For 14 times in this championship the Cagliari took the lead during one game. On 7 occasions he won, but on just as many occasions he suffered 4 draws and 3 defeats. Numbers that place the rossoblù among the worst teams at managing advantages of the entire Serie A. Only Udinese and Salernitana did worse, with only 4 and 2 victories respectively from favorable situations.
And it is no coincidence that the same deficit is reflected in the management of the advantage in the standings. Just at the moment in which salvation seemed to be a matter of centimeters, here comes the collapse of Genoa and the mess against Lecce where Ranieri’s team threw away the advantage in a totally self-defeating way.
There is an afterthought that must be eliminated: that sense of agitation that seems to grip the team when it finds itself one step away from the goal. It’s not satisfaction or even too much confidence, but trembling legs and nervousness that grips the players, as if at a certain point the fear of conceding the goal took over the will to score the goals.
There isn’t much time left to correct the aim, in fact, perhaps there isn’t even a second. We need a clean shot, a one shot, to win the last three points which 99% would mean salvation. And pay attention to the match against Milan, because in the most complicated matches Cagliari demonstrated that they know how to shake off these second thoughts. On the big stages there is nothing to manage the legs and the survival instinct comes out: just like in Bari a year ago.
