Serie A: Verona-Bologna LIVE at 20.45, the official formations | First page
Football without stopping. After the week dedicated to the dispute of the first knockout rounds of the Italian Cup, on Friday evening it immediately returns to be tinged with A league, with the advance of the 23rd matchday on stage at 8.45 pm: at the Bentegodi Stadium in Verona they challenge the Hellas by Igor Tudor and the Bologna by Sinisa Mihajlović, in the match between two of the most surprising realities in this first part of the season, net of Covid and injuries. The Scala family, holders of one of the best attacks of the tournament with 41 goals scored (12 Simeone, 8 Barak and 7 Caprari), are tenth with 30 points, at -5 from the Europe area, while the Bolognese, who come from two knockouts in a row , follow 3 lengths away, with one race less.
STATISTICS AND BACKGROUND – Verona have not won in Serie A against Bologna since April 2016, when Luigi Delneri was on the bench (1-0 with a goal from Samir): since then four rossoblù wins (including the first leg) and three draws. Among the teams they have faced at least twice at home in Serie A from 2001/02 onwards, Bologna are one of only two, together with Inter, against which Verona have never won in the period: three draws (including two in the two more recent home matches) and three defeats for the Gialloblù. Verona have scored 41 goals in this league, a record for the Gialloblù after 22 Serie A games: the previous record was 37 goals in 2013/14 – in the era of three points to win never a team with 30 or less after points as many games he had scored so much. Having won their first five consecutive home games under the guidance of Igor Tudor in Serie A, Verona have not achieved even one success in the most recent four (2N, 2P). Bologna have lost five of their last six Serie A games (1V), after having won four of their previous five (1P) – in the period, from 4 December onwards, no Serie A team has lost more games than the Emiliani and only Genoa has fewer points (due). Bologna have not drawn away in Serie A since October against Udinese: since then for the rossoblù three wins and three defeats – it is since December 2020 that the Emilian team no longer remains without draws (eight in that case). Verona have three players who have already reached seven goals in this Serie A (Simeone, Caprari and Barak): in a single season in the top flight they have never had more. Bologna have scored 25% of their goals (7/28) from outside the box, and have the highest percentage in this league – on the other hand, Verona is, with Napoli and Milan, one of the three teams to have scored the most distance goals ever in this Serie A (eight). Giovanni Simeone has scored four Serie A goals against Bologna, one with Genoa and three with Cagliari, all in different matches: the Verona forward has scored in several different matches only against Torino (five) in the maximum championship. Roberto Soriano has scored four goals against Verona in Serie A, including his first double in the top league in March 2014 with the Sampdoria shirt: the midfielder, however, has not yet scored a goal against the Venetians with the Bologna shirt – only games against Fiorentina and Roma (six) have played more without scoring for the rossoblù.
OFFICIAL FORMATIONS:
VERONA (3-4-2-1): Montipò; Casale, Gunter, Ceccherini; Pharaohs, Ilic, Veloso, Lazovic; Barak, Caprari; Simeone. Coach: Tudor.
BOLOGNA (5-3-2): Skorupski; Hickey, Bonifazi, Medel, Binks, Theate; Soriano, Dominguez, Svanberg; Orsolini, Samson. Coach: Mihajlovic.