Match Report
6 points and 3 places separated them: Sassuolo 11th with 49, Cagliari 14th with 43. Cagliari ranked 3rd in the league on five-round form, well above their 14th table position. Per game in the league, Sassuolo were scoring 1.21 and conceding 1.32, Cagliari 1.05 and 1.39, against a competition average of 1.21 goals per team per game.
Cagliari had lost three in a row.
The sides have met 21 times in the GioScore results database: 5 wins for Sassuolo, 10 draws and 6 for Cagliari, at 2.81 goals per meeting. Only 33% of these meetings ended in a home win. Clean sheets are rare between these two — both scored in 67% of the meetings. Goals have dried up lately: 2 per game across the last five meetings, against 2.81 across the full history.
MAPEI Stadium - Città del Tricolore, capacity 21,584, hosted the game. On the scoreboard, Cagliari led 1-0 at the break; 2 second-half goals set the final 2-1.
Goal scorers
Sassuolo: Ulisses Garcia (50'), Andrea Pinamonti (78') · Cagliari: Sebastiano Esposito (30')
Key stats
Possession: Sassuolo 50% · Cagliari 50% · Total shots: 9-11 · On target: 2-3 · Corners: 2-2