Cagliari and Bari go head-to-head in the first leg of the Serie B promotion play-off Final this evening with Gianluca Lapadula against Walid Cheddira.
It kicks off at the Unipol Domus Stadium in Cagliari at 19.45 UK time (18.45 GMT).
The winners of the fixture will join Frosinone and Genoa in Serie A for the 2023-24 season.
Claudio Ranieri’s Sardinians eliminated Parma after a 4-2 aggregate semi-final, while Bari scraped through against Sudtirol.
There will be no extra time or penalties in the promotion play-off Final.
If the teams are level on aggregate after two legs, and with the away goals rule scrapped too, then the team that finished the regular season higher up the table will be promoted.
In this case, it would be Bari, who closed the campaign in third place, five points ahead of Cagliari.
So the pressure is on the Sardinians to win the tie.
Valerio Di Cesare pulled out of the Bari squad in the warm-up, replaced by Zan Zuzek.
Cagliari: Radunovic; Zappa, Goldaniga, Altare, Azzi; Nandez, Makombou, Deiola; Mancosu; Luvumbo, Lapadula
Bari: Caprile; Dorval, Zuzek, Vicari, Mazzotta; Maita, Maiello, Benedetti; Cheddira, Esposito, Morachioli
Player statistic
| Gianluca Lapadula (Assist: Marco Mancosu) |
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9' | ||
| 39' |  |
Walid Cheddira |
| 90+6' |  |
Mirco Antenucci |
Match statistic
