Serie A | Cagliari 2-2 Pisa: Late goal stuns Sardinians

The home side had to cope without Belotti, Ze Pedro, Felici, Liteta and Luvumbo, while Pisa had travelled to Sardinia without Stengs, Cuadrado, Nzola, Akinsanmiro and Nzola.

Gaetano had the first chance in the game for Cagliari, but his curler to finalise a counter-attack was wide of the far post.

Tramoni replied for Pisa, but his shot from an excellent position was too weak, allowing Elia Caprile to save with his feet. Simone Canestrelli tried to score with a sensational backheel attempt from a corner kick and didn’t get the big target with Caprile standing still watching the ball.

Cagliari’s Semih Kılıçsoy, making his first Serie A start, curled an effort wide, but he’d soon find better accuracy.

Pisa took the lead seconds before the break when Michel Adopo blocked a Matteo Tramoni attack by unintentionally touching the ball with his left arm. Tramoni converted the spot-kick, but the Cagliari reaction was strong after the break.

Folorunsho levelled the score before the hour mark with a diving header from a Gabriele Zappa cross from the right.

A few minutes later, a similar move produced a chance to score for Alessandro Deiola, but this time the Cagliari midfielder miskicked the ball, sending it wide of the near post.

Moreo’s late goal stuns Cagliari

Kılıçsoy netted his first Serie A goal with a brilliant curling effort into the far corner from the edge of the area as Cagliari appeared firmly in control. Luca Mazzitelli had the chance to make it two, but his long-range attempt drifted wide.

Pisa’s Lorran made a good impact off the bench, although his close-range effort drifted wide to Caprile’s right. Pisa’s equaliser, however, arrived at minute 88 when Leris fired a low, driven ball into the box that Moreo met with a first-time finish after peeling away from the Cagliari defenders.

Pisa even had chances to win it, first through Leris and then Meister: the former slid an effort just wide, while Meister stuck the outside of the net from a tight angle in stoppage time.

21-12-2025 11:30 MatchDay 16 Unipol Domus (Sardegna Arena)

Cagliari

Pisa Live 2 - 2

Player statistic

1st half

45'

Matteo Tramoni 2nd half

Michel Adopo		52'
Yerry Mina		54'
Michael Folorunsho (Assist: Gabriele Zappa)		59'
		67'		Giovanni Bonfanti
Semih Kılıçsoy (Assist: Gianluca Gaetano)		71'
Sebastiano Esposito		79'
		89'

Stefano Moreo (Assist: Mehdi Léris)     90+3'

Arturo Calabresi Cagliari Pisa

Starting lineups

1

Elia Caprile Goalkeeper 33 Adam Obert Defender 46' 15 Juan Rodríguez Defender 2 Marco Palestra Defender 26

Yerry Mina Defender 14

Alessandro Deiola Midfielder 10

Gianluca Gaetano Midfielder 83' 90 Michael Folorunsho Midfielder 63' 8

Michel Adopo Midfielder 55' 94 Sebastiano Esposito Attacker 9 Semih Kılıçsoy Attacker 82' 1

Adrian Šemper Goalkeeper 4 Antonio Caracciolo Defender 94 Giovanni Bonfanti Defender 74' 3 Samuele Angori Defender 5 Simone Canestrelli Defender 15 Idrissa Touré Midfielder 82' 8 Malthe Höjholt Midfielder 73' 10 Matteo Tramoni Midfielder 82' 20

Michel Aebischer Midfielder 36 Gabriele Piccinini Attacker

74' 9 Henrik Meister Attacker

Substitutes

6

Sebastiano Luperto Defender 20

Marko Rog Midfielder 30

Leonardo Pavoletti Attacker 31

Boris Radunović Goalkeeper 18 Alessandro Di Pardo Defender 24 Giuseppe Ciocci Goalkeeper 16 Matteo Prati Midfielder 23 Nicola Pintus Defender 37 Yael Trepy Attacker 3 Riyad Idrissi Defender 46' 28 Gabriele Zappa Defender 55' 4

Luca Mazzitelli Midfielder 63' 29

Gennaro Borrelli Attacker 82' 21 Nicolò Cavuoti Midfielder 83' 22

Simone Scuffet Goalkeeper 12

Nicolas Goalkeeper 6 Marius Marin Midfielder 39

Raúl Albiol Defender 19 Tomás Esteves Defender 26 Francesco Coppola Defender 47 Mateus Lusuardi Defender 16 Louis Buffon Attacker 44 Daniel Denoon Defender 76 Jeremy Kandje Mbambi Defender 21 Isak Vural Midfielder 73' 32 Stefano Moreo Attacker 74' 33

Arturo Calabresi Defender 74' 7

Mehdi Léris Attacker 82' 99

Lorran Midfielder

82'