Match Report
Crotone went into the game 19th in the table on 23 points; Cagliari sat 16th on 37 — a 14-point gap. Cagliari had been over-performing their table position on recent form: 9th in the league over the last five rounds against 16th overall. Per game in the league, Crotone were scoring 1.18 and conceding 2.42, Cagliari 1.13 and 1.55, against a competition average of 1.53 goals per team per game.
Crotone arrived off five straight defeats. Cagliari had been beaten in three straight games.
The head-to-head ledger counts 7 games: 1 Crotone win, 5 for Cagliari, 1 draw, at 3.29 goals per meeting. Home advantage is real in this fixture: whoever hosted won 71% of the meetings. 71% of the meetings finished with three goals or more, and both sides scored in 71%.
Stadio Ezio Scida in Crotone, capacity 16,108, hosted the game. It was 0-0 at the break, and the second half added 2 goals for the 0-2 full-time score.