Cagliari lost their second international friendly. After Wednesday's 3-1 win in Linz against Galatasaray , the Rossoblu lost 2-0 in Germany at Hannover, a 2nd Bundesliga team.

Pisacane started with a 3-4-2-1 formation featuring Caprile; Pintus, Deiola, Veroli; Di Pardo, Adopo, Cavuoti, Idrissi; Vinciguerra, Felici; Borrelli . Hannover began the match in control, while Cagliari picked up two consecutive yellow cards for Adopo and Borrelli in the first 15 minutes. In the 11th minute, Vinciguerra saw the goalkeeper outside the box and fired from midfield but missed. Then Matsuda entered the box from the right, skipped past Deiola, who brought him down, and it was a penalty: Tomiak sent Caprile the wrong way from the spot, making it 1-0 in the 17th minute .

A run by Felici in the 19th minute marked Cagliari's first move, with a pass to Vinciguerra and a right-footed shot inside the box going just over. Felici himself picked up another yellow, bringing the number of yellows to four in less than half an hour (the final eight) because referee Benen (evidently far from friendly towards him) also showed it to Idrissi.

Cagliari also came close in the 35th minute, with a cross from the right that Pichler pounced on: it looked like the score was going to be 2-0, but instead the ball hit the post . In the 40th minute, the fifth Rossoblu player was booked, Vinciguerra, for mutual misconduct with Tomiak (who also received a yellow card). Before halftime, in the 42nd minute, Chakroun came close to doubling the lead with a right-footed shot that went just wide. The half-time break followed by a minute of added time.

The restart featured a brand-new Cagliari with eight substitutions: Ciocci; Pintus, Deiola, Obert; Zappa, Cavuoti, Prati, Liteta, Zortea; Piccoli, Luvumbo . But Hannover were back, with a low shot from the left by Neubauer parried by Ciocci in the 47th minute, cleared by Deiola—the only Rossoblu player on the pitch for the entire 90 minutes—clearing the ball. Piccoli received his sixth yellow card after a foul on Bundu, who was left lying in pain.