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Bologna vs Monza to start off Saturday's programme
Serie A

Bologna vs Monza to start off Saturday's programme

Bologna and Monza are both on the hunt for three points

Bologna will host Monza at the Dall'Ara at 15:00 CET. After the draw at San Siro against Inter, Vincenzo Italiano's boys will want to return to winning ways after a three-game dry spell in order to continue chasing European qualification. Monza is still last, but last week's victory against Fiorentina brought a new wave of enthusiasm to the Brianzoli, who hope to start the climb towards safety.

HEAD TO HEAD

Bologna won the first and most recent of their five matches against Monza in Serie A, with two draws and a victory of the Brianzoli in the other three games. Monza have a win and a draw in two Serie A away matches against Bologna; the Rossoblu could become the second team, after Hellas Verona, to fail to achieve even one success in their first three home matches against the Brianza team in the competition.

DID YOU KNOW?

Last time out against Fiorentina, Salvatore Bocchetti won his first game in Serie A during his ninth match in the competition, becoming the first coach to take as many as nine games to find his first victory since Marco Baroni (17); Monza last won two league games in a row last March, against Genoa and Cagliari. If they win, Bologna – 30 points in 19 matches so far – would set a new record for points won after the first 20 games of the season in the era of three points for a win in Serie A (33). Bologna have forced the most high turnovers in this Serie A campaign (144), while Monza are bottom in this metric (88).

PLAYERS

Lewis Ferguson has already scored a goal against Monza in Serie A (his first away) and they could become the third team against which he has scored both home and away (after Atalanta and Lecce). Furthermore, if he finds the net in this match he would become the first Scottish player with 2+ goals for three consecutive seasons in the Italian top-flight, after the seven scored in 2022/23 and the six in 2023/24. Among the strikers who have scored at least five goals over the last three Serie A seasons, no one has scored a higher ratio in January than Patrick Ciurria and Gianluca Caprari (57%, 4/7). Ciurria – who scored last time out against Fiorentina – last scored in two Serie A appearances in a row back in January 2023.

DISCIPLINE

Suspended: Lucumì (Bologna) Cautioned: Bianco, Pedro Pereira, Carboni (Monza)

REFEREE

MARIANI (IMPERIALE – BERCIGLI) IV: PERENZONI, VAR: CAMPLONE, AVAR: MARINI

UPCOMING MATCHES IN SERIE A

Empoli-Bologna (Saturday 25 January, 20:45 CET) Genoa-Monza (Monday 27 January, 20:45 CET) (Photo Getty Images)