Chapter 70 1st Goal in a National Cup :O

What can you say about today's game.

We had a difficult game against Pescara, their defense managed to close their rearguard well, making it very difficult for us to open the scoring. (Hail)

What do you think happened to the 5th place in the ranking of young promises today? (News reporter)

I think he simply gave it his all, but in this game he was double-marked by the Pescara players and at the same time he failed to realize his opportunities against the Pescara goalkeeper, so much so that he got 2 opportunities to score where he was one on one with the goalkeeper and did not manage to give enough danger in his finalizations. (Hail)

Do you think that the attention he is receiving is a correct action for him, his ability in football is as much as people talk about him? (News reporter)

Well, I can't say much about it, but yes I think the attention he gets is little for his football, he managed to start having a great season and has been consistent during that time where he has remained Top Scorer in the league and even so, you come to ask if he has enough football to be considered 5th among the young promises, I simply think that you think very little about him, he still has a lot of football to show from now on. (Hail)

Since you mentioned it, do you believe you have the capacity to be champion of the championship after suffering a draw with Pescara?

This is something I cannot comment on.

You've just tied with Pescara, what kind of position do you think you'll be in the table?

We will likely fall to 2nd place, as we were unable to maintain a winning streak to move away from 2nd place to Rome and remain in 1st.

Would you believe that you are in luck or that it was fate for Rome to lose the match you drew? (News reporter)

Roma is also a team that is fighting for the 1st place so it would not be so simple to remain victorious in all the matches just like our team they are also tired even more for a team that scored more goals in the league season so far they have not can keep the pace so easily, so I can say it was tiredness and not luck or fate.

For me to consider it luck they would have had to lose while we beat each other, for me to consider it fate they would also draw as well as us remaining 1 point behind us in the table. (Hail)

Thanks for the replies. (Reporters)

After the day of the draw, the Cagliari players returned home a little sad for having missed the chance to shoot ahead in the league table, but they didn't focus on that because they would have a game against Lazio in the next few days, Lazio may have a drop in their performance, but remains Klose's team.

The Cagliari players kept in focus the objective of being victorious against Lazio playing at home they entered the field Surprised that even after disappointing their fans playing against Pescara 80% of the stadium were Cagliari fans having practically more than 12 thousand fans, not more than that because tickets have to be reserved for both fans.

The game against Lazio started with the Cagliari team dominating possession of the ball for the first 15 minutes of the game, the team was flying and managing to make passes in Usman who simply passed the Lazio defenders playing so much that in the 6 minutes of the game Usman received a pass Nainggolan dribbled past the defenders, entered the area and finished the ball in the goal, Goalkeeper Matuzalém started working early in the game.

As the game passed the 15 minutes the Cagliari team lost the pressure and the Lazio team started to have more control over the ball keeping the Cagliari team chasing the ball for 4 minutes as the Lazio team lost possession and the Cagliari's team manages to make a spectacular attack with Cossu making a pass to Usman, Usman leads the ball leading to the attack and kicks the ball from outside the area.

The ball goes to the left corner of the goal at the top is Gol! From Usman he scores the goal for Cagliari dominating the score at home.

Usman runs to the corner of the field and raises his hand pointing his finger to the sky Number 1° (to infinity and beyond) his teammates approach him and do the same movement to cheer.

After conceding the goal, the Lazio team can't remain calmer against Cagliari's home and they start to keep the ball more at their feet to be able to create plays trying their best to play with short passes they maintain control of the field, but they can't pierce Cagliari's defense keeping the game.

Cagliari 1-0 Lazio

Until the end of the 1st period.

The players were chatting in the locker room about occurrences from the game.

Astori do you think you can keep the ball as far away from our area as possible? (Usman)

Yes I can try, but why do you talk the farthest? (Astori)

We are simply among the 4th last games, we conceded 2 goals from corner kicks, even if we manage to keep the attackers without passing you, we still conceded important goals against Roma and Pescara with a move coming from the corner so we simply tied the two games, that's why I want to ask do you think you can keep the ball out of our box? (Usman)

Well I can do that, but it depends on how much you can keep the ball away from our court. (Astori)

What do you think of Nainggolan, Dessena, Cossu? (Usman)

I think we'll be able to hold him in their half even if we don't have the ball. (Nainggolan)

I think I can do that too. (Desena)

As for me, I think I can only slow down the speed with which I play by holding the ball more when I'm driving, even so I don't think I'll be able to keep it for a long time. held more in trying to get the ball from us. (Cossu)

Let's go back to the game and end this match with a win. (Usman)

The game restarted in the 2nd half with the few Lazio fans encouraging them to attack Cagliari all the time, but ball possession was concentrated in the middle of the field, as the Cagliari team did not attack directly and maintained ball possession there. while the Lazio team could not be creative enough for their moves to create attacking opportunities until the 75th minute of the game, the Lazio team lost momentum and began to be pressured by the Cagliari team with Nainggolan making the pass to Usman, Usman dribbles the defenders and tries to finish the ball in the goal.

