In the lunch match of the 10th day of Serie A, a crazy comeback by Cagliari beats Frosinone 4-3 after being 0-3 down and wins their first victory in the championship. Di Francesco’s team runs away with Soulé, author of a splendid double: in the 13th minute the Argentinian owned by Juventus opens with a left-footed shot to the near post and in the 37th minute he doubles the lead with his right foot after a personal action. There was also a naivety in his match, when he took a ball away from Deiola with his hand: it went to the spot Mancosu who takes the crossbar (30′). The Cagliari attacking midfielder was unlucky as he also headed the post in the 43rd minute. At 49′ Brescianini gets the hat trick with a surgical left foot in the corner. It all seems over, but within 4′ Ranieri’s team comes back with a comeback Oristanio (72′) e Makoumbou (76′), before the crazy final match: Pavoletti equalized with a header in the 94th minute and scored the winning goal in the 96th minute.
THE MATCH
A match that goes down in the history of Italian football, because no team had ever been able to come back and win a match down by three goals after the 70th minute. Ranieri’s Cagliari succeeded and, after the miracle against Leicester, 72 years old gives himself another extraordinary feat. Three points that make a team catch their breath at the end of a match that to define as crazy would be an understatement. Frosinone’s harakiri is there for all to see, in complete control for over an hour thanks to a great Soulé, who collapsed under the blows of Oristanio, Makoumbou and Pavoletti. Cagliari breathes and rises to 6 points, Ciociari licks their wounds and remains at 12.
Ranieri, still hunting for his first victory in the championship, confirms 10/11th for the team that drew in Salerno: the only novelty is the inclusion of Jankto for Oristanio, with the Czech midfielder as attacking midfielder with Mancosu behind the lone striker Luvumbo . Some changes, however, for Di Francesco, who has to do without the disqualified Mazzitelli: Brescianini wins the run-off with Bourabia. In defense there are chances for Lirola and Monterisi, while up front there are Baez and Cuni, with Garritano and Cheddira sitting on the bench. The first opportunity falls at the feet of the man who will be one of the protagonists of the match at the Unipol Domus, Matias Soulé, who does not surprise Scuffet with his left foot (8′). Cagliari’s reaction in the 18th minute, with Turati blocking Prati’s right-footed shot, but the action was spoiled by Mancosu’s offside in front of the goalkeeper. 5′ pass and the Soulé show begins: the Argentine playmaker intercepts a ball from Dossena, exchanges with Reinier and hits the opposing goalkeeper with a left foot. The Sardinians are not willing and try to react with a header from Goldaniga rejected with open hands by Turati. As the action continued, Soulé committed an incredible ingenuity by blowing the ball to Deiola with one hand. Pairetto doesn’t notice anything, is called back by the VAR and awards the penalty. The specialist Mancosu appears on the spot and wrong-foots Turati but the ball hits the crossbar and Jankto heads the rebound wide (30′). Soulé quickly made amends: in the 35th minute he challenged Scuffet with a free kick and two minutes later he doubled his lead with a precise right-footed shot after a personal move. A splendid play for the former Juve player, who also drew applause from the correct Cagliari public. Before the break, Cagliari had a couple of opportunities to get back into the game, but it didn’t seem to be their day: first Luvumbo saw Jankto in the area, a left-footed shot just wide; then Turati misses the relaunch and inadvertently serves the Angolan attacker who catches Mancosu, a header that hits the post. The afternoon that seems haunted for the home team is sanctioned by Nandez’s injury, who strains the flexor of his left thigh and is forced to go out to leave the field to Zappa.
During the interval Ranieri removes Deiola and the Pavoletti card is played. Brescianini’s goal in the 49th minute, however, seems to send the credits rolling and Cagliari seems headed for a week of defeat in the league. “Football is deadly” said Allegri yesterday after the 97th-minute victory against Verona and what happened in Sardinia in the 72nd minute goes down in the history of Italian football: in the 72nd minute Oristanio, on for Luvumbo, shortened the gap with a left-footed shot around the corner, for what is his first goal in Serie A. Frosinone goes into panic and in the 76th minute Barrenechea and Brescianini combine to create an omelette, Makoumbou recovers the ball intended for the former Milan player and makes it 2-3 with a precise right. In the 78th minute Pairetto was saved again by VAR when he awarded a penalty to Cagliari, but Turati had brought down Pavoletti but only after hitting the ball. The ending is for strong hearts and the epilogue is truly incredible and surprising: in the 94th minute Pavoletti heads the ball (the house specialty) to make it 3-3 and in the 96th minute he scores the poker from a few steps away which is worth the overtaking. All finished? Nope. The attacker saves on the line and then on the counterattack in the 99th minute Oristanio misses an easy pass for what would have been the 5-3.
