Cagliari and Bologna are going to face off on Sunday the 9th of January at 2:30 pm in the 21st week of the Serie A. The match will be staged in Cagliari at the Sardegna Arena. The encounter will be officiated by Davide Ghersini.
Cagliari occupies the 18th place in the table with 13 points. It comes from a 1-2 win against Sampdoria in its last match in the Serie A. Until now, it has won twice, draw 7 times, and lost 11 times.
Bologna occupies the 11th position in the standings with 27 points. It comes from a 0-3 win against Sassuolo in its last match in the Serie A. Up to now, it has won 8 times, draw 3 times, and lost 8 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Cagliari
Cagliari has mostly adopted the 3-5-2 line-up most used during the season (12 times or 60.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-5-2 (12 times), 4-4-2 (3 times), 5-3-2 (2 times), 4-2-3-1 (2 times) and 3-4-3 (once).
Walter Mazzarri is expected to play against Bologna with the following players: A. Cragno, G. Altare, A. Carboni, M. Lovato, C. Lykogiannis, R. Marin, A. Deiola, A. Grassi, R. Bellanova, M. Rog and L. Pavoletti.
In case that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Cagliari would be 26.09.
J. Cáceres Silva, L. Ceppitelli, D. Godín Leal, S. Walukiewicz, N. Nández Acosta, C. Oliva Giménez, K. Strootman, K. Baldé Diao and D. Ceter Valencia will definitely miss the match.
Bologna
Bologna has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up most used during the season (10 times or 52.63%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (10 times), 4-2-3-1 (5 times), 3-5-2 (once), 3-1-4-2 (once), 5-3-2 (once) and 4-3-3 (once).
Siniša Mihajlović is expected to play against Cagliari with the following players: Ł. Skorupski, B. Soumaoro, K. Bonifazi, A. Theate, M. Dijks, L. De Silvestri, M. Svanberg, R. Soriano, N. Sansone, R. Orsolini and M. Arnautović.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Bologna would be 28.64.
M. Molla, I. M’baye, G. Medel Soto, N. Domínguez, A. Hickey, J. Schouten, E. Vignato, M. Barrow, F. Santander Mereles and S. van Hooijdonk will definitely miss the match.