Cagliari hosts Lazio in round 36 of Italian Serie A. The match will be played on Saturday, May 11th at Sardegna Arena (Cagliari)
Cagliari has never won in the last 9 meetings with Lazio (0-2-7), including the loss in Rome in the first leg match (3: 1). The Maran’s team is definitely a home team, so we should not blame the Islanders for their away statistics, but rather praise them for homework (8-6-3). And also for the shape in the second half of the streak, when Cagliari won 5 of the last 6 home games. Now the home match is again, but the Islanders have already reached the saving fixture of 40 points (10-10-15). Did Maran's team lose its motivation after reaching the seasonal goal, since it lost the last 2 games? I suggest figuring it out.
Lazio ranks 8th and scored 55 points (16-7-12), but only 7 of them fell into the Eagles’ piggy bank in the last 7 rounds of Serie A (2-1-4). If we look at away fixtures, Biancocelesti don’t deserve a top line (7-3-7). If signor Maran can’t count on only disqualified Ionita and the injured midfielder Farago, then Inzaghi has more squad losses. Leiva picked up a ban; Radu, Berisha, Lukaku and Milinkovic-Savich (4+3) are injured. And such a situation is on the eve of the Italian Cup final - the last consolation of Lazio in this unsuccessful season.
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Cagliari is not a good rival for Lazio, because the Eagles won only 2 times in the last 5 visits to the Islanders. It is obvious that the current Cagliari is more powerful than in the recent past. Maran took the best players from his former Chievo and encroached on leading Cagliari to better results than he achieved with the Donkeys. However, Rolando will not manage to repeat the result obtained in Verona in the 2015/16 season, but he has rather good chances to close the top 10.
The official complaint of Cagliari against VAR says only that the Islanders remain motivated and are really interested in taking a higher line of the standings. On Sunday, Cagliari nearly stopped Napoli at San Paolo, but the referee found a penalty kick in the video review, which was scored by Insigne in the 98th minute (2: 1). The boycott against Chiffi will hardly help, but the Islanders will have sporting anxiety. Sardinia is waiting for the scalp of weakened Lazio, and Maran was stimulated by the extension of the contract until 2022. Isn’t it a cart blanche (by local standards), to which Rolando will respond with pleasure? Actually, the supercharged Islanders shouldn’t be motivated for revenge in some special way. Not only Fiorentina but also motivated Inter have fallen on the island recently (both games ended with a 2: 1 score).
It is great that Barella is already playing with his heels in Cagliari, and Pavoletti scored almost the same amount of goals as the last year's top scorer in Serie A, Immobile (13/14). No matter how promising Caicedo and Correa are, Lazio scored 17 goals in 17 away matches (17:17). Gentlemen, it is the 6th fixture from the end, almost a bottom one. What is Inzaghi going to appeal now, since he, such a successful manager, behaved very oddly in the last matches?
For several weeks in a row, I wondered why Inzaghi preferred Bastos and Luiz Felipe to the Brazilian Wallace, but the cat was out of the bag on Sunday. Motivation forced the Eagles to take the initiative, so the ex-Monegasque had to cause 3 goals of Atalanta, and it’s good that not 5 (1: 3). Lazio can take revenge on the Goddess in the country's cup final, and Simone should come up with a way to do it while saving strength for this one of the most important matches of the season. The distance to the Champions League is unattainable (-7), and for the Europa League (-4), which is not very interesting for the Eagles, there is a better candidate - Torino. Apparently, at the finish of Serie A, the Eagles don’t need anything.
Prediction for the match: Cagliari to win with +0.5 handicap and Under 4.5 goals scored
