Cagliari is safe! With a splendid performance they beat Venezia 3-0 and close the accounts with ninety minutes to spare before the end of the championship. Deiola scores a great goal after headers by Mina and Piccoli.
First chance for Cagliari: in the 3rd minute, a corner with Piccoli's pass blocked, Luperto's backheel attempt was blocked and Deiola kicked badly high. But in the 11th minute, the lead came, with Augello's free kick on the far right post for Mina who headed it across and left Radu immobile . For the Colombian, returning after almost a month out due to injury, it was the first (much celebrated) goal of the season.
Venezia reacts in the 16th minute, with a corner kicked just inside the area and a velo to favor Busio who in tow with his right kicks just over. Then Cagliari again, in the 24th minute a through ball from Makoumbou to Luvumbo and a cross with Piccoli anticipated by the intervention of Candé. Venezia is forced to make the first substitution in the 32nd minute, the former Oristanio player out due to injury (he leaves in tears amidst the applause of the 16,176 at the Domus) and Gytkjær comes in .
The guests were very dangerous in the 37th minute: a cross from the left by Candé, Busio headed it just wide. Four minutes later, on a great cross, Piccoli headed it in with a sure shot and forced Radu to work a miracle. From Zortea's corner, the ball went to the far post, Piccoli headed it again and this time it was 2-0 . However, it was validated two minutes later (in the 43rd minute, the goal came in the 41st minute) because the assistant initially signaled that Zortea's corner had gone out: the ball, in reality, had remained in play. In the third of the four minutes of injury time, Zerbin's shot was blocked on the ground by Caprile.
The second half was without any other changes. After two and a half minutes, Cagliari counterattacked after a Venezia corner, Luvumbo launched Piccoli into the area and at the moment of the shot he was decisive in blocking Candé with a slide tackle. Luvumbo himself, after a clash with Schingtienne, got hurt and asked for a substitution: Gaetano came on in the 57th minute .
Gaetano himself, in the 63rd minute, sends a nice cross from the bottom left for Piccoli: header at the near post, wide. In Venezia triple substitution in the 70th minute: Marić, Zampano and Haps for Yeboah, Schingtienne and Ellertsson. But a minute later Cagliari finds the most beautiful goal of its championship, with a great action with the ball on the ground on the left and a backheel from Makoumbou to free Deiola, who in the area with a fabulous right-footed shot puts the ball into the top corner .
With a quarter of an hour to go, it's Prati's turn for Makoumbou and Marin for Deiola (obviously a standing ovation after the wonder goal). Ten minutes from the end, Marin's high shot over Doumbia (on the pitch from the 75th minute for Kike Pérez) and a splendid right-footed shot from outside that Radu lifts into a corner . An inviting free kick from Gaetano in the 85th minute is blocked by the wall, then for the last three and a half minutes plus injury time, Nicola Pintus, a 2005 defender from the Primavera, makes his debut, coming on for Zortea with Viola also coming on for Adopo.
