Chapter 50 Facing the Vice Giant

Coming to the 36th Serie A match, Cagliari would face Milan the team that lost the Champions League not a week ago and lost the 2nd position of the League not a month ago the team that suffered with bad luck just like Cagliari, because it was reaching distant places in the season being in 2nd place until the 33rd match reaching the Champions final and losing all of that in 1 month

Milan's team was furious, and that's the team Cagliari would take

This time Usman would participate in this game he was not so excited nor so disappointed he was just focused on finishing the last 3 games maintaining position so as not to fall further because the last 3 games would be terrifying matches for most teams in the top 8 outside the first place who was once a champion they were all looking to maintain their positions or overtake those at the top

Ivo even spoke to his players for them to remain calm at the end of the season with only 3 more games to go and if we kept being 5th or managed to rise to a more favorable position our team would have a big party in the city , because for Cagliari that was a great Conquest in addition to the time he was champion in 70 all the other years were disputes not to fall to the 2nd Division or to go up to the First Division

So being in 5th place in the league was a great achievement for the team's players

GK Agazzi 1

CB Ariaudo 3 Astori 13 RB Agostini 31 LB Smit 6

DMF Conti 5 © CMF Nainggolan 4 Eriksson 16 AMF Cossu 7

CF Sau 27 and Usman 10

and the banks

GK Ruzittu 12 CB Rossettini 15 SB Pisano 14 Camilleri 2 CMF Dessena 21 and AMF Cepellini 32 CF Nenê 18

The Milan team will come with

GK Abbiati

CB Yepes and Mexés RB De Sciglio LB Abate

DMF Ambrosini CMF kaiser and Muntari AMF K.P . Boateng

SS Pazzini CF Pato

A game that would take place at night at Milan's San Siro stadium after their defeat to Juventus the fans were going crazy as they were furious and sad with the loss of the Champions League of the year to their rival

The Milan players started playing to the left side of the field where Sciglio dominates the ball and goes towards the attack and crosses into the area in Boateeng who does not manage to control the ball and the ball is removed by Ariaudo to the lateral

Milan restart the game by tapping the ball to Sciglio who passes it to Kaiser from behind and Kaiser crosses into the box at Muntari

Who arrives heading the ball straight out, because his header comes out very strong

Agazzi who starts the game by touching Astori , Astori plays to Ariaudo who receives and passes to Smit who sets up the game by touching Conti

Conti receives touches to Eriksson , Eriksson passes to Usman

Usman plays for Cossu who tries to dribble the Milan players and loses the ball to Muntari, with Muntari stealing the ball goes to the foot of Ambrosini who touches it in Abate

Abate dominates the ball and goes to the right side of the field he can't get past Sau who is pressing him to steal the ball in his defensive field, then he touches the ball to Muntari who is behind him to help him who, when receiving the pass, touches for Abrosini who dominates the ball goes ahead with it and passes it to Boateng

Boateng holds the move waiting for Ambrosini to approach and touches him

Ambrosini makes the mistake of letting the ball go and runs after it he tries to get the ball back to the defenders and Usman steals the ball on the pass

Usman with the stolen ball spins and continues driving the ball dribbling Yepes and Mexes in the middle of the way to the goal he enters inside the Milan area

Usman manages to get close to the penalty line and finishes in the goal, but the goalkeeper, in the time that Usman pulled his leg to finish, leaves the goal to defend and throws himself in the direction of the ball where the goalkeeper's leg manages to block the path of the ball and it goes up going straight out

With the ball heading out, Cagliari takes the corner kick, but does not pose a threat against the Milan team, which manages to prevent them from heading towards the right goal, causing Cagliari's header to go out

Abbiati restarts the game with a kick forward , the ball is disputed in the air by Pazzini and Nainggolan in the air , neither of them manages to head the ball and it falls to Agostini who heads it forward towards Nainggolan , but the ball is headed by Boateng to Pazzini

Pazzini dominates the ball and touches it to Ambrosini who loses the ball to Cossu

Cossu drives the ball and touches Sau who holds the game and passes the ball to Eriksson who passes

Eriksson dominates the ball and moves slowly towards the goal until he is blocked by a barrier in which he passes the ball to Cossu

Cossu dominates and tries to go down the wing , but is blocked by the winger so he goes to the center and touches Usman who pulls the ball to the left end to pull the defenders and then plays diagonally to the right entering the Milan area he passes of the defenders and finishes it in the left corner of the low goal the goalkeeper jumps and defends the ball spreading it for the corner kick.

The corner kick is hit and the ball goes to Usman's head who is being marked by Meyexes who prevents him from heading right into the goal sending the ball over the crossbar, thus being a goal kick.

Abbiati restarts the game again with a forward kick and the Cagliari team manages to steal the ball with Eriksson touching Usman , Usman tries to drive the ball while dribbling the Milan players , but Kaiser marks him heavily and manages to catch the ball in a game of body

Milan's team got the ball again and they kept touching each other in the center of the midfield and lost the ball again, but this time it was Conti who caught the ball who intercepted a pass, he touched the ball again to Usman who started to be marked by Kaiser and Ambrosini.

Ambrosini starts kicking him and gives melee blows managing to win in the body he takes the ball from Usman and they try again to attack, but there was no more time because the referee whistles the end of the first half.

The first half ended with Cagliari dominating the field, but not being able to increase the score, the Milan goalkeeper had the spider sense and defended all the dangerous shots.

The game resumed in the second half with the Cagliari team making a quick attack Conti receives the pass from Usman , Conti touches it to Astori , Astori touches it to Eriksson .