The ball leaving Usman's foot who kicked it from outside the area is defended by Marchetti and sent to the bottom line.

The ball is hit in the corner and is being disputed in the Lazio area Usman manages to get up and head the ball, but it goes away from the goal going out.

With the ball out being a goal kick for Lazio, Ivo removes Usman from the field putting Conti on.

Seeing that his team has no more breath to maintain the offensive game, Ivo retracts the team to play defensively by total, preventing all Lazio's plays in their defense field.

Lazio tries desperately in the last 10 minutes to score a goal in Cagliari with shots from outside the area and kicks at the defenders to win corners, but the moves do not work out in the end and Cagliari conquers another victory in the championship.

After the Lazio game, the team was excited again to remain in 1st place for another round.

Usman on the other hand had a hugely strained expression on his face.

Why are you making that face? (Sofia)

Well is the next game a cup match?

So?

I just don't do well in cups both last season and this season I couldn't do anything to help the team win and we just tied twice the first time I was the first to take the penalty and missed the second time I was lucky to be substituted and not carry that responsibility, but having scored 13 goals in 13 games, but I may not be able to score when it comes to the cup, somehow the marking becomes much more difficult to be surpassed it's like they play completely different even if we face the Siena that is not doing well in the season I do not trust in our victory. (Usman)

Well you're new, you don't need to be obsessed with winning the 3 competitions, it's your coach not you, just focus on playing. (Sofia)

I will do that, thanks😊.

Yes, it's good that you listen to me.

Sofia hugs Usman from behind and Usman stands there staring at his teammates resting before heading to their next game, none of them showing a worried expression like him they all were happy with how the team was doing.

Seeing his companions unconcerned Usman stopped thinking about it.

Coming the day of the game, Cagliari and Siena will face each other to move to the next phase. Will Cagliari win or will we see an underdog in this game? (Storyteller)

Well it's a mystery Cagliari is coming from a victory against Lazio, but they are terrible in cup games so there is a doubt even who will win the game.

In Cagliari's team we have;

GK Agazzi 1

CB Ariaudo 3 Astori 13 RB Rossettini 15 LB Agostini 31

DMF Conti 5 CMF Nainggolan 4 Dessena 21 © AMF Cossu 7

CF Sau 27 and Usman 10

and the banks

GK Ruzittu 12 SB Pisano 14 Camilleri 2 CMF Eriksson 16 and Slot 11 AMF Cepellini 32 CF Nenê 18 Pinilla 51

Siena's team will play with:

GK Campagnolo

CB Terzi, Paci and Bartley

DMF G. D'Agostino LMF Valiani CMF M. Coppola and Bolzoni RMF Mannini

CF Calaio and Reginaldo

The referee blows the whistle and the game begins, Sau plays for Usman, Usman plays for Cossu, Cossu drives the ball forward towards Siena's field and passes it to Usman, Usman dominates the ball and loses it to Agostino who sends it To the right, the ball remains in Nainggolan who manages to dominate it and drives it forward in Siena's field, but Agostini who took the ball from Usman chases the ball that is with Nainggolan and tries to steal it from him to the point of almost knocking him down when he tried to put his foot on the ball.

Nainggolan, who was almost knocked down, continues to lead the ball and passes it to Cossu, Cossu sees Usman entering the area and makes the pass to him, Usman manages to pull the ball to his left, dribbling Bartley and being free to hit the ball in the goal.

Usman finishes the ball into the left corner of the goal at a low height, goalkeeper Campagnolo has no reaction to Usman's finish and the ball goes into the goal.

Gooooooooooooool! It's from Cagliari.

Cagliari 1-0 Siena.

Unbelievable what we saw here, the Cagliari team managed to take the lead with Usman's goal in the 4th minute in the first half, he managed to set the stadium on fire.

