Chapter 62 WWWWW

With the last victory against Juventus, Cagliari managed to reach 2nd place, behind only Sampdoria, who also managed to remain undefeated in the championship in the 4 games.

But at the same time as his club career was going well, the national team he was not called up to was doing poorly with 4 games played in a strong group in Africa playing Ghana, Algebria and Côte D'Ivoire, Nigeria was in 2nd place among the 4 selections in the group.

The leaderboard looked like this:

1st Côte D'Ivoire 8 pts / 2 Win / 2 Draw / 8 Goals Made / 4 Goals Taken

2nd Nigeria 6 pts / 1 Win / 3 Draw / 6 Goals Made / 5 Goals Taken

3rd Ghana 6 pts / 2 Win / 2 Lose / 5 Goals Made / 7 Goals Taken

4° Algeria 1 pts / 1 Draw / 3 Lose / 6 Goals Made / 9 Goals Taken

Nigeria had achieved victory over the Ghana national team, but drew 2 games with the Côte national team and 1 more with the Algerian national team, keeping it classified for the next qualifying dispute for the world cup.

Usman was grumpy about this as he would have no chance of seeing his country in the world cup if this situation continued.

As it was still the month of transfers Usman decided to take a look at the news of player transfers.

Inter had sold CB Juan to Paris Saint-Germain

Palermo sold AMF N. Viola to Dep of Spain, Bought DMF Clement from Saint Etienne with the sale of AMF Zahavi to Saint Etienne.

A.C. Siena managed to sign a star rookie DMF Sasaki Annual salary 677,000

Sampdoria sold SMF Paladino to TSP team in exchange bought CF V.Papadopoulos from TSP team.

Napoli were lucky and managed to sign a young star who was free SS Schürrle Annual Salary 705,000

Genoa sold two of its players to Spanish teams, selling CF Zé Eduardo to Valloloid and CB J. Velázquez to Espanyol.

Pescara sold CMF Berardocco to SCB France and CMF Lulli to Rayo Valeccano.

Fiorentina was renewing the team because it signed SB E. Mena, He bought an AMF Fetfatzidis(Salary Annual 713.000) from Olympiacos in exchange he sold the AMF Matías F.(Salary Annual 773.000) to Olympiacos.

In England North London sold SS Arshavin(Annual Salary 799,000) to NSL and bought CF Nordstrand(Annual Salary 735,000) from NSL.

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In France OGC Nice signed 2 free players CMF Norya(Annual Salary 622.00) and CMF Nurumi.

Paris Saint-Germain had not only bought CB Juan(Annual Salary 741,000) from Inter but also bought DMF Barry(Annual Salary 880,000) from Man Blue.

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In Holland Ajax bought CF Larsen Touré from Stade Brestois and CMF El Ahmadi(Annual Salary 675,000) from West Midlands Village in exchange sold SS D. Klaassen

SC Heerenveen had made a big signing by buying SMF Jordi Alba(Annual Salary 981,000) from Barcelona.

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Finished watching the transfer news, Usman took a look at the leaderboard

1st U.C Sampdoria 12 Pts / 4 Win / 7 Goals scored

2nd Cagliari Calcio 12 Pts / 4 Win / 4 goals scored

3° A.S Roma 9 Pts 4° S.S Lazio 9 Pts 5° Udinese Calcio 9 Pts 5° ACF Fiorentina 9 Pts 7° Atalanta B.C 8 Pts 8° Inter 7 Pts

After looking at the team rankings he took a look at the top scorers rankings.

1st CF Usman Cagliari 4 Goals

1st CF Maxi Lopez Sampdoria 4 Goals

3rd CF G. Denis Atalanta 3 Goals

3rd SS El Hamdaqui Fiorentina 3 Goals

3rd SB Javier Zanetti Inter 3 Goals

3rd SS Insigne Napoli 3 Goals

7th SS Diamanti Bologna 2 Goals

7th SS Jovetic Fiorentina 2 Goals

Meanwhile on the Assist list

1st AMF M. Moralez Atalanta 3 Assists

2nd CMF Montolivo Milan 2 Assists

2nd SMF Santana Torino 2 Assists

4th AMF Cossu Cagliari 1 Assist

4th CMF Nainggolan Cagliari 1 Assist

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After catching up on the news Usman went to bed.

