Zito Luvumbo will miss the Cagliari-Parma match due to an injury sustained while on international duty. Alarm bells went off last Thursday when he came off at halftime in Angola's 0-1 defeat to Libya, and doubts remained yesterday as he wasn't even on the bench for the 3-1 defeat to Mauritius.

Having returned to Sardinia, he underwent tests today that confirmed his physical issue: a low-grade sprain to the adductors of his right thigh. He will definitely be out on Saturday; his upcoming matches (Lecce, Frosinone in the Coppa Italia, and Inter Milan, Cagliari's other September fixtures) will have to wait, given that Luvumbo has repeatedly struggled with muscle injuries.

Gabriele Zappa remains a doubt, but he's not completely out of action for Cagliari-Parma. He continued working today to recover from a bruise to his left thigh . The number 28 will be evaluated tomorrow and Friday, in the two remaining training sessions before the match, to see if he can at least be called up . Riyad Idrissi and Marco Palestra returned today, playing 61 minutes (as a substitute) and 90 minutes respectively in yesterday's 0-1 victory for the Italy Under-21s in North Macedonia: the two full-backs completed a recovery session at the Crai Sport Center in Assemini.

Cagliari's training session began today with some warm-up work. Positional play was then focused, finishing with a midfield match. Tomorrow's morning session will feature Semih Kılıçsoy (who played 90 minutes yesterday in the Turkey-Croatia Under-21 match) and Joseph Liteta (who missed the Zambia match). The last player to return, on Friday for a final training session, will be Yerry Mina: the defender scored last night in Colombia's 3-6 win over Venezuela, who qualified for the World Cup last week . The Rossoblu number 26 tied the score at 1-1 in the 10th minute with a powerful header from a corner kicked from the right.