Maiorca-Bologna is a friendly and will be played on Wednesday at 18:00: news, statistics, formations, predictions, live TV and streaming.
It’s December but it feels like August. No, not because of the weather but purely because of football. The World Cup is on, the main leagues are at a standstill and the Serie A clubs are playing their usual friendly matches to prepare for the second half of the season after the two-month stop due to the World Cup, which is now in its final phase.
Thiago Motta’s Bologna, for example, recently faced Kapfenberger, a team playing in Austria’s second league. Goals galore for the first outing of the Rossoblù, who scored nine goals: three in the first half and six in the second.
After the feast of goals (without goal scorer Arnautovic), the level is set to rise in the match against Mallorca, a club that, just like the Felsinei, is fighting to keep its category in the Spanish Liga. Motta and his team flew to sunny Palma to play their second December friendly and put minutes in their legs ahead of their first official match in 2023. Next 4 January, Bologna will be on the scene in the capital, where they will try to take away at least a point against José Mourinho’s Roma. The Italo-Brazilian coach, who took over from the exonerated Sinisa Mihajlovic, after a period of acclimatisation seems to have found the right key to turn around the Emilian team, which had started off badly.
In the last four championship matches, four victories came against Lecce, Monza, Torino and Sassuolo. The only negative note was the heavy 6-1 loss last November against Inter at the San Siro. Mallorca, led by the goals of former Lazio player Muriqi – completely reborn in Spain – is eleventh in La Liga, with a good margin on the relegation zone. They are back from seven consecutive useful results and will start again in just six days, with the King’s Cup match against Real Union Club.
Muriqi
The Prediction
Without the injured Sansone, De Silvestri, Bonifazi, Zirkzee and without starting goalkeeper Skorupski, who took part in the World Cup with his Poland team, Motta should in any case field a competitive line-up, with goal scorer Arnautovic starting at 1′. There should be no shortage of goals, bearing in mind that Mallorca scored a total of six goals in the two friendlies against Poblense and Mainz. Leaving aside the result, we imagine it will be a real game, in which both should score.
Maiorca v Bologna (Mayoral-Bologna) matchday squad
- MAIORCA (4-4-2): Rajkovic; Gonzalez, Valjent, Nastasic, Cufre; Baba, Rodriguez, Battaglia, Sanchez; Muriqi, Prats.
- BOLOGNA (4-2-3-1): Bardi; Posch, Soumaoro, Lucumì, Cambiaso; Medel, Schouten; Barrow, Ferguson, Orsolini; Arnautovic.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 2-2