Italian Serie A
2025-12-01 - Bologna vs Cremonese
A Sports Betting Pick by Cafa
Italy Serie A - Round 13
Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy (36,000)
Monday, 01 December 2025, 20:45 CET
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Bologna Team News
Bologna is 5th on the league table and, depending on other results, they can go as high as 2nd if they win here. They're at 24 points while league leaders AC Milan, who played already and won, are at 28. So, Bologna can be a point behind the top team if they win here. That's crazy.
For two or more seasons now, people keep writing Bologna off, especially now when they have European football to worry about, as they keep selling their best players. But they haven't skipped a step and they only seem to be growing, whatever problem you throw their way.
Bologna just played Red Bull Salzburg at home a few days ago in the Europa League, and won 4-1. In their previous home game they took care of Napoli 2-0, and in the meantime traveled to Udine and won 0-3.
Cremonese Team News
After being undefeated for a very long time, Cremonese is now in a streak of three straight losses - to Juventus, Pisa and Roma. Nothing has changed at Cremonese apparently as they're still the same side as before, but maybe they're paying the price of having a forward who doesn't play much defence, Jamie Vardy.
Or is a look at the league table, where Cremonese is still 11th with 14 points, 4 above the first team in the relegation zone, not very motivating as there's no immediate fear of relegation.
Whatever the reason for the recent poor results may be, we'll simply let Cremonese persuade us again that they're a good team that refuses to lose a football match.
Probable Lineups
Bologna (4-2-3-1): Ravaglia - De Silvestri, Vitik, Heggem, Lykogiannis - Pobega, Moro - Orsolini, Odgaard, Dominguez - Castro. Coach Italiano.
Cremonese (3-5-2): Audero - F.Terracciano, Baschirotto, Bianchetti - Barbieri, Grassi, Vandeputte, Bondo, Pezzella - Vardy, Bonazzoli. Coach Nicola.
The Betting Market
The price on Bologna is 1.49. It's a good banker for Monday as Bologna is really likely to win here despite Cremonese being a very tricky visitor to play against. Under 2.5 Goals is the favoured outcome at 1.80, while the Over is priced at 2.00.
The bookmakers don't believe both teams will find the net as the price on Both Teams To Score: NO is 1.61, with a 2.20 for YES. There is probably some value to be found in the BTTS and Over/Under markets if you think you have a hunch one way or the other.
Bologna played eight matches at home this season, five of them in Serie A where they conceded only once. Cremonese scored in four of six of their travels.
The Betting Verdict
The regular readers will know we value Cremonese highly. But this is not a fixture in which they can hope to get something, as Bologna is the opposite of naïve. The home side won't go forward too much and won't leave space at the back to be exploited by Cremonese forwards. Bologna should win this one without conceding.
The Pick :
Bologna 3-0 Cremonese
