Serie A: Simy Shines As Crotone Suffer Defeat To Cagliari

Simi Nwankwo featured for Crotone, but despite his best efforts, it was not enough to prevent I Pitagorici from losing 4-2 to Cagliari, BSNSports.com.ng reports. Crotone FC started brightly and took the lead through via Junior Messias perfect strike in the 21st minute. However, the visitors restore parity four minutes later courtesy of Charalambos Lykogiannis effort. The Islanders then turned the tie around after Giovanni Simeone put them ahead in the 35th minute. Simy, who was mostly unplayable, had the chance to level scores for Crotone, but he failed to connect properly with a cross from the right. Nonetheless, Crotone drew level two minutes from half-time through Salvatore Molina’s shot for distance. Crotone would later rue that opportunity as Cagliari added a fourth courtesy of a Joao Pedro’s close-range finish in the 84th minute. It was the last goal of the match as Cagliari moved up to 10th while Crotone remained bottom of the log.