It was a chaotic and bad-tempered match in Sardinia, as both Cristiano Biraghi and Joo Pedro saved penalties before Riccardo Sotil's equalized 10-man Fiorentina against his old club.
The Sardinians were badly eliminated, as Leonardo Pavoletti and Arturo Carboni banned, Kevin Strowman, Marco Rog and Sebastian Valukiewicz were injured, in Africa there were Keita Balde Diao, Alessio Cragno, Alessandro Diola, Charlampos Lycogiannis and others. were contracting with. The virus also affected the viola, with Dusan Vlahovic and Ricardo Saponara infected, so Krzysztof Piatek and Jonathan Ikon made their debut in January.
Giacomo Bonaventura made the first shot on goal after 14 seconds, then Joo Pedro hit the side-netting after a sudden assist from Cristiano Biraghi's back-pass.
Fiorentina received a penalty for Raul Bellanova's late tackle on lvaro Odriozola, but Birgi stepped up and his spot-kick by Boris Radunovic was spotted.
Play was halted in the 13th minute to recall David Astori, who spent most of his career at these two clubs.
Nico González went on a run from his own half, then widened the angled drive, but Joo Pedro nearly scored when he overtook Igor on the by-line and bounced from inside the finish post from the tightest angles . ,
Bonaventura and González switched headers from promising positions, while Nikola Milenkovic deflected a dangerous Razvan Marin free kick.
Cagliari broke the deadlock at the dawn of the second half as Joo Pedro's head got into a corner, with Pietro Terraciano looping it into the far top corner.
There was chaos on the 63rd minute when Joo Pedro edged out Odriozola and set up Gaston Pereiro, only to be denied by a desperate Milenkovic block. The trick continued with a cross to Joo Pedro on the back post, who couldn't get it as Odriozola pulled a hand and handballed. Odriozola was sent off, although already on a yellow card, arguing that he only took over because he was pushed. After a long wait, Teraciano saved Joao Pedro's central and weak penalty.
It was a chaotic match with tense skies and scuffles breaking out, even more so when ex-Cagliari player Riccardo Sotil came off the bench and scored the equalizer for 10-man Fiorentina. He started the run from his own half, the defenders started to back down and the angled drive went into the far corner. Sotille celebrated by placing his hand on his ear and mocking local fans, earning him a yellow card.