The first leg of the Serie A play-off semi-final between Cagliari and Parma is scheduled for Tuesday, May 30 at 9:30 p.m. at the Arena Sardinia and will be broadcast live on the Antena platform. .
Cagliari after one season and Parma after two are aiming to return to the elite of Italian football, a goal both teams set for themselves at the start of the current championship.
Cagliari finished Serie B in 5th place with 60 points and had to play a qualifying match against 8th-placed Venezia to reach the semi-finals, which they played at home in one leg, with 2-1 (Lapadula 14, 18 / Pierini 52).
Claudio Ranieri’s side finished well outside the top two, directly promoted (Frosinone and Genoa), and must get past Parma to compete in the play-off final with the winner of the double between Bari (3rd) and South Tyrol (6 place), the latter defeated Regina (7th place) in the elimination match.
It should be noted that between 2004 and now, Cagliari has only played in Serie B for two seasons: 2015-2016, when they finished in 1st place and were directly promoted, and 2022-2023, when they entered the promotion playoffs to Series A.
Cagliari have Rezvan Marin under contract for two more years, on loan this season at Empoli, who can finally transfer him for nine million euros.
Parma finished the season in 4th place, also with 60 points, but a superior goal difference allowed them to play directly in the promotion play-off semi-finals.
At the last stage of the championship, Fabio Peccia’s team managed to beat Venezia with a score of 2:1 at the end of the match, in which both Romanian footballers Denis Man (starter, substitute in the 73rd minute) and Valentyn Mihaile (substitute, entered the field in the last 17 minutes) played ).
Parma were relegated in the summer of 2021 after just three years in Serie A, where they returned after going straight to Serie D after bankruptcy in 2014 (successively promoted from the fourth division to the first).
In this season’s matches, the two teams drew 1-1 in the round at Cagliari (Pavoletti 54 / Camara 44) and in return Parma won 2-1 at home (Vazquez 62p, Man 77 / Lapadula 32 ).
Superbet offers odds of 1.30 on the 1X prediction: a home win or a draw in the match Cagliari – Parma.
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