Siena restarts play with Reginaldo tapping the ball to Calaio, Calaio tapping the ball to Agostino, Agostino tapping the ball to Coppola, Coppola tapping it to Valiani, Valiani guiding the ball forward into Cagliari's half he meets Rossettini on his way to score- lo, Valiani tries to dribble him, but Rossettini manages to hit the ball sending it to his right taking the ball from Valiani's possession, Rossettini manages to catch the ball and tries to dribble Valiani failing he pulls the ball to the left and touches the ball in Nainggolan, Nainggolan passes the ball to Usman, Usman dominates Bartley who was advanced from his position near the center of the midfield.

Usman sees Cossu running through the free space left by Bartley and makes a low throw for him, Cossu chases the ball and manages to dominate near the entrance to the area, when dominating it Cossu looks at the goalkeeper who anticipated it and kicks the ball in the right corner from the goal, the ball goes towards the goal and hits the crossbar returning towards the position of Sau who disputes the race against Terzi to get the ball and loses, because Terzi manages to kick the ball first sending it to the side.

Rossettini even tried to catch the ball, dominating it on the line, but the linesman had considered that it had already left the field.

Rossettini charges the sideline throwing the ball to Nainggolan, Nainggolan dominates the ball and goes close to the bottom line crossing the ball into the area the ball passes by Cossu who misses the final volley and goes towards Dessena who would catch it she as the last player in the line of the pass, but the ball was intercepted by Bartley who dominates it and kicks it away, the ball is disputed in the air by Reginaldo and Astori, Reginaldo wins and heads the ball to Calaio.

Calaio dominates the ball and dribbles Ariaudo towards the left side while driving he is chased and passed by Ariaudo in the run, Ariaudo manages to remove the ball from him and passes it to Nainggolan, Nainggolan touches the ball to Usman who is in the center of the field , Usman makes a pass to Dessena who takes the ball close to the area enters the area and kicks the ball.

Dessena's shot came out so ridiculous it looked like a shot put sending the ball wide of the net.

Campagnolo puts the ball into play kicking it away in Cagliari's field, when the ball comes down it is disputed by Reginaldo and Dessena, Reginaldo wins and dominates the ball driving it he touches the ball to Bolzoni from behind, Bolzoni dominates the ball and he loses it at the same time with Cossu's marking hitting the ball.

The ball goes towards Reginaldo, but he is unable to dominate it and it passes him, the three chase it and Reginaldo manages to reach it first, recovering possession of the ball, Reginaldo leads it and plays it for Calaio who loses the ball by Interception from Ariaudo to Reginaldo's pass, Ariaudo touches the ball to Nainggolan, Nainggolan passes to Usman, Usman dominates and drives the ball while being chased by Agostini, arrives close to the area, dribbles Terzi and follows diagonally from right to left, dribbling Bartley as well entering the area and kicking the ball into the goal.

Campagnolo who saw him passing by Bartley leaves the goal and manages to defend the ball putting his hand to the left and the ball hits his hand and deflects hitting the top post, the ball comes back towards Sau who competes against Agostini in the physical to catch it the ball, but Sau loses the dispute and Agostini manages to kick the ball to the side.

Rossettini charges the sideline throwing the ball to Nainggolan, Nainggolan crosses the ball into the area, but Bartley manages to head it out of Siena's area, Mannini manages to dominate the ball and returns to the area and passes the ball to Paci.

Paci, not waiting for the pass, lets the ball pass by his side and runs after the ball, Paci is unable to catch the ball, as it stops at Terzi's foot, Terzi turns his body and sends the ball to the side again.

Rossettini takes the wing-in to Conti, Conti dominates and returns the ball to Rossettini, Rossettini crosses the ball into the area the ball travels to the 2nd post of distance and Usman and Bartley dispute the ball through the air, Bartley wins by clearing the ball the area, but the game is stopped by the referee, as the referee marks Usman's invalid position.

Usman only realized after the whistle that he was one leg ahead of the man guarding Rossettini.

Campagnolo kicks the ball away, the ball is headed by Nainggolan to Sau, Sau dominates the ball and taps it to Cossu, Cossu steers it as he charges towards Siena's goal, meanwhile Usman runs down his left attracting the defenders, Cossu dribbles past Agostino and tries a pass to Usman inside the area the ball hits Terzi who was moving towards Usman, coming back at Agostino's foot.

