New bench for Pioli, the now former AC Milan coach is ready for a new adventure: what the bookmakers’ odds say.
The Serie A championship that has just ended gave great surprises, especially in the upper part of the standings. Yes, all right, the Scudetto ended up in the hands of Inter – the Nerazzurri celebrated their 20th star – and in the Champions League the other two bigs, Milan and Juventus, also qualified, but no one could have imagined that among the top five there would also be Atalanta and Bologna.
Or rather, the presence of La Dea, by now a beautiful reality of Italian soccer for a few years already, which with Gian Piero Gasperini on the bench has already participated several times in the cup with the big ears and this time will even do so as defending Europa League champions, is not so surprising. Bologna, on the other hand, is for all intents and purposes the “intruder,” since the initial goal of the Felsinei was to bring home a quiet salvation and get closer to the Conference League zone. Thiago Motta’s troop, however, went far beyond expectations, qualifying for the Champions League for the first time in its history. Bologna had participated in the old Champions Cup back in 1964, but since the main European event changed its name in the early 1990s, it had never managed to put p