Cagliari vs Udinese Prediction: Will Claudio Ranieri's team improve their statistics?

After returning to the top flight, Cagliari has not won a single victory and scored only one goal in three games. Will Claudio Ranieri's team improve their statistics in the home match against Udinese?

The only match at the start of the championship where Cagliari had no chance of success was the home meeting with Inter. There, the Nerazzurri realized the difference in class in the first half and led to a confident 2:0 victory. The Islanders were not much worse than their opponents in the other two games. In the first leg, the team drew 0:0 away to Torino, and in the third leg, they drew at Bologna on 89 minutes (1:2).

On the whole, as expected, Cagliari is showing Ranieri's defensive football and can put up a fight against the outsiders and mid-table sides in the Italian league.

The team has made a dismal impression at the start of the season. With only two points in three starting rounds, Udinese is not even close to following the previous season's schedule, when at the start of the season, they were even in the European Cup competition for some time.

It all started for Udine with a home defeat to Juventus, where Juve scored three unanswered goals in the first half (0:3) and continued with two draws. Udinese faced far from the strongest opponents in these matches - Salernitana (1:1) and Frosinone (0:0).

At the closing of the transfer window, Udinese left Portuguese Beto, who moved to English Everton, and the team from Udine now has no scoring forward. Accordingly, it is not a surprise that Udinese failed to score in their last game against Frosinone. Florian Thauvin, whose best years are apparently behind him, and young Lorenzo Lucca, who, on the contrary, still has everything ahead of him, were in the attack. Cagliari will surely take advantage of the weaknesses in their attacking line and won't concede more than one goal. Although they are not doing well on offense, they are unlikely to score more than one goal. Accordingly, we bet on a low-scoring encounter.