Agostini pulls the ball and passes it to Bolzoni who lets the ball pass and chases it towards the right wing, Bolzoni manages to catch the ball close to the touchline and passes it to Mannini, Mannini plays the ball to Agostino, the pass is intercepted by Cossu who dominates the ball and starts Cagliari's attack by touching to Sau, Sau tries a low shot for Usman, but the ball is caught by Bartley in the run to dominate it, Bartley touches the ball to Bolzoni, Bolzoni dominates and dribbles Dessena and makes the pass over to Mannini, Mannini dominates the ball and continues driving it on the right side, it gets close to the bottom line and crosses into the area the ball goes over Astori and Ariaudo and Reginaldo manages to head it towards the goal .

Except that his header on the ball is so strong that it sends the ball over the goal sending it out.

Agazzi sends the ball to the center of the midfield, the ball is contested in the air by Dessena and Coppola, Dessena wins by heading the ball to Cossu, Cossu dominates and passes the ball to Usman, Usman dominates the ball and drives it towards the goal dribbling Bolzoni, Bartley, and Agostino who comes to mark him along the way until he loses the ball and it stops at Cossu's foot, Cossu dominates and disputes it with Agostino for possession, where the two hit each other so much that the ball stops at the foot of Bolzoni, Bolzoni passes the ball to Valiani and Valiani drives the ball through his field towards Cagliari's field, but he can't do anything else, as the referee whistles the end of the game.

The players being in the locker room resting.

Today is a very strange match, the game is extremely easy, but we only managed to score one goal. (Usman)

Sometimes this happens, boy, there are games where we can be terrible in terms of conditions and passes, but we still manage to score goals and be victorious, other times we are extremely good, but we make mistakes in all the moves and fail to enter the area and score goals, we just can't blame it on luck or bad luck because nobody can explain it better than that. (Conti)

Stop thinking about it and just focus on keeping them busy, nobody knows what can happen in this 2nd half. (Desena)

Okay.

The players returned to the field to start the 2nd half.

Reginaldo gives the first touch to Calaio, Calaio touches to Agostino, Agostino touches to Coppola, Copolla dominates and drives towards the attack and passes the ball to Valiani on the left wing, Valiani dominates the ball and tries to move towards the center while trying to pass by Cossu, Cossu manages to mark him to the point of touching the ball and taking possession of the ball from Valiani's foot, but the ball goes towards Coppola who protects the ball against Cossu and leads it to the attack, dribbling Conti and being caught by Rossettini who closes the way to enter the area, the stolen ball goes to the left and Conti chases it and dominates it, Conti drives the ball away from his area and tries to touch it in Usman.

The given pass hits Agostino and the ball deflects, stopping at Bolzoni's foot, Bolzoni touches the ball to Reginaldo, Reginaldo dominates and tries to keep driving into the area, but he is marked by Dessena who manages to prevent him from moving forward, Reginaldo retreats a little and passes the ball to Mannini on the right, Mannini dominates and crosses into the area.

The ball falls towards Calaio who is being marked by Rossettini, Rossettini heads the ball towards the center of the field where Usman dominates the ball and continues driving slowly towards the Siena goal, on the way he is marked by Agostini who tries to catch his ball is dribbled and chases him pulling his shirt behind his back, but Agostini can't keep up with Usman's acceleration when he starts running leading the ball and stays behind, Usman continues leading the ball and pulling it towards the center to feint Terzi running for the right end he manages to penetrate inside the area, but he cannot dribble Terzi who simply retreats instead of trying to steal the ball.

Terzi manages to touch the ball sending it to the side.

Rossettini takes the touch by throwing the ball at Nainggolan, Nainggolan dominates and tries to cross into the area the ball hits Coppola and goes to touch again.

Rossettini charges again shooting at Cossu, Cossu crosses into the area and the ball is disputed by Mannini and Usman, Mannini heads outside the area and the ball falls towards Coppola who heads it to the center of the field, the ball falls into the location of Calaio who headed it towards Coppola who ran into the attack after heading the ball, Coppola dominates the ball and manages to dribble Astori, but loses the ball when he collides with him in his pass and the ball is left for Conti who manages to catch it it, Conti drives the ball and passes it to Astori, Astori dominates the ball and tries to drive it to the attack seeing Terzi coming to mark him he tries to make a pass, but the ball hits Terzi and goes behind him, Terzi runs and dominates the ball, drives the ball towards Cagliari's field and takes a pass for Reginaldo.

The ball is chased by Reginaldo, Agostini and Ariaudo, Ariaudo takes the ball and kicks it on the right side.

Valiani takes the ball to Coppola, Coppola dominates the ball and crosses into the area, the ball is cleared from the area with Conti's header and then headed close to the center of the field by Rossettini.

