Italian Serie A
2025-12-28 - Bologna vs Sassuolo
A Sports Betting Pick by Cafa
Italy Serie A - Round 17
Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy (36,000)
Sunday, 28 December 2025, 18:00 CET
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Bologna Team News
Bologna reached the final of the Super Cup to play against Napoli, and lost cleanly 2-0. This continues the most difficult schedule as this side wasn't built to withstand the pressure of playing on multiple fronts. Bologna is the only non-big team to play in so many competions: Serie A, Europa League, cup, super cup. So far they performed admirably, but lately it seems that the schedule started getting to them. Bologna only won 2 out of last 7.
From a betting perspective, you never know what you'll get from Bologna. They were quite good as favourites against underdogs this season, which would be the scenario at hand.
Sassuolo Team News
Sassuolo is consistent with their standards - winning roughly every third game. They usually win, draw, lose, then go back to the start of the routine. If they'd keep it up then this one would be a win.
The latest victim of Sassuolo's direct playing style was Fiorentina in a 3-1 defeat, then came the 2-2 at AC Milan, and in the previous Serie A round Sassuolo lost to Torino at home 0-1. We certainly expected them to do better here, but this is how they play, it either works or not.
Probable Lineups
Bologna (4-2-3-1): Ravaglia - De Silvestri, Vitik, Heggem, Lykogiannis - Pobega, Moro - Orsolini, Odgaard, Rowe - Immobile. Coach Italiano.
Sassuolo (4-3-3): Muric - Walukiewicz, Idzes, Muharemovic, Doig - Thorstvedt, Matic, Kone - Volpato, Cheddira, Lauriente. Coach Grosso.
The Betting Market
You can get 1.77 on Bologna and you'd probably betting on a win-to-nil here, or, more precisely, on Bologna to cover the entire pitch and not allow rapid counter attacks. Recently, they haven't showed they can do this, though we know in theory they should be able to.
Over 2.5 Goals is priced at 2.00 while the Both Teams To Score market is split down the middle at 1.90.
The Betting Verdict
It seems that Bologna always concedes at home recently. They even conceded to Parma, Cremonese and Red Bull Salzburg. This isn't a sign of a good defensive posture, so we think Sassuolo will once again do what Sassuolo does and score at least once. Bologna will score too -- they fail to score only against the big teams.
The Pick :
Bologna 1-1 Sassuolo
