Bologna take on the visitors Atalanta in the round 17 match of Italian Serie A. The match will be played on Monday, January 9th at Stadio Renato Dall'Ara (Bologna).
Bologna became the last place of work of Sinisa Michajlovic. The Serb did not become as great a mentor as he was as a football player, but he kept his charges at a fairly high level. Given the club's weak financial capacity now, this meant a quiet finish year after year somewhere in the middle of the table. Even while fighting cancer, which took more and more time, the specialist continued to work - and, perhaps, this is what finished him off. It is noteworthy that for a long time this reshuffle did not really give the team anything, as it started the season poorly even under the previous mentor, it played so tightly even under Thiago Motta. It “broke through” only from the end of October, but it was thorough: the club, which had previously won only once in 10 matches and had only 1 point in 4 last matches, suddenly won four times in 5 matches. But then everything was interrupted by a long, almost 2-month break. After it with “Roma” the middle peasant looked good. But still lost, conceding the only goal at the very beginning of the game from a penalty kick and failing to answer.
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Atalanta finished in the last Serie A only in 8th place in the final standings. A frank failure against the backdrop of Gasperini's previous successes is here. Of course, the intrigue of this season was what will happen to the “Goddess” next, will she be able to show that, having stumbled, then return to her usual pace of scoring, or will the decline continue? The 2022/2023 season began for Malinovsky and the company just “mirror” compared to Bologna. The team started well, unbeaten in the first 10 rounds - 7 wins and 3 draws. The first “call” was the October defeat to “Lazio”, but after it they won against “Empoli”. Then everything went wrong, and Gasperini's wards lost not only to the giants, Napoli and Inter, but even to the newcomer, Lecce. It remained only to believe that an experienced mentor would profitably dispose of an unexpectedly long pause. January began for Bergamasque with a trip to Spezia. Again they created problems for themselves, conceding twice, but then heroically pulled out a draw 2-2.
Bologna had only 1 win in their last 13 matches against Atalanta. For comparison, last season Malinovsky and company took 4 out of 6 possible points in a pair of head-to-head fights. The visitors are regarded as the couple's favorite, but they didn't even cope with Spezia on the road. We recommend choosing neutral “total over 2.5 goals”.
Prediction for the match: Over 2.5 scored goals.