Eriksson receives the pass and sends a pass over to Sau who tries to reach the ball inside Milan's area, but goalkeeper Abbiati was smart and attentive to that pass and came out from under the crossbar to catch the ball.

Abbiati throws the ball to Ambrosini who controls the ball in his chest and passes it to Muntari.

Muntari tries to touch the ball to Kaiser, but Conti intercepts the pass and touches Sal who is being marked by Mexes, Mexes recovers the ball and touches Ambrosini who tries again to continue driving the ball, but loses to Conti who steals the ball and launches She over the top to Sal , Sau can not reach dominates the ball and tries to head it to the side touching Usman , but the ball goes directly to the side of the goal going out .

Abbiati puts the ball on the field again with a kick forward where Boateng wins the header, but the ball stops at the foot of Agostini who passes it to CConti, Conti receives it, looks at the field and makes a pass to Nainggolan who is on the right wing.

Nainggolan follows with the ball and sees Usman near the entrance to the area and touches him and Usman enters the area, but Abate comes running and manages to block him and his move inside the area doing a tackle Usman vs Abate, Abate wins the tackle and takes the ball he tries again takes the ball out of his area leading it and Usman manages to block it by touching the ball, but luckily for the Milan team, Mexes was positioned correctly to kick the ball forward taking it from his area of ​​defense.

The ball goes through the air and Agostini heads it forward again where Nainggolan fights for it with Mexes and Ambrosini , Mexes steals the ball and goes to the center of the field passing it to Boateng , Boateng receives the pass and loses the ball to Conti who leads the ball and touches Usman.

Usman receives the ball and spins with it trying to go inside the area, but Abate blocks his way and steals the ball, the ball stops at Muntari's foot who drives it and passes it to Kaiser.

Kaiser receives the pass from Muntari and tries to return the ball to Ambrosini who makes the wrong pass and the ball stops at the foot of Cossu who tries to make a pass over the top to Sal , but the ball is sent too far in which Usman and Yepes chase after her.

Yepes wins in the race, takes the ball and kicks it forward, the ball stops at the foot of Nainggolan who dominates it and tries to make a pass to Cossu, but the pass is intercepted by Ambrosini who passes the ball to Boateng, Boateng dominates and touches Pazzini , Pazzini dominates , plays for Kaiser who pulls back to Ambrosini , but the ball is at the foot of Cossu who plays for Usman and starts an attack against Milan .

Usman goes towards the goal dribbles Yepes playing inside (center d) of the ilan area and advances between the defenders and finishes in the goal .

Goooooooooooooooooooooooool !!!!!!! by Usman Cagliari 1 x 0 Milan in the 74th minute in the 2nd half of the game the Cagliari team increases the score playing at Milan's home

With the goal of the Nigerian rookie it is his 7th goal for the team in 15 games for Cagliari he is an incredible player he arrived here in Cagliari no one would give anything for him , because he was discovered by Touluose and Touluose was in 13th place in the league who knew he would make such a difference in Cagliari, coach Ivo made a good choice. (Commentator)

The game restarts with Milan desperately trying to attack against Cagliari and taking a counterattack with Cossu stealing the ball from Boateng and throwing the ball to Usman low, Usman receives the ball and dominates it getting in front of the goalkeeper in the 1st 1, the goalkeeper goes out to get the ball, Usman simply finishes it diagonally in the right corner of the goal the ball goes slowly and scrapes the crossbar heading to the outside, thus losing the opportunity to guarantee the victory for Cagliari.

In the 77th minute, Ivo replaced Usman and put on Nenê.

The Milan team noted that it had no effect against Cagliari in the 77 minutes of play and changed 3 players at a time, Kaiser, Ambrosini and Pato left and El Shaarawy, Montolivo and Nocerino came in to reinforce Milan's attack.

Abbiati kicked the ball back to Ariaudo's feet after Boateng's header, Ariaudo lost the ball to Montolivo who put pressure on him to steal the ball in attack, it touched Boateng, Boateng touched Pazzini who passed Camirielli dribbling him and kicks the ball into the goal, Agazzi manages to defend it by sending the ball to the corner.

With the departure of the ball Ivo reinforces the defense taking out Sau and putting in Dessena changing to the formation in the field for 4-4-1-1 concentrating the players in the maximum in the defense in the last 10 minutes of game in the match.

Montolivo takes the corner with a cross inside the box Mexes heads in .

The ball goes over the goal, scraping the outside post, scaring the entire Cagliari team with this defensive failure.

Agazzi restarts with a forward kick the ball is disputed in the air and Eriksson wins the header , heading the ball towards Cossu and Nainggolan neither of them reach the ball and it falls to Abate who dominates the ball touches Boateng , Boateng opens the game touching to De S., who touches the ball to Yepes and receives it again, moving to the attack, and they touch Montolivo, who enters the area with the ball.

Montolivo pulls to the right leg and finishes it in the goal the ball passes from the left side of the goal and the game ends with the referee's whistle.

Pi!!!!!

The Milan fans cry, the players cry, because they end up having one more defeat on their resume for a small team to boot.

The Cagliari fans who came to Milan's stadium celebrate they go crazy they can't believe what just happened Cagliari beat Milan at their home after simply crushing them on the pitch they were living a dream , a great dream , and all thanks to Usman the Nigerian.

match statistics

Milan 0 x 1 Cagliari Calcio

Kicks 4(1) x 7(2)

Corner Kicks 1 x 2

Ball possession 53% x 47%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fap6C5UJGk

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