Cagliari beaten in friendly match in Hannover
Another defeat. And again with two goals to spare: Cagliari beaten by Hannover 96 in the second international friendly after the one with Galatasaray. 2-0 for the Germans with one goal in each half: a penalty by Tomiak (foul by Deiola central defensive version on Matsuda) and a goal in a melee by Neubauer on the developments of a corner. On the other hand, Pisacane’s team racked up the number of cautions, as many as seven. A lot of eagerness: if that’s not a record, for a friendly, it’s close.
Cagliari in the first half was too experimental to assess and appreciate any progress of those who could win the left flank, Idrissi, for new purchase Borrelli and for youngsters like Vinciguerra or Pintus. In fact, there’s only Hannover on the field: the ball is always at the Germans’ feet. Who inevitably end up taking the lead on a penalty kick and risked equalizing with a Pichler crossbar.
Better second-half Cagliari reinforced by “starters”: at least the match is balanced. Sardinians one step away from equalizing at ’82’ with Luvumbo, then the Germans’ two-nil goal. In the final goal cancelled for offside to Primavera Trepy. It is a Cagliari very similar to last year’s with two or three fewer certainties after the goodbyes of Augello, Makoumbou and Viola. Now the team will catch up with Folorunsho, who is training alone in Assemini: next on Saturday with the friendly at the Domus against Sant’Etienne for the Gigi Riva Trophy.
“Few teams –so coach Fabio Pisacane at the end of the match –have organized such high-level friendlies in a few days. It is right to go beyond the result and focus on the’analysis of the whole squad, the group, what we need, what we know how to do and what we still need to improve in: the game, the rhythm, the collective chemistry. It is a process. We would all like it to last as little as possible, but it is clear that it takes time to amalgamate”.
