Cagliari tried to spoil Fiorentina’s celebration and the possibility of equaling a historic record, but he failed in his task. A test of compactness and stability by the Sardinians takes place at Franchi (read the TMW report cards here), only missing in the offensive half of the field and in the search for a flash that could shuffle the Viola’s defensive cards, which never arrived.
It was Cataldi’s right-footed shot from the edge of the box that caused Cagliari’s seventh defeat in the championship. A situation that the rossoblù club, actually represented by the locker room leader Davide Nicola, wanted to bring out in the post-match to do a minimum of justice to their cause. With a style different from the shouting that is popular even at the highest levels of Italian football, but always with the intention of not letting things run too fast and not being overlooked.
Thus the Sardinian coach Nicola in the post-match press conference: “According to the numbers, if Cagliari had taken a point there was nothing to object to. We doubled Fiorentina’s xG, they did better in the first half: great respect for those who have won 8 consecutive matches and he scores ten points. We wanted to play a great match and for me we did it, to be great we should have scored a point.”