Pisa-Cagliari 1-0 in the 45th minute: Moreo scores a penalty, Durosinmi is sent off.

Cagliari trailed Pisa 1-0 at halftime, but had a man advantage. Moreo scored from a penalty early on, then Mina had Durosinmi sent off.

Cagliari features Gianluca Gaetano and Yerry Mina in Fabio Pisacane's 3-5-1-1 formation . Pisa had the early game, with the first chance in the 5th minute when Durosinmi headed over from an Angori cross. Two minutes later, a cross from the left was blocked by Calabresi, who was tackled by Sulemana just inside the box. La Penna initially indicated a free kick, then corrected himself and awarded a penalty because the foul was on the line.

Moreo took the penalty, with Caprile diving to the other side and Pisa was ahead in the 9th minute . Cagliari responded immediately, with Palestra crossing from the right in the 11th minute, and winger Obert's header hit the crossbar. Sulemana responded to the rebound, but his header went high. The Rossoblu were back in the 18th minute, with Folorunsho found in the penalty area, whose right-footed effort was deflected by former player Calabresi into a corner.

Folorunsho, who had returned from an injury sustained in the first leg (Cagliari-Pisa 2-2 on December 21), stopped just before the half-hour mark and asked to be substituted due to a new injury. Pavoletti, ready to come on, was sent back to the bench when everything was already decided on the substitution, with Folorunsho ultimately holding out. And in the 37th minute, Cagliari remained in numerical superiority, because Durosinmi, with the ball far away, kicked Mina, and La Penna saw it and showed him a straight red card .

Cagliari's first chance with the extra man came in the 43rd minute, when Gaetano's right-footed shot from twenty meters found a deflection that sent the ball out for a corner. The ball was short, and Gaetano's cross was laid off by Mina to the anticipated Zé Pedro, but the ball was then found on the edge of the box by Obert, who fired a fine low left-footed shot that was then saved again by a diving Nicolas .

There were six minutes of added time . There were numerous interruptions, with another Pisa injury: Calabresi, who was injured in the 45th minute and tried to hold out until halftime. In the 51st minute, Caprile prevented a 2-0 lead from a shot by Højholt, set up by Moreo.