BOLOGNA (ITALPRESS) – Bologna draws home for 2-2 with Celtic and sees the possibility of a direct qualification to the eighth finals of Europa League. After the double guest advantage, the Emilians draw in the shooting thanks to Dallinga and Rowe but without being able to complete a rebound against a team left in 10 for about an hour. It is a clamorous gap of Skorupski, after only 6 minutes, to pave the way to opponents. The goalkeeper misses a postponement and delivers the ball to Maeda, which serves in the center of the Hatate area that marks the easiest door of the goals. A few moments later, Skorupski puts us a piece and avoids 2-0 deviating in corner a close right of Yang. The hosts try to react and it is Dallinga to have a good chance at 19′, when its safe barreled right is shuffled by a decisive Trusty. The turn comes to 34′ when Hatate, already warned, goes to commit a naive foul on Pobega that costs him the second yellow and therefore red. Despite the numerical inferiority, the Scots find the doubling at 40′. Tierney kicks a corner from the right, Engels shrugs the ball and finds on the second Trusty pole, which takes a short walk with the help of the cross.
At the end, it takes a careful Schmeichel to save his thanks to an intervention in the corner that stops a frame of Moro. You go to rest on the double Scottish advantage. The men of Italian restart with the foot on the accelerator and, at 6′ of the shoot, it still takes a careful Schmeichel to neutralize a right in sight of Casale. Four minutes later, it is the cross to deny the joy of the goal to Dominguez. The deserved 1-2 arrives at 13′. Moro crossa from the right, the newly entered Odgaard prolongs on the second pole and Dallinga becomes ready to slip Schmeichel head. The reddish do not stop and at 27′ find the 2-2. Rowe does everything himself, takes the ball to the left and throws a powerful but central mancino from the limit that surprises the Danish goalkeeper. The Emilians go close to 3-2 to 41′, when Schmeichel makes a parade of pure instinct on a close right of Cambiaghi. It will be the last emotion of the match, which ends on 2-2. Next Thursday, Bologna will face the Maccabi Tel-Aviv on the neutral of Backa Topola, in Serbia, in what will be the last day of the first stage of the competition. The ranking sees the holders of the Coppa Italia climb to 12, with the nearest playoffs.
IL TABELLINO
BOLOGNA (4-3): Skorupski 5; Zortea 7, Casale 5.5 (40’st Lykogiannis sv), Heggem 5, Miranda 5; Moro 6.5, Pobega 6.5 (11’st Odgaard 6.5), Ferguson 5.5 (28’st Cambiaghi sv); Rowe 7.5, Dominguez 5.5 (28’st Orsolini sv); Dating 7. On the bench: Ravaglia, Holm, Pessina, Vitik, Baroncini, Lai, Castaldo, Negri. Coach: Italian 6
CELTIC (4-3-3): Schmeichel 6.5; Donovan 5.5 (32’st Ralston sv), Scales 6.5, Trusty 7.5, Tierney 6.5, McGregor 6, Engels 7 (43’st Paulo Bernardo sv); Hatate 5, Yang 5 (32’st Kenny sv), Maeda 7, Tounetki 6 (1’st Nygren 5.5). On the bench: Balikwisha, Sinisalo, McCowan, Doohan, Murray, Forrest, McArdle, Isiguzo. Coach: O’Neill
ARBITRO: Fotias (Grecia) 6
RETI: 6’pt Hatate, 40’pt Trusty, 13’st Dallinga, 27’st Rowe.
NOTES: covered sky, field in good condition. Expelled Hatate to 34′ pt for double admonition. Ammonito: Maeda, Miranda, O’Neill (all.). Angles 16-2. Recovery 2′ pt, 5′ st.
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