Three points of great importance for Ranieri’s Sardinians, first knockout for coach Nicola EMPOLI (ITALPRESS) – Cagliari passes 1-0 at the Carlo Castellani against Empoli, in the match valid for the twenty-seventh day of the 2023/2024 Serie A championship : a goal from Jakub Jankto decides the salvation match, giving three points of enormous importance to Mister Ranieri’s Sardinians, while Nicola gets his first knockout on the Tuscan bench. The two teams choose a very cautious approach and in the first minutes the fear of making mistakes prevails. In the 15th minute the first signal of the match arrives for the rossoblù with a shot from Gaetano, on which Caprile stretches out and deflects it for a corner.
Two minutes later the hosts came very close to taking the lead with Cambiaghi who, on the counterattack, hit a sensational post; Maleh pounces on the rebound and, with the goal almost empty, kicks at Scuffet. On the half hour mark Claudio Ranieri had to deal with Zito Luvumbo’s muscle injury, which was taken over by Zappa. At the end of the first half the two teams made some unrealistic shots towards the goal, but they failed to create any particular danger, so the score went to half-time at 0-0. In the second half Empoli immediately carved out a great opportunity with Cambiaghi serving Cancellieri, who attempted a shot, but Augello’s providential intervention saved everything. Davide Nicola’s men were having a very positive moment and in the 62nd minute they took the lead through Liberato Cacace, but after a VAR review the goal was disallowed due to an irregular position. The scare woke up Cagliari, who responded so well that they found the 1-0 goal in the 69th minute with Jakub Jankto, who did well to make the winning tap-in after Caprile’s rebound from Nandez’s shot. Nicola tries to rely on substitutions to go in search of an equalizer, but the Tuscan team’s attempts remain in vain: the Sardinians beat Castellani 1-0. By virtue of this success, Cagliari joins Verona in seventeenth place with 23 points and moves to -2 from Empoli, who remain thirteenth with 25. – photo Ipa Agency – (ITALPRESS). spf/ari/red 03-Mar-24 17:10 .