Lecce, first smile: Cagliari ko despite numerical superiority

Lecce-Cagliari 1-0

It arrives on the third day, after the defeats against Atalanta and Inter, the first success in this championship for Lecce: the team coached by Luca Gotti, despite an entire resumption played in numerical inferiority, in fact defeated Cagliari 1-0 at the Via del Mare, breaking away from the bottom of the standings.

Supported by the home crowd, the Giallorossi team made themselves dangerous right away: on 7' Krstovic did not take advantage of a wretched back pass by Mina that allowed the Montenegrin to recover the ball and jump over Scuffet, but he took too long to kick and allowed Luperto to recover and save on the line. Cagliari is not però watching and responds with Luvumbo, who hits the crossbar at 15' with a powerful conclusion.

At minute 26 the goal that decided the match: Krstovic this time made up for the mistake he made at the beginning of the match, taking advantage of Gaspar’s bank to put the ball behind Scuffet. The match seems to be going downhill for Lecce, but in the first half recovery Dorgu intervenes badly on Prati and referee Fabbri, after initially cautioning him, reviews the action on moviola and decides for a direct red.

The numerical superiority forces the Salentini to lower the center of gravity and take a more cautious attitude compared to that of the first half of the match: Cagliari does not find large spaces, but makes itself as dangerous as it can and at 85'85' comes close to equalizing again with Luvumbo, whose conclusion finds the great opposition of Falcone.

Despite the full-bodied recovery (as many as 7 extra minutes assigned by the referee of the Ravenna section) the result does not change: it ends 1-0 and Lecce thus moves up to 3 points in the standings, bypassing among others just Cagliari, which in turn remains at 2 after the draws against Roma on the first day and Como on the second.