TO Sassuolo It is not possible to make a mistake. The Cagliari seeks acute salvation in Reggio Emilia after having collected only one point (1-1 home against Lecce) in the last three championship outings. Let’s see numbers and curiosities of the match (collected by Opta) in view of the clash for Serie A between the neroverdi and rossoblù of Claudio Ranieri.
Balance
Sassuolo And Cagliari they drew 10 of the 17 matches played in Serie A (three victories for the Neroverdi and four for the Rossoblu complete the tally). The Emilians have more “X” signs against any other team in the competition (10 also against Udinese). Cagliari, however, won 2-1 in the first leg match against Sassuolo in this tournament (after the Emilians’ initial advantage with Erlićthe rossoblù turned the score around thanks to goals in the 94th minute of Lapadula and at 99′ of Pavoletti). Ranieri’s team could win both seasonal Serie A matches against the neroverdi for the first time in their history.
Travel sickness
The Sassuolo he didn’t lose any of the eight home matches against Cagliari in Serie A (2W, 6N), the Sardinian team is the team against which the Neroverdi have had the most matches among the opponents against whom they have never lost at home (at least five more than against any other). Cagliari then lost 12 of 18 away games in this Serie A, scoring only 12 goals away from home (1V, 5N). Away, just the Sassuolo (13) has more defeats than the rossoblù (12 like the Salernitana), while no formation has achieved fewer goals than the Sardinians in away matches (12, still on par with the Campania region) in the current tournament.
Episodes
After the success againstInter (1-0), the Sassuolo could collect two home victories in a row for the second time in this championship, the previous one in September against Hellas Verona And Juventuswhile two consecutive home successes with clean sheets are missing from the competition April-May 2018 (double 1-0 against Florentine And Sampdoria). Considering only the first half of this Serie A, only Inter (85), Milan (66), Atalanta and Lazio (both 57) would have won more points than Sassuolo (50 like Genoa). On the other hand, the Cagliari (31) would be second to last in this special ranking, ahead of the only one Salernitana (28). But Sassuolo is the team they have lost more points from advantage situations in this Serie A (31); on the other hand, the rossoblù have won 17 once behind in the competition – fewer only than Napoli (20) and Genoa (18) – however, only three of these have come in away matches.
Singles
Over the last three Serie A seasons (from 2021/22), Andrea Pinamonti he scored 29 goals in the competition (including one with the Empoli shirt against Cagliari, on 13 February 2022): among players born after 1999, only Dušan Vlahović (50) e Rafael Leão (34) have scored more than the Neroverde striker (29) in this part of the Italian top flight. Since his arrival in Serie A (2022-23), Armand Lauriente (40) is one of four players with Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (48), Rafael Leão (43) and Matteo Politano (41) with at least 40 chances created following ball-and-chain movement in the competition. In particular, the black and green striker scored Sassuolo’s last three goals in home matches in the tournament (two against Milan, one against Inter). Nicolas Viola He has made five goals in 24 matches in this Serie A, equaling his scoring record in the tournament (five goals in 17 matches with Benevento in 2020-21); Cagliari was the last Italian midfielder to score more in a single top-flight season Nicolò Barella in 2017-18 (six goals in 34 matches).
Roberto Pinna
