The Nerazzurri in action for the postponed Matchday 19 match against Bologna: the match is scheduled for Wednesday January 15 at 8:45 p.m.
On Wednesday January 15 at 8:45 p.m., Inter will face Bologna at San Siro in the 19th day of the championship, postponed to allow the Nerazzurri to play the Supercoppa Italiana in Riyadh. Inzaghi’s team will return to its audience after 23 days. The last time was on December 23, during a victory against Como. Inter enters this match with 43 points and two games in hand. Same thing for Bologna which has 29 points.
Inter – Bologna is a classic of Italian football: a shock that deserves to be analyzed using figures and statistics.
PREVIOUS MEETINGS
There have been 154 meetings between Inter and Bologna in Serie A: 75 victories for Inter, 43 for the Rossoblù, 36 draws. During the last five matches, the two teams have balanced each other perfectly, with two victories and a draw each (since the meeting at San Siro in October 2023). During the last five home games against Bologna in Serie A, Inter have scored 18 goals, an average of 3.6 per game.
THE NUMBERS OF THE NERAZZURRI
Inter have won the last four Serie A matches without conceding a single goal : under the leadership of Simone Inzaghi, the Nerazzurri increased their series to six between November and December 2021.
Inter managed to score in 31 consecutive home matches in the league: this is the third time in Inter’s history that the team has managed to exceed 30 matches.
Inter have scored 22 first half goals in this Serie A season, no other team has recorded a higher number than the Nerazzurri: furthermore, Inter are the team with the most number of different scorers (15) and who has scored the most goals from defense (13).
THE OPPONENT: BOLOGNA
Seventh in the championship with 29 points and two games in hand, Vincenzo Italiano’s Bologna team comes to San Siro after drawing 2-2 against Roma at Dall’Ara. The Rossoblù are a young and talented team who like to attack: no other team in Serie A has as many scorers born from 2003 onwards as the Rossoblù (Santiago Castro, Benjamín Domínguez, Samuel Iling-Junior, Kacper Urbanski and Giovanni Fabbian). Bologna have only conceded 53 shots on target in the league: only Juventus have conceded fewer shots than the Rossoblù. However, Bologna have conceded five goals after 90 minutes this season, only Como have conceded seven. Moreover, the Rossoblù have lost 15 points from winning positions and only Venezia has a worse record with 20 goals conceded. Ricardo Orsolini is the team’s top scorer this season with seven goals, six of them in Serie A.
THU-LA AND BOLOGNA
Lautaro Martínez has scored in each of the last three matches played against Bologna at the Meazza in Serie A. El Toro’s goal last season was scored on an assist from Marcus Thuram: since the start of last season, the Frenchman has scored 25 goals and delivered 10 assists, the only player with Lookman to have scored at least 20 goals and delivered 10 assists (20+12 for the Atalanta player).
DIMARCO’S DOUBLE
Bologna are the only team against whom Federico Dimarco has scored multiple goals in Serie A: a brace in the 6-1 victory at the Meazza on November 9, 2022. The 27-year-old is the Inter player who has created the most chances for his teammates this season in Serie A: 31, at least seven times more than any other Inter player.
DISCIPLINARY SITUATION
SUSPENDED
Inter : –
Bologna: Lucumi (1)
WARNING
Inter : Dumfries, Inzaghi (Coach)
Bologna: –
ARBITRATOR
The referee of the Inter – Bologna match, counting for the 19th day of Serie A, will be Luca Pairetto de Nichelino. The assistants will be Rossi C. and Mokhtar, Bonacina will be the fourth referee and the VAR will be Meraviglia. Mazzoleni will be the VAR assistant.
