Another chance to get out of the failed fray. Bitter Liguria for Cagliari in direct clashes: after Spezia , now Genoa . Always defeated. But yesterday's, remedied with a goal that has the flavor of the joke scored by Badelj in the 90th , is the heaviest. Because there are only four games left. And one is against Inter. And two more are competitions with direct competitors away from home.

Verona, therefore, remains the opponent on Saturday: they do not have to save themselves, they do not aim for Europe, but they play well all the same and concede almost nothing to anyone. Now the most dangerous opponent is Salernitana: she is three points behind, but she still has to play a recovery with Venezia. And so it is potentially level on points.

The calendar proposes the match between Salernitana and Cagliari on 8 May. Fundamental possibly in the event of a tie also in terms of detached classification. The goal difference rewards Cagliari. But, given that then you have to deal with the others, when the rossoblu play with the idea of equal, it usually ends badly: it is a team that has great difficulty in managing situations.

Yesterday the most striking example: Mazzarri said at the end of the race that he also tried to win it. But on the pitch the players, especially in the last ten minutes, were playing more with the clock than with the ball. Lack of clarity, fear, short arm: on the pitch and perhaps even the fans a point in the battle of Marassi would not have minded at that point. But in this case, adjusting the proverb, those who are satisfied do not enjoy. Perhaps a character problem that Cagliari must correct quickly.

The match on Saturday is therefore fundamental. And Mazzarri wastes no time: he returned with a charter flight last night, this morning team back on the pitch, in Asseminello , to prepare for the match at the Domus with Verona . A new early withdrawal is likely. In Marassi, none of the red and blue warned players ended up on the list of the bad guys of the referee Valeri and so Cagliari will not pay a pledge to the sports judge. Which, among other things, will return Lovato to the center of the defense.

Yesterday for the first time Mazzarri had no players unavailable due to injury, with the bench found by Strootman and, in the end, the return of Nandez . Today, the coach will come back to what happened yesterday and will immediately start preparing for the match against Verona.

The fans, as with Sassuolo, will try to push the Rossoblu towards victory. In a few days, the quota of 7000 tickets sold at the Domus has already been exceeded, with the aim of "sold out".

(Unioneonline / vl)

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