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- SPAL vs Bologna Predictions: Bologna to Take at Least a Point
- SPAL haven’t won any of their last 8 matches (Bologna or Draw ) — 7/15 Sunbets
- SPAL have scored 1 goal or less in 6 of their last 7 fixtures (Spal: Under 1.5 Goals ) — 4/9 Betfair
Match Preview
Two teams positioned near the foot of the Serie A table go head to head in this week’s free SPAL vs Bologna preview and while the away team have little fear of being relegated, the home side look like they are running out of time to beat the drop. The Spallini are four points adrift of safety and need a huge effort to avoid returning to Serie B at the first time of asking.
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Ahead of our SPAL vs Bologna betting tips, the Spallini are on a run of eight games without a win. Their last victory came against the league’s worst side Benevento just before Christmas last year, and that remains their own triumph in fifteen outings in total. The Serie A new boys have only won three of their twenty-five league contests since their arrival in the competition last summer. SPAL haven’t scored for three successive games now.
Bologna have been largely disappointing this season and they have started 2018 the same way they finished the previous year. The Rossoblu have lost four of their six matches since January 1st, though they didn’t manage to wrangle a win out of their most recent game against Sassuolo. Roberto Donadoni’s men are one of two clubs yet to draw an away fixture in Serie A in 2017/18. The other club yet to end on their travels level is Benevento.
SPAL vs Bologna Prediction and Betting Advice
As we explained earlier, the Spallini have only won three of their league matches in Italy’s top tier since their promotion there last year. Their appalling win record suggests that they don’t really belong at that level. The fact that their only win in fifteen games came against the league’s bottom club carried great weight in our SPAL vs Bologna bets.
The Rossoblu are having a largely miserable campaign themselves, though they have at least managed to win nine Serie A games in 2017/18. One of those wins came against the opponents next week in the reverse fixture between the two in October 2015. That day a goal from Andrea Poli helped the hosts to a 2-1 victory.
Roberto Donadoni’s side have actually won more often on the road than at home this season, picking up five victories compared to just four at the Stadio Renato Dall'Ara. Next week, they travel to play a team with little confidence to add to their subpar quality. Bologna should be able to at least avoid defeat at the Stadio Paolo Mazza and the double chance odds on today’s Serie A football we found at Sunbets are the perfect way to back that outcome.
In the second part of our Italian football forecast and SPAL vs Bologna predictions, we take a closer look at the home team’s goal scoring statistics. The Spallini have hit the net only twenty-three times in their twenty-five Serie A outings in 2017/18, which breaks down to a paltry average of under one goal per ninety minutes.
Head Coach Leonardo Semplici would have expected his team’s productivity in the final third to be much less than it was in Serie B, though he would have hoped for a slightly better return than his attackers have provided. His players have scored one goal or less in six of their last seven fixtures.
The Biancazzurri did have a spell in mid-December where they scored twice in three consecutive matches, but even including those, they have only hit more than one goal in a game four times in total from their last twenty contests stretching all the way back to September. With their forward line looking decidedly blunt, they are unlikely to carve out many chances against the Greyhounds on March 3rd. Betfair’s odds for SPAL to score under 1.5 goals are brilliant value and too good to miss out on.
