Bologna fades after Orsolini's goal, Milan wins 3-1 in comeback

Bologna, May 9, 2025 – Seventy minutes, then the collapse, vertical and heavy. Ursu gives hope at the start of the second half, then Bologna doesn't sink, stops playing and in a flash is overturned, before the hat-trick of Gimenez (a brace) that closes the game in injury time, also overturning the direct clash of the first leg (in fact, in the event of a tie at the end of the championship, the Rossoneri will be ahead by virtue of the 2-1 at Dall'Ara). bad setback, to be reset in view of the second round on Wednesday in Rome, in the Coppa Italia final. Red and blue turnover and Milan with almost all starters, the opposite of everything that was said on the eve. conception He cares about doing well, and it shows. Erlic returns to take his place at the centre of defence alongside Beukema, Lyko e From Silvestri on the bands, Moro and Freuler in the center, with Ursu, Dominguez and Pobega to support Dallinga. Balance at the start, with the Devils traveling in flames and Bologna waiting. In the quarter of an hour, Pulisic drinks half the defense and shoots with a sure shot, but Lykogiannis he is providential in saving the goal and the rossoblù. Then two substitutions, one for each side, due to physical problems: Thiaw detects Tomori, Lucumi do the same with the fragile Erlic, forced to forfeit once again in the first half of the match. Then Bologna comes out, twice with Orso: first on Pobega's invitation, high, then on a cross from the left, when he heads weakly into the outside of the net. Resumption and Bologna takes the lead. Dallinga wins the aerial duel and cushions the ball on the right for Orsolini, who starts with the ball at his feet, comes back on his left foot and strikes from the edge of the area maignan (0-1). Milan in a tailspin, for the rossoblù the moment seems right to strike again, but the pace slows down and the changes of Italian – inside Aebischer, Cambiaghi and Castro, for Pobega, Orso and Dallinga – they do not achieve the desired effect. On the contrary, the opposite. And the Bologna is shutting down. In the 73rd minute, the Rossoneri equalise was inevitable, with Italiano's eleven unbalanced and disoriented in coverage: Chukwueze puts it in the centre, Lucumi messes up, Pulisic passes to Gimenez, who breaks through Skorupski's legs (1-1). And it's just the beginning of a nightmare ending. The encore is in the air and arrives in the 78th minute, with Pulisic, able to collect a rebound and get past Skorupski. In injury time, the last gasp with Change, who was millimetres away from equalising, slowed down by a feat by Maignan, who anticipated the 3-1 again by the Mexican Gimenez, who burned De Silvestri in a swerve and put the seal on it. A terrible night and lights out at San Siro for the rossoblù. Reset. Five days and it will already be time for the final, again against Milan.

The little table

MILAN 3

BOLOGNA 1

MILAN (3-4-2-1): Maignan, Tomori (14' st Thiaw), Gabbia, Pavlovic, (20' st Walker), Jimenez

(21' st Chukwueze), Loftus-Cheek (33' st Musah), Reijnders, Theo Hernandez, Pulisic

Joao Felix, Jovic (20' st Gimenez)

BOLOGNA 4-2-3-1: Skorupski, De Silvestri, Beukema, Erlic, (31' st Lucumi), Lykogiannis. Freuler

Moro (35' st El Azzouzi), Orsolini, (16' st Cambiaghi), Pobega, (16' st Aebischer), Dominguez, Dallinga (16' st Castro)

Referee: Livio Marinelli of Tivoli.

networks: 4' st Orsolini, 28' st Gimenez, 34' st Pulisic, 47' st Gimenez.

Footnotes: Lucumi, Loftus-Cheek, Joao Felix, Castro booked. Added time: 3' and 4'.