The best shots of Monza-Bologna 1-2, match of the 5th Serie A round.
The 5th round of Serie A brings joy to Bologna, which, after many initial difficulties, manages to secure its first victory. The rossoblù defeat a resilient Monza 2-1, which fails to achieve another triumph. Urbanski breaks the deadlock at the 24th minute, but Djuric equalizes, taking advantage of a mistake by Ravaglia (44′): the teams go into the break tied, and in the second half, Castro settles the match with a great shot (80′).
IL TABELLINO
Monza (3-4-2-1): Turati 6.5; Izzo 5.5 (36′ st Bondo sv), Pablo Marì 5, Carboni 5; Pedro Pereira 5.5 (43′ st D’Ambrosio sv), Pessina 6.5, Bianco 6.5, Kyriakopoulos 5.5; Dany Mota 5.5 (25′ st Forson 6), Maldini 6 (25′ st Caprari 6); Djuric 6.5 (36′ st Maric sv). Subs: Pizzignacco, Mazza, Valoti, Postiglione, Scaramelli. Coach: Nesta
Bologna (4-1-4-1): Ravaglia 5; De Silvestri 5.5 (33′ st Posch sv), Casale 5.5 (1′ st Beukema 6), Lucumì 6, Lykogiannis 6.5; Freuler 6.5; Odgaard 5.5 (25′ st Iling-Junior 6), Urbanski 6.5 (33′ st Moro sv), Aebischer 6, Ndoye 6.5; Castro 7. Subs: Skorupski, Bagnolini, Erlic, Orsolini, Karlsson, Corazza, Dallinga, Dominguez, Juan Miranda, Fabbian. Coach: Italiano
Referee: Massa.
Scorers: 24′ Urbanski (B), 43′ Djuric (M), 35′ st Castro (B).
Booked: Carboni (M), Izzo (M), Lucumì (B), Pablo Marì (M), Castro (B)
STATISTICS
After a series of six games without a win (4D, 2L), Bologna secured a Serie A victory for the first time since May (2-0 vs Napoli).
Excluding penalties, Milan Djuric scored two consecutive foot goals (not interrupted by headers) for the second time in Serie A, after doing so between November 2014 and February 2015, with his first two goals in the competition.
Kacper Urbanski scored at the age of 20 years and 15 days, and among Bologna midfielders in the last 20 years, only Musa Juwara (18 years and 192 days) and Godfred Donsah (19 years and 153 days) have scored younger in Serie A.
Among the teams currently in Serie A, Monza has waited the longest for a league victory: 14 matches (6D, 8L).
Santiago Castro (September 2004), along with Patrick Dorgu (October 2004), is one of two players born after 01/01/2004 to have scored in each of the last two Serie A seasons.
Since arriving at Monza (January 2024), Milan Djuric is the player who has scored the most goals for the club in Serie A (six).
First Serie A goal for Kacper Urbanski, the midfielder is the first Pole to score for Bologna in the top tier.
Kacper Urbanski (born 2004) is the youngest midfielder to score in this Serie A season.
Bologna returned to play a league match after a Champions League/Cup Winners’ Cup engagement for the first time since October 18, 1964 (59 years and 339 days ago, a 0-1 loss vs Juventus).
Today marks Pablo Marí’s 100th appearance in the top five European leagues (84 in Serie A).
