Cagliari 0-1 AC Milan: result and report
Serie A · Friday 2 January 2026
Result
Cagliari 0-1 AC Milan
Serie A · Friday 2 January 2026, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-0
Cagliari 0-1 AC Milan: match report
Cagliari were beaten by AC Milan 0-1 in Serie A on Friday 2 January 2026. It was 0-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Rafael Leão of AC Milan in the 50th minute.
Discipline: Cagliari received 3 yellow cards; AC Milan received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Cagliari were 14th on 18 points from 17 and AC Milan 2nd on 35 points from 16. Cagliari went on to finish that season 14th with 43 points, and AC Milan 5th with 70.
Cagliari lined up in a 3-5-2 and AC Milan in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Luka Modrić of AC Milan (7.6), ahead of Adrien Rabiot (7.4).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Cagliari wins, 3 draws and 7 for AC Milan.
Going into the match Cagliari's last five read W-D-L-W-L and AC Milan's W-D-W-W-W.
Key events
- 50'Goal · Rafael Leão
- 83'Yellow card · Riyad Idrissi
- 90+1'Yellow card
- 90+1'Yellow card · Marco Palestra
- 90+1'Yellow card · Alexis Saelemaekers
Head-to-head
Team news
Cagliari line-up (3-5-2)
Elia Caprile, Gabriele Zappa, Sebastiano Luperto, Juan Rodríguez, Marco Palestra, Michel Adopo, Matteo Prati, Luca Mazzitelli, Adam Obert, Semih Kılıçsoy, Sebastiano Esposito
AC Milan line-up (3-5-2)
Mike Maignan, Fikayo Tomori, Koni De Winter, Davide Bartesaghi, Alexis Saelemaekers, Youssouf Fofana, Luka Modrić, Adrien Rabiot, Pervis Estupiñán, Rafael Leão, Ruben Loftus-Cheek