Verona-Cagliari 1-0 in the 45th minute: Gagliardini scores, the Rossoblù only dangerous at the start

Cagliari started the direct clash with Verona well, but were down 1-0 at the end of the first half. After a good first quarter of an hour, the rossoblù dropped off and Gagliardini scored.

The match began with a collision between Núñez and Borrelli, who remained on the ground in pain. After two minutes of treatment, play resumed, and the Cagliari center forward had the first chance: a pass forward, he beat Valentini to the ball, and with his left foot, he grazed the top corner with a fine finish that Montipò could have done little to save. The Rossoblu returned in the 13th minute, when Gaetano controlled the ball and, with a diagonal shot from the center-right, was saved by the goalkeeper for a corner: providential, because otherwise the ball would have ended up in the net.

Núñez couldn't cope with a shoulder problem, and in the 16th minute he was replaced by Bella-Kotchap in the first substitution of the match. But Verona, after struggling for over twenty minutes, scored with their first move: Giovane's free kick from the right was headed around by Gagliardini, who deceived Caprile and sent the ball into the bottom corner . It was 1-0 in the 23rd minute. Cagliari didn't have a great response, and in fact almost doubled their lead in the 34th minute: a rebound freed Serdar on the left, whose left-footed shot was already a miracle, and Caprile sent it against the crossbar. The miracle became a double when the goalkeeper (Verona native) made the save to keep out Orban's header.

After a difficult first-half midfield, Cagliari came back in the 39th minute, with Gaetano's free kick from about 25 meters going just over . Montipò was busy in the 43rd minute, deflecting a Palestra cross, but the assistant referee then signaled that the ball had gone out of play. At the start of four minutes of injury time, Orban broke away on the right and crossed, but Palestra did well to cover.