📏 Form Guide

Venezia

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Venezia head into this fixture after a 0-0 Serie A drawn result against SSC Napoli.

In that match, Venezia had 43% possession and 13 shots on goal with 4 on target. Napoli got 15 shots at goal with 7 on target.

Games with Venezia have been pretty boring affairs lately with a lack of forward penetration being the norm. Over their past 6 games, the tiddly aggregate goal total of 5 has been recorded between both them and their combatants at an average of 0.83 goals per game.

Taking a look at their past results, Venezia:

• are unbeaten in their last 2 league matches at home.
• are without a home win in the past 6 matches in the league. Their supporters are understandably frustrated.

Bologna

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Bologna go into this encounter following a 5-0 Serie A win against Lazio in their last match.

In that game, Bologna managed 52% possession and 13 shots at goal with 7 on target. For Bologna, the scorers were Jens Odgaard (16'), Riccardo Orsolini (48'), Dan Ndoye (49'), Santiago Castro (74') and Giovanni Fabbian (84'). Lazio got 7 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target.

The stats tell the story, and Bologna have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 7 goals in all. At the back, Bologna seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly. Such a trend won’t necessarily be carried forward here, though.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings going back to 11/03/2000, neither club has come out on top overall with Venezia winning 2 of those games, Bologna 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

An aggregate of 16 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 from Arancioneroverdi and 9 for Rossoblu. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.

The previous league encounter featuring these clubs was Serie A match day 14 on 30/11/2024 and the score finished Bologna 3-0 Venezia.

On that day, Bologna managed 61% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 9 of them on target. Goals were scored by Dan Ndoye (21', 71') and Riccardo Orsolini (69').

For their opponents, Venezia got 5 shots at goal with 1 on target.

The referee was Luca Massimi.

📋 Team News: Venezia

Marin Šverko (unknown injury), Mirko Marić (unknown injury), Filip Stanković (Partial patellar tendon tear) and Michael Svoboda (Cruciate ligament tear) will not be taking part for Venezia boss Eusebio Di Francesco.

It looks as if Arancioneroverdi may well use a 3-5-2 formation for the game with Ionut Andrei Radu, Joel Schingtienne, Jay Idzes, Fali Cande, Alessio Zerbin, Gianluca Busio, Alfred Duncan, Kike Perez, M. Egill Ellertsson, Daniel Fila and Gaetano Oristanio.

ℹ️ Team News: Bologna

Bologna boss Vincenzo Italiano has not got a full squad to pick from. Lorenzo De Silvestri (flu), Charalampos Lykogiannis (Ankle sprain) and Santiago Castro (Foot bruise) will miss out on this game.

There’s a good chance that Rossoblu will likely make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation with a starting lineup of Federico Ravaglia, Davide Calabria, Sam Beukema, Nicolo Casale, Juan Miranda, Lewis Ferguson, Remo Freuler, Riccardo Orsolini, Jens Odgaard, Nicolo Cambiaghi and Thijs Dallinga.

💡 Prediction

In our view, Venezia might need a bit of good fortune to breach the defence of this Bologna lineup who we reckon should manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

We’re therefore tipping a very even match with a 0-1 win for Bologna when the referee blows for full-time.

Expecting it to be tight.

Andre Moura, 13:04 29/03/2025