Verona-Cagliari 1-0 in the 45th minute: Gagliardini scores, the Rossoblù only dangerous at the start

Cagliari started the direct clash with Verona well, but were down 1-0 at the end of the first half. After a good first quarter of an hour, the rossoblù dropped off and Gagliardini scored.

The match began with a collision between Núñez and Borrelli, who remained on the ground in pain. After two minutes of treatment, play resumed, and the Cagliari center forward had the first chance: a pass forward, he beat Valentini to the ball, and with his left foot, he grazed the top corner with a fine finish that Montipò could have done little to save. The Rossoblu returned in the 13th minute, when Gaetano controlled the ball and, with a diagonal shot from the center-right, was saved by the goalkeeper for a corner: providential, because otherwise the ball would have ended up in the net.

Núñez couldn't cope with a shoulder problem, and in the 16th minute he was replaced by Bella-Kotchap in the first substitution of the match. But Verona, after struggling for over twenty minutes, scored with their first move: Giovane's free kick from the right was headed around by Gagliardini, who deceived Caprile and sent the ball into the bottom corner . It was 1-0 in the 23rd minute. Cagliari didn't have a great response, and in fact almost doubled their lead in the 34th minute: a rebound freed Serdar on the left, whose left-footed shot was already a miracle, and Caprile sent it against the crossbar. The miracle became a double when the goalkeeper (Verona native) made the save to keep out Orban's header.