Genoa 3–0 Cagliari
- Colombo 7'
- Frendrup 75'
- Østigård 78'
12 January 2026
The match in data
Genoa got the better of Cagliari, 3–0, on 12 January 2026, on matchday 20 of the 2025-26 Serie A.
Player of the match: Sebastiano Esposito (Cagliari), rated 69, thanks above all to 1 big chance created and 5 key passes. Esposito produced 1.8 times as much as a forward typically does, at 0.4 times the cost.
It was also their best match of the season.
It is their 2nd time as player of the match this season.
For Genoa, the highest-rated player was Morten Frendrup, with 58.
Sebastiano Esposito
Cagliari · 69'
Produced 1.76× and cost 0.39× their position's average
- 1 big chance created 4.0×
- 5 key passes 4.0×
- 1 shot on target 1.6×
- 8 misplaced passes 2.0×
- 1 ball lost 0.9×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: anyone who played under 20 minutes, and a goalkeeper who did not play the whole match.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morten Frendrup | Midfielder | 90 | 58 |
| Lorenzo Colombo | Forward | 74 | 57 |
| Leo Østigård | Defender | 90 | 56 |
| Ruslan Malinovskyi | Midfielder | 74 | 55 |
| Vitinha | Forward | 82 | 54 |
| Nicola Leali | Goalkeeper | 90 | 51 |
| Alessandro Marcandalli | Defender | 90 | 49 |
| Patrizio Masini | Midfielder | 44 | 43 |
| Johan Vásquez | Defender | 90 | 42 |
| Aarón Martín | Defender | 90 | 34 |
| Mikael Egill Ellertsson | Midfielder | 82 | 33 |
| Brooke Norton-Cuffy | Defender | 46 | 19 |
| Jeff Ekhator | Forward | 16 | no rating |
| Morten Thorsby | Midfielder | 16 | no rating |
| Junior Messias | Forward | 8 | no rating |
| Stefano Sabelli | Defender | 8 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sebastiano Esposito ★ | Forward | 69 | 69 |
| Luca Mazzitelli | Midfielder | 69 | 51 |
| Zito Luvumbo | Forward | 62 | 51 |
| Gabriele Zappa | Defender | 21 | 49 |
| Juan Rodríguez | Defender | 46 | 47 |
| Sebastiano Luperto | Defender | 90 | 46 |
| Matteo Prati | Midfielder | 90 | 42 |
| Adam Obert | Defender | 90 | 36 |
| Michel Adopo | Midfielder | 90 | 36 |
| Marco Palestra | Defender | 90 | 33 |
| Semih Kılıçsoy | Forward | 90 | 27 |
| Gianluca Gaetano | Midfielder | 28 | 25 |
| Gennaro Borrelli | Forward | 21 | 21 |
| Riyad Idrissi | Defender | 44 | 18 |
| Elia Caprile | Goalkeeper | 90 | 13 |
Did you know?
La Lente trivia questions about this match. Tap one to see the answer.
Which Genoa player won the most duels?
Vitinha, with 9 duels won. Next: Johan Vásquez 7, Alessandro Marcandalli 5.
Vitinha led Genoa with 9 duels won in the 3–0 win over Cagliari. Johan Vásquez followed with 7, helping sustain the team's control across the pitch.
Which Cagliari player completed the most dribbles?
Marco Palestra, with 3 completed dribbles. Next: Luca Mazzitelli 1, Matteo Prati 1.
Marco Palestra managed 3 successful dribbles in the 3–0 defeat to Genoa. No teammate achieved more than 1, as Luca Mazzitelli and Matteo Prati highlighted Cagliari's attacking struggles.
How is the rating calculated?
The rating measures a single match: what the player produced against what they cost, compared with the average for their position in that league and season, and adjusted by position (a 70 for a forward is as hard to get as a 70 for a defender). A normal match is around 50, 70 is already very good and only one in a hundred goes above 80. It is not the NVP, which ranks the whole season.
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