Cagliari Season taking a dip?

Cagliari are known to play some fan­tas­tic foot­ball thanks to their coach, ever since he took over in 2008, Mas­si­m­il­iano Alle­gri brought an attack­ing spirit with his attack­ing 4–3-3. And after bring­ing this to Cagliari, they’ve been scar­ing teams all over the table, with their fast attack­ing foot­ball. And at the begin­ning of the sea­son, Cagliari’s results seemed fine, but with time, and espe­cially in the past sev­eral weeks, Cagliari have dipped way below their standards.

Cagliari have been a mid-table team, never fac­ing rel­e­ga­tion strug­gles, but never push­ing the extra step for Euro­pean foot­ball. But when a mid-table team faces a string of results like Cagliari is fac­ing, some­thing has gone wrong. And it’s not like any­thing is miss­ing from Cagliari’s setup; a great coach, expe­ri­enced player, and young tal­ent, so what could be going wrong? Could it be the fact that their pres­i­dent Mas­simo Cellino seems to have lost inter­est in the club, and so he’s look­ing for for­eign invest­ment like Ful­ham? Or could it be that the play­ers have stopped believ­ing in Allegri’s tac­tics? What­ever it is, they need to snap out of it, because get­ting 1 point out of a pos­si­ble 18 is not a good record.

Not only has Cagliari’s form dipped, but it could get even worse for the Rossoblu, their next 8 games of the sea­son aren’t sim­ple. This week­end they go to Sam­p­do­ria which has a rein­vig­o­rated Cas­sano scor­ing for the side, then they face AC Milan who will be prob­a­bly look­ing to close in on Inter Milan, after that they go to Turin to go against Juven­tus. Just the first three seem extremely dif­fi­cult, I could see them get three more losses there, and the fol­low­ing matches will be Palermo, Napoli, Udi­nese, Roma, and Bologna. Noth­ing sim­ple for them to come except maybe the Bologna match. And if Cagliari can’t do some­thing soon, they will be fac­ing maybe com­ing 15th, 16th, and maybe even com­ing as close as 17th, which is not a good result for a for­mer mid-table side.

I really fear for Cagliari, I could see them doing badly this sea­son, have Alle­gri snapped up by a big­ger team, and even­tu­ally a team full of tal­ent and skill gets rel­e­gated. But Cagliari is suf­fer­ing as other teams start to thrive, teams that really need to thrive, like Atlanta, Lazio, Chievo, and Udi­nese. And although Cagliari aren’t risk­ing big this sea­son, but if Cellino is seri­ous about invest­ing in Eng­lish foot­ball, it could turn out with a great team being left to demise.

Tagged as: Cagliari, Massimiliano Allegri, Massimo Cellino, Serie A