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Leaders Inter Milan Level With Napoli After Falling To Riccardo Orsolini Stunner At Bologna

Leaders Inter Milan Level With Napoli After Falling To Riccardo Orsolini Stunner At Bologna

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Inter Milan’s players react at the end of the Italian Serie A football match vs Bologna FC on April 20.© AFP Inter Milan are level with Napoli at the top of Serie A after Riccardo Orsolini fired Bologna to a last-gasp 1-0 win over the reigning champions on Sunday. Orsolini flashed home a stunning scissor-kick in the fourth minute of stoppage time to bring the house down at the Stadio Renato Dall’Ara and move Bologna into fourth. Inter’s tight battle for the Scudetto with Napoli looks likely to go down to the wire after a tired-looking Inter were punished with a low-key display which came in stark contrast to their thrilling Champions League win over Bayern Munich on Wednesday night. Simone Inzaghi’s team barely created a chance with nine of the 11 players who started against Bayern on Wednesday night on the Stadio Renato Dall’Ara pitch at kick-off. Inter have only won one of their last six Serie A matches away from home and Sunday’s defeat has given Napoli a clear window of …

Justin Baldoni Gets Slammed By Bigshot Hollywood Agent Amid His Legal Battle With Blake Lively; Calls Him ‘Bologna’

Justin Baldoni Gets Slammed By Bigshot Hollywood Agent Amid His Legal Battle With Blake Lively; Calls Him ‘Bologna’

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Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively have found themselves in the thick of it, once again. Over the last few months, everyone in the industry has been showing their support for one of the parties of their choosing. This time around though it was Baldoni who got slammed by a well-known Hollywood agent. Ari Emanuel who is an executive of the WME, had some scathing words for his past client.  As per The Hollywood Reporter, Emanuel appeared in an episode of Freakonomics Radio Live hosted by Stephen Dubner. There the 63-year-old made it clear there was no love lost between him and It Ends With Us Actor. He not only made sure to make his stance very clear on whose side he was on, but in the process, he also took a jab at Justin Baldoni’s surname.  He said, “It is a f—-d up, bad situation with what Bologna…Baldoni—whatever his name is doing.” Justin’s lawyer Bryan Freedman has replied to this statement, in what can be seen as a sarcastic remark, saying, “Mr. Ari Emanuel is notably one of the best agents, …

Bologna Create Club History, Pile More Misery On Struggling Borussia Dortmund In UEFA Champions League

Bologna Create Club History, Pile More Misery On Struggling Borussia Dortmund In UEFA Champions League

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Borussia Dortmund’s struggles continued on Tuesday after the troubled Bundesliga outfit fell to a 2-1 defeat at Bologna which dented their hopes of direct qualification for the last 16 of the Champions League. Goals in a matter of seconds in the second half from substitutes Thijs Dallinga and Samuel Iling-Junior gave Bologna their first ever win in the modern version of Europe’s elite club competition and handed Dortmund their fourth straight defeat in all competitions. Last season’s finalists Dortmund, who opened the scoring in the 15th minute through Serhou Guirassy‘s classy chipped penalty, are 13th on 12 points, one point from the top eight with other teams set to complete the penultimate round of league phase matches on Wednesday. Tuesday’s defeat piled more pressure on under-fire coach Nuri Sahin even though his players showed their support by joining him in a group hug after Guirassy netted his seventh goal in as many Champions league matches this season. “I think we will sit down together tonight or tomorrow in Dortmund. Right now the game …

Lille Fans Stabbed In ‘Ambush’ Before Bologna Champions League Clash: Club

Lille Fans Stabbed In ‘Ambush’ Before Bologna Champions League Clash: Club

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Representational Image.© AFP Two Lille fans were stabbed during an attack carried out by dozens of Bologna supporters before the two teams’ Champions League fixture, the French Ligue 1 club said on Wednesday. In a statement, Lille said the two fans “received medical treatment” after the attack outside a bar in the northern Italian city late on Tuesday. “The club unreservedly condemns this cowardly and intolerable attack, which contravenes all the values of football,” said Lille before Wednesday’s game. Italian media, citing local police, said 80 people, most likely Bologna supporters, assaulted around 30 Lille fans outside a bar in the city’s university district while armed with metal bars and belts. Videos published online show a large group of men, mostly dressed in black and wearing balaclavas roaming the streets. Police say during the attack three Lille fans were hurt in total, all three of whom were treated and then discharged from Bologna’s Sant’Orsola hospital. Lille are in contention for a spot in the play-offs for the Champions League’s last 16 as they …

Aston Villa Beat Bologna To Go Top Of The Champions League

Aston Villa Beat Bologna To Go Top Of The Champions League

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John McGinn said there is no limit to Aston Villa’s ambition in the Champions League after beating Bologna 2-0 to go top of the table in a dream return to the competition. Villa last played in the top tier of European football back in 1983 but Unai Emery’s transformation of a sleeping giant knows no bounds as they became the only side to register three wins from three Champions League games so far. McGinn’s free-kick flew beyond everyone into the far corner to open the scoring in the second half before Jhon Duran kept up his prolific strike rate on a rare start for the Colombian. “We don’t want to stop here. It puts us in a great position,” said McGinn, who joined the club when they were still in the second tier of English football in 2018. “What we are building here is amazing. “This is home for me. It is my seventh season here, we’ve had ups and downs. It has been a rollercoaster. Hopefully we can keep climbing.” Bologna, by …

