Cagliari – Como: Como want to gatecrash the top four 
This Saturday afternoon Sardinia serves up a clash of styles. Como — the nouveau riche flirting with the summit of Serie A — travel to a Cagliari stuck in mid-table, grinding points to make sure they stay up.
Como are hungry 
What Cesc Fabregas has built with Como reads like a proper fairy tale. On course for a Champions League slot less than two years after their return to the top flight, the Lombard side are also still alive in the Coppa Italia. On Tuesday they held Inter to a goalless first-leg semi. A tight, locked game — and they nearly nicked the perfect coup when Alex Valle somehow fluffed a sitter from point-blank range early in the second half.
But forget finals for a day. Back to the league and the momentum here is staggering. After taking Juventus’s scalp 2-0 — again — Como calmly saw off Lecce last weekend. They sit fifth now, just above the Old Lady. Sure, the chequebook helped, but Fabregas’s fingerprints are all over this: they’re about 20 points better off than this time last season. Only Roma have conceded fewer goals, and Como travel like winners — four wins in their last five away trips, 12 scored and just one conceded. One fly in the ointment: Como have never won a top-flight game in Cagliari.
Cagliari must get tough at home 
Cagliari’s emergency looks different. Last week Michael Folorunsho finally ended a nasty scoring drought with a thunderbolt, breaking a run of three games without a goal. It wasn’t enough for three points though — Parma came back late to nick a draw.
Despite sitting 13th, the drop zone is breathing down their necks — only six points separate them from trouble. Fabio Pisacane’s men need to bulk up at home. Four wins from 13 home games doesn’t scream fortress. And the run of fixtures is brutal: Como this weekend, then Napoli next. Time to put the barbed wire back up.
Probable lineups
Cagliari : Caprile ; Ze Pedro, Mina, Dossena ; Palestra, Adopo, Sulemana, Folorunsho, Obert ; Esposito, Kilicsoy
Como : Butez ; Smolcic, Ramon, Kempf, Valle ; Perrone, Da Cunha ; Vojvoda, Paz, Rodriguez ; Douvikas
Football Prediction Cagliari vs Como
Draw
Como keep turning heads and showed tactical maturity in the cup this week.
That said, Cagliari are fighting for survival with a knife to their throat and have made a habit of clinging on at home. Expect the hosts to grind out a scrappy, ugly game to nick a point. A draw lets the Islanders keep their distance from the relegation scrap while putting a halt to some of Como’s starry ambitions.
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