Days passed and the day of the game in the city of Bologna, Bologna x Cagliari, arrived.

In this game the Cagliari players had self-esteem and confidence at the top, it just seemed like all their teammates were releasing auras of energy.

The team listed to play was

GK Agazzi 1

CB Ariaudo 3 Astori 13 RB Agostini 31 LB Danilo Avelar 8©

DMF Conti 5 CMF Nainggolan 4 Dessena 21 AMF Cossu 7

CF Nenê 18 and Usman 10

and the banks

GK Avramov CB Rossettini 15 Camilleri 2 CMF Slot 11 and AMF Cepellini 32 CF Sau 27 Pinilla 51

The Bologna team is formed with

GK Agliardi

CB Antonsson, Natali and Portanova

DMF Krhin and Guarente

LMF Diamanti RMF Diego Perez

AMF Diamanti and Pasquato

CF Acquafresca

Cagliari fans, once again rooting for the team's victory with all their might, following the start of this championship with full force.

Acquafresca first touches the ball to Pasquato, Pasquato touches it to Krhin, Krhin dominates the ball and touches it to Diego Perez, Perez dominates and returns the ball to Krhin, Krhin receives it and passes it to Pasquato, Pasquato touches it to Diego Perez completing the pass in a triangulation, Diego Perez, instead of advancing on the right side, drops the ball to Krhin, Krhin, when marked by Usman, touches the ball to Guarante, Guarante dominates the ball but does not wait for Cossu to arrive and tackle it, sending it to Conti's feet , Conti dominates and touches Nenê, Nenê touches the ball to Usman, Usman dribbles Natali and keeps driving the ball.

Usman comes close to entering the area, coming face to face with the goalkeeper who anticipated to block the kick and finishes the ball, the ball goes out.

Agliardi puts the ball in play tapping to Natali, Natali dominates and drives the ball to Diamanti on the left side, Diamanti continues to drive the ball while Nainggolan is passing him in a race to stop him, realizing this Diamanti desperately tries to do a pass the ball hits Nainggolan and goes wide.

Diamanti throws the ball to Guarente, Guarente touches the ball to Portanova and drops it, Portanova sees Diamanti pass and throws the ball at him from above, Diamanti controls the ball in his chest and plays it to H. Gimenez, Gimenez just gets as close as possible possible from the line of the area and crosses into it at Acquafresca, Acquafresca manages to jump and head the ball, but the header only makes the ball stop in the middle of the penalty area, Conti retreats to the penalty area, catches the ball and touches it for Ariaudo, Ariaudo did not expect the pass, he ends up allowing the ball to pass through him and chases it for having committed that mistake.

Ariaudo was chasing the ball when Gimenez, who was retreating, passes close to it and does not reach it and collides with him on the run for the ball, Ariaudo manages to pass him and takes the ball, Ariaudo touches it to Agostini who touches the ball to Nainggolan and he he continues advancing with the ball until he sees Usman who was ahead and passes the ball to him, Usman dominates the ball and pulls it to the center of the field while he continues to drive him past Portanova and continues until he enters the area.

Goalkeeper Agliardi again anticipates to block it, but this time Usman is prepared and kicks the ball high in the right corner of the goal, the ball goes through the left side of the goalkeeper who still reacts to the kick by putting his hand in front of the ball, but there's no other way.

Gooooooooooooool! of Cagliari Usman scores in another game for Cagliari, Bologna fans put their hands on their faces for having seen a monster on the field.

The game restarts with Acquafresca giving the first pass to Pasquato, Pasquato touches the ball to Krhin, Krhin dominates and passes it to Guarente, Guarente tries to carry on with the ball and is marked by Nenê who manages to touch the ball making it pass under his legs , the ball goes behind Guarente and Usman tries to dominate it, but Nenê who stole the ball chases it and takes the ball from him trying to keep driving Natali appears and falls on Nenê at the same time that he hits the ball making it go backwards from Nene.

