📏 Form Guide

Bologna

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Bologna, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 4-1 Europa League triumph over Red Bull Salzburg.

In that game, Bologna managed 52% possession and 31 attempts at goal with 14 on target. For Bologna, the goalscorers were Jens Odgaard (26'), Thijs Dallinga (51'), Federico Bernardeschi (53') and Riccardo Orsolini (86'). At the other end, Red Bull Salzburg had 9 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Yorbe Vertessen (33') was the scorer for Red Bull Salzburg.

Their more recent scorelines show that huge efforts have been put in by the Bologna defence. Bologna have been miserly, seeing the tally of goals that have flown into the back of their net over the course of their past 6 outings standing at 3. We shall soon see if that trend can be continued on in this game.

Going into this encounter, Bologna have not been beaten in their last 5 home league matches.

Cremonese

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Since a losing effort in their last game against Roma in Serie A competition, Cremonese will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Cremonese had 50% possession and 9 shots on goal with 4 on target. The only player to score for Cremonese was Francesco Folino (93'). Roma had 12 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Matìas Soulé (17'), Evan Ferguson (64') and Wesley (69') scored for Roma.

The numbers tell their own story, and Cremonese have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 8 goals in total. Defensively, Cremonese could really do with shoring things up.

🤜🤛 Head to head

The previous league contest between the two was Serie A match day 36 on 20/05/2023 and the score finished Cremonese 1-5 Bologna.

On that day, Cremonese had 37% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Their only player to score was Daniel Ciofani (91').

For their opponents, Bologna had 19 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. Marko Arnautović (14'), Lewis Ferguson (27'), Stefan Posch (45'), Riccardo Orsolini (62') and Nicola Sansone (80') scored.

The referee was Paolo Valeri.

🗞️ Team News: Bologna

Nicolò Cambiaghi (Calf problems), Jonathan Rowe (Hamstring muscle injury), Remo Freuler (Broken collarbone) and Lukasz Skorupski (Muscle injury) aren’t available for Bologna boss Vincenzo Italiano.

It’s our opinion that Rossoblu could line up in a 4-2-3-1 system for this one, handing starts to Federico Ravaglia, Lorenzo De Silvestri, Martin Vitik, T. Lysaker Heggem, C. Lykogiannis, Nikola Moro, Tommaso Pobega, Riccardo Orsolini, Jens Odgaard, Benjamin Dominguez and Santiago Castro.

📋 Team News: Cremonese

Owing to an otherwise full-strength group, there is only the lone fitness issue for the Cremonese manager Davide Nicola to contend with. Michele Collocolo (Hamstring injury) misses out for this game.

It’s our belief that Grigiorossi seem likely to begin the game with a 3-5-2 formation, going with Emil Audero, Filippo Terracciano, Federico Baschirotto, Matteo Bianchetti, Tommaso Barbieri, Alberto Grassi, Jari Vandeputte, Warren Bondo, Giuseppe Pezzella, Federico Bonazzoli and Jamie Vardy.

✨ Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Bologna will probably get the win and a possible clean sheet against Cremonese, who will not find it easy scoring a goal of their own.

We reckon that it will be a pretty comfortable 2-0 winning score for Bologna at full-time.

Peter Guest, 01:01 01/12/2025