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 71, 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 0.5 times the cost.
It is their 2nd time as player of the match this season.
For Genoa, the highest-rated player was Lorenzo Colombo, with 62.
Sebastiano Esposito
Cagliari · 69'
Produced 1.76× and cost 0.53× their position's average
- 1 big chance created 4.0×
- 5 key passes 4.0×
- 1 shot on target 1.6×
- 0.05 xG not converted 0.9×
- 8 misplaced passes 2.0×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lorenzo Colombo | Forward | 74 | 62 |
| Leo Østigård | Defender | 90 | 58 |
| Morten Frendrup | Midfielder | 90 | 57 |
| Vitinha | Forward | 82 | 57 |
| Ruslan Malinovskyi | Midfielder | 74 | 56 |
| Alessandro Marcandalli | Defender | 90 | 53 |
| Patrizio Masini | Midfielder | 44 | 46 |
| Johan Vásquez | Defender | 90 | 44 |
| Mikael Egill Ellertsson | Midfielder | 82 | 37 |
| Aarón Martín | Defender | 90 | 34 |
| Brooke Norton-Cuffy | Defender | 46 | 22 |
| Nicola Leali | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| 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 | 71 |
| Luca Mazzitelli | Midfielder | 69 | 57 |
| Juan Rodríguez | Defender | 46 | 52 |
| Sebastiano Luperto | Defender | 90 | 51 |
| Zito Luvumbo | Forward | 62 | 51 |
| Gabriele Zappa | Defender | 21 | 51 |
| Matteo Prati | Midfielder | 90 | 46 |
| Michel Adopo | Midfielder | 90 | 42 |
| Adam Obert | Defender | 90 | 39 |
| Marco Palestra | Defender | 90 | 35 |
| Gennaro Borrelli | Forward | 21 | 30 |
| Gianluca Gaetano | Midfielder | 28 | 27 |
| Semih Kılıçsoy | Forward | 90 | 26 |
| Riyad Idrissi | Defender | 44 | 18 |
| Elia Caprile | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
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.