Cagliari – Lazio Picks & Prediction Picks & Prediction
Cagliari - Lazio Prediction, Picks and Taips
The matches between Cagliari and Lazio in the past two years have often been exciting but have had the same winner each time. In December 2018, Lazio managed to win 3-1, the three games that have been played since then each time ended in 2-1 for the Romans.
Cagliari is very active on the transfer market during this period. Riccardo Sottil came over from Fiorentina on a rental basis with an option to buy and Razvan Marin, who had failed at Ajax, was bought for about ten million euros. In addition, the arrival of Diego Godin is almost complete, expanding the Uruguayan enclave in Sardinia (Gaston Pereiro, Nahitan Nandez and Christian Olivera) again. According to the latest news, Radja Nainggolan, like Godin, wants to make the step from Inter to Cagliari now that competition in Milan's midfield has increased with the arrival of Arthuro Vidal. Nainggolan was already hired by Cagliari last season, the Belgian played 26 games and scored six times. In addition, there is a personal agreement with Gyrano Kerk of FC Utrecht, but the gap between the bid and the asking price is still large.
Last weekend, new trainer Eusebio Di Francesco got his baptism of fire when Cagliari went to visit Sassuolo. Despite a barrage of opportunities, Sassuolo was unable to make the opening goal and also got the lid on the nose when Cagliari took the lead ten minutes before time. Joao Pedro put the ball on the head of Giovanni Simeone who headed in. It almost gave the islanders a stolen victory, were it not that Mehdi Bourabia set the final score at 1-1 with a good free kick just before the end.
A meeting with Atalanta was planned for Lazio last weekend, but because Atalanta still played in the Champions League six weeks ago, this game has been moved to next Wednesday. The first time we will see the power of Lazio is therefore this duel at Cagliari. Still, we can already make a good estimate of the team, because not much has changed in the capital this transfer summer. Top players Luis Alberto, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Ciro Immobile have stayed and Vedat Muriqi from Fenerbahce and Mohamed Fares from SPAL joined the squad. In addition, according to the latest news, Wesley Hoedt will be rented from Southampton with an option to buy. The Dutch defender already played 48 matches for Lazio between 2015 and 2017, after which he made the switch to the Premier League.
The biancocelesti have therefore not made top purchases but have a wider selection. Given the end of the previous season, that does not seem a superfluous luxury. Simone Inzaghi's team was only one point behind leader Juventus during the lockdown and took six points from the first three games after the restart. However, the selection turned out not to be wide enough to keep up with the busy schedule, so that only one point was scored in the subsequent series of five games. Not only was there lost to AC Milan and Juventus, the Romans also went down against mid-engine Sassuolo and relegant Lecce.
Our recommendation tip for Cagliari - Lazio: Lazio to win @ 1.68