Cagliari vs SPAL
Italy – Serie A
Date: Sunday, 20 October 2019
Kick-off at 14:00 UK / 15:00 CET
Venue: Sardegna Arena.
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Cagliari
Rolando Maran is expected to remain with 10 of the starting eleven from the 1-1 draw with Roma before the international break, with Simone Pinna is likely to start as a right full-back in place the injured Fabrizio Cacciatore.
Luca Cigarini should keep his place in midfield despite competition with Lucas Castro, while Radja Nainggolan will play as an attacking midfielder behind João Pedro and Giovanni Simeone.
SPAL 2013
SPAL main concern at the moment is Federico Di Francesco, who is still recovering from injury and is expected to miss the match in Sardinia.
Jacopo Sala will start at right wing-back position for the suspension of Gabriel Strefezza, while Sergio Floccari is set to continue the strike partnership with Andrea Petagna.
Head To Head
Cagliari played SPAL in April to fixtures of Serie A. The winners on the day Cagliari with a 2-1 margin.
In the past decade, these teams have met five times. Cagliari's win in the fourth match-up; SPAL has won 0 games. The remaining 1 match resulted in a draw.
In those games, there have been an average of 3.4 goals per match. Cagliari have scored an average of 2.6 and their opponents, SPAL scored an average of 0.8.
Seeing a combined record on the road, the visiting side has won 0% of this meeting. The home team has prevailed in 80% of them.
Cagliari vs SPAL: Predictions
Cagliari, sits in 7th place with 11pts collected, will welcome SPAL for Sardegna Arena on Sunday. Sardinia is flying high in the five-match unbeaten run. Their latest match at the Olimpico vs Roma have a VAR late drama, but in the end the purpose of Nikola Kalinic was canceled and men's Rolando Maran managed to escape with a point. Cragno, Farago and Pavoletti long-term absentees, while Lykogiannis and Klavan questionable.
SPAL moved into 17th place after a 1-0 win over Parma ended their three-game losing streak. With two wins and five defeats to date, and awful performances on the road, Gli Spalini is one of the hot favorites to go down this season. Leonardo Semplici brillianty prepared his men for the Lazio game after the international break in September, and they will be hoping for the same result on Sunday. Strefezza suspended, price and D'Alessandro injured, Vicari and Di Francesco is doubtful for the trip.
Sardinia has a win-draw-loss record of 1-1-2 at home. They never lost their opening game to Brescia and Inter, but increased significantly after that. They scored and conceded the same number of goals in Sardegna Arena -1.25 per contention.
SPAL awful away from home with three losses so far. Gli Spalini not scored on the road and they have an average of 2 goals conceded per game. When we add the H2H trends, we get easy home win.
Although they failed to record Verona, I will back the hosts to win this one. They are hot right now, with confidence through the roof, and have a team that can cope much better team than SPAL. As an alternative, I would choose Caglari to score the opening goal - SPAL have conceded first in five of seven games played.
Cagliari vs SPAL: Betting Tips
Caglari for the win @ 2:16
Caglari to open the score @ 1.62
