Da Costa 5.5 – Uncertain with his feet, he begins a terrible first quarter of an hour of repetitive errors. Then it comes to its senses and parishes the ordinary. Graced several times by La Spezia and saved by Danilo, who sacrifices himself on Nzola avoiding the 3-1.
De Silvestri 6 – It guarantees that offensive thrust that up to 90 ‘and beyond serves to keep the center of gravity high: precious. His experience is perceived above all in the absence of Palacio in the final minutes.
Danilo 6 – Without his face, placed between Nzola and the door, Spezia would have found the 3-1 to close the games. It is his intervention that keeps alive the match of a Bologna that never, ever seemed to show signs of reaction. And instead…
Paz 6 – Let’s put ourselves in his shoes: never used, treated like an eternal postal package on both sides of the ocean, up and down Italy. He enters, he is uncertain, he makes a lot of mistakes, but in the end he maintains that competitive charge that many others lack: sufficient confidence.
Tomiyasu 5,5 – If it is true that it is worth 30 million, as an executive once said, it has yet to prove it. Adapted to left-back it is applied with diligence, but more often it is exceeded in speed. Certain amnesia, with more authoritative teams, would have cost dearly.
Average 6 – Forced to help the defense more times than he is required to do. Bring home sufficiency with generosity.
Dominguez 6,5 – He reopens the game with a razor burn in the 27th minute of the second half. He’s the best in the back department, including defense. He goes out for fatigue.
Palacio 5,5 – 6 to Rodrigo is almost always due. Today he starts in the wing and plays beyond his physical possibilities, literally squeezes himself, but it is not enough to give ideas and above all goals to Bologna.
Soriano 6 – It does not affect much, but the final leg, that penalty won in the recovery of the recovery, would be worth very high marks. If only Barrow capitalized it.
Vineyard 5.5 – A lot of desire but also a lot of smoke, in one of the smokest moments of the game. He tries, we see that he has talent to spare, but Sinisa takes him out of the game first. Perhaps not without reason.
Barrow n.g. – Try it yourself to give a vote to a player who is in hiding for the whole game, inventing a goal from fifty meters in the 92nd minute and then wasting the penalty of the coup, against the same team, at the same minute and with the same score as the Cup Italy. Boh? Cross and delight of a crazy Bologna.
Svanberg (10 ′ st) 6 – He is the first to enter (in place of Vignato) and slowly Bologna changes with his entry into the field. It adds that quality that was lacking until then.
Baldursson (36 ′ st) 6 – Good impact on the race: attentive, focused and proactive.
Poli (36 ′ st) 6 – A few minutes but with personality, at the Poli.
Rabbi (39′ st) 6,5 – He dispenses some kick to his opponents, uproots the ball from which Barrow’s 2-2 is born and recovers the one – apparently lost – which then leads to the penalty on Soriano: courage, determination and personality that Sinisa will have liked.
Mihajlovic 6 – He risks losing it, in fact he loses it, if Barrow didn’t invent that Eurogol. Then he risks winning it, and does not win it because from the spot he repeats, almost masochistically, the same player who had missed the decisive penalty in the Italian Cup. Bologna did not deserve to win, perhaps not even to draw. But it did, despite everything.
Referee Giacomelli and assistants 7 – Excellent management of fouls and cards and one on field review sacrosanct, with expired time, after reporting by the VAR Cecconi. Almost impeccable direction that Bologna has seen fit not to fully exploit.
Luca Baccolini
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