A crucial salvation clash today at 3 pm at the “Penzo”, in the penultimate commitment of 2024 for Serie A that does not stop for the holidays. For the seventeenth day of the championship, Venezia-Cagliari is played, last against third-to-last, the first time in the top championship after the “stain” of May 22, 2022, the 0-0 that led to the relegation of the rossoblù. But Davide Nicola, who obtained salvation from that match since he was coaching Salernitana at the time, yesterday in a press conference ruled out that the team (and the survivors of that evening) are thinking about it .
In the lineup, despite the coach having ruled out the possibility of playing in a mirror formation, the 3-5-2 is likely with the return of many players who were kept in the Coppa Italia against Juventus on Tuesday : Alen Sherri in goal, Yerry Mina and Sebastiano Luperto in defense, Michel Adopo and Antoine Makoumbou in midfield (probably with Răzvan Marin, favored over Alessandro Deiola), Nicolas Viola in support of Roberto Piccoli. Also available are Jakub Jankto and Adam Obert, who did not leave for Turin. Zito Luvumbo will be missing, the only one not called up , for whom a return with Monza in the first match of 2025 is more feasible - another direct clash - than next Saturday's match with Inter.
In Venezia many exes, starting with Eusebio Di Francesco on the bench : Gaetano Oristanio and Giorgio Altare will be starters, bench for Franco Carboni, Alfred Duncan unavailable. Referee Marco Guida of the Torre Annunziata section . These are the probable formations of Venezia-Cagliari: as always live on unionesarda.it, from 2.30 pm live on Radiolina with the full exclusive radio commentary by Lele Casini from “Penzo” and all the comments to follow .
Venice (3-4-2-1): Stanković; Idzes, Altare, Šverko; Zampano, Andersen, Nicolussi Caviglia, Busio; Ellertsson, Oristanio; Pohjanpalo. Coach: Di Francesco.
Cagliari (3-5-2): Sherri; Zappa, Mina, Luperto; Viola, Piccoli. Coach: Nicola.