Our prediction for this Serie A match:
After sharing the spoils with Sassuolo, Roma will be looking to return to winning ways in the Serie A when they take on Bologna on Sunday evening. The Giallorossi aim to stay in the Champions League race, and even though they are on a three-game winless run in the national championship, home win should be considered. Cristante is banned for the hosts, while Smalling, Mkhitaryan, Kumbulla, and El Shaarawy are sidelined with injuries. Zaniolo has been tested positive for coronavirus.
The Rossoblu, on the other hand, are stuck in the middle of the standings. Sinisa Mihajlovic’s troops have little to play for in the remainder of the season, and given the importance of the match for Roma, we predict that the visitors will return home empty-handed. Skorupski remains quarantined, while Tomiyasu, Medel, Hickey, and Santander are all out of contention through injuries.
Highlighted Player (Nikola Kalinic):
Nikola Kalinic is a product of Hajduk Split’s youth school. The 187-cm-tall striker scored 32 goals in 59 appearances for Hajduk at senior level and he played for the likes of Pula and Sibenik in Croatia as well. In 2009 he moved to Blackburn Rovers for fee of £6 million.
Nikola Kalinic made his Blackburn Rovers debut against Sunderland on 22 August, 2009 and he scored his first goal for the Riversiders against Peterborough United in the League Cup. After making 44 league appearances for Blackburn Rovers, the Croatian attacker joined Dnipro in 2011 and he played for the Ukrainian outfit until 2015.
Kalinic signed a four-year deal with Fiorentina on 15 August, 2015 and he impressed in the 2015/2016 Serie A campaign, scoring 12 goals in 36 games. The Fiorentina striker made two appearances for Croatia at the 2016 European Championship in France and it has to be noted that he found the net in a 2-1 win over Spain in the group stages of the competition.
Highlighted Team (Bologna):
Bologna FC 1909 is an Italian football club founded in 1909 and playing in the Serie A. The club hosts its games in the Stadio Renato Dall’Ara which holds a capacity of 40500 seats. The stadium is named after their former chairman. The club plays its home games in the Stadio Renato Dall’Ara since 1927.
The club colors of Bologna are blue and red and is one of the most successful football clubs in Italy winning the Serie A 7times and the Coppa Italia 2 times in the clubs history. Lately Bologna is not performing like their glory times anymore. The club is often relegated to the Serie B but manages to get back to the Serie A on and off. Another important person in the club is Joey Saputo, Canadian but with Italian roots, which is owner of Bologna.
Well known football players that wore the blue red colors of Bologna in their career are: Falcone, Dokovic, Nakata, Gillet, Pagliuca, Vieri and Zagorakis.