Other than turning point: in Bologna he resisted just once, shoots only once and collects two goals
SENT TO BOLOGNA. Poor Cagliari. Always alone at the bottom of the ranking. Bologna was supposed to be the turning point, but instead came another defeat that weighs like a boulder and continues an agony that seems to have no end. Mazzarri had to give the shock, so far he has not succeeded despite having worked on the pitch and on the players’ heads. Five points in eight races is a negative balance. It has mitigating circumstances related to injuries, but there is no change of gear and the days pass without positive signs. Yesterday the team held out for a while, then conceded the goal and there was no reaction. Only one shot on goal. Too little to hope to get away with it. Is Mazzarri already at risk? Maybe not, also because changing again at this moment would not make sense.
Three out of four. In the end, three of the “bruised” are on the pitch in the initial formation. Mazzarri recovers Godin, Nandez and Strootman and restarts from 4-4-2, even if Marin floats between the lines in the possession phase. Keita remained at home (tonsillitis), the attacking couple is Joao Pedro-Pavoletti. Zappa and Lyogiannis are the defensive outsiders, Ceppitelli is not even on the bench due to a low back pain. In Bologna Soriano and Soumaoro return from disqualification, Arnautovic also recovered who with Barrow forms an assorted pair because the first is physically strong, the other fast in the insertions.
Equlibrio. The ball of the game is in the hands of Bologna but the pace is low and the two teams find it difficult to verticalize because the spaces are clogged. Cagliari has an attitude of expectation against an opponent who keeps the defensive line very high, the midfielders always shorten, preventing the Rossoblu from restarting. Arnautovic is a kind of buoy on which his teammates lean. Mazzarri’s team is short, it is densely packed in the middle of the field but fails to strike up dangerous actions because the insertions without the ball are rare. Nandez lowers himself to contain Hickey’s raids, the same thing on the other side does Marin on De Silvestri. The form becomes 5-3-2 when there is a need to defend. In the first half the only opportunity is for Cagliari but Zappa, served by Deiola, kicks badly. The feeling is that if the Quattro Mori were more precise in their dribbling, they could hurt a team that has static defenders like Medel. The Chilean gets caught a couple of times in speed and gets nailed in place.
Cold shower. The second half starts badly for Cagliari. De Silvestri hits the target on a serious mistake by Carboni who lets himself be fooled by Arnautovic’s feint and Lykogiannis does the same, who loses the author of the goal. A punch in the stomach for the island team that suffers the goal in the first real action built by the Bolognese, who until then had never shot on goal. Mazzarri sinks on the bench, does not give peace for a trivial and therefore avoidable mistake. Bologna continues to have the command of the game, while the Rossoblù islanders ease the pressure by facilitating the task of the opponents.
Collapse. There is too much frenzy in the games. Inside Bellanova, outside Strootman, Nandez enters more inside the field. Mazzarri also tries the Farias and Caceres cards but the team is too imprecise in the plays to hurt a Bologna that now waits and starts again at speed. Mazzarri is more and more disconsolate, he does not know to which saint to turn to give stimuli to a group that lacks the character and perhaps even the energy to react in difficulties. In the final, Caceres makes a fool of himself (blows Skorupski in the face) and is sent off. Then Arnautovic makes it 2-0 and closes the score. Cagliari is increasingly in disarray. There is no denying that the ghosts of the B series are hovering.
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