Cagliari holds its own against Atalanta, but it's not enough to take home points. The Bergamo team wins 0-1 - their tenth consecutive win in Serie A and their record confirmed - with goals from Zaniolo and four miracles from Carnesecchi.
First half an hour without emotions. Then Cagliari protests at 33': Deiola enters the area from the right, rebound with Kossounou who also touches with his right arm but for Pairetto and the VAR everything is regular.
Between the 39th and 40th minute, Carnesecchi makes a sensational double save to save the result . First, on Piccoli's counter-rebound turn, the ball rises and he dives to avoid the 1-0. Then, about thirty seconds later, he stops a vertical play and above all saves on the subsequent sure-fire shot by Zortea. And he is no less so in the 42nd minute, when he stops Piccoli who had entered the area from a central position and had managed to shoot.
Gasperini is not happy with his players and makes a triple substitution at half-time: Djimsiti, de Roon and Lookman come in for Hien (in pain), Brescianini and Retegui. De Roon is immediately cautioned (he was on a yellow card) for a foul on Luvumbo, who stays on the ground and asks to be replaced by Felici . In the 55th minute, Ruggeri crosses, Pašalić in the center of the area shoots on the fly from an excellent position and shoots high. The rossoblù respond with a header that goes wide by Mina on a cross by Zappa, while in the 59th minute Sherri saves well on Kossounou freed by Pašalić.
Atalanta's substitutions end in the 64th minute: Samardžić and Zaniolo come in, with the latter scoring practically with his first touch of the ball (66'), deflecting a cross from the right by former player Bellanova into the net . He celebrates between Curva Nord and Distinti: booked. In Cagliari, Obert replaces Augello and Gaetano replaces Deiola.
Nicola tries everything with Pavoletti and Marin for Zortea and Makoumbou. Carnesecchi makes another great save, to thwart a header by Mina on a cross by Zappa in the 85th minute . In the first of the four minutes of injury time, another miracle, on a free kick taken in the center of the area with a header by Luperto and an attempted deflection by Pavoletti.