Serie A – Match 8 of 10: Fiorentina vs Cagliari

Result: 1 – 1

Goal Scorers:

  • Fiorentina: Jordan Veretout 60′ (P)
  • Cagliari: Leonardo Pavoletti 69′

Match Statistics:

Fiorentina Team Stats Cagliari
11 Shots 9
2 Shots On Target 4
58% Possession 42%
479 Passes 356
79% Pass Accuracy 70%
13 Fouls 19
0 Yellow Cards 2
0 Red Cards 0
0 Offsides 2
6 Corners 7

Highlights:

Serie A

  • Leonardo Pavoletti made his chance count for Cagliari against Fiorentina only hours in the wake of turning into a dad.
  • The Viola were hoping to keep up their 100 percent home record, yet the guests missed Diego Farias, Charalampos Lykogiannis and Ragnar Klavan, while Leonardo Pavoletti was not prepared to begin as he rested next to no because of turning into a dad medium-term.
  • This match served to recognize Davide Astori, as he burned through a large portion of his vocation with these two clubs, showing up for Cagliari and 109 for the Viola. His siblings and guardians were given endowments by the two arrangements of fans before commencement.

  • It was to a great degree blustery at the Stadio Franchi, making it hard to foresee the trip of the ball, which here and there changed mid-air. When taking free kicks, the players needed to hold the ball down until the point when the last second to stop it moving.
  • Federico Chiesa joined with Gerson to streak a risky ball over the bar, just past Giovanni Simeone, however Alban Lafont fluttered at a scraped Alberto Cerri complete from the edge of the 18-yard-box.
  • Lucas Castro got back for a vital capture when Fiorentina countered from a corner and Jordan Veretout was going to send Simeone clear.
  • Chiesa had a tremendous possibility on the stroke of half-time, shaking off a protector to crush the calculated drive over the essence of goal, skimming the far post.

  • The breeze was favoring Fiorentina in the second half and they emerged ready to take care of business, as Simeone strung through to send Chiesa clear, compelling Pisacane into a last-dump handle.
  • Chiesa at that point diverted a header wide from seven yards, however the halt was broken when Nicolò Barella simply cut Chiesa’s lower leg with the trailing foot and the arbitrator spotted it on the VAR screen. Veretout ventured up and changed over the subsequent penalty.
  • Cagliari tossed on Pavoletti, who even with the strain of turning into a dad at the beginning of today still had the effect. He was at full stretch and got before German Pezzella at the close post to flick on a Paolo Faragò cross from the right. Normally, he sucked his thumb in devotion to little Giorgio.

  • Alessio Cragno fingertipped a Chiesa toe-jab round the far post, at that point Pisacane made a certifiable objective sparing tackle on Simeone after the Argentine had thumped on a long ball and turned, prepared to pull the trigger from eight yards.
  • Minutes after the fact, it was Cagliari’s opportunity to be denied by a urgent Alban Lafont spare, standing out a foot to repel Joao Pedro’s avoided exertion at the close stick.
  • In the last minutes, Cragno traveled to fold away a staggering Chiesa volley from a tight edge on Cristiano Biraghi’s cross. Play carried on until the 100th moment because of two or three wounds, including a conflict of heads between partners German Pezzella and Nikola Milenkovic.

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Serie A – Match 9 of 10: Inter Milan vs Milan

Result: 1 – 0

Goal Scorers:

  • Inter Milan: Mauro Icardi 90+2′

Match Statistics:

Inter Milan Team Stats Milan
18 Shots 15
4 Shots On Target 1
58% Possession 42%
562 Passes 430
88% Pass Accuracy 83%
13 Fouls 7
2 Yellow Cards 5
0 Red Cards 0
1 Offsides 1
9 Corners 4

Highlights:

Serie A

  • Mauro Icardi capitalized on a Gianluigi Donnarumma mistake to give Inter a merited Milan Derby win profound into stoppage time.
  • This was a colossal confrontation even by Derby della Madonnina benchmarks, as a win would put the Rossoneri only one point behind their opponents with a match close by. Sime Vrsaljko and Matias Vecino shook off thumps to beginning, with Matteo Politano wanted to Antonio Candreva. Davide Calabria stretched out beyond Ignazio Abate and Mateo Musacchio supplanted not completely fit Mattia Caldara.

  • The Inter movement was a gigantic snake, the image of the club, while Milan reacted with two red hands destroying the snake.
  • Mauro Icardi had the ball in the net following 10 minutes, yet the offside banner was up, as Vecino got the smallest of contacts to Marcelo Brozovic’s cross.
  • Gianluigi Donnarumma palmed an Ivan Perisic header round the post, yet there was debate when midfield warriors Radja Nainggolan and Lucas Biglia both went into a crunching tackle. The Milanista was reserved and they were both tottering, yet the Belgian needed to limp off to clear a path for Borja Valero.

  • Entomb were again more unsafe on 34 minutes when hitting the edge of the goal, as on a redirected corner Stefan de Vrij’s volley circled up to ricochet off the highest point of the far post with Donnarumma stranded.
  • Icardi at full stretch just neglected to get on the finish of a Vrsaljko cross-shot, at that point he was going to pull the trigger on a Marcelo Brozovic through ball, Alessio Romagnoli flung himself in the route for a conclusive square.
  • Milan likewise hit the back of the net just to see it refused for offside in a rehash of the prior Inter shot. This time a short corner was flicked on by Romagnoli for Mateo Musacchio at full stretch to tap in at the back post.

  • Vecino missed a sitter, expanding over the Perisic pull-once more from the by-line when plain from 12 yards.
  • Politano scraped a volley wide with his weaker right foot, at that point Donnarumma was relatively overwhelmed on a Biglia back-pass and needed to scramble back to clear it from an open goal.
  • Perisic likewise needed to limp off with a solid issue and the two groups looked progressively worn out in the second half. Suso’s scraped complete was obvious targets for Handanovic, while Donnarumma fingertipped the ball off Borja Valero’s head and a Ricardo Rodriguez cross-shot almost sneaked in at the close post.

  • Similarly as it was by all accounts over, Donnarumma was uncertain whether to come or go on a Vecino cross, did neither and enabled Icardi to gesture into the unfilled net, to win yet another Serie A match for his team.

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