Chapter 64 Waiter being served

After Bologna we had to take a trip to Naples, where in the middle of training to face Napoli Usman managed to see Sofia again.

Where did you go that didn't come last game?

Venice, I went to negotiate the proposals that Panerai made for you, especially since this is your first sponsorship. he is already considered one of the giant promises of the decade as I said before 11 goals in a season may be little for great players, but for normal players it is a good average of goals and for promises it is a great number of goals. (Sofia)

And not only did you get 11 last year, but this year in less than 10 games you've already reached 6. have complaints.

Well I can't stay here taking your time because soon you will enter the stadium so good luck and have a good game.

Sofia, wishing Usman a good game, tries to leave, but Usman holds her hand, approaches her, puts his hand on her face, pulls her towards her and places his forehead on her forehead while there, he stares at her, he smiles at her, she stays surprised by this, but not disgusted until she gives him a peck on the lip, Usman smiles at this action and kisses her too.

Don't forget to root for me. (Usman)

Clear.

Usman joins his teammates to head to the stadium.

The team that would be playing against Napoli today was

GK Agazzi 1

CB Ariaudo 3 Astori 13 RB Pisano 14 LB Agostini 31

DMF Conti 5 © CMF Nainggolan 4 Slot 11 AMF Cossu 7

CF Pinilla 51e Usman 10

and the banks

GK Ruzittu 12 CB Rossettini 15 SB Smit 6 Camilleri 2 CMF Eriksson 16 and Dessena 21 AMF Cepellini 32 CF Nenê 18 Sau 27

The Napoli team will play with

GK De Sanctis

CB Campagnaro, Paolo Cannavaro and Gamberini

CMF Ekdal and Inler RMF Zuniga LMF Behrami AMF Hamsik

SS Pandev CF Cavani

Players enter the field surprised that 40% of the fans in the stadium are Cagliari fans who simply exceed the amount of fans when they play at home.

The teams greeted each other and went towards their positions the ball would start with the home team.

The game starts with Cavani touching to Pandev, Pandev touching to Hamsik, Hamsik passes to Cavani on top, but the ball is intercepted with Conti's head who plays to Usman, Usman dominates the ball and passes to Slot.

Slot dominates the ball and drives it towards the attack, touching it to Agostini on the left wing, Agostini makes the first pass to Usman, Usman dominates the ball and dribbles Cannavaro into the area, but in return he puts a lot of speed when he was driving the ball and it was away from him, the goalkeeper took advantage of this fact and left the goal to get the ball, Usman even managed to reach the ball to shoot at the goal, but as soon as he was about to finish the ball Sanctis managed to grab it.

Sanctis sends the ball away, the ball falls towards Agostini who dominates it and throws it back at Astori, Astori dominates the ball and passes it to Ariaudo, Ariaudo returns the ball, Astori touches the ball to Agostini, Agostini makes a pass over the top for Usman the ball goes over Usman and Campagnaro heads towards Hamsik who manages to control it and passes it to Zunga, Zunga returns it to Hamsik, Hamsik passes the ball to Ekdal, Ekdal returns it to Hamsik, Hamsik backs to Cannavaro, Cannavaro returns to Hamsik, Hamsik advances with the ball and touches Inler, Inler being marked tries to return to his field until Cossu who was returning to defense steals the ball from him.

The ball lands at the foot of Nainggolan who tries to drive it towards the attack, passing from the center of the midfield Nainggolan finds Cannavaro who comes forward to mark him, Nainggolan loses the ball and it goes in the direction behind him after Cannavaro hits it, Hamsik seeing this he runs to the ball and dominates it, after catching it he tries to make a pass to Cavani, but the ball hits Conti and goes up where it is contested in the air by Ekdal and Slot, Ekdal wins with a header to Cavani, Cavani dominates, Astori, seeing this, tackles Cavani from behind, knocking him down.

The Cart managed to reach the ball first so Astori was not booked yet it was still considered a foul.

Inler hits the free-kick the ball goes towards Cavani who manages to head it to the side and she is left alone, at this moment Hamsik chases her and manages to hit her forward in return he cannot dominate her and continues to chase her entering inside from the area he manages to dominate it, but Agostini arrives to mark him and manages to steal it, Agostini manages to dominate it and leads it forward and touches Slot further ahead, Slot dominates the ball and leads it forward with Inler the scoring he touches it to Usman, Usman dominates and tries to follow to Ponta, but Campagnaro manages to reach him and take the ball leaving with it to the side for not being able to stop.

