SS Lazio 2-1 Cagliari Calcio: Serie A Match Report, 1 November 2026

SS Lazio 2-1 Cagliari Calcio was a closer afternoon than the table promised. The leaders were held 1-1 at half-time by a side on a three-match losing run, and the only goal of the second half was theirs. Who scored first is unknown, since the half-time score is the only timing that survives, so whether Lazio ever trailed cannot be said.

Lazio kicked off top on 25 points from nine games, unbeaten, eight wins and a draw, goal difference +15. They had won five league games in a row, the last of them 6-2 at Sassuolo on the Tuesday. Cagliari came in 11th on 13 points, -5, and every one of those points had come in their first six games, four of which they won. Then three straight defeats: 4-0 at Monza, 2-0 at home to Bologna, 4-2 at Roma, with ten goals conceded and two scored.

Against that, a level half-time score is the notable figure. Lazio had not been behind at the break all season, and had led at half-time in three of their four previous home games, the exception a goalless first half against Parma. This was the first time this season they had conceded before the interval at the Olimpico.

Past meetings fit the result. Lazio were unbeaten in the four previous games between the clubs on record, and the November 2024 meeting in Rome had the same two scores: 1-1 at half-time, 2-1 at the end.

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Lazio go to 28 points from ten games, unbeaten, with a goal difference of +16 and a sixth straight league win. Last season they finished ninth on 54 points; with 28 matches left they have already passed half that total. A rate of 2.8 points a game is beyond what last season's champions managed, Inter taking 87 points at 2.29 a game, and with 84 points still to play for, being first after ten settles nothing. It does describe a start that has outrun anything in last season's numbers.

Cagliari stay on 13 points, now from ten, with their goal difference down to -6. That is four defeats in a row and no points since the 1-1 draw with Juventus on 11 October. Their early rate was far above last season's, when they finished 14th on 43; the slide has brought it down to 1.3 points a game, still a little above last season's 1.13. Read that way, the four defeats have taken back most of what the first six games built, and which of the two runs is the real Cagliari, ten games cannot yet say.