Bologna vs Atalanta: predictions and betting tips on the Serie A match on January 9, 2023

Prediction on game Total over 2.5

Odds: 1.96

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On January 9, Renato Dall'Ara (Bologna) will host the match of the 17th round of the Serie A, in which Bologna will compete with Atalanta. The battle will start at 22:45 CET.

Bologna

The club was playing for several years under the rule of Sinisa Mihajlovic, who, despite the serious health problems, gave relatively good and, that is more important, stable results. But after a hard beginning of the new season, the Serbian specialist was fired. However, his successor, Thiago Motta, having the similar start, eventually raised his new wards quite high in the standings. The spurt, that had started at the end of October and brought 4 victories in 5 rounds, helped a lot – it goes without saying, “the Red and Blues”, who had just gained good shape, were not happy about the pause for the World Cup. After it, the team allowed Roma to shoot a penalty, which was successful and brought to “the Wolves” from the capital of Italy a 1-0 victory.

Atalanta

The team is fighting in a very important season. This season will give an answer whether the magical series of matches is behind for “the Goddess”, when it was one of the flagships of Italian football, or last year results were just an exception, the so-called unfortunate set of circumstances. Malinovsky and company made a great start – the team was unbeaten during 10 matches in Serie A. But the things fell apart again in the end of autumn. A home match ended with a 0-2 score, and then it was still possible to beat Empoli with the same score in the away struggle. “The Bergamascs” have not earned any points since that time, losing not only to the giants, Napoli and Inter, but also to Lecce. Taking into account the higher mentioned results, the falling back to the 6th position is more than logical. It seemed that after the pause, Gasperini's wards should have added in the game. Nevertheless, they conceded twice in the match with modest Spezia, and then made a “historical” comeback that resulted in a draw.

The statistics of head-to-head matches

Atalanta feels confident in the matches with Bologna – it lost only 1 match out of 13 previous ones. Even in the last season, that was more than unsuccessful for “the Bergamascs”, they took 4 points out of 6 possible, however, with unexpectedly low performance: a 0-0 draw and a 1-0 victory.

Predictions

Bookmakers consider Atalanta to be the favourite of the battle. At the same time, Bologna is more than combat-ready, thus, we are waiting for a good, spectacular match, which will result in “total: over 2.5” (odd: 1.96).

Prediction on game Total over 2.5

Odds: 1.96

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