Gianluca Lapadula applied the ‘law of the ex’

By: Luis Imaña

Even though it took a little while, Gianluca Lapadula He was able to celebrate his first goal with Cagliari in Serie B and against a rival that will give a lot to talk about.

The Italian-Peruvian striker left his mark on the scoreboard in the 2-0 triumph of the red and blue team against none other than Benevento for matchday five.

With ‘Lapagol’ from the start, the ‘Islanders’ suffered to break the score, however, joy would knock on the door of the painting commanded by Fabio Liverani thanks to Gianluca, who months ago defended the Benevento shirt.

At 54 ‘, the ‘9’ took advantage of a collective move by the Cagliari to receive the ball in the heart of the area and without losing a single second he defined with his left foot to apply the ‘law of the ex’.

After opening the scoring, Lapadula was replaced at 63′ by Leonardo Pavoletti and witnessed his team’s second and last goal from the bench, which came through Zito Luvumbo at 83′.

In this way, the ‘island’ got their second consecutive win in Series B and they are in third place in the contest with 10 points, just 2 points from the top.

Gianluca was able to collect his revenge against Benevento, after a few complicated last months as a ‘witches’ player, ending in his departure in mid-2022.

With this annotation, Lapadula returned to goal in Serie B after 4 months. The attacker of the Peruvian team had not scored in the second of Italian football since May 17, 2022 against Pisa.

In addition, ‘Lapagol’ reached 43 goals in Serie B with 3 teams throughout his career (Pescara, Benevento and Cagliari). Motivated by having scored for the first time this league season, Gianluca Lapadula will try to stay on the goalscoring path when the ‘islanders’ face Bari on Saturday, September 17 for the sixth date.

The third. Lapadula had previously scored 2 goals for Cagliari. The first was in a friendly with Leeds and the second in the Italian Cup against Perugia.

Source-larepublica.pe