Cagliari loses 2-1 at the Dall'Ara against Bologna. Piccoli's goal gives illusion, on the only shot on goal for the visitors, then it is a brace from Orsolini at the beginning of the second half that condemns Nicola's team to defeat.
Bologna immediately had a chance, Calabria (debuting as a starter for the Felsinei) received the ball on the edge of the area in the 3rd minute and let loose a shot that went out and went out by a hair's breadth. Twenty minutes without any major shocks, then Cagliari scored on the first real chance: Piccoli controlled the midfield and started in progression, drawing the entire home defense towards him and passing to Augello who crossed perfectly, finding the perfect insertion of number 91, whose header beat Skorupski . It was 0-1 in the 22nd minute.
A shot from Orsolini that went wide and a cross from the former Lykogiannis for Fabbian who didn't reach it were the attempts with which Bologna tried to respond to Cagliari's goal of the lead. On the other side, Luperto headed the ball high from a corner, but the referee signaled a push on Lucumí. At the end of the half, Caprile made his first save in two stages in the 43rd minute on a right-footed cross from Castro inside the area .
Italian, visibly unsatisfied, at half-time takes off Pobega, Fabbian and Domínguez in one fell swoop: in comes Odgaard, Ferguson and Cambiaghi. Nicola, instead, replaces the only cautioned Obert with Felici. Who, after just over a minute from the start of the second half, clashes with the other new entry Cambiaghi: very naive foul, penalty for Bologna. Orsolini steps up to the spot, Caprile is wrong-footed and 1-1 at 48' .
Bologna put a lot of pressure on the ball, with Caprile subsequently forced to deal with a shot from the edge of the area by Freuler (52', blocked), a shot from the right by Castro (54', puts it out for a corner) and a subsequent deflection by Zappa on the corner kick (which went over the crossbar). But in the 56th minute he couldn't do anything, when Cambiaghi crossed low from the left and Orsolini from two steps away didn't miss his chance to score a brace and make it 2-1 .
For Cagliari, the problems continued in the second half, when Luvumbo (back as a starter after almost three months) suffered a muscle injury in a sprint and had to leave the field . Coman came in, with him also Marin for Adopo (67'). But Cagliari did not break free, indeed it was Bologna who came close to scoring the third with a shot by Cambiaghi (on a run by Odgaard) deflected into a corner.
For the last quarter of an hour Gaetano also came in for Zortea. Then at 84' Viola for Makoumbou (yellow card). But nothing else happened until the final whistle after four minutes of injury time.