Usman comes back and dominates the ball, Natali runs over Usman with his physique takes the ball and touches Diamanti, Diamanti dominates the ball and Nainggolan puts pressure on him and manages to steal the ball to Usman's foot who had stepped back to help, but the referee scores lack of Nainggolan in Diamanti.

Natali hits the set piece sending Acquafresca and heading it to Krhin, Krhin dominates the ball and makes a pass over the top into the area for Acquafresca who had advanced after touching the ball to him.

The ball goes over Acquafresca and Agazzi simply catches the ball, grabbing it, Agazzi kicks forward towards Nenê who disputes it in the air with Portanova, and manages to head the left end, but there was no one from Cagliari around. who makes the ball stand alone at this moment Antonsson is chasing after the ball dominates it and touches it to Natali, Natali leads it and ends up losing when Usman marks him the ball stops at the foot of Dessena, Dessena touches the ball in Nenê and Nenê does the pass to Cossu at first, Cossu dominates the ball pulls it to one side and then to the other causing the defense to destabilize which ends up making an opening on the side where Dessena takes advantage of this opening and enters inside the area, Cossu seeing him do the pass, Dessena stays inside the area in front of Agliardi, but wastes the opportunity trying to make a pass over to someone who was in the center of the area and the ball is headed off by Portanova.

The ball is left for Avelar who was on the left end he crosses the ball into the area for Usman the ball hits Natali, but it does not leave this time because 3 Bologna players get in the way of removing the ball from the area bouncing in the small area, Usman he faces the ball and tries to finish it in the goal.

Usman manages to reach the ball and kick it.

The goalkeeper reacts to the kick and manages to raise his arm and hit the ball making it deflect out of the area.

The ball stops in the half moon where Nainggolan runs to reach it manages to dominate it, but he is brought down by Guarante with the trip he gave, the ball hits Nainggolan and stops in Cossu who managed to catch it after Nainggolan was knocked down, Cossu dribbles Portanova pulling the ball to his right and enters the area again kicking the ball in the goal, the goalkeeper saves, but once.

The ball is left as a rebound on the goalkeeper's side on the penalty line where Nenê appears and manages to put it inside the goal.

Goal, gooooooooooooool! Nenê scores his first goal of the season, scoring Cagliari's second.

Bologna 0 x 2 Cagliari

Nenê simply stays where he kicked the ball and raises his arms to celebrate, Usman approaches him and pats his back Nainggolan approaches him and lifts him after hugging him.

The team leading 2-0 Ivo simply goes back to the dugout and sits down with his players.

Meanwhile, the crowd simply applauds for the first time seeing the team score 2 goals in a game of the season.

The team, after celebrating, calmly returns to its field, for the game to restart.

Acquafresca gives the first pass to Pasquato, Pasquato touches it to Krhin, Krhin dominates and drives the ball then touches Diego Pérez, Perez touches it to Pasquato, Pasquato passes the ball past Conti and Avelar and touches Pérez, Perez dominates the ball and scores a cross into the area, the ball is withdrawn for a corner with Astori's header.

Diamanti takes the corner by crossing into the area the ball does not go up very high and hits a Cagliari player and goes outside the first post and goes to the corner, Diamanti hits again and the action repeats, Diamanti hits the third time the corner and Ariaudo manages to head the ball out of the area.

The ball flies out of the area and Cagliari has the chance to make the last attack of the first half with Usman dominating the ball leading it close to Bologna's entrance, Usman manages to reach the half moon and tries to dribble Portanova, but Usman was very tired and his agility and dribbling speed dropped a lot causing Portanova to get the better of the 1-1 and take the ball away from Usman.

Usman, when he lost the ball, put his hand on his head because the referee whistled to end the first half.

In the locker room, the Cagliari players were resting to return to the 2nd half as rested as possible, because in this game they were putting on a show.