Slot takes the full-back into Agostini, Agostini tries a long pass over the top, the ball is intercepted by Inler heading towards Hamsik, Hamsik heads the ball towards Zunga, but the header is weak and only reaches halfway where the closest person is Conti, Conti catches her and exchanges passes with Slot, after exchanging passes he goes with her to the attack and makes a pass to Agostini by the left wing.

Agostini dominates the ball and crosses into the area the ball is headed by Nainggolan towards the goal and passes by scraping the right post on the outside.

The goalkeeper restarts with a kick and the ball is disputed by Cossu and Ekdal, Ekdal wins and heads to Behrami, but the ball is dominated by Nainggolan who was nearby, Nainggolan dominates it and follows with it on the right wing, Nainggolan reaches the goal line area to the right and cross into the area.

Cossu catches the ball with his right leg kicking it with a volley into the right corner of the goal.

Goooool! From Cagliari it's his Cossu, this time the waiter was served an unbelievable volley shot with the crossing of the Belgian Nainggolan the goal comes out in the 31st minute of the game.

Napoli 0 x 1 Cagliari.

Cossu decides not to celebrate too much and just waves his hand to the crowd, but his teammates run and hug him before returning to their positions, so that the game can restart.

Cavani plays for Pandev, Pandev touches Hamsik, Hamsik dominates the ball and drives it, losing it to Cossu who marks him, Cossu leads it and ends up attracting Cannavaro then plays the ball to Usman, Usman dominates the ball and goes out driving to the attack dribbling the Napoli players until Inler managed to steal it and drive it creating a counterattack play.

Inler plays for Hamsik, Hamsik plays for Inler, Inler does not reach the ball and it is caught by Pisano who touches the ball to Astori, the pass is intercepted by Cavani, Cavani touches to Hamsik, Hamsik drops the ball to Behrami, Behrami returns, Hamsik waits Behrami repositions and touches him again, Behrami dominates the ball and plays an overhead pass to Ekdal, the pass is intercepted by Agostini with a header and sent towards Cossu, Cossu controls the ball and touches it in Pinilla, Pinilla plays for Usman, Usman dominates the ball and sees the field free to go towards the goal, but Gamberini manages to run so fast that he manages to pass him Usman, not seeing any more chance to pull more towards the center, finishes the ball from direction he is and goalkeeper Sanctis catches the ball with ease and quickly kicks it towards the attack,the ball is dominated by Cavani who is being marked by Ariaudo, Cavani puts the ball on the ground and tries to drive it, but Ariaudo manages to put his leg in front trying to catch the ball and knocks him down committing a foul against Napoli.

Inler takes the free kick and Agostini heads the ball towards the area, the ball is left for Ekdal who puts his foot on the ball trying to dominate it, but it hits his foot and goes behind him, he chases the ball and the takes it towards Cagliari's goal, but is stopped by Agostini and comes back touching the ball to Zuniga, Zuniga dominates the ball and goes on the right side crossing it into the area the ball is removed from Cagliari's area by Ariaudo who manages to head it her sending her away.

The referee, seeing that the ball has left the danger area, whistles, ending the 1st half of the game.

The team left the field slowly and entered the locker room as usual, they kept as little animation as possible, as they were not used to being competing to be champions which made them exhausted being only in the 6th game of the championship the players were showing fatigue from how it was in the 25th game onwards, which is when the team can no longer maintain a good season if it was undefeated due to the fatigue that the players have accumulated.

Ivo, seeing this, thinks about cheering them up, but feels that it's better to just tell them to rest.

Conti observes his cronies and sees that this time they are really showing a frightening determination on the field because they have already won 5 in a row and they are heading towards the 6th, he has been playing for Cagliari since 99 and that had never happened (?) but now they managed to do that at the beginning of the season by taking as few goals as possible they were a strong team and that strength to be maintained needed energy a lot of energy, he couldn't think how long he could keep 1st place or even how long they could keep the winning streak or keeping undefeated (undefeated) he could only get scared that a rookie player managed to change the entire team in 6 months.

Time ran out the players got up and walked out onto the field without saying anything everyone there knew it was best to keep what they thought to themselves, the team is exhausted but they are winning so best not to pull bad luck.

