Cagliari vs Perugia Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Cagliari

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Cagliari enter this fixture following on from a 0-0 Serie A tied result vs Venezia.

In that match, Cagliari had 57% possession and 31 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. For their opponents, Venezia had 7 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target.

Cagliari haven’t exactly had impressive attacking statistics in more recent games. Their goals record equals just 4 against opposing sides during their previous six matches. In those games, Cagliari have also seen the number of goals scored against them come to 7.

Perugia

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Following on from a loss in their previous game against Brescia in Serie B - Play-offs competition, Perugia and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Perugia had 48% possession and 11 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. For Perugia, the goalscorers were Christian Kouan (10') and Ryder Matos (102'). Brescia had 20 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Marko Pajač (45'), Florian Ayé (107') and Flavio Bianchi (118') scored for Brescia. The match was won by Brescia in extra time.

Looking at their form, and Perugia have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 7 goals in all. At the back, Perugia could really do with shoring things up. That kind of trend isn’t assured to be carried forward into this next game, of course.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their past head to head meetings stretching back to 13/12/1998 shows that Cagliari have won 1 of these & Perugia 3, with the tally of drawn results being 2.

A combined total of 15 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 5 from Casteddu / Rossoblu and 10 belonging to Perugia. That is an average goals per game value of 2.5.

The previous league game between these sides was Serie B match day 31 on 14/03/2016 when it finished Cagliari 0-2 Perugia.

The match was refereed by Juan Luca Sacchi.

📰 Team News: Cagliari

The Cagliari manager Fabio Liverani does not have any fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this match with a completely injury-free squad to pick from.

📰 Team News: Perugia

Due to a completely healthy group to choose from, the Perugia manager Fabrizio Castori does not have any fitness concerns at all before this clash.

✨ Prediction

We think that Perugia will do well to score goals against this Cagliari team who we reckon will win and very possibly keep a clean sheet.

We’re therefore predicting a narrow 1-0 victory for Cagliari at the end of the match.

Looking forward to watching this one unfold.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 23:37 31/07/2022