Cagliari-Fiorentina 1-1
Cagliari (4-3-1-2): Caprile 6; Zappa 6, Mina 6, Luperto 7, Obert 6 (30 ‘st Idrissi 6); Adopo 6.5, Prati 6 (16 ‘st Mazzitelli 6), Deiola 5.5 (30’ st Gaetano 6.5); Folorunsho 5.5; Esposito 5 (16 ‘st Luvumbo 5.5), Borrelli 5.5 (36’ st Kilicsoy Sv). On the bench: Ciocci, Iliev, Cavuoti, Felici, Di Pardo, Vinciguerra. Coach: Pisacane 6.
Fiorentina (3-4-2-1): De Gea 6.5; Comuzzo 6 (17 ‘st Marì 6), Pongracic 6.5, Ranieri 6 (1’ st Viti 6); Dodo 6, Sohm 6, Fagioli 6.5, Gosens 6.5 (32 ‘st Parisi 6); Ndour 5.5 (1 ‘st Mandragora 7), Gudmundsson 6.5 (27’ st Fazzini 6); Kean 5.5. On the bench: Lezzerini, Martinelli, Kosppo, Kouadio, Sabiri, Richardson, Fortini, Braschi, Dzeko. Coach: Pioli 6.
Referee: Sozza di Seregno 6. Networks: 23 ‘st Mandragora, 49’ st Luperto.
Notes: Serena evening; playing ground in good condition. Ammonites: Obert, Borrelli, Pongracic, Marì, Mazzitelli, Kilicsay. Corners: 3-2 for Cagliari. Recovery: 3 ‘; 7 ‘.
Cagliari mocks Fiorentina in full recovery and equalizes the Unipol Domus race 1-1, valid for the first day of the Serie A 2025/2026 championship. The rossoblù impose the draw in extremis to the Tuscans: the advantage of Rolando Mandragora responds Sebastiano Luperto’s goal. Good start of the game by the Viola team, who tries to build interesting offensive maneuvers.
Around the quarter of an hour of play, the rossoblù team also leaves its own half of the field and at 22 ‘goes close to the goal of the advantage with Folorunsho: the midfielder hits the head on the developments of a corner and De Gea, with the complicity of Gosens, manages to thwart the threat. After the Cooling Break, the boys of Stefano Pioli try to reorganize the ideas, reaching the end of the 34th minute with Kean, who however is rejected by Zappa. In the first half final, the spirits begin to warm up and the race director Simone Sozza is forced to extract two yellow cards over a few minutes at the Obert and Borrelli address. At the end of the three minutes of recovery, the two teams are resting on the partial of 0-0.
In the second half Pioli immediately makes two substitutions, sending Mandragora and Viti to the field instead of Ndour and Ranieri. At 51 ‘Gudmundsson is triggered by Gosens, but Caprile in exit anticipates the Icelandic. A few minutes later Borrelli has a great opportunity to carry on his but, on Obert’s assist, he sent a little to the side by calculating a safe hit. After a dangerous counterattack of the newly entitled Luvumbo, Fiorentina takes the lead thanks to the network created by Rolando Mandragora: the former Pescara exploits the cross of Gudmundsson and headed Mina for the 1-0.
Cagliari, therefore, tries to rely on the changes of Fabio Pisacane to take back the game, but the viola with Kean are still dangerous, who at 77 ‘kicks tall a stone’s throw from the door. The most active in the rossoblù files is Gaetano, who forces De Gea at 84 to carry out a great intervention to defend the result. When the game seems to be started at the conclusion, in the 94th minute, Sebastiano Luperto’s header on Gaetano’s cross to fix the score on the final 1-1 takes care of the header. By virtue of this Florentine and Cagliari draw, they begin their season with a point each.