Milan and Bologna will play on Saturday the 27th of January at 8:45 pm in the 22nd week of the Serie A. The match is going to be staged in Milano at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza. The encounter will be officiated by Davide Massa.
Milan is in the 3rd position in the league with 45 points. It comes from a 2-3 win against Udinese in its last match in the Serie A. As of now, it has won 14 times, draw 3 times, and lost 4 times.
Milan won the last 4 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 9th of December against Atalanta and the score was 3-2.
Bologna is in the 8th place in the league with 32 points. It comes from a 2-1 loss against Cagliari in its last match in the Serie A. So far, it has won 8 times, draw 8 times, and lost 4 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Milan
Milan has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up during the season (13 times or 61.90%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (13 times), 4-2-3-1 (6 times), 4-4-2 (once) and 3-4-3 (once).
Stefano Pioli is expected to play against Bologna with the following players: Mike Maignan, Theo Hernández, Simon Kjær, Matteo Gabbia, Davide Calabria, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Yacine Adli, Tijjani Reijnders, Rafael Leão, Christian Pulišić and Olivier Giroud.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Milan would be 28.27.
Stefano Pioli will probably not be able to employ Marco Pellegrino because of injury.
Mattia Caldara, Pierre Kalulu, Tommaso Pobega, Malick Thiaw, Fikayo Tomori, Ismael Bennacer and Samuel Chukwueze will definitely miss the match.
Bologna
Bologna has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up during the season (19 times or 95.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (19 times) and 4-3-3 (once).
Thiago Motta is expected to play against Milan with the following players: Lukasz Skorupski, Victor Kristiansen, Sam Beukema, Riccardo Calafiori, Lorenzo De Silvestri, Remo Freuler, Michel Aebischer, Kacper Urbanski, Riccardo Orsolini , Lewis Ferguson and Joshua Zirkzee.
If the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Bologna would be 26.64.
Thiago Motta will probably not be able to employ Alexis Saelemaekers and Jesper Karlsson because of injury.
Adama Soumaoro , Oussama El Azzouzi and Dan Ndoye will definitely miss the match.
Thiago Motta will not be able to have the presence of Stefan Posch who is suspended.