Paul Mendy opened the scoring, with Gianluca Scamacca replying: Atalanta and Cagliari tied the game 1-1 at halftime. The same scorers scored in the first half of the last match, the one the Rossoblu won 3-2 on April 27th.

In the end, Pisacane chose not to immediately launch Mina, instead using the same lineup seen against Parma, Inter, and Lecce . Scamacca immediately threatened, testing Caprile with a shot from fifteen meters in the sixth minute, and heading a Rowe cross wide in the ninth. But Cagliari had the best chance of the first quarter of an hour: in the 15th minute, Romano received the ball from thirty meters and unleashed a powerful, almost low, left-footed shot that Carnesecchi had to stretch to tip out for a corner .

Cagliari took the lead in the 19th minute: a splendid pass from the back by Zé Pedro found Adopo in a safe position. One of the many former players ran down the right and crossed into the center, where Mendy fired home with his left foot . The ball hit the crossbar, then went in, and VAR validated the decision (as the assistant had done) after verifying that Adopo was not offside. The Senegalese striker, against whom he had scored a brace on April 27 at the Domus, repeated his feat against Atalanta.