At 5:00 PM, the curtain rises on Fabio Pisacane's new Cagliari, with their first friendly against Ospitaletto Franciacorta. The Rossoblù will face a team expected in Serie C next season in Temù, in a test that concludes the first week of training camp in Alta Val Camonica. It's a first opportunity to evaluate the work done in Ponte di Legno, where Cagliari arrived on Sunday.
Pisacane's first lineup features Alessandro Deiola at center back, awaiting Yerry Mina (who is currently absent, having joined the squad on Tuesday evening), paired with Gabriele Zappa. The formation is a 4-3-3, a marked departure from last season. The starting eleven features no new players, with the only signing (to date) Gennaro Borrelli starting from the bench . Ten players are already in the 2024-25 squad, plus Primavera player Joseph Liteta, who will be the central midfielder. He replaces Matteo Prati, one of the other players who will miss Cagliari's first friendly.
Up front is Roberto Piccoli, currently at the center of the attack despite president Tommaso Giulini, the day before yesterday during "Il Cagliari in Diretta Estate" on Videolina and Radiolina (also broadcast today at 7:30 PM), not ruling out a transfer . Along with Mina and Prati, Gianluca Gaetano, Sebastiano Luperto, Leonardo Pavoletti, Nicola Pintus, and Simone Scuffet will also be absent from the friendly, the latter as he is now on the verge of being sold to Pisa . Andrea Calzavara of the Varese section will referee. Here are the official lineups for Cagliari-Ospitaletto.
Cagliari (4-3-3): Caprile; Zortea, Zappa, Deiola, Obert; Adopo, Liteta, Marin; Luvumbo, Small, Happy.
On the bench: Ciocci, Radunović, Idrissi, Di Pardo, Vinciguerra, Sulev, Veroli, Trepy, Wieteska, Rog, Cavuoti, Borrelli.
Coach: Fabio Pisacane.
Ospitaletto-Franciacorta (4-4-2): Sonzogni; Regazzetti, Possenti, Nessi, Pollio; Gualandris, Mondini, Guarneri, Messaggi; Bertoli, Gobbi.
On the bench: Raffaelli, Bevilacqua, Torri, Panatti, Mazza, Orlandi, Casali, Girelli, Corsaro, Onofrio, Pozzaglio, Rubagotti, Uggeri.
Coach: Andrea Quaresmini.