The Bologna looks for the strikers’ goals. He needs it, he urgently needs it. Because the start of the season for a team that returned to the Champions League was extremely complicated: only two points in three games, only two goals, little Bologna and a lot still to do. The leap in quality, for a team that deservedly earned the Europe that counts, has not happened and now Vincenzo Italiano will have to dissolve the reserves. Who will be the number 9 on whose shoulders to load the Emilians’ climb?
Castro again?
Santiago Castro, nineteen years old, arrived last season. Months of apprenticeship, practically in the glorious year of the Champions League, with Thiago Motta on the bench, he has been seen very little. For now the former coach of Trapani, Spezia and Fiorentina has chosen him. Castro is currently the starting striker for Bologna but so far zero goals. “Zirkzee told me ‘are you ready’ – Castro explained -, I like the pressure and it stimulates me”. Now, despite his very young age, the moment has arrived where the tests and trials have ended.
The new face: Dallinga
Also because Thijs Dallinga is pawing at his back. The Dutchman, signed after the many goals he scored against Toulouse, is taking a step forward in his career: signed to probably be the designated heir to Zirkzee as a starter, for now Italiano has only fielded him for thirty-one minutes. Not enough, still, to give an opinion, practically nothing. The plans have certainly been disrupted by the KO of Nicolò Cambiaghi on the wing, the club has focused on Samuel Iling-jr on loan and has also seen Jesper Karlsson again in addition to Jens Odgaard and the usual leader Riccardo Orsolini and Dan Ndoye. Many men but still very few results. A change of direction is needed. Starting with the choice of the starting centre forward.