Opposition Focus | Ten things to know about Bologna

There are just two matches to go until the end of the season, with Juventus' final away game seeing them travel to Bologna for Monday's Serie A encounter at the Renato Dall'Ara Stadium.

Both sides sit on 67 points on the Serie A table, with both having secured Champions League football for next season.

Ahead of the 20:45 CEST kick-off, here are ten things to know about the Rossoblu.

1. Bologna have earned 67 points in 36 games this season, in their history in Serie A only three times have they done better in the three-points-per-win era: 69 in 1930/31, 71 in 1931/32 and 76 in 1963/64 (in all these three cases, the championship involved 18 teams).
2. Bologna will play the Champions League for the first time in their history; considering the Champions Cup as well, the Rossoblù will play the tournament for only the second time, after the 1964/65 campaign with Fulvio Bernardini as coach, when they were eliminated in the first round against Anderlecht.
3. Thiago Motta's men have kept a clean sheet in 11 home games this season: in the top five European leagues, only Torino have done better (13).
4. Bologna is the team that has scored the most goals in injury time (seven) in Serie A.
5. Only Inter (19) have conceded fewer goals than Bologna (27) and Juventus (28) in the league so far this season.
6. Riccardo Calafiori has provided five assists in 2024 in Serie A, and is the first Bologna defender to have provided five assists in a single season since this type of data has been collected.
7. No defender has won more tackles than Stefan Posch this season (45, like Nehuén Pérez).
8. After failing to score in his first five Serie A matches against Juventus, Riccardo Orsolini has scored two goals in the last five matches played against the Bianconeri, both in his two most recent home matches (23/05/2021 and 04/30/2023).
9. Among forwards who have more than 10 goals and more than three assists in Europe’s top five leagues, only Bukayo Saka (September 2001) and Nicolas Jackson (June 2001) are younger than Joshua Zirkzee (May 2001), who so far has scored 11 goals and provided four assists this campaign.
10. Lorenzo De Silvestri (431) is close to overtaking Leonardo Bonucci (431) in 42nd place on the list of players with the most appearances in the history of Serie A.