Series A

Serie A | Bologna 2-0 Roma: Thiago Motta goes fourth

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2 years ago

7:17 am

Bologna flew into fourth place with this victory sealed by Nikola Moro and a Rasmus Kristensen personal purpose, as Roma imploded with Jose Mourinho hauling off substitute Renato Sanches.

This was a head-to-head for fourth place, however the Giallorossi had Romelu Lukaku and Nicola Zalewski suspended, plus Paulo Dybala, Houssem Aouar, Chris Smalling, Tammy Abraham and Marash Kumbulla injured. The hosts missed Riccardo Orsolini, Adama Soumaoro and Jesper Karlsson.

It was a 12 months yesterday since Sinisa Mihajlovic died, so his spouse Arianna and their kids had been within the stands of the Stadio Dall’Ara and introduced with a framed {photograph} of the coach waving to his followers.

It was an ill-tempered match with quite a few fouls and arguments, however Diego Llorente took a free kick rapidly in the midst of the park and virtually succeeded in lobbing Federico Ravaglia, who needed to scramble again to fingertip it over the bar.

Ravaglia was additionally examined by an Andrea Belotti header on the Rasmus Kristensen cross from the best, however Bologna opened the scoring with a well-worked transfer.

They performed out from the again with Remo Freuler, his cross sending Dan Ndoye to the by-line down the best, pulling again past Zirkzee for Nikola Moro to comb dwelling.

Ndoye virtually created one other with an identical transfer moments later, this time Diego Llorente intercepted the roll throughout for Zirkzee, then Llorente was once more essential to cost down a Zirkzee effort.

Straight after the restart, Bologna doubled their lead by once more working riot down the best flank, this time Lewis Ferguson flashed a ball throughout the six-yard field, the place Ndoye didn’t join, however it ricocheted in off Rasmus Kristensen.

Sam Beukema risked a second yellow when crashing into the again of Belotti, however the referee thought of it a standard collision, so Thiago Motta changed the defender quickly after.

Gianluca Mancini charged down a Zirkzee end after Ndoye pulled again from the best, however Jose Mourinho despatched a message when taking Renato Sanches off, simply 18 minutes after approaching.

Kristensen tried to make up for the personal purpose with a shot from 14 yards charged down by Remo Freuler, then Riccardo Calafiori cleared the looping El Shaarawy header virtually off the road.

Belotti had the possibility to get Roma again into it when he sprung the offside lure, however Ravaglia got here flying out and used a trailing leg to parry one-on-one.

Jhon Lucumi had the purple card flashed at him on 85 minutes, however it was rapidly revoked as a result of Sardar Azmoun was offside when introduced down simply exterior the world.

Bologna 2-0 Roma

Moro 37 (B), Kristensen og 49 (B)