Fiorentina’s victory on the Cagliari pitch, which ends 2-3 on Sardinian soil.
It was the rossoblù who started better and approached the match more aggressively, producing a series of goalscoring actions in the first half hour, punctuated by a single header from Belotti to interrupt the Sardinians’ attacks. Terracciano disguises himself as a human wall, stopping Luvumbo face to face but also Deiola with an insidious header. After forty minutes of suffering, however, Fiorentina passes with a soft trajectory that surpasses Scuffet for the 0-1 Viola. In the final moments of injury time Cagliari would have found the equalizer through Lapadula, but the potential 1-1 goal was disallowed for offside.
In the second half a bit of everything happens and we see three goals scored against the Unipol Domus. Cagliari comes out of the locker room convinced and determined to avoid a defeat that would put a veil of melancholy on Ranieri’s farewell. After an hour the rossoblùs were rewarded: Prati’s kissed cross to Deiola, who stole everyone’s time and headed it home on the edge of offside to make it 1-1. The parity remains intact until the five minutes preceding the ninetieth minute, in which a bit of everything happens: Mutandwa sets the tone for Cagliari with a great right-footed shot coming in from the left, but Nico Gonzalez takes four minutes to stifle the celebration of those present with an undersized tap-in. Lapadula, for the second time, also had the goal of the potential 3-2 canceled out. Final full of goodbyes and emotional moments: Nandez leaves the pitch with the air of someone who won’t play again, there is also room for the reserve goalkeeper Aresti. When there seems to be no room left for anything else, Di Pardo’s foul on Beltran in the area: Arthur goes from the spot, displacing Aresti and scoring the final 2-3, which gives Fiorentina the mathematical certainty of at least participating in the next Conference League.