Play resumes with Pinilla tapping to Usman, Usman tapping the ball to Slot, Slot dominating and tapping to Conti, Conti tapping to Nainggolan, Nainggolan dominating and driving towards the left wing and tapping to Slot, Slot tackling the ball and missing it for Zuniga.

Zuniga who stole the ball touches the ball to Ekdal, Ekdal dominates the ball advances and passes it to Inler, Inler dominates the ball, drives it and dribbles Nainggolan in the center of the field and tries to move forward with it, he faces Cossu and sees no chance of passing him, ends up trying to make a pass and kicks the ball to Conti, the ball rises and falls towards Pandev and Nainggolan, Pandev heads the ball to Hamsik who manages to pass the ball to Cavani with his chest, Cavani dominates the ball and realizes that he is being guarded by Slot who is behind him, he makes the save, pulls it and passes it to Ekdal who has arrived on his left, Ekdal dominates the safe ball and touches Zuniga who is alone near the line of the edge of the area .

Zuniga dominates the ball and kicks it into the goal, the ball goes through the left side of the goal and goes out.

Arriving at 53 minutes, Ivo removes Usman from the field, realizing his fatigue shown on the field, he puts Sau in his place.

Agazzi restarts the game kicking the ball away the ball falls in the center of the midfield towards Nainggolan and Pandev who fight for it, Nainggolan wins and dominates it in the chest, the ball falls to the ground and Nainggolan chases it and leads it, as unable to advance he drops the ball to Pisano and receives the pass back on receiving the pass he leads towards the center and passes it to Conti, Conti seeing no possibility of going forward as he is being guarded by Hamsik drops the ball to Ariaudo .

Ariaudo dominates and leads it forward moving close to Conti he touches Conti, Conti dominates the ball cutting directly to his right while Hamsik who was marking him tries to catch Ariaudo's pass runs past him, Conti continues driving the ball to the attack and touches Slot who ends up being marked by Ekdal and loses the ball, Ekdal plays for Cavani who continues driving the ball and enters the area being chased by Astori, even so Cavani manages to kick the ball in the right corner of the goal where the goalkeeper was the goalkeeper throws himself towards the ball and hits it out.

Seeing that the attack was not getting the result after 60 minutes of play Napoli decided to remove Pandev and put new blood on the field Schürrle a promising young man on the field.

Ekdal takes the corner by crossing the ball into the area, the ball is cleared by Astori with a header and out of the area, but ends up being disputed by Nainggolan and Inler outside the area, where Inler manages to head it into the area again, the ball stops in front of Ariaudo who kicks it away.

The ball is dominated in the air by Cannavaro who drives it past Cossu and passes it to Inler, Inler dominates the ball and drives it is marked by Nainggolan and Nainggolan manages to touch the ball deflecting it, but Inler manages to keep possession, so Slot appears to score him, Inler manages to protect the ball and drive it against the Cagliari goal, following with it in the direction he ends up being marked by Conti, but he manages to move away and touch the ball in Cavani.

Cavani dominates the ball and makes a pass to Behrami on the left side, Behrami dominates the ball goes close to the base line and crosses the ball into the area, the ball lands close to Slot who was close to dominating it, but Hamsik who wanted the ball from a cart trying to kick it and it flies to the stands.

With the ball out, there is the exit of the owner of the winning goal Cossu who leaves for Cepellini to enter.

Ivo also noticed that Cossu was not managing to keep his capacity at maximum inside the field, as he was exhausted and withdrew him putting Cepellini in his place to play the last 20 minutes of the game hoping to keep the victory in hand.

The game restarts with a kick to the center of the midfield and the ball is disputed in the air by Cepellini and Ekdal, Ekdal wins by heading the ball forward, but at this moment Cepellini falls to the ground behind him.

The headed ball goes towards Conti who heads the ball to Napoli's side, the ball goes past Inler and goes to Sau who comes back to get it, Sau manages to dominate the ball and goes to the attack where he is marked by Gamberini, Gamberini doesn't mark the ball directly hitting the leg of Sau who didn't have the ball and destabilizing him, Gamberini manages to catch the ball and tries to move forward, but Cepellini appears to mark him so he drops back to Cannavaro.

When Sau took the hit, the Cagliari crowd started shouting to the referee, foul, that was foul! Are you the Judge blind or have you been bought!?

