A perfect weekend for Cagliari, who won 2-1 against Parma yesterday and gained points on all their direct competitors in the fight for salvation. The twenty-fourth day of Serie A, which will end tonight with the postponed Inter-Fiorentina match (at 20:45), smiled a lot on the rossoblù colors, both for their own result and for those of others.
From tenth place in the standings onwards, Davide Nicola's team - which rose to 24 points in thirteenth position with a great leap - is the only one to have won : Cagliari took three points from all those below, namely Verona (23, defeated 0-5 by Atalanta), Como (22, defeated 1-2 by Juventus), Empoli (21, defeated 0-2 by Milan), Parma (20), Venezia (16, defeated 0-1 by Roma) and last-place Monza (13, 5-1 goleada with Lazio and the dismissal of Salvatore Bocchetti ), plus two from Udinese (30), Torino (28), Genoa (27) and Lecce (24) who drew. Of these, the first three who drew are higher up in the standings, while the Salento team is on equal points.
The report explains the value of yesterday's 2-1, where the new signing Florinel Coman immediately made the difference with the splendid and decisive goal after just 108'' from his entrance on the pitch , on his debut. Now for Cagliari it is immediately necessary to turn the page, because as Nicola himself said, yesterday's victory only gives a minimum of respite . Saturday at 3pm the away game in Bergamo with Atalanta, the first of three games against teams higher up in the standings: then Juventus will arrive at home and Bologna away .
This morning for Cagliari the first training session of the week with work in two groups: the players with the most minutes against Parma did some recovery exercises in the gym. For the other activation exercises and match played in mixed ranks against Fabio Pisacane's Primavera, yesterday in turn victorious 1-0 against Cesena . Tomorrow, Tuesday 11, new afternoon session .