Bologna are not a bad team, far from it. At the beginning of the month, Sinisa Mihajlovic’s squad defeated Lazio easily. But even so, it was expected for Milan to win this match. After some drama – final score 2-4 at Stadio Renato Dall’Ara.It started great for the Rossoneri. They needed 16 minutes to take the lead – a great pass by Zlatan Ibrahimovic found Rafael Leao in acres of space after a fine counter attack. Portuguese striker brought the ball under control before firing it past the helpless Lukasz Skorupski from close range.An important milestone for the boss, here’s to 100 more! 👏🔴⚫ 100° panchina rossonera per Mister Pioli 👏🔴⚫ #BolognaMilan #SempreMilan pic.twitter.com/eALogOjYJ3— AC Milan (@acmilan) October 23, 2021 To make it even better for the guests, Bologna’s Adama Soumaoro earned a red card in the 20th minute.It kept coming to Milan. In the 35th minute, Stefano Pioli’s men doubled their lead via Davide Calabria. The ball rebounded and arrived at hit feet just outside the box. He didn’t think twice and fired a shot towards the middle of the goal, which Skorupski was unable to keep out.Bennacer SAVES Milan 🔴⚫️2 men down and Bologna managed to nearly hold on to their comeback.Heartbreaking for them, showing incredible will to get themselves back in the game. Great effort, expect nothing less from a Mihajlovic team 👏 pic.twitter.com/YpwaA6XCTd— Italian Football TV (@IFTVofficial) October 23, 2021 Perfect scenario right? Well…First half ended with everyone wondering how many goals Milan will score and make this evening a hell on Earth for Bologna’s supporters. However, situation started going in a totally opposite direction.Ibrahimovic, Milan’s fans favourite, scored but on the wrong end of the pitch. At 40 years old, after playing 957 games and scoring 565 goals, Zlatan has scored an own goal for the first time in his career.And only three minutes later, Gambia’s own Musa Barrow leveled the score. Barrow connected with a pass inside the box and slammed home inside the right post. Ciprian Tatarusanu couldn’t do anything about it.5 – Musa Barrow has been involved in five Serie A goals (three goals, two assists) since the start of October, at least two more than any other player in this period. Amazing.#BolognaMilan— OptaPaolo 🏆 (@OptaPaolo) October 23, 2021 Stadium exploded with joy and rightfully so. Momentum was on the home team’s side and now they saw the light at the end of the tunnel. However, referee Paolo Valeri shocked everyone in the 58th minute when he pulled out another red card towards a Bologna player – Roberto Soriano. Truth be told, Bologna’s midfielder deserved it.Everyone thought that Milan will surely take the advantage straight away but Rossoneri couldn’t get passed the wall of remaining Bologna players who focused on defending the point they had in the bag.Few hafl-chances for Milan were overshadowed by a colossal one that Bologna’s Marko Arnautovic had in the 78th minute.AC Milan have been playing against 10 men since minute 20 and went into halftime with a 2-0 lead. Bologna managed to fight back to 2-2, but got another red card in minute 58.78 minutes played now and AC Milan still drawing against the 9 men of Bologna who almost made it 3-2.. pic.twitter.com/DXuSKHWYQY— 𝐀𝐅𝐂 𝐀𝐉𝐀𝐗 💎 (@TheEuropeanLad) October 23, 2021 Guests from the “city of fashion” eventually managed to score against the outnumbered opponent. It was the 85th minute when Algerian Ismael Bennacer showed perfect technique and produced a first-time effort from just outside the box that went into the bottom left corner.40 – Zlatan Ibrahimovic (40 years, 20 days) is the second player to have delivered an assist in Serie A at 40 years of age since 2004/05, the first was Francesco Totti (40 years, 145 days v Torino in 2017). Generous.#BolognaMilan— OptaPaolo 🏆 (@OptaPaolo) October 23, 2021 Hearts were broken all over the stands. After the conceded goal, Mihajlovic’s men just didn’t have enough strength to chase after their third. In such circumstances, an ace such as Ibrahimovic sees an opportunity to score. And he did so in the 90th minute of the match.Milan see themselves at the top of Serie A, one point and one game more than the perfect-score Napoli who face Jose Mourinho’s Roma tomorrow evening.SERIE A – ROUND 9FridayTorino – Genoa 3-2 (2-0)/Sanabria 14, Pobega 31, Brekalo 77 – Destro 70, Caicedo 81/Sampdoria – Spezia 2-1 (2-0)/Gyasi 15 og, Candreva 36 – Verde 90+5/SaturdaySalernitana – Empoli 2-4 (0-4)/Ranieri 48, Ismajli 55 og – Pinamonti 2, 45 pen, Cutrone 11, Strandberg 13 og/Sassuolo – Venezia 3-1 (1-1)/Berardi 37, Henry 50 og, Frattesi 67 – Okereke 32/Bologna – Milan 2-4 (0-2)/Ibrahimovic 49 og, Barrow 52 – Leao 16, Calabria 35, Bennacer 84, Ibrahimovic 90/Sunday13:30: (1.45) Atalanta (4.70) Udinese (8.00)16:00: (1.70) Fiorentina (3.90) Cagliari (5.50)16:00: (3.25) Verona (3.50) Lazio (2.30)19:00: (2.85) Roma (3.40) Napoli (2.60)21:45: (2.25) Inter (3.50) Juventus (3.35)
