Cagliari-Bari 1-0 DIRECT for the first leg of the Serie B playoff final.
GOALS and HIGHLIGHTS
PENALTY for Bari in the 39th minute. Cheddira goes from the penalty spot and also misses the goalkeeper’s rebuttal
In the 9th minute Cagliari-Bari 1-0. Lapadula brings the hosts ahead
The double challenge will tell which formation will rise from the cadet championship to join Frosinone and Genoa in the next Serie A championship. Tonight they will play at the Unipol Arena in the Sardinian capital (referee Maurizio Mariani). The return Sunday 11 at San Nicola, in Puglia. The match will also be the confrontation between two strikers such as Gianluca Lapadula and Walter Cheddira. Ranieri’s striker, 25 goals this season, also showed important numbers in the playoffs having already struck on three occasions. The number 11 of Bari, on the other hand, is still dry in the knockout stage.
Lapadula conquered, among other things, the ‘Pablito’ prize, the recognition reserved for the top scorer of the championship and named in memory of Paolo Rossi. This is the third trophy for the rossoblù number 9 – after being Mvp in March and in Serie B 2022/2023 -, in a season in which he was the protagonist of Claudio Ranieri’s team. His goals, 21 in the regular season, allowed him to obtain recognition, thus succeeding Massimo Coda, winner last season. Lapadula will be awarded by the president of Lega B, Mauro Balata, this very evening.
There will be more than three thousand Bari fans in front of the giant screens in the San Nicola stadium to follow the first leg of the red and whites. The club has set up three giant screens in Renzo Piano’s ‘spaceship’ for an evening in which there will be a direct line of emotion with the Cagliari stadium. Mignani’s team, on the other hand, will be supported on the pitch by the almost 400 fans who bought tickets for the away sector of the Sardinian stadium, reaching the island in the most complex and disparate ways. Among the Bari fans who went to Cagliari is the mayor Antonio Decaro.
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