Bologna achieves its first victory with Vincenzo Italiano as coach, winning 2-1 against Monza in an away game. The match saw goals from Urbanski, Djuric, and Castro. This win helps Bologna break the ice and rise in the standings to six points, while Monza continues to linger at the bottom with only three points.

Urbanski breaks the deadlock in the 24th minute, skillfully making his way into the box and, with a great assist from Lykogiannis, scores his first Serie A goal with a well-placed header. Just before halftime, in the 43rd minute, Djuric levels the score by capitalizing on a rebound from Ravaglia, tapping it in with his left foot.

The decisive moment of the match comes in the 80th minute when Castro receives the ball at the edge of the area, turns sharply, and unleashes a powerful shot to the right, finding the back of the net past Turati. The home side pushes hard for an equalizer, but they are thwarted by the solid defense of the rossoblù.

Stats before the game

The next match will be the fifth in Serie A between Monza and Bologna: the balance is perfectly balanced so far, with one win each and two draws in the four previous matches between the two teams in the top flight.

After conceding two goals in the first of four matches played against Bologna in Serie A, Monza have kept a clean sheet in each of the last three matches against the rossoblù in the tournament (one 1-0 win and two goalless draws): against no other team have the Brianza team recorded a higher number of clean sheets in Serie A (three also against Salernitana). Bologna has not scored in three consecutive matches against Monza in Serie A: against no team have the rossoblù had a longer open streak of matches without goals in the top flight (three also against Cesena). Furthermore, the last time the Emilians did not find the net in more games in a row against the same opponent in the tournament dates back to the period between September 2019 and May 2021 (four in that case, against Genoa).

Of the teams currently in Serie A, Monza is the one that has been waiting for a win for the longest time in the championship: 13, in which they have recorded six draws and seven defeats (the last success was on 16 March 2024 against Cagliari, 1-0 at home).

Bologna has won only two of their last 12 games in Serie A, recording eight draws and two defeats in the period; since the beginning of last April, in fact, the rossoblù are one of the two teams that have drawn the most matches in the Italian top division (eight, in fact, on par with Juventus).

Bologna will return to play a league match after a Champions League engagement for the first time since October 18, 1964 (59 years and 339 days after this match): in that case, they lost 0-1 at Juventus, after a 0-0 draw against Anderlecht on neutral ground in the play-off of the first round of the Champions League (the Rossoblù were eliminated after a coin toss at the end of extra time).

While Monza is the team that has had the fewest total shots (24) in this championship, only Juventus (five) has suffered fewer shots on goal than the Brianza team (11, on par with Lazio and Lecce).