Cagliari vs Lazio Serie A Match Preview or Key Statistics ðŸ§
Lazio are unbeaten in their last 12 Serie A games against Cagliari (W10 D2): their last defeat was back in May 2013, a 1-0 win for the Rossoblu with Daniele Dessena netting the winner goal.
Both teams have scored in the last five Serie A matches between Cagliari and Lazio, a total of 17 goals (3.4 per match). Cagliari have lost their last two Serie A home games against Lazio; they have never lost three in a row against the Biancocelesti in the top-flight.
The last time Cagliari avoided defeat in both of their first two Serie A games of the season was in 2011 /12 -the Sardinians could also draw two in their first two top-flight games for the first time since 1981 /82.
When starting their season away from home, Lazio have won their last two matches (at Sampdoria in 2019 and Atalanta in 2016); they've never won more consecutive such matches on the road. Cagliari faced the most shots in the first Serie A game this season of any of the 14 teams to feature (33, nine on the target) and they also had the lowest possession figure (32.4%).
The match played in Sardinia between Cagliari and Lazio in December 2019 was the only match in the 2019/20 Serie A season in which a team overturned a deficit and won a match via two goals in the 90th minute (93' Luis Alberto and 98' Caicedo).
Cagliari striker Giovanni Simeone could find the net in each of his first two Serie A games of a season for the first time in his career -the Argentine has scored three goals against Lazio; only against Torino has he found the net more times in Serie A (4).
Lazio striker Ciro Immobile has scored eight goals in 10 Serie A matches against Cagliari, including the first of 135 goals in the Italian top-flight (in August 2012 with Genoa). Ciro Immobile has scored six goals in his last seven Serie A matches in his first appearance that season, including a brace in the first game of last season against Sampdoria.
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