The game restarts with Nenê touching the ball to Usman, Usman dominates the ball and holds the game trying to attract a Bologna player, but the players were cautious against the Cagliari team and keeps his distance from Usman by marking the other players, Usman does not see more need to attract and touches the ball to Cossu, Cossu follows with the ball and passes it to Nenê, Nenê has her back to Bologna's goal, turns her body to face him and Natali comes running towards him to score, Nenê plays the ball to his right side dribbling him, but what Nenê didn't count on is that Natali would step on his foot when he made the pass and throw her body on him, locking him in position before going after the ball, the referee whistles and calls a foul by Natali in Nenê.

The free kick will be taken by Cossu 28 m away from the goal.

He takes the free-kick making a throw over the barrier to Usman inside the area, but the ball on the way down is headed by Antonsson who jumps higher than Usman and heads it out of the area the ball returns to Cossu who tries to dominate it killing in the chest but the ball runs forward and he chases it and tries to touch it forward the pass hits Usman and goes behind Cossu at the foot of Acquafresca who touches Diamanti first, Diamanti touches to Guarante and Guarante returns the ball to Natali , Natali touches to Diamanti who dominates the ball turns the body looks forward and touches to Krhin, Krhin holds the move and returns it to Diamanti, Diamanti takes the ball back to Portanova, Portanova passes to Natali, Natali sends the ball to Perez's foot, Perez dominates, attracts Avelar and passes to Pasquato, Pasquato tries to go through the center to enter the area and fails, so he goes to the right side of the area and crosses the ball into the area.

The ball arrives in the air and is disputed between Agostini and Gimenez, the two head the ball, but it goes towards the air to the small area where Agazzi simply jumps and grabs it in the air.

Agazzi simply looks at the field quickly and sees that the Bologna team is almost all in the attacking field with the exception of the 3 defenders and throws the ball with a kick to Nenê, Nenê calmly controls the ball and touches it to Usman, Usman dominates the ball and continues passing between Natali and Portanova betting on his speed and acceleration he passes between the two driving the ball and enters the area.

Usman faces the goalkeeper and kicks it in the most unexpected corner, the corner where the goalkeeper was on the right side of the goal, even with the goalkeeper anticipating he was not prepared for a shot in that direction, so the ball passes by his side and goes for Goal.

Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool! Cagliari's golden boy is his, little boy Usman he scores his 2nd goal in this game with a beautiful play between goalkeeper-striker-striker scoring Cagliari's 3rd goal in the game he goes towards the flag to the right side and slides off on one knee.

Nenê, the owner of the pass, Cossu and Dessena approach him and hug him in celebration of the team's 3rd goal. They remain there so that none of them think about taking off their shirt and getting a yellow card.

The fans watching the 3rd goal simply start jumping madly in love while the home crowd starts crying because they are taking 3-0 against Cagliari.

And with the 3rd goal Ivo decides to take Usman out to save him for the next game, Usman leaves the field and Pinilla enters in the 63rd minute of the game.

Acquafresca restarts the game giving the first pass to Pasquato, Pasquato touches Krhin and Krhin touches it to Guarante who touches it to Diamanti, Diamanti passes the ball and loses it to Nainggolan, Nainggolan touches it to Cossu, Cossu loses the ball to Krhin when trying to pass it going on the attack, Krhin passes the ball to Diamanti, Diamanti looks forward and tries an overhead pass to Acquafresca, the ball is intercepted with a header by Astori who sends it to Conti, Conti dominates the ball and tries to keep driving, but the judge for the game by the linesman is marking Acquafresca's irregular position.

Astori hits the set ball sending it wide, the ball is disputed in the air by Guarante and Nenê, Guarante wins in the air and heads the ball to Acquafresca, but the ball stops at the foot of Conti who tries to make a pass to Nenê at first , the ball goes low and Guarante manages to intercept it and plays for Acquafresca again.

Guarante's pass goes wrong and stops at Astori's feet, Astori dominates, leads and passes to Dessena, Dessena returns it to Astori, Astori tensely continues carrying the ball, reaching the center of the midfield he loses it to Guarante.

Again Guarante touches the ball to Acquafresca, this time Acquafresca manages to dominate it and touches Pasquato who was passing through the right side of the free field in the space that Astori opened, Pasquato leads the attack driving the ball, entering the area and kicking the ball in the goal diagonally, the ball passes the goalkeeper's side and enters the goal.

