First game of the season without goals for Marko Arnautovic: Thiago Motta begins his adventure on the Bologna bench with a knockout. They thank Empoli and Zanetti, who take their first success of the season, leaving Bologna to reflect on the work to be done to solve the problems after Mihajlovic’s exoneration: not least the dependence on Arnautovic and the need to find other guns . Arnautovic stops at the post, Bandinelli thanks and does not forgive, after Empoli had actually pardoned the rossoblù: for Thiago Motta the adventure on the Bologna bench begins on the wrong foot. Bologna was looking for continuity of results after the success against Fiorentina, while Empoli was looking for the first victory of the season, called to react to the knockout with Roma in a tour de force that after the break will see them opposed to Milan and Turin. Mission accomplished. THE CHRONICLE
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Thiago Motta redesigns his team, on the field with the 4-2-3-1, with Medel in the median, while Zanetti re-proposes the eleven that worried Mourinho in the last round with the sole exception of Bajrami instead of Pjaca, given also the numerous absences (Akpa Akpro, Tonelli, Baldanzi, Destro Ebuehi and Stubljar): and Empoli restarts from the same score, starting the rossoblùs, who struggle to find balance and the pairings in one-on-one across the board, especially on the Empoli left-hand chain, where Parisi and Bandinelli find space to sink. The guests have four sensational chances in the first ten minutes, with the hosts contracted and in doll: after a minute, on the cross of Bandinelli Satriano misses the turn, while Lammers finds Skorupski to say no to him on the header, always on a cross from the mezzala. Bologna’s individual mistakes are also brought to pave the way for Empoli, with Cambiaso and Posch missing two back passes, on which Satriano and Lammers sin of cynicism, letting themselves be hypnotized by Skorupski, the best of Bologna in the first half with a margin. Empoli did not take advantage of it and Bologna tried to gain confidence, with a couple of plays by Barrow to turn on Orsolini, who, however, fired a header from a good position and found Vicario on the second occasion. But the match does not unlock. Thiago Motta changes and tries to unblock Bologna, with the insertions of Kasius and Dominguez and the move works, with Kasius finding Arnautovic with a cross, who however does not find the door confirming that he is not at his best after a week conditioned by a problem muscular, while a penalty for Stojanovic’s hands and a very occasional Orsolini are nullified by the offside. Bologna grows, but at the best moment Empoli punishes him: Henderson enters, finds the low cross for Cambiaghi who anticipates Posch, Skorupski comes out in an avalanche, saves the shot but does not block and on the rejected Bandinelli anticipates Kasius and marks the advantage of the guests, who freeze the Dall’Ara. A minute later, on a corner action, Cambiaso’s cross arrives, but Arnautovic’s header hits the post. Rossoblù also unlucky, because at 45 ‘from Cambiaso’s corner, Zirkzee slammed into the crossbar. Bologna defeated, the crisis is not yet closed.
