Nice analysis on the pages of ‘Corriere dello Sport’ on newsstands today regarding the performance of the Bologna squad, a team that won just one point at the halfway point of the ‘Championship Phase’ of the 2024/25 Champions League. The transfer market carried out in the summer by Fenucci, Sartori and Di Vaio is proving unsatisfactory and the squad appears weakened with the departures of Zirkzee and Calafiori. “A ride on the carousel: this is how the general staff interpreted Bologna’s participation in the Champions League”, we read.
Still without a goal, Thijs Dallinga in the next two months he will have to prove that he is a player from Bologna otherwise returning to the market to buy another striker will be necessary. Not only that: on that occasion accommodation will have to be found Jesper Karlssonborn in ’98, arrived from AZ Alkmaar in the summer of 2023 and is now increasingly a foreign body in the rossoblù squad.
At the end of the last match lost against Monaco, this is how Vincenzo Italiano analyzed Bologna’s moment: “In this competition we play against teams superior to us who are not showing it 100% because we are good at putting them in difficulty. We have to seize the positive ideas. We keep fighting. I have just looked at the four clear situations with the staff to take the lead and if we don’t have the ability to put it inside there is the final ‘blunder'”.