Bologna Vs Napoli: Rossoblu Ready To Be Shocked To Stay At Dall'Ara

JAKARTA - Bologna and Napoli both played a goalless draw in the middle of the week, and will now resume their work in Serie A on Sunday night 9 November at Stadio Dall'Ara.

Although they have not been able to appear consistent in European competitions, these two teams are in a fairly good performance in the domestic league and compete at the top of the standings.

Bologna have collected 18 points from Serie A's first 10 Serie A matches this season the club's best achievements in the 21st century.

Continuing momentum after winning the Coppa Italia last season, Vincenzo Italiano's side are now unbeaten in nine matches in all competitions, including an important win over city rivals Parma last week.

In the Derby del 'Emilia at Stadio Tardini, Bologna managed to get up and win thanks to two goals from Santiago Castro, who scored his first brace in Serie A and took the team to the top six of the standings.

However, in the next match against SK Brann on Thursday night, Bologna failed to break the deadlock and had to settle for a 0-0 draw despite appearing with ten players after Charalampos Lykogiannis was shown a red card in the first half. One point is enough to put them in the Europa League playoffs zone.

Now they will try to beat the reigning Serie A champion at home, although the meeting record shows a tendency to draw in the last three matches Bologna vs Napoli at Dall'Ara all ended in a draw.

Napoli have only won once in their last five meetings against Bologna, having previously dominated with five straight wins.

Antonio Conte's squad recently reclaimed the top spot of the standings after beating Inter Milan and then narrowly winning over Lecce, thanks to the heroism of goalkeeper Vanja Milinkovic-Savic who again saved his fifth save from ten penalties since last season.

But last weekend, Napoli had to settle for a 0-0 draw against Como at home. In that match, Milinkovic-Savic had brought down Alvaro Morata in the penalty box, but he made up for his mistake by warding off the Spanish striker's execution.

The unbeaten record at home is maintained, but Napoli's away performance has actually decreased they have lost twice to five away games this season, just like the total away defeats over the past season when they won Serie A.

Bologna coach Vincenzo Italiano, who has just recovered from pneumonia, will lead his 200th match in Serie A as coach. He is known to rarely field the same line-up in a row and often rotates after European matches.

Jens Odgaard and Juan Miranda are likely to return, while the top scorer of Riccardo Orsolini is almost certainly a starter again. Santiago Castro will also be maintained after scoring three goals in their last three matches in Serie A.

Bologna has only lost two senior players, Ciro Immobile and Remo Freuler, due to injury.

Meanwhile, Napoli were hit by a player crisis. Billy Gilmour and Leonardo Spinazzola have just joined Romelu Lukaku and Kevin De Bruyne's long list of injuries.

Vanja Milinkovic-Savic will keep the goal in place of Alex Meret who is still absent, and Antonio Conte can again field Lorenzo Lucca after undergoing a ban on appearing in Europe. Even so, Rasmus Hojlund is predicted to remain the main choice up front.

The two teams have played a lot of draws lately, including the last three meetings in Dall'Ara. However, Bologna is in stable form and appears disciplined under the direction of Italiano.

While Napoli still struggled to find the rhythm of the game attacking them due to the storm of injury. With the support of Dall'Ara's public, Bologna is predicted to be able to steal a thin win and prolong their positive trend in Serie A.

Estimated Lineup Of Players

Bologna (4-2-3-1):Skorupski; Holm, Funny, Heggem, Miranda; Ferguson, Moro; Orsolini, Odgaard, Cambiaghi; Castro

Napoli (4-3-3): Milinkovic-Savic; Di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Bungiorno, Olivera; Anguissa, Lobotka, McTominay; Politano, Hojlund, Neres

Bologna Score Prediction 1-0 Napoli