Parma vs. Bologna - prediction, team news, lineups

Winless successful 4 Serie A matches, Parma big sixth-placed Bologna astatine Stadio Ennio Tardini successful Sunday's gameweek 10 fixture, aiming to unafraid consecutive wins successful the Derby dell'Emilia for the archetypal clip since 2012.

The Crociati are 3 places and 2 points supra the relegation zone, portion the in-form Rossoblu could ascent into the division's apical 4 with maximum points and favourable results elsewhere.

Match preview

After consecutive cleanable sheets, Parma was ever warring a losing conflict travelling to associated leaders Roma during the week, and they came unstuck successful the superior successful Wednesday's 2-1 defeat.

That nonaccomplishment means that the Yellow and Blues person failed to triumph successful 4 top-flight matches since a 2-1 triumph implicit Torino astatine the extremity of September, a tally present reaching a period of league action.

A cardinal situation for Carlos Cuesta’s squad is Parma's inability to people regularly this season, with their 2 goals against Torino making up fractional of the team's 4 goals this term.

Having failed to people successful 3 of their 4 winless matches — 2 draws, 2 losses — different goalless lucifer against Sunday's opponents could spot Parma slipping into the bottommost three, with 18th-placed Hellas Verona and second-bottom Fiorentina 2 and 3 points down the 15th-placed Crociati.

Supporters astatine the Tardini volition anticipation for a repetition of the corresponding fixture past season, erstwhile their squad defeated Bologna 2-0 successful February, but that would mean securing back-to-back wins implicit the Rossoblu for the archetypal clip since victories successful May and December 2012.

Vincenzo Italiano's men purpose to debar that result against their determination rivals and determination connected from past season's Emilian derby, erstwhile they failed to score.

The 2-0 nonaccomplishment astatine the Tardini followed a goalless gully astatine Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, but the Rossoblu's signifier points to a antithetic effect connected Sunday.

Effectively astatine other ends of the signifier table, Bologna beryllium 4th implicit the past 5 rounds, portion Parma are 14th successful the aforesaid period.

However, the Felsinians volition beryllium alert of their mixed distant results, which see 1 win, 2 draws and 2 defeats aft 5 roadworthy games.

Their three-match unbeaten tally connected the roadworthy has followed 2 1-0 defeats to Roma and AC Milan, but Italiano's squad person since netted 2 successful each of their 2-2 draws with Lecce and Fiorentina, either broadside of a 2-0 triumph implicit Cagliari.

Considering that Parma person scored the joint-fewest goals (four) successful Serie A, Bologna volition backmost themselves to people capable to unafraid lone their 2nd distant triumph of the play and 5th overall.

With some Milan clubs successful 3rd and 4th connected 18 points, and Como connected 16, Bologna, with 15 points, could extremity the circular successful the coveted Champions League spots; however, triumph is essential, and results successful different games volition request to spell their mode for that to happen.

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Team News

Parma person respective wounded concerns, with Matija Frigan (knee), Jacob Ondrejka (ankle), Mandela Keita (knee), Gaetano Oristanio (muscle) and Emanuele Valeri (ankle) each sidelined.

Only Mateo Pellegrino has scored much than 1 extremity for the Crociati this season, and the guardant aims to adhd to his 2 league goals connected Sunday.

Bologna volition invited backmost Emil Holm aft the defender served a one-match prohibition pursuing his reddish paper against Fiorentina.

Having sustained nary evident wounded successful the gully with Torino, Bologna's lone absentee remains Ciro Immobile, who is retired owed to a thigh injury.

With Federico Bernardeschi and Thijs Dallinga not providing the decisive contributions expected, Italiano is apt to reinstate Riccardo Orsolini and Santiago Castro into the squad to debar a 3rd consecutive league crippled without victory. 

Parma imaginable starting lineup:

Suzuki; Prato, Circati, Ndiaye, Britschgi; Bernabe, Estevez, Sorensen, Ordonez; Pellegrino, Cutrone

Bologna imaginable starting lineup:

Skorupski; Holm, Heggem, Lucumi, Miranda; Freuler, Moro; Orsolini, Odgaard, Dominguez; Castro

We say: Parma 1-2 Bologna

Given Bologna's scoring tally distant from home, Italiano volition anticipation to payment from Orsolini's expected instrumentality to the Rossoblu team.

With Parma struggling successful the attack, the sixth-placed visitors volition backmost themselves to triumph the Emilian derby and enactment past season's 2-0 decision successful this fixture down them.

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