Genoa aims to secure a victory in their Serie A Week 8 match against Bologna on Saturday, October 19, 2024, at the Luigi Ferraris Stadium in Genoa. The team is under pressure to grab these crucial 3 points at home. Currently, Genoa sits in 18th place with 5 points, while Bologna is just ahead in 13th with 8 points.

Genoa are unbeaten in nine of their last 10 Serie A matches against Bologna (W5 D4). The Emilians' only win in that period came on 21 May 2022 (1-0 at the Ferraris).

The last nine matches at the Ferraris between Genoa and Bologna in Serie A have been very evenly matched: three wins each and three draws – the Grifone won 2-0 in the most recent one, on 24 May.

Genoa have lost four of their last five league matches (D1), including the three most recent. The last time they recorded four defeats in a row in Serie A dates back to December 2021, with Andriy Shevchenko as coach.

In the calendar year 2024, only Juventus (14) have drawn more matches than Bologna (12) in the top five European leagues. More specifically, no team has drawn more games in percentage terms than Bologna this season in the Big-5 European leagues: 71%, tied with Lens (5 out of 7 both).

Bologna could draw six of their first eight games of the season for only the second time in their history in Serie A, after 1989/90.

Genoa are the team that have conceded the most goals in this championship: 15, 12 of which in the second half (another negative record). Only three times in their history in Serie A have the Grifone conceded more goals after the first seven games of the season: 16 in 2021/22, 17 in 1957/58 and 16 in 1939/40.

Genoa is the only team that has no player with more than one goal this Serie A season: five different scorers all with one goal: Vogliacco, Messias, Pinamonti, De Winter and Ekhator.

Santiago Castro has been involved in four goals in his last four Serie A games (three goals and one assist). In addition, only Lamine Yamal (born in 2007) is younger than Castro (September 2004) among the players who have scored at least three goals this season in the top five European leagues.

Riccardo Orsolini has faced Genoa eight times in Serie A but hasn't managed to score or assist in any of those matches. The only team he has played more matches against without contributing to a goal is Napoli, where he has appeared 11 times. Furthermore, Orsolini's last away goal in the league was on January 27 against Milan, and since then, he has gone nine away games without finding the net in Serie A.