Even so, the game continued rolling with Cannavaro sending a shot towards Cavani, the ball came flying and was disputed by Conti and Cavani, the ball passed Conti and stopped on his back getting pressed between the two when he went down to the ground Cavani ends up going forward for not being able to descend calmly after the jump and Conti turns his body to dominate the ball and touches it to Astori, Astori follows with the ball towards the left wing and touches it to Slot, Slot dominates the ball and leads it to the attack, but loses it to Zuniga, Zuniga touches it to Ekdal, Ekdal keeps driving the ball towards the goal Cagliari dribbles the defenders inside the area and kicks the ball in the goal, but the kick hits Agostini and Slot who retreated to defend, and the ball goes out, thus receiving the corner kick.

With the ball out, Napoli again makes a substitution, removing Inler and putting E. Vargas on the line.

Ekdal takes the corner kick and crosses into the area, Astori heads the ball backwards and he almost scores an own goal, but lucky for him Agazzi managed to jump and grab the ball, not allowing the own goal to materialize.

Agazzi launches the ball forward with a kick towards Pinilla who disputes with Cannavaro in the air and heads the ball to Sau, but the header comes out strong and goes wide of salt getting close to Campagnaro who kicks the ball away, the ball goes up and Conti headed towards Napoli's field, in the direction of the ball was Ekdal who headed it forward also sending it back to Cagliari's field.

Conti heads the ball again sending it to Slot who dominates and passes it to Pisano, Pisano dominates the ball and passes it to Conti, Conti receives it and passes it to Nainggolan, Nainggolan dominates and drives the ball towards the right wing, dribbles Ekdal and passes it to Cepellini , Cepellini tries to play for Sau, but the ball is intercepted by Campagnaro who dominates the ball and touches Zuniga, Zuniga passes the ball to Hamsik, Hamsik is unable to control the ball and it stops at Conti's foot, but as Conti was stopped and Hamsik was on the move.

Hamsik manages to get to Conti by stealing the ball and knocking him to the ground.

Again the Cagliari fans see the team being attacked on the field and shout at the referee, Conti's teammates also saw it and this time they didn't take it so calmly.

Hamsik continued with the ball and touched it to Cavani, Cavani drove the ball to the attack, at this moment Agostini, who was marking, also took it hard and knocked him to the ground and this time the referee called a foul.

The Cagliari fans started the question, now it was a foul, Cavani complained about being knocked down.

With the stoppage of the game, Ivo takes advantage of Sau and reinforces the defense with Dessena changing the formation of the team to 4-4-1-1 to keep the game 1-0 in the last minutes of the game.

Ekdal takes the free kick sending the ball into the area.

The ball is removed by Nainggolan standing, sending it to the center of the midfield, with the ball leaving the danger zone the referee decides to whistle the end of the game.

The players simply didn't do much to celebrate other than raise their arms, after which everyone walked off the pitch in this game they had dominated Napoli for the entire first half in return in the 2nd half they got extensive pressure from Napoli on them.

Being hit the whole 2nd time and being knocked down too and yet Napoli didn't commit any fouls while they considered that they committed 3 at the same time in the 1st time they (Napoli) remained so defensive that they hadn't managed to make 1 kick , but in the 2nd half they exploded into the attack and made 4 shots with 1 of the shots being saved by the goalkeeper.

CMF Nainggolan 4 Other Positions (DMF/AMF)

Nationality Belgium

Annual Salary 818,000 Market Value 1,055,000

Height 175 Age 25 Stronger Foot Right

Attack 74/99 Defense 75/99 Body Balance 78/99

Stamina 91/99 Top Speed80/99 Acceleration80/99 Agility83/99

responsiveness83/99 Dribble accuracy84/99 Dribble Speed81/99 FK accuracy 70/99

short pass accuracy83/99 S.Pass Speed83/99 Long Pass Accuracy81/99 L.Pass Speed81/99

Shot accuracy 69/99 Shot Power84/99 Shot Techinque 74/99 Techinque86/99

Swerve 78/99 Header 75/99 Jump81/99 Aggression 69/99 Tenacity81/99 Teamwork 79/99

Form 7/8 Weak Foot Accuracy 5/8 Weak Foot Use 5/8 Injury A

Skills

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longshots*

ManMarking*