Carnesecchi and Zaniolo make Atalanta fly: Cagliari ko
Cagliari-Atalanta 0-1
Atalanta also passes Cagliari and remains at the top of the Serie A standings. In Saturday’s first match of the sixteenth day of the championship, played at the Unipol Domus, the Dea needed only a goal from newcomer Zaniolo to gain victory and three very important points.
Cagliari started strong and immediately made themselves dangerous with Piccoli after 3’ but his shot è out of measure. The Sardinians’approach è aggressive and sends Atalanta into a tailspin, which hardly ever makes itself dangerous and even threatens to go under in the final part of the first half three times but Carnesecchi è superlative three times on Piccoli.
Gasperini, dissatisfied, sends in Lookman, De Roon and Djimsiti at the beginning of the second half. È just a veil of Lookman to create the first chance for the guests but Pasalic sends high by a little. At 55' again Pasalic sends high from a few steps a cross from the left by Ruggeri. Gasp ran out of changes and also threw in Samardzic and Zaniolo and it was the former Aston Villa man, two minutes after his entrance, who put the Nerazzurri ahead with a volley off Bellanova’s cross. Two minutes later the Dea came close to doubling the score but Lookman’s shot slammed against the post. In the final forcing of the hosts in search of an equalizer but Carnesecchi è a portcullis, saving first on Mina and then on Luperto.
Thanks to this success, the tenth consecutive in Serie A, Atalanta flies to 37 points, momentarily +5 ahead of Napoli, engaged at 6 p.m. with Udinese. Cagliari remains stuck at 14, in 15th place.