Genoa turned on the style, bringing four goals past Crotone, including Davide Zappacosta and Marko Pjaca, the debutants, for their Serie A opener.
Mattia Destro broke the deadlock and before a delightful chip from Goran Pandev drought his year-long Series A goal.
Emmanuel Riviere has brought the Squali back into it, but newcomers to Grifone have taken center stage.
Just minutes into his debut at Marassi, Pjaca found the net off the inside of the far post and Zappacosta fired in a daisy-cutter.
Genoa 4 – 1 Crotone
Goals: 1-0 Destro 6′, 2-0 Pandev 9′, 2-1 Rivere 28′, 3-1 Zappacosta 34′, 4-1 Pjaca 75′
Genoa: Perin; Biraschi, Goldaniga, C Zapata; Ghiglione, Lerager (Melegoni 86), Badelj (Radovanovic 68), Zajc (Behrami 76), Zappacosta (Czyborra 76); Pandev (Pjaca 68), Destro
Crotone: Cordaz; Molina, Golemic, Magallan, Mazzotta (Rispoli 46); Zanellato (Eduardo 58), Cigarini (Gomelt 86), Marrone; Messias, Simy (Dragus 89), Riviere (Kargbo 58)
Sassuolo dominated this match to a large degree, but he needed a free-kick from Medhi Bourabia to scrape a point after Cagliari header by Giovanni Simeone.
Cagliari broke the deadlock and Joao Pedro floated in a cross for Simeone’s diving header, peeling away from defenders at the back post as Zappa won back the ball in midfield.
With a brilliant free-kick, Sassuolo got a deserved equalizer from substitute Bourabia, who curled it up and over the wall, dipping into the near-top corner.
Sassuolo 1 – 1 Cagliari
Goals: 1-0 Simeone 77′, 1-1 Bourabia 87′
Sassuolo: Consigli; Toljan (Muldur 76), Chiriches, Ferrari, Rogerio (Kyriakopoulos 61); Locatelli, Djuricic (Ayhan 95), Obiang (Bourabia 62); Berardi, Caputo, Haraslin (Defrel 62)
Cagliari: Cragno; Faragò, Walukiewicz, Klavan (Pisacane 46), Lykogiannis; Caligara (Zappa 62), Marin (Oliva 76), Rog (Sottil 76); Nandez, Simeone, Joao Pedro (Tripaldelli 88)
