Serie A | Cagliari 1-0 Juventus: Spalletti shocked in Sardinia

The referee pointed to the spot on 15 minutes when Fabio Miretti went down in a coming together with Luca Mazzitelli, but changed his mind following the VAR review, as the Cagliari player had his foot in front and was kicked by the Juventus midfielder.

Miretti also attempted a lob from midfield, and forced a save from Elia Caprile on the Jonathan David lay-off, but Kenan Yildiz was booked for simulation after going down in the vicinity of Ze Pedro.

After the restart, Semih Kilicsoy managed to squirm a pass through to Sebastiano Esposito when surrounded at the corner flag, forcing the save from Mattia Perin at the near post.

Caprile flew to palm an Andrea Cambiaso curler round the upright from the edge of the area, while Yildiz rode past three tackles to bend his finish just over the crossbar.

Miretti’s half-volley also prompted a one-handed Caprile save, but the ball had already gone out of play on the cross.

Instead, Cagliari scored completely against the run of play. It was an intelligent set play routine, as Gianluca Gaetano took the free kick low to find Luca Mazzitelli, who had peeled away from Pierre Kalulu ready to volley into the near bottom corner from 15 yards.

Juventus kept pushing, Kalulu’s powerful cross-shot stinging Caprile’s gloves, as did another Kenan Yildiz solo strike.

When the goalkeeper was beaten, he was rescued by the frame of the goal, as the Yildiz strike took a big deflection off Mina to thump the base of the upright.

The Bianconeri tried to the very end, but struggled to create clear-cut scoring opportunities.

Cagliari 1-0 Juventus

Mazzitelli 65 (C)

17-01-2026 19:45 MatchDay 21 Unipol Domus (Sardegna Arena)

Cagliari

Juventus Live 1 - 0

Player statistic

1st half

31'

Kenan Yıldız 2nd half

Luca Mazzitelli (Assist: Gianluca Gaetano)

65'     Cagliari Juventus

Starting lineups

1

Elia Caprile Goalkeeper 33 Adam Obert Defender 2 Marco Palestra Defender 6

Sebastiano Luperto Defender 26

Yerry Mina Defender 32 Zé Pedro Defender 10

Gianluca Gaetano Midfielder 4

Luca Mazzitelli Midfielder 8

Michel Adopo Midfielder 94 Sebastiano Esposito Attacker 64' 9 Semih Kılıçsoy Attacker 54' 1

Mattia Perin Goalkeeper 27 Andrea Cambiaso Defender 80' 3

Bremer Defender 6

Lloyd Kelly Defender 15 Pierre Kalulu Defender 21 Fabio Miretti Midfielder 66' 5

Manuel Locatelli Midfielder 67' 8

Teun Koopmeiners Midfielder 22

Weston McKennie Midfielder 80' 30

Jonathan David Attacker

88' 10

Kenan Yıldız Attacker

Substitutes

30

Leonardo Pavoletti Attacker 77 Zito Luvumbo Attacker 21 Nicolò Cavuoti Midfielder 18 Alessandro Di Pardo Defender 24 Giuseppe Ciocci Goalkeeper 16 Matteo Prati Midfielder 99 Alen Sherri Goalkeeper 15 Juan Rodríguez Defender 23 Nicola Pintus Defender 27 Joseph Liteta Midfielder 37 Yael Trepy Attacker 29

Gennaro Borrelli Attacker 54' 3 Riyad Idrissi Defender 64' 23

Carlo Pinsoglio Goalkeeper 4 Federico Gatti Defender 16 Michele Di Gregorio Goalkeeper 18

Filip Kostic Midfielder 25 João Mário Defender 32

Juan Cabal Defender 20

Loïs Openda Attacker 66' 11

Edon Zhegrova Attacker 67' 7

Francisco Conceição Attacker 80' 19

Khéphren Thuram Midfielder 80' 17

Vasilije Adžić Midfielder

88'