Serie A | Lazio 2-1 Cagliari – Headloss with two red cards in 10 seconds

Originally posted on Football Italia | By Peter Young | Last updated Nov 4, 2024 4:41 PM ET

Lazio have now won eight of their last nine matches across all competitions after securing a 2-1 victory at home to Cagliari in Serie A on Monday evening, which was made easier by the double-sending off of Yerry Mina and Michel Adopo 15 minutes from time.

Lazio have been on impressive form over the last few weeks, which resulted in a coach of the month award for Marco Baroni. The 1-0 loss against Juventus is the team’s only defeat in any competition since mid-September.

It took just two minutes of the game for the hosts to poke themselves ahead.

Luca Pellegrini delivered a troubling free-kick after a penalty-style jumping run-up. The delivery bounced right in front of Simone Scuffet, who parried back into danger where the alert Dia was ready to clear up.

Taty Castellanos stung Scuffet’s palms midway through the second half with a driven effort from 25 yards out for Lazio’s second-closest effort of the first half.

Cagliari were back level after a fine piece of team play in the final third. Antoine Makoumbou fired the ball into the feet of Luvumbo in the area, who was able to spin his man and find the bottom corner, with the help of a significant deflection.

Pellegrini was involved in the goal-scoring action again mid-way through the second-half. He burst into the Cagliari area to follow-up on a semi-clearance, but was clipped by Nadir Zortea on his way into the box.

A brief VAR check ensued, and the penalty was eventually awarded. Mattia Zaccagni, who had only emerged from the substitutes’ bench a few moments earlier, dispatched a powerful effort into the bottom corner for his second goal of the season.

Things went from bad to significantly worse for Cagliari immediately after the restart. Yerry Mina was shown his second yellow card of the game for bringing down Castellanos on the counter-attack, and then Michel Adopo was also given his second yellow for his protests in the aftermath.

It was a shame for Cagliari, who had arguably been the stronger of the two sides in the second-half until Zaccagni’s penalty.

Lazio could have put themselves further ahead before the end of time, but they were denied by some desperate defending and a few untidy finishes from Pedro and Castellanos.

Lazio are now up to fifth in Serie A with 22 points form 11 league matches. They are level on points with Atalanta in third and only three points off the current league leaders, Napoli.

Full-time: Lazio 2-1 Cagliari

Dia (L) 2’, Luvumbo (C) 41’, Zaccagni (76’).

04-11-2024 19:45 MatchDay 11 Stadio Olimpico

Lazio

Cagliari 2 - 1

Player statistic

1st half

Boulaye Dia	2'
	9'	Michel Adopo
	17'	Tommaso Augello
Tijjani Noslin	25'
	29'	Yerry Mina
	41'

Zito Luvumbo (Assist: Antoine Makoumbou) 2nd half

	49'	Gabriele Zappa
Manuel Lazzari	61'
	64'	Zito Luvumbo
	74'	Sebastiano Luperto
Mattia Zaccagni

76' 78' Michel Adopo 78'

Yerry Mina Nicolò Rovella

85' Lazio Cagliari

Starting lineups

Ivan Provedel Goalkeeper 13

Alessio Romagnoli Defender 3

Luca Pellegrini Defender 29

Manuel Lazzari Defender 81' 34 Mario Gila Defender 8

Mattéo Guendouzi Midfielder 73' 6

Nicolò Rovella Midfielder 19

Boulaye Dia Attacker 80' 18

Gustav Isaksen Attacker 63' 11

Taty Castellanos Attacker 14 Tijjani Noslin Attacker 46' 22

Simone Scuffet Goalkeeper 28 Gabriele Zappa Defender 19 Nadir Zortea Defender 78' 6

Sebastiano Luperto Defender 3

Tommaso Augello Defender 68' 26

Yerry Mina Defender 29 Antoine Makoumbou Midfielder 70

Gianluca Gaetano Midfielder 68' 8

Michel Adopo Midfielder 91

Roberto Piccoli Attacker 84' 77 Zito Luvumbo Attacker

84'

Substitutes

Alessio Furlanetto Goalkeeper 22

Gaetano Castrovilli Midfielder 2

Samuel Gigot Defender 20 Loum Tchaouna Attacker 35

Christos Mandas Goalkeeper 5

Matías Vecino Midfielder 46' 9

Pedro Attacker 63' 10

Mattia Zaccagni Attacker 73' 7 Fisayo Dele-Bashiru Midfielder 80' 77

Adam Marusic Defender 81' 21

Jakub Jankto Midfielder 30

Leonardo Pavoletti Attacker 18

Răzvan Marin Midfielder 9

Gianluca Lapadula Attacker 23

Mateusz Wieteska Defender Giuseppe Ciocci Goalkeeper 16 Matteo Prati Midfielder 37 Paulo Azzi Attacker 80 Kingstone Mutandwa Attacker 71 Alen Sherri Goalkeeper 33 Adam Obert Defender 68' 10

Nicolas Viola Midfielder 68' 97

Mattia Felici Attacker 78' 14

Alessandro Deiola Midfielder 84' 24

José Luis Palomino Defender

84'

This article first appeared on Football Italia and was syndicated with permission.

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