“You can’t be fatalistic when faced with a wasted opportunity. You have to get angry in the right way. But get angry. So let’s begin to understand what Bologna really threw away yesterday. If the Italian team had won at Marassi they would have the same points as after eight days Motta’s team had accumulated last season”. Thus begins the fund of Bruno Bartolozzi on the Corriere dello Sporttalking about the Bologna formation.
“The victory at Marassi – he continues – would also have given an extra boost for the Champions League which is the dream in which they are lulled and risk losing the team and the city. If Bologna suffered a comeback from a Genoa with no other weapons except the own desperation, perhaps it owes it to that selective and ultimately not very successful idea of one’s footballing strength, namely that at 2-0 one can bargain for one’s competitive and nervous expenditure. No one will admit that they have started to do the math by looking at Tuesday Birmingham, however, no one can remove this doubt by looking at that collapse.”
“Bologna – in closing – will walk to the Champions League match and also with a feeling of inadequacy. This team and perhaps this environment have not yet understood that the future will not only pass through the showcase matches on Tuesday and Wednesday, but from the very humble points to be collected on fields like Marassi and which at the end of the season will tell if you can still dream on these fields to unconsciously prepare for the Villa Park of the moment will mean giving up the true spirit that has given and will be able to give Europe back.” .