Milan beat Cagliari at Sant’ Elia

Milan returned to the top of Serie A, at least for 24 hours, thanks to an efficient 2-0 win over Cagliari at the Stadio Sant’ Elia, last night.

It was a one-sided game in Sardinia, although the final result told a different story with Cagliari doing all of the attacking, but Milan taking the spoils by converting two out of four chances.

An own goal from Francesco Pisano did Milan a favour before Zlatan Ibrahimovic wrapped up the win in the 60th minute of a game otherwise dominated by the home team, who just could not find a goal for all their efforts.

Cagliari began as they meant to go on with Thiago Ribeiro’s shot hitting the outside of the post.

Milan’s first attack on four minutes brought the opening goal with Robinho taking the ball past Agazzi and crossing it low into the middle, where Pisano got his foot to it just before Antonio Nocerino, sending the ball into the top corner of his own goal.

It proved to be Milan’s one and only attack of the first half, though, as the home side dominated the play, but failed to find a goal.

It just was not Cagliari’s night, and this was typified when Ibrahimovic doubled the Rossoneri’s advantage on the hour mark.

The Swedish striker just took advantage of a huge void in the Cagliari defence, caused by an injury to Lorenzo Ariaudo, to place the ball past Agazzi.

Cagliari carried on searching for an overdue goal, yet the best chance of the remaining half an hour once again fell to Milan, once again on the counter-attack.

This time Alexandre Pato and Ibrahimovic failed to make their numerical superiority count as the former’s shot was blocked.

Played yesterday

Cagliari 0
Milan 2
Pisano 4 og; Ibrahimovic 60;

Siena 0
Fiorentina 0

Playing today
18.00 Udinese vs Juventus.
20.45 Atalanta vs Cesena; Bologna vs Roma; Inter vs Lecce; Lazio vs Chievo; Napoli vs Genoa; Novara vs Palermo; Parma vs Catania.