Bologna vs Monza

Bologna won the first and most recent of their five matches against Monza in Serie A, with two draws and a victory of the Brianzoli in the other three games.

Monza have a win and a draw in two Serie A away matches against Bologna; the Rossoblu could become the second team, after Hellas Verona, to fail to achieve even one success in their first three home matches against the Brianza team in the competition.

Bologna have won three of the last four matches against teams that started the MD bottom of the Serie A table (D1), scoring 2.5 goals on average per game (10 goals), after having had three draws and one defeat in their previous four.

Bologna have drawn five of their first nine home games this league season (W3 D1), including the most recent game against Roma; only four times have they drawn more in their first 10 Serie A home games of the season, most recently in 1989-90 (6).

Last time out against Fiorentina, Salvatore Bocchetti won his first game in Serie A during his ninth match in the competition, becoming the first coach to take as many as nine games to find his first victory since Marco Baroni (17); Monza last won two league games in a row last March, against Genoa and Cagliari.