📊 Form Guide

Bologna

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Bologna will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 1-2 Champions League losing effort in their last game against Lille.

In that match, Bologna managed 57% possession and 12 shots at goal with 6 on target. The scorer for Bologna was Jhon Lucumí (63'). Lille got 15 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. Ngal'ayel Mukau (44', 66') scored for Lille.

A recurring characteristic of recent Bologna games is seeing a zero in the scoreline.

Taking their prior sextet of clashes leading up to this one, in as many as 5 of them a bet on both teams scoring would have been a losing one. Let’s see whether or not that trend will end up being continued on into this next match.

Coming into this contest, Bologna have not beaten Venezia in their previous 3 matches in the league.

Venezia

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Since suffering a loss in their previous game against Lecce in Serie A action, Venezia and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, Venezia had 61% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 6 on target. At the other end, Lecce had 7 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Patrick Dorgu (70') was the scorer for Lecce.

The stats don’t lie, and Venezia have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, conceding 10 goals in total. Defensively, Venezia have been far from perfect.

Pre-game facts show that Venezia:

• remain unbeaten by Bologna when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 league games.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 9 matches in the league. Who knows how long it might last, too.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head duels going back to 31/10/1999, both clubs have shared the honours with Bologna winning 2 of those games, Venezia 2 and 2 being draws after 90 minutes of play.

A combined sum of 14 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 for Rossoblu and 7 for Arancioneroverdi. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.33.

The previous league contest featuring the two was Serie A match day 36 on 08/05/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Venezia 4-3 Bologna.

In that match, Venezia managed 40% possession and 18 shots at goal with 9 on target. Goals were scored by Thomas Henry (4'), Sofian Kiyine (19'), Mattia Aramu (78') and Dennis Johnsen (93').

Bologna got 23 shots on goal with 10 on target. Riccardo Orsolini (45'), Marko Arnautović (55') and Jerdy Schouten (68') scored.

The match was refereed by Livio Marinelli.

ℹ️ Team News: Bologna

Michel Aebischer (Adductor pain), Oussama El Azzouzi (surgery) and Nicolò Cambiaghi (Cruciate ligament surgery) won’t be able to feature for Bologna gaffer Vincenzo Italiano.

In all likelihood, Rossoblu may well kick off with a 4-2-3-1 system for the game featuring Lukasz Skorupski, Stefan Posch, Sam Beukema, Nicolo Casale, Juan Miranda, Nikola Moro, Remo Freuler, Riccardo Orsolini, Jens Odgaard, Benjamin Dominguez and Santiago Castro.

📰 Team News: Venezia

In an otherwise healthy squad, there is only a single fitness issue for the Venezia manager Eusebio Di Francesco to be concerned with. Jesse Joronen (Knee problems) won’t be in action.

We are inclined to think that Arancioneroverdi will likely utilise a 3-4-2-1 formation, starting the game with Filip Stankovic, Jay Idzes, Michael Svoboda, Marin Sverko, Antonio Candela, Francesco Zampano, Alfred Duncan, H. N. Caviglia, Gaetano Oristanio, Gianluca Busio and Joel Pohjanpalo.

🧠 Prediction

We’re of the view that Bologna have it within them to get the goals that they need when they come up against Venezia, who might well find it a difficult task scoring a goal of their own.

We’re therefore expecting to see a 2-0 margin for Bologna when the full-time whistle blows.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 19:03 30/11/2024