Holders Real Madrid Face Dortmund, Liverpool In New-Look Champions League

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Holders Real Madrid will face Liverpool away and host Borussia Dortmund in a repeat of last season’s final in the league stage of the new-look Champions League, the draw for which took place on Thursday. Every team will play eight games against eight different opponents in the new format of Europe’s elite club competition, with all 36 clubs now pooled together into one league rather than split into groups. Madrid, who have signed France superstar Kylian Mbappe since winning a record-extending 15th European Cup, will also notably play AC Milan at home and will go to Atalanta. Real beat last season’s Europa League winners Atalanta in the UEFA Super Cup in Warsaw earlier this month. Liverpool, who are back in the Champions League after a one-season absence, will also notably meet Milan and take on tournament debutants Girona. However, supporters of the Anfield club will perhaps be most excited about the prospect of hosting German champions Bayer Leverkusen, coached by former Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso. Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, winners of the competition …

Juventus Score Three Late Goals To Salvage Draw At Bologna

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In a match that might have been a test of Thiago Motta‘s credentials to take over Juventus, his Bologna team made a blazing start but collapsed at the end and drew 3-3 with the Turin giants on Monday. Former Italy midfielder Motta’s contract with Bologna, where the 41-year-old has been since 2022, expires at the end of the season. His team have been a revelation this season and are already qualified for next season’s Champions League. Monday’s draw preserved third place, ahead of Juventus on tiebreak. Juventus playing their first match since Massimiliano Allegri was fired following a spectacular tantrum as his team won the Italian Cup last week, started in a daze. After two minutes, Riccardo Calafiori side-footed into the roof of net as the ball dropped to him in space following a corner. On 11 minutes, Argentinian Santiago Castro, a 19-year-old making his first Serie A start, headed in at the near post. The only challenge he had to survive was from teenage team-mate Kacper Urbanski, also eager to nod in …

Champions League Chasers Juventus And Bologna Held To Bore Draws

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Juventus and Bologna were both were held to goalless draws on Saturday as the Serie A clubs’ bids for Champions League football were slowed by Torino and Monza. A Turin derby stalemate and Bologna dropping points for the second straight week left third-placed Juve four points ahead of Bologna on an uneventful evening in Italy’s top flight. Italian clubs’ good performances in Europe this season means Serie A is almost guaranteed an extra place in next year’s revamped version of the continent’s top club competition. That should ensure that Juve will return to the European elite come September. They are 13 points ahead of Atalanta who are sixth and face Verona on Monday night. However, Massimiliano Allegri’s side have won just twice in their last 11 matches and are 19 points behind champions-elect Inter Milan after being title challengers in January. “We haven’t obtained our goals yet… it’s a football goal for those of us involved with the team but an economic one for the club,” said Allegri, whose team missed out on European football …

Serie A: Last-Gasp Bologna Consolidate Fourth At Empoli

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Serie A: Bologna defeat Empoli 1-0© Twitter Bologna continued their surprise Serie A charge to a Champions League spot on Friday after a stoppage-time winner by Giovanni Fabbian gave them a 1-0 win at Empoli. Substitute Fabbian scored on the rebound four minutes into added time to move Bologna six points clear of Roma in fifth spot, provisionally. The narrow victory comes at a crucial time in the season for Bologna, who last week were defeated 1-0 at home to runaway leaders Inter Milan after a run of six successive wins. Thiago Motta‘s side now find themselves just four points off Juventus in third, ahead of the Old Lady’s clash with 12th-placed Genoa on Sunday. Bologna are bidding to qualify for the Champions League for the first time, although the seven-time Italian champions played one round in the old European Cup in 1964, the same year that they most recently won the Scudetto. Last season’s ninth place was the highest Bologna had finished in Serie A for over a decade. Defeat leaves Empoli one point …

Serie A: Inter Milan Continue Scudetto March At Battling Bologna

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Inter Milan took another step towards a 20th Serie A title on Saturday with a 1-0 win at in-form Bologna which extended their massive league lead to 18 points. Yann Bisseck headed home the only goal of a tight contest in the 37th minute at the Stadio Renato Dall’Ara as Inter geared up for Wednesday’s Champions League decider with Atletico Madrid in positive fashion. Germany defender Bisseck’s second goal of the season extended Inter’s all-competitions winning streak since the turn of the year to 13 matches and emphasised how the league crown is more a matter of when rather than if. “This is one of the most difficult places to play… beating Bologna is not easy. We gave everything,” said Nicolo Barella to DAZN. “Who knows how soon we can win it (the league), it depends on the other teams. It’s difficult for those chasing us, let’s hope it stays difficult for them.” Second-placed Juventus can cut the yawning gap between themselves and Inter when they host Atalanta on Sunday. However, with the title race …