The Roma crisis hit new levels after a 3-2 home defeat to Bologna, where Stephan El Shaarawy’s brace was unable to stop the likely Ivan Juric dismissal.
The mood in the Giallorossi camp was bleak with the assumption it was Juric’s final game, regardless of the result. Paulo Dybala, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Mario Hermoso and Alexis Saelemaekers were still out injured, while the Rossoblu were coming off back-to-back Serie A victories, despite missing Martin Erlic, Oussama El Azzouzi, Michel Aebischer and Nicolò Cambiaghi.
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Juan Miranda’s long-range volley was straight at Mile Svilar and Bologna came close when Riccardo Orsolini flashed a dangerous ball across the face of goal, but two teammates sliding in failed to connect. Instead, Dan Ndoye crashed heavily into the upright with his shin and had to be stretchered off.
Nonetheless, Bologna took the lead from a corner when Orsolini’s set play was flicked on by Jhon Lucumi for Santiago Castro to bundle over the line despite the presence of Zeki Celik.
Roma almost equalised moments later when Manu Koné ran down the left and pulled back for Matias Soulé, who was off balance and slipping as he steered it onto the underside of the bar from eight yards.
Karlsson got the Miranda pull-back stuck under his feet to waste an opportunity from six yards after the restart, while Stephan El Shaarawy’s free kick was not far off target.
El Shaarawy did draw Roma level moments later when he got his looping header to a Gianluca Mancini cross from the right, Skorupski nowhere near strong enough on the save as it squirmed into the far bottom corner.
However, it lasted no longer than three minutes as Roma poured forward and left huge gaps at the back. Orsolini started the run on the Castro cross-field pass in midfield and cut inside for the left-foot finish, which looped over a helpless Svilar with the deflection off Angelino.
Evan Ndicka’s volley on a corner tested Skorupski, while Thijs Dallinga had the ball in the net for Bologna on 72 minutes, but only after Ndicka’s interception on the Orsolini strike hit him on the arm.
It was only a warning, as Bologna did make it 3-1 soon after when Karlsson completed a give and go with Miranda down the left and his angled drive squirmed under the body of Svilar.
El Shaarawy was the last to give in and got it back to 3-2 with a fantastic right-foot finish into the far top corner from a very tricky angle.
Dovbyk could’ve made it 3-3 only to hit a fresh-air shot on the Eldor Shomurodov roll across from the right.
Roma 2-3 Bologna
Castro 25 (B), El Shaarawy 63, 82 (R), Orsolini 66 (B), Karlsson 77 (B)
Player statistic
| 25' |  |
Santiago Castro | ||
| 45' |  |
Lorenzo De Silvestri |
| Stephan El Shaarawy | |
63' | ||
| 66' | |
Riccardo Orsolini (Assist: Santiago Castro) | ||
| 68' | |
Juan Miranda | ||
| 77' | |
Jesper Karlsson (Assist: Juan Miranda) | ||
| Stephan El Shaarawy (Assist: Eldor Shomurodov) |
|
82' | ||
| Gianluca Mancini | |
87' | ||
| 87' | |
Jesper Karlsson | ||
| Stephan El Shaarawy | |
90+6' |
Match statistic
