sampdoria's team would play with

GK S.Romero

CB Rossini and Gastaldello RB Cacciatore LB De Silvestri

DMF Estigarribia SMF Tissone and Poli

RF Pozzi CF Eder WF Maccarone

The game starts with the ball being with the hostess who plays it for Estigarribia who tries an overhead pass to Eder

The ball is picked up by Astori and stops at Cossu's foot who dominates and touches Nene

Nene dribbles the players and heads towards the goal manages to enter the area and kicks towards the goal from the left end in the left corner the goalkeeper holds the post and defends the kick

The ball is sent to the Corner and the one who crosses it is Cossu who sends the ball into the court and is taken by De Silvestri with his head to the entrance of the half moon where Pinilla comes back to get the ball and touches it backwards in Nainggolan(Golan ) who dominates the ball and goes to the Sampdoria area on the right wing

Being interrupted by the lateral , but the ball remains in Pisano who passes the ball to Golan again , Golan enters the area and finishes in the corner of the goalkeeper who is pressing himself against the crossbar

Goalkeeper Romero defends the kick and grabs it, but when he gets up he hits the crossbar and lets the ball fall to the bottom line, thus being a corner for the Cagliari team

Cossu takes another corner, crosses the ball into the area and is taken out by Estigarria, the ball stops at Conti who dribbles past Poli and finishes after entering the area but the ball goes up and goes out

Romero restarts the game touching to Passini who touches Gastaldello

Gastaldello tries to move forward with the ball but Pinilla gets to him and steals the ball starting an attack for Cagliari touching the ball in Nenê

Nenê dominates and tries to come back, but makes a wrong pass and the ball stops at Poli's foot

Poli dominates the ball and is marked by Conti who was chasing the wrong pass made by Nene , from so much pressure Conti manages to take the ball from Poli and tries to scratch it in front of Cossu but the ball goes wrong and stops at the foot and Esticarribia who chases the ball ball inside his own area trying to get the ball out of his area passing to Gastadello who is at his side to kick the ball out of his field

But the pass stops at the foot of Nene who kicks the ball straight into Sampdoria's goal

The ball just flies past the goal

Romero restarts the game with a kick forward the ball is disputed by Macarone and Golan in the air , Macarrone wins with the header sending the ball towards Éter who is being marked by Conti and another dispute begins in the air for the ball

The ball hits Conti and Eder takes advantage of Conti's slow reaction and moves to catch the ball and gives a pass to Poli but the ball stops at Pizzi's foot after overtaking on Conti's side and being in front of Smit on the left side from the field close to the Cagliari area the two dispute the ball

Pozzi wins the challenge and touches the ball in the middle to Eder who dominates and finishes the ball on the Caglirari players the ball hits Golan and goes up falling towards Macarrone and Pisano who were disputing the ball in the air

Neither man manages to control the ball, it falls to the ground and Pisano runs up to it and kicks it in the side.

Sampdoria attacks and loses with the ball with an attempt to pass from above into the area Cagliari gets possession of the ball and goes on the attack going through the center they lose the ball and the team disputes the ball in the center of the midfield where the foul occurs because the dispute heated up (heated up) over there

With the foul being given Ivol takes out Pinilla and puts Usman in the game in the 31st minute

The game restarts with Estiagirra taking a free kick and the ball stopping at Cagliari's foot, thus continuing disputes for possession of the ball in Cagliari's field.

Sampdoria ends up getting possession of the ball and retreats the ball to the defense , but the move does not work out because with them trying to attack again they are stopped in the center of the midfield by the Cagliari team until they get a chance touching for Pozzi who dominates and follows down the left side of the field crossing into the area for Tissone

The ball is withdrawn by Cagliari and they start a counterattack touching the ball to Usman who dribbles Estagiarra and goes forward he ends up managing to open the defense to make a pass for Nenê who goes through the middle of the two defenders and manages to catch the ball

Dribbles the last defender and when he steps on the area line he kicks in the left corner of the goalkeeper the ball follows diagonally and enters the goal, Goooooooooooooooool!!!!!!!! It's from Cagliari in the 1st half stoppage time Nenê receives a pass from Usman and finishes head-on with the goalkeeper the ball goes into the goal

Sampdoria 0 x 1 Cagliari Calcio

After the goal, Sampdoria restarts the game but they don't have time to do anything and the game ends the first half

The players from both teams go to their changing rooms the coach was very happy because they were playing away from home and they started the game in front so he didn't say anything he just smiled and told the players to keep pressing

game statistics

Samporia 0x1 Cagliari

Kicks 1(0) x 6(3)

