On the 5th of December, Bologna hosts Fiorentina in a meeting of these two evenly matched Serie A teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cold day, with daytime temperatures of only 3 degrees, which will make playing unpleasant. In their last match, 8th placed Bologna, recorded a 1-0 shutout win against Roma. Mattias Svanberg scored the first goal for Bologna in the 35th minute, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster At the end of 90 a dissapointed Roma couldn’t manage to score, and Bologna took the shutout win. Bologna is looking for direction having earned 16 points in their last 10 matches, while fiorentina is fresh off their 3-1 win against Sampdoria. Manolo Gabbiadini scored the first goal for Sampdoria in the 15th minute, then in the 23rd minute, Riccardo Sottil sent in a beautiful pass which was converted by José Callejón But luckily in the 32nd minute, they were able to complete the comback with a goal by Dušan Vlahović. Fiorentina is looking for direction having 5 win and 5 losses in their last 10 matches.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season. Last season these teams were evenly matched with 2 draws each.
Dušan Vlahović has been on a hot streak lately. In the last 5 games, hes scored seven goals for Fiorentina. Bologna’s most prolific scorer has been Marko Arnautović. He has netted 3 goals over the last 5 matches.