Thiago Motta’s adventure as coach ends with a painless defeat Bologna. The rossoblù fell at the Marassi, 2-0, against Genoa thanks to goals from Malinovskyi and Vitinha. With this success the Grifone closes its very positive season with 49 points and eleventh place alone, testimony to the great work put in place by the young coach Alberto Gilardino. However, the season for the Bolognese is fantastic and they risk finishing in fifth place if Atalanta scores two points in the next two matchdays in the matches against Torino and Fiorentina (the Nerazzurri will recover the match against the Viola on 2 June), but who are already qualified for the next edition of the Champions League.
Marassi’s match was open and balanced with the home team making the most of home field advantage in front of their fans against a team that no longer had anything to say to its championship. Thiago Motta he will no longer be the coach of Bologna next season but whoever replaces him will have the burden and honor of being able to play the most important club competition in Europe with the Italian-Brazilian coach who will instead, most likely, sit on the Juventus bench to try to make the definitive leap in quality, perhaps managing to bring the tricolor back to Turin after 4 years.
The match report
After 10 minutes of study the first ring, in the 11th minute, is from Genoa with Vitinha serving Gudmundsson with a last-gasp finish from Lucumí. With the first real attack in the 13th minute, the home team scored the lead Malinovskyi: Frendrup widens for Martin, who serves the former Atalanta player who pierces Ravaglia with his precise left foot. In the 24th minute Lucumì missed the clearance, with Ravaglia out of the posts, with Vitinha not realizing this and whose shot was blocked for a corner. Two minutes later Moro serves Fabbian very well who takes off with his header with the ball hitting the post. At the end of the first half, Vitinha was once again the protagonist with two good movements but with two conclusions that were literally to be forgotten.
In the second half in the 49th minute Fabbian tries with a great shot that gives Leali shivers with the ball slipping just outside the home team’s goal. In the 52nd minute Fabbian tries the shot again with Leali blocking the ball while a minute later Orsolini attempts the big shot with the ball which however doesn’t turn and ends up wide. In Bologna’s best moment, Vitinha scored Genoa’s 2-0 goal. Beukema loses the ball with Gudmundsson who quickly serves the Portuguese striker who blasts Ravaglia with a nice touch underneath. From that moment on, the hosts controlled the match until the end and the only things worth mentioning were the round of substitutions with the two coaches who also brought the third goalkeepers Sommariva and Bagnolini onto the field and the great opportunity wasted by Gudmundsson in the 91st minute who fired a shot from a few steps away after Sommariva’s imperfect clearance on Ekuban’s shot.
The scoreboard
GENOA (3-5-2): Leali (86′ Sommariva); Citizens (77′ Matturro), Vogliacco, Vasquez; Sabelli (63′ Spence), Malinovskyi (63′ Strootman), Frendrup, Thorsby, Martin; Gudmundsson, Vitinha (77′ Ekuban). Coach Alberto Gilardino
BOLOGNA (4-3-3): Ravaglia (86′ Bagnolini); De Silvestri (86′ Corazza), Beukema, Lucumí, Lykogiannis; El Azzouzi, Moro, Fabbian (61′ Odgaard); Orsolini (61′ Urbanski), Castro, Saelemaekers (71′ Karlsson). Coach Thiago Motta
Markers: 13′ Malinovskyi (G), 59′ Vitinha (G)
Warned: El Azzouzi (B), Castro (B), Leali (G)
Referee: Alberto Santoro (Messina)