Free Kicks 1 x 0

Corner Kicks 0x2

Ball possession 50% x 50%

The 2nd half starts with Cagliari having possession of the ball and starts attacking as soon as the first pass comes out Usman touches Ekdal on the left end, but Ekdal loses the ball in the division to Poli who touches Eder

Eder dominates and touches Pozzi but the ball is intercepted by Conti who passes it to Cossu

Cossu drives the ball and touches Golan who follows with it and sees Usman alone entering the area and touches him

Usman dominates the ball and shoots at the goal the goalkeeper defends by palming the ball to his right and the defenders send the ball to the side

Caglirari started the game on the wing and they started to play with each other until Cossu tried a cross into the area, but the ball went to the right where Golan chased the ball being chased by Rossini

Golan manages to get the ball and passes it to Usman who dominates and hits Nene who is inside the area.

Nene dominates and spins his body to shoot but Cacciatore trips him up to reach the ball which destabilizes Nene who is unable to shoot and keeps driving the ball out.

At 57 minutes in the 2nd half, the Sampdoria coach exchanged Tissone for Soriano giving new blood to the team on the field

Romero restarts the game with a Chutão forward the ball is disputed in the air by Eder and Ekdal , the ball is headed forward by Ekdal and who ends up catching it is Esticarribia who touches the ball in Eder

Eder dominates and runs forward with the ball until Astori appears and takes the ball away from him,

Astori drives the ball and touches Golan who receives it and passes it to Usman , Usman drives the ball and touches Golan again but the ball stops at Poli's foot who starts an attack touching Maccarone

Maccarone dominates the ball and goes down the left side of the field to Cagliari's back line and crosses for Pozzi inside the area

Pozzi jumps and heads the ball into the goal, but Agazzi is attentive and blocks the goal sending the ball to his right and the ball goes out, being a corner

Poli takes the corner by crossing the ball into the area , Pozzi jumps on the stick and heads the goal into the corner of the goal on the left side , this time there was no way for Agazzi to defend and the ball goes into the goal

Gooooooolll!!!!! from Sampdoria in the 69th minute in the 2nd half they tie the game at home

Sampdoria 1x1 Cagliari

Cagliari restarts the game the team having an intense offensive the ball reaches Usman who dribbles Estigarribia and passes by Cacciatore enters the area touches Golan who finishes the ball in the goal

Romero ends up falling on that last pass, but ends up defending the ball at the last moment

Sampdoria's team restarts the game and manages to attack with Pozzi but they lose the ball and take a counterattack from Cagliari

The ball arrives at Usman in the middle of the field who leaves, dribbling the Sampdoria players and getting close to the goal he advances between the defenders entering the area and finishes in the goal the ball passes through the left side of the goalkeeper and it is Goooooolllll !!! from Cagliari he scores on his debut

Sampdoria 1x2 Cagliari

After Cagliari scored the 3rd goal of the game, Ivol exchanged Pisano for Dessena to reinforce the defensive field, managing to maintain the victory until the end

The Sampdoria team starts playing between their players in their field while the Cagliari team puts pressure on the Sampdoria team to get the ball

The ball lands at the foot of Cacciotore who touches Pozzi on the right side of the field who crosses the ball to Eder inside the area

Eder tries to head the ball to Soriano, but the ball is in the foot of Aruaudo who kicks the ball to the side

At 88 minutes, Ivo, seeing that the team was struggling to defend the last moments, took Usman out and put Camilleri in

While Sampdoria takes out Estigarribia and puts on Maxi Lopez to attack Cagliari until the whistle blows

Usman is applauded by the crowd for putting Cagliari in front again

The ball is restarted with Sampdoria launching the lateral and Ivo changing the formation of the team to 4-4-1-1 in which they manage to keep Sampdoria out of their area and dispute the ball to the point that Sampdoria fouls their players

Cagliari restarts hitting the free kick with a forward kick making it more difficult to take the goal in the 2nd time additions, taking the ball and keeping it in Sampdoria's field, Sampdoria even manages to steal the ball, but when his attack the referee whistles and ends the game

Cagliari's players leave the field happy for winning this victory

And the Mvp of the game ended up being Usman for managing to score 1 goal and an assist in his debut game for Cagliari making the team win 1 more league victory

The media even tried to interview him but Usman couldn't speak Italian so he just said thank you and walked towards his teammates

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