A left of McGinn decides at first dominated by the British. The Polish goalkeeper also parades a penalty of Watkins, in the final the Italian team does not use a couple of interesting situations

By our correspondent Matteo from the vine

September 25, 2025 (Edit on September 26, 2025 | 00:04) – Birmingham (UK)

The only truly “brazen”? Lukasz Skorupski. In front of an Aston Villa who wins the first race season, which goes like a train first and like a “regional” then, the Polish goalkeeper does no difference, makes flights and tongues, parades and mouths, takes heated on his hands and para: even a penalty, to Watkins and in front of a villa Park that already foretolded the flooding from the Europa League. Moral: it is true that Castro takes a crossbar (on Orsolini’s assist: who entered too late and who knows why not from the first minute), that Vitik or Odgaard also come to look for the same in the second half, but that first half so – so passive – was not a nice seeing and indeed it will serve for the next races. Except that the brazenness was needed now, to give a signal to this tournament. The initial Italian choices certainly did not help.

Wrong choices

There are those who remain at rest for a muscle problem suffered yesterday morning (Dibu Martinez) and those for hypothetically reasoned turnover as well as rather surprising: Italian “spring” initially on the bench Orsolini and also Rowe, starts with Bernardeschi who had already played owner against Genoa, recovers Odgaard and being “on fire” of Santiago Castro could only lead to his ownership; The Argentine goes on the pitch and, like a year ago in the Champions League, the first also falls to him in the Europa League. Emery, king of (this) Cup, in addition to not having the Argentine goalkeeper initially puts Watkins close to him. When I think back to the first 45 ‘you make a “Bignami” very simple and clear and rapid of the initial choices: one give dividends but to Italian, not at all. Because Skorupski once spends to see the … Monsters: McGinn’s goal (Bernardeschi does not cover on bundia at the beginning of the action, Freuler does not shield the Scottish) arrives with surgical blow but for the rest Guessand and twice Malen come to ensure that Bologna seem to have come down from the bed ten minutes before. Vitik is always in deferred on the Dutch attacker, Zortea often confuses himself, Ferguson undergoes the physicality of Kamara but above all Odgaard and Bernardeschi show that they do not have the passage against an English team. Today. The cars of the first and the confused failure of the second (which, however, at 6 ‘makes an exceptional recovery on the first opportunity-villains) create gates and imbalances in Bologna that ends up in a shot, plague, where Skoruspki seems to be the bear of the amusement park: always targeted. Among other things, the asphyxiating football, among other things, in the first part of the race is not seen: there is only one hypothesis of a man on man because the villains have an anticipated launch of hands, always. And Bologna, when it has the ball, does not have the complete “garra”.

penalty and crossbar

When you think that everything is very different in the second half, well, a little bit there: because the Aston Villa lowers the claims a little but also physical and technical quality while Bologna continues to look for something that does not arrive, always with the same pawns that Italian leaves the field convinced that they are daughters of right choices. But no: Bernardeschi never really enters the games, the ferocious pressure is more postponed than punctual and after 20 ‘there is also a penalty for the villa, Zorttea who does not know how he loses the ball on the trocar, Watkins who runs away, Vitik that makes everything from penalty while an offside that seems solar does not exist. The attacker who took over as if he were in the living room of the house and Skorupski becomes even more brazen: he remains stationary and the ball arrives just right on him. At 21 ‘of the second half it is still 1-0, incredibly. A few minutes later, Italian puts his Task Force in place: inside Orsolini (in addition to Holm and Rowe), and it was also now. First ball, assists of the Ascoli wing and pumpkin Castro sub -underplace: crossbar. A half smile inside an evening in which Bologna tried to the last giving the idea of ​​having lost time and an opportunity despite Batman-Skorupski.



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