Bologna: Starters back for decisive Europa League clash

The knockout with the Milan has left its mark. Disappointment, even before tension, entered Casteldebole, after the first round with the Rossoneri. Disappointment that risks becoming tension by virtue of the fear of going from taking everything (Coppa Italia e Champions) to nothing, as Freuler had predicted after the draw with Juventus and the slip to seventh place. San Siro risks being the tombstone on the ambitions of fourth place and of decisively complicating the pursuit of Europe in the championship of a Bologna who is arriving at the bottom out of breath and in precarious conditions.

In light of this picture, yesterday Italian and management have worked diplomatically, in an attempt to erase what happened, asking the team to forget about Friday night and concentrate exclusively on a match that represents a page of history and also the qualification for theEuropa League.

We work on psychology, in short. The coach had already done so immediately after the match at the Meazza: "Wednesday will be a different match, we can do it, also because we aim to recover quality players who can make the difference".

Do not forget for 70 minutes Bologna he played it on equal terms and even more, since he had taken the lead. The response from the field came: yesterday they returned to the group Odgaard, ndoye e Holm, three regulars for the rossoblù, especially the first two. Because if both Holm and Calabria offer guarantees on the right lane of defense, where De Silvestri appeared clearly struggling towards the end, Odgaard is the man around whom Italiano has sewn the 4-2-3-1 of this season and Ndoye is the jewel that has exploded, having gone from two goals last season to 8 this season, with a return round that sees him as vice top scorer behind Orsolini.

He will return as a starter lucumi, a distant relative of his best version as a substitute on Friday, a clear sign of how he had pulled the plug ahead of Wednesday, knowing he would be spared for Wednesday. But Italiano also spared Ferguson and Miranda: in short, in Rome he aims to field the first-choice players, with Skorupski between the posts, Calabria or Holm on the right, Beukema and Lucumi in the center of defense and Miranda on the left, Freuler and Ferguson in midfield, Orsolini, Odgaard and Ndoye in the three-quarter line behind the striker.

To close the Bologna of the first-choice players, Castro would be needed. But San Siro he has shown that the two months of stoppage have left their mark and that Dallinga, even though he too is under management and struggles when the level rises, is a step forward: second consecutive assist and in Coppa Italia He is the top scorer of the rossoblù with 3 goals, as well as king of Cups being the only striker who scored (against Dortmund also in the Champions League). Bologna recover the pieces: this is the weapon against fear, which risks accompanying the rossoblù in the march towards the final, a topic discussed yesterday, in an attempt to forget the defeat of San Siro.