Cagliari host Cremonese at Unipol Domus on 10 April 2026 knowing a bad night could drag them into the bottom three. Fabio Pisacane’s side are 16th in Serie A after a miserable run that has brought two points from the last 24 available and four straight league defeats.
The match kicks off in gameweek 32 with the two clubs separated by only a thread of form and confidence. Cremonese can move level with Cagliari on 30 points if they win, after ending a three-month wait for victory by beating Parma 2-0 before the international break. For Cagliari, the stakes are immediate: they are winless since late January and have lost six of their previous eight league games.
That slump has made every point count for Pisacane, especially with Leonardo Pavoletti an injury doubt and Mattia Felici and Riyad Idrissi both out with knee injuries. Sebastiano Esposito has offered some resistance, scoring two goals and adding one assist in four appearances, but the team has not turned those flashes into results. Cagliari and Cremonese drew 2-2 in the reverse fixture, a reminder that there is little between them when both are functioning at even a basic level.
Cremonese arrive with their own problems, even after the long-awaited win at Parma. Before that, they had taken only three points from a possible 45 across a three-month run without victory, and they had not won consecutive away matches this season. Federico Bonazzoli, who scored in stoppage time against Bologna and now has seven goals for the campaign, remains one of the few reliable threats, but Youssef Maleh is suspended after his sending-off against Bologna and Antonio Sanabria, Jamie Vardy and Faris Moumnagna are expected to miss out. Morten Thorsby will be assessed after going off injured eight minutes into his appearance against Bologna, while Michele Collocolo is nearing a return after last playing in January.
The fixture has the feel of a survival test rather than a showcase, and Pisacane’s team cannot afford to treat it like a routine home game. Marco Giampaolo, who managed Cagliari for 45 games across two spells in the 2000s, has seen enough of the club to know how quickly a difficult spring can turn into a fight that lasts to the final weeks.
