A challenge against the maritime republics to maintain salvation: battle to the end with Genoa, Venice and Salernitana (Amalfi is in the province).
Just the Pisa is missing.
Six points ahead of Venice (but the lagoons have to recover a match) and Genoa, three direct clashes and five games to play.
These are the numbers of Cagliari's salvation race after Saturday's victory-resurrection against Sassuolo.
And immediately there is the match of matches, Genoa-Cagliari.
For the Ligurian rossoblù it is the match of a lifetime, for Mazzarri's team almost a match point to get rid of at least one rival.
Preparation for the hottest challenge of the season begins today.
And the coach has already announced it: more than training will be hammering.
The Tuscan coach, among the regrets for the collapse of the five games lost in a row,
he mentions the fact that he was too lenient with the team after the victory in Turin.
Now, always in the words of the coach, he doesn't want to repeat himself.
Indeed he has already said that Cagliari will have to keep the form seen with Sassuolo until the end of the championship.
Perhaps a decisive week.
On Sunday, at the end of the match against Genoa, Cagliari will have to count the points away from Blessin's team.
With an eye to what Venezia will do, playing at home with Atalanta.
Wednesday 27 April there is another important challenge for Cagliari's destiny: the recovery of the match between Salernitana and Venice.
Salernitana is expected from a tour de force: first Udinese (another recovery), then Fiorentina and then Venezia.
Mazzarri's team appears to be in good health.
The coach launched the idea of "relays" to motivate and keep all the players in the squad always ready, even those who have not played from the start.
In this game now the coach also wants to involve Ceppitelli and Goldaniga, out for physical problems:
to hasten the recovery even psychologically, he brought them to the bench.
Also because with Genoa, with the disqualification of Lovato, expert and combative defenders will be needed.
In the coming weeks Mazzarri could also play another wild card: Nandez.
