Parma vs Cagliari - prediction, team news, lineups

Two apt rivals for endurance volition clash astatine Stadio Tardini connected Saturday evening, arsenic Parma and Cagliari footwear disconnected a caller Serie A campaign.

Both clubs progressed successful the cupful erstwhile they returned to competitory enactment past week, but present they indispensable vie for precious league points. 

Match preview

Achieving their main nonsubjective with respective rounds to spare, Parma sealed a 3rd consecutive twelvemonth successful Serie A with a four-match unbeaten streak past spring, going connected to decorativeness 13th successful the standings.

Rookie manager Carlos Cuesta yet made an awesome debut astatine elder level - having antecedently worked nether Mikel Arteta - with his broadside proving comparatively hard to defeat.

After playing a triangular tourney with Sassuolo and Trento to commencement pre-season, the Gialloblu drew some of their adjacent 2 friendlies 1-1 - against Arezzo and Iraklis Thessaloniki - earlier losing astatine location to Sampdoria.

Events disconnected the transportation person not helped preparations for the run ahead, arsenic a precocious exodus threatens to derail Cuesta's plans. 

Star striker Mateo Pellegrino has already near for Fiorentina, goalkeeper Zion Suzuki is bound for Aston Villa, portion cardinal defender Alessandro Circati has conscionable joined Benfica.

Amid specified uncertainty, Parma precocious progressed past Catania successful the Coppa Italia, with teenage guardant Simone Lontani bagging a brace connected his debut.

Meanwhile, Cagliari bushed Serie B broadside Arezzo 1-0 successful their first-round tie, acknowledgment to Alessandro Deiola's re-taken penalty, which the nine skipper scored astatine his 2nd attempt.

Like Cuesta, past play was Rossoblu brag Fabio Pisacane's archetypal successful elder management, and helium besides adapted good to the challenge.

A 14th-placed decorativeness - conscionable 2 points down Parma - was Cagliari's champion top-flight placing for 9 years, earning Piscane a declaration hold to 2028. 

Now, the Sardinian broadside indispensable present effort to bash it each implicit again, contempt losing indebtedness prima Marco Palestra to Chelsea and midfield fulcrum Gianluca Gaetano to Atalanta. 

Results were mostly affirmative this summer, with 3 pre-season wins and 2 draws preceding Cagliari's cupful victory, and their caller grounds against Parma offers much crushed to beryllium hopeful.

Over the past 2 years, the Rossoblu person beaten their Gialloblu rivals 3 times retired of 4 successful Serie A, with the objection being February's 1-1 distant draw.

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Team News

Parma volition beryllium missing astir of the spine from past season's team, and peculiarly Pellegrino, who topped the scoring charts with 9 of their 28 league goals.

Japan planetary Suzuki has present completed his protracted departure, leaving Edoardo Corvi arsenic the hosts' fig 1 goalkeeper.

Recently arrived connected indebtedness from Atalanta, El Bilal Toure should regenerate Pellegrino; Lontani, caller signing David Romero and fit-again Matija Frigan are besides vying for places up front.

Elsewhere, midfield brace Benjamin Cremaschi and Hans Nicolussi Caviglia are some sidelined by injury, Nesta Elphege is simply a doubt, portion Swiss full-back Sascha Britschgi indispensable service a suspension.

Cagliari, meanwhile, person replaced Gaetano with Harry Winks; the second made his competitory debut against Arezzo, alongside chap caller lad Daniel Maldini.

Following that match, French guardant Yael Trepy was progressive successful an mishap and had to beryllium placed successful an induced coma, but helium has reportedly begun to recover. 

Long-term absentee Riyad Idrissi volition not beryllium backmost successful enactment until October, arsenic helium continues the roadworthy backmost from an ACL injury.

Parma imaginable starting lineup:

Corvi; Delprato, Troilo, Valenti, Valeri; Sorensen, Keita, Bernabe; Almqvist, Toure, Romero

Cagliari imaginable starting lineup:

Caprile; Pedro, Mina, Rodriguez, Obert; Winks, Adopo, Deiola; Maldini, Mendy, Fazzini

We say: Parma 1-0 Cagliari

Although Parma's prima players are being picked disconnected by bigger clubs, Cuesta has built a coagulated basal astatine Stadio Tardini.

Cagliari are not traditionally large travellers, and they produced conscionable 4 distant wins past season, truthful the hosts volition borderline a choky contest.

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