AS Roma welcome the visitors Bologna F.C. in the Italian Serie A – Round 24. The match will be held on Monday, February, 18th, at the Stadio Olimpico (Rome).
AS Roma secured a 2:1 win over Porto in the midweek Champions League fixture. In the Serie A, they now share the 5th and the 6th places with Atalanta, having 38 points, but they run just 1 point behind Milan who presently take the 4th tier that provides for the Champions League in autumn. Thus, dropping points, especially playing at home against the 17th Bologna F.C., is highly undesirable.
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The visitors sit ahead of the league’s outsiders just by additional parameters and have the same tally of 18 points as Empoli do. In 2 latest rounds, Bologna managed to attain around a quarter of their total point haul, drawing against Genoa and winning Internazionale.
In general, Bologna are not that rampant in outings, as it may seem after these 2 clashes. The team lost in half of their trips. That said, their opponents were not very strong – Bologna conceded to the 13th Genoa, 14th Cagliari, and even 18th Empoli. However, they were victorious over Roma in their stadium this season; though, the win was registered yet in the 5th round when Roma were only kicking into gear. The present situation is slightly different. Roma are on the run these days – in 7 previous encounters, they attained 5 wins and drawed twice; at home, they played confident against Bologna, having registered 3 wins and 1 draw in 4 latest head-to-heads. Of their 10 Serie A victories, they got 6 on their turf; 5 of those were attained yet in the 1st half-time. 2 latest home clashes with Bologna saw the same outcome – there is no point for Roma to extend it for 90 minutes on Monday either. Most likely, the Romans will try to secure their advantage in the 1st half and then will play in the relaxed way and end victors, thus saving their efforts for future. Ahead of their trip to Portugal, Roma are to clash with Lazio. This is going to be a tight encounter. Therefore, we may predict that the hosts will squeeze the guests to their goal since the very beginning, will net once or twice, take control over the game, slow down, and attain a win. They know pretty well how to do it.
Prediction for the match: AS Roma to win in the first half-time/AS Roma to win home.