Agostino manages to dominate the ball which was headed by Rossettini and starts another Siena attack driving the ball down the left side he tries to go down the wing but he attracts 3 Cagliari players to mark him so he pulls towards the center and touches the ball to Bolzoni.

Bolzoni dominates and passes the ball to Mannini, Mannini tries to drive and Agostini simply stretches his leg to steal the ball noticing Agostini's foot, Mannini passes the ball to Coppola, but the ball is intercepted by Nainggolan.

Nainggolan kicks the ball away sending it to the center of the midfield, the ball goes down and Agostino dominates it in the chest, starting to attack again against the Cagliari team passing the ball to Coppola, Coppola dominates and goes towards the goal from Cagliari, coming close to losing the ball to his marker Nainggolan, he launches into the area, Bolzoni takes advantage of his position and manages to enter the area behind the launch and tries to dominate the ball, but he misses the domain hitting the cinnamon on the ball and sending it towards Agazzi who arrived with a cart (sweep) to grab the ball, the ball hits Agazzi's body while Bolzoni jumps on him.

The ball bounces in the direction of Ariaudo who quickly takes it out of the area with a strong forward kick.

The ball descends close to the center of the midfield where Sau dominates the chest, puts it on the ground and passes it to Cossu, Cossu dominates the ball and plays it to Usman who is behind, Usman dominates the ball and leads it to Siena's field following in a straight line he advances the ball a lot and loses it to Terzi, Terzi touches the ball over to Valiani and the ball is intercepted with a header by Rossettini sending the ball to Usman again, Usman this time dribbles Terzi and goes on, but is marked by Paci who manages to knock him down and steal the ball, Paci ends up fumbling with the ball and instead of moving forward he retreats in his field and passes the ball to Terzi.

Terzi dominates the ball and tries to keep driving it, but Sau marks him and steals the ball, Sau starts a double attack with Usman where he passes the ball to Usman after Usman passes to the left side of Sau, Usman receives the pass enters the area and dribbles the defender and the goalkeeper who was coming towards him leaves the goal open, Usman tries to finish the ball in the goal and ends up kicking it up with his right leg, sending the opportunity to increase the advantage to Lua.

In the 84th minute of the game, with the ball out, the two teams exchanged players to reinforce new and rested blood on the field.

Cagliari took out Conti, Usman and Agostini putting in Slot, Perico and Cepellini.

Siena took out Agostino and Calaio putting Sestu and Larrondo.

Campagnolo kicks the ball away and it is contested by Sau and Coppola, Sau wins by heading the ball towards Cepellini, Cepellini dominates and plays a high pass to Cossu, the ball is intercepted by Bartley who heads it to Coppola, Coppola hits the pass to Valiani at first, Valiani dominates the ball and returns the ball in Bartley, Bartley is marked by Sau and loses possession of the ball, but when Sau hit the ball it went behind Bartley where Paci manages to dominate the ball and tries to return it passes it to Bartley, but the pass goes wrong and lands on Sau's feet.

Sau instead of attacking backs the ball in Slot, Slot dominates the ball and plays to Sau in return who managed to unmark himself, when passing the ball, Sau pulls to the left and plays to Dessena, Dessena tries to keep driving and loses the ball to Bolzoni .

Bolzoni who steals the ball can't make any more moves as the referee whistles the end of the game.

Pi!

Cagliari wins the game 1-0 and moves on to the next round of the Italian Cup.

CB Ariaudo 3 Other Positions (SB)

Nationality Italy

Annual Salary 477,000 Market Value 670,000

Height 186 Age 24 Stronger Foot Right

Attack 68/99 Defense 81/99 Body Balance 82/99

Stamina 83/99 Top Speed ​​78/99 Acceleration 75/99 Agility 78/99

Responsiveness 80/99 Dribble accuracy 81/99 Dribble Speed ​​75/99 FK accuracy 65/99

Short Pass accuracy 75/99 S.Pass Speed ​​75/99 Long Pass accuracy 80/99 L.Pass Speed ​​81/99

Shot accuracy 65/99 Shot Power 77/99 Shot Techinque 67/99 Techinque 80/99

Swerve 73/99 Header 82/99 Jump 84/99 Aggression 65/99 Tenacity 77/99 Teamwork 78/99

Form 5/8 Weak Foot Accuracy 5/8 Weak Foot Use 6/8 Injury A

Skills

ManMarking*

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