REPORT CARDS
Pavoletti 9 – Ranieri’s desperation move that inserts him at the start of the second half. The attacker enters Cagliari history with an incredible brace in injury time which gave his team their first success of the season. First there was an assist for Oristanio and in the 99th minute, so as not to miss anything, even a save on the line.
Oristanio 7 – His arrival changes the offensive face of Cagliari. His first goal in Serie A was beautiful. At the end he wasted an easy counterattack, but he too was one of the heroes of the day.
Mancosu 5.5 – The attacking midfielder starts well, but then has on his conscience the penalty of a possible 1-1 hurled against the crossbar. He isn’t even lucky when at the end of the first half he hits the post with a precise header.
Dossena 5 – Difficult afternoon for the Cagliari centre-back. Soulé’s first goal was born from his incorrect support, then he was blown up like a pin by the Argentinian during the 0-2 and left room for Brescianini to shoot in the 0-3. He redeems himself with the headed assist for Pavoletti’s 4-3.
Soulé 7.5 – Half a vote less for the naivety on the penalty, but this afternoon it is clear why Italy coach Spalletti is pressuring him. In the first half it was a spectacle for the eyes, with two excellent goals and many other plays. Like all of Frosinone, they drop in the second half.
Brescianini 6 – The vote is the middle ground between the beautiful 3-0 goal and the mistake in cohabitation with Barrenechea, which reopens a match that seemed over and which for Frosinone’s dream becomes a nightmare in full recovery.
THE SCORESHEET
CAGLIARI-FROSINONE 4-3
Cagliari (4-3-2-1): Scuffet 6; Nandez 6 (43′ Zappa 6), Goldaniga 6.5, Dossena 5, Augello 6; Deiola 5 (1′ st Pavoletti 8.5), Prati 6, Makoumbou 6.5; Jankto 5 (19′ st Azzi 6), Mancosu 5.5 (18′ st Viola 6.5); Luvumbo 6 (18′ st Oristanio 7).
A disp.: Radunovic, Hatzidiakos, Wieteska, Obert, Di Pardo, Pereiro, Sulemana, Lapadula, Petagna. Shomurodov.
All.: Ranieri 6,5
Frosinone (4-2-3-1): Turati 6; Lirola 6 (29′ st Oyono 5), Romagnoli 5, Monterisi 6, Marchizza 5.5; Brescianini 6 (35′ st Okoli 5), Barrenechea 5; Soulé 7.5, Reinier 6.5 (29′ st Bourabia 5.5), Baez 6 (11′ st Garritano 5); Cuni 6 (11′ st Cheddira 5).
A disp.: Frattali, Cerofolini, Lulic, Kvernadze, Kaio Jorge, Caso, Bidaoui, Ibrahimovic.
All.: Di Francesco 5.5
Referee: Pairetto
Markers: 23′ and 37′ Soulé (F), 4′ st Brescianini (F), 27′ st Oristanio (C), 31′ st Makoumbou (C), 49′ st and 51′ st Pavoletti (C)
Warned: Romagnoli (F), Prati (C), Bourabia (F), Okoli (F), Marchizza (F)
Expelled: –
Note: In the 30th minute Mancosu (C) kicks a penalty against the crossbar
THE STATISTICS
• Cagliari is the first team in the history of Serie A capable of winning a match with a three-goal deficit in the 70th minute of play.
• Before Leonardo Pavoletti, the last player capable of scoring two goals in the 90th minute of play in Serie A was Fabio Quagliarella, on 30 December 2017 with Sampdoria against SPAL.
• Only Jude Bellingham (June 2003) is younger than Matías Soulé (April 2003) among players who have scored at least five goals in a season in the five major European leagues.
• Matías Soulé is the first Frosinone player capable of scoring more than three goals in the Ciociari’s first 10 games of the season in Serie A (five goals for him).
• Matias Soulé became the first player to score in three consecutive appearances for Frosinone in Serie A.
• Matías Soulé is the first Frosinone player to score a goal and commit a penalty foul in a single Serie A match.
• Reinier is the third Frosinone player capable of providing two assists in a single Serie A match, after Federico Dionisi (against Carpi in October 2015) and Andrea Beghetto (against Bologna in January 2019).
• Before Gabriele Oristanio, the last player to score as a substitute in Serie A with Cagliari before turning 22 was Han Kwang-Song, against Torino on 9 April 2017.
• Before Antoine Makoumbou, the last Congo player to score in Serie A was Dominique Malonga, against Cagliari with Cesena in May 2011.
• Marco Mancosu has missed three of the last four penalties taken in Serie A, after having converted all the previous eight.
• Marco Brescianini found the net with his first shot on target in Serie A (sixth attempt in total).
• Leonardo Pavoletti has crossed the milestone of 200 appearances in Serie A – 69 of these have come as a substitute, including today’s.
2023-10-29 15:00:00
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