Sassuolo 2–1 Cagliari
- Garcia 50'
- Pinamonti 78'
- Esposito 30' (pen.)
4 April 2026
The match in data
Sassuolo beat Cagliari 2–1 on 4 April 2026, on matchday 31 of the 2025-26 Serie A.
Sassuolo came from behind: they were trailing 0–1 at 30'.
Player of the match: Gianluca Gaetano (Cagliari), rated 63, thanks above all to 9 final-third passes and 9 recoveries. Gaetano produced 1.3 times as much as a midfielder typically does, at 0.8 times the cost.
For Sassuolo, the highest-rated player was Filippo Romagna, with 69.
Gianluca Gaetano
Cagliari · 75'
Produced 1.32× and cost 0.76× their position's average
- 9 final-third passes 2.0×
- 9 recoveries 2.5×
- 2 key passes 2.1×
- 9 misplaced passes 1.6×
- 1 time dribbled past 1.5×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Filippo Romagna | Defender | 58 | 69 |
| Andrea Pinamonti | Forward | 82 | 60 |
| Woyo Coulibaly | Defender | 32 | 59 |
| Luca Lipani | Midfielder | 21 | 55 |
| Armand Laurienté | Forward | 69 | 52 |
| Ismaël Koné | Midfielder | 69 | 48 |
| Sebastian Walukiewicz | Defender | 90 | 47 |
| Jay Idzes | Defender | 90 | 45 |
| Nemanja Matic | Midfielder | 32 | 44 |
| Domenico Berardi | Forward | 90 | 43 |
| Darryl Bakola | Midfielder | 21 | 43 |
| Kristian Thorstvedt | Midfielder | 90 | 39 |
| Ulisses Garcia | Defender | 90 | 38 |
| Cristian Volpato | Midfielder | 58 | 30 |
| Arijanet Murić | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| M'Bala Nzola | Forward | 8 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gianluca Gaetano ★ | Midfielder | 75 | 63 |
| Juan Rodríguez | Defender | 90 | 55 |
| Michael Folorunsho | Midfielder | 74 | 51 |
| Yerry Mina | Defender | 90 | 50 |
| Adam Obert | Defender | 90 | 44 |
| Marco Palestra | Defender | 90 | 42 |
| Alessandro Deiola | Midfielder | 90 | 37 |
| Sebastiano Esposito | Forward | 89 | 36 |
| Zé Pedro | Defender | 83 | 36 |
| Michel Adopo | Midfielder | 90 | 33 |
| Elia Caprile | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Gennaro Borrelli | Forward | 16 | no rating |
| Ibrahim Sulemana | Midfielder | 15 | no rating |
| Gabriele Zappa | Defender | 8 | no rating |
| Semih Kılıçsoy | Forward | 7 | no rating |
| Paul Mendy | Forward | 1 | 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.