Goooool! from Pasquato he reduced the advantage of Cagliari to Bologna making the game stay;

Bologna 1x3 Cagliari.

Ivo, after taking the goal, takes Cossu and puts Cepellini on the field, the game restarts with Nenê playing for Pinilla and Pinilla touching Cepellini.

Cepellini dominates and touches Nenê going forward Nenê passes the ball to Pinilla and Pinilla sees Dessena pass by the left wing entering diagonally into the area and makes a low shot in front of Dessena, Dessena dominates the ball inside the area and kicks it, Agliardi anticipates and this time manages to defend the ball giving a rebound to the side Guarante appears saves the goal kicking the ball to the side.

In the 77th minute, Bologna decided to add new blood to the field, removing Acquafresca and Guarante and putting on M. Coda and Casarini.

The lateral is taken by Nainggolan for Cepellini, Cepellini crosses the ball inside the area on the second post of the post and who was there was Pinilla who jumps alone behind the defender and heads the ball in the goal.

The goalkeeper even tries to defend, but was positioned on the opposite side of the goal and takes the goal.

Gooooooooooooooooool! From Pinilla he scores Cagliari's 4th goal in Bologna making it Cagliari's biggest away win over Pinilla.

The Bologna team restarted the game with Casarini touching the ball to M. Coda who touched the ball to Krhin, Krhin played to Perez who dominated the ball and tried to follow, but he was stopped by Avelar and decided to return it to Krhin.

Krhin receives the pass and throws it over the top to Diamanti, the ball on the way down hits Nainggolan's back and goes to the side.

The winger is charged and who receives the ball is Gimenez who simply pulls it towards the bottom line and crosses into the area with so much force that he falls to the ground when kicking it, the cross ball is Headed by Dessena who tries to take it away Her from the area, but her header was weak and it stops at the foot of Astori who tries to dominate, but Coda and Krhin pass by hitting him which makes him release the ball.

The ball is dominated by Krhin who has a chance to reduce the score and take Cagliari's biggest victory at home, he kicks the ball as fast as possible, but the ball goes towards the outside by the left side of the goalkeeper.

Agazzi puts the ball in play by tapping it to Astori, Astori dominates the ball and passes it to Avelar, Avelar dominates the ball takes it forward seeing he is trapped by 3 Bologna players he tries to put the ball back on Astori, M. Coda manages to intercept the pass and start Bologna's attack.

Coda touches to Pasquato, Pasquato touches the ball to Casarini, Casarini continues driving into the area but is trapped by the defenders then touches the ball to Perez, Perez touches Pasquato who cannot control it properly and the ball goes behind him , he sees Dessena managing to dominate it, he trips it, hitting the ball and knocking Dessena down too, the ball hits Dessena and stops at Krhin's foot, Krhin dominates, tries to get inside the area, he can't because he is marked hard by Dessena, so he plays a pass into the area over the top to Gimenez.

Gimenez manages to reach the ball, but it's not worth anything else in the game. Because he was standing up before the pass came out causing him to be in an invalid position.

Cagliari hit the set piece and the referee whistled the end of the game.

CMF Dessena 21 Other Positions (SB/DMF/SMF)

Nationality Italy

Annual Salary 525,000 Market Value 644,000

Height 183 Age 26 Stronger Foot Right

Attack 68/99 Defense 69/99 Body Balance 80/99

Stamina 84/99 Top Speed 81/99 Acceleration 77/99 Agility 76/99

Responsiveness 78/99 Dribble accuracy 76/99 Dribble Speed 77/99 FK accuracy 61/99

Short Pass accuracy 76/99 S.Pass Speed 76/99 Long Pass accuracy 76/99 L.Pass Speed 74/99

Shot accuracy 68/99 Shot Power 79/99 Shot Techinque 70/99 Techinque 78/99

Swerve 69/99 Header 76/99 Jump 76/99 Aggression 68/99 Tenacity 74/99 Teamwork 79/99

Form 5/8 Weak Foot Accuracy 5/8 Weak Foot Use 5/8 Injury A

Skills

Marading*

longshots*

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