BOLOGNA, ITALY – AUGUST 30: Riccardo Orsolini of Bologna celebrates with teammate Nadir Zortea after scoring his team’s first goal during the Serie A match between Bologna FC 1909 and Como 1907 at Renato Dall’Ara Stadium on August 30, 2025 in Bologna, Italy. (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images)
Riccardo Orsolini with the aid of a deflection proved enough to give Bologna victory over Como at the Stadio Dall’Ara.
The Rossoblu opened their campaign with a 1-0 defeat at Roma, where they lost both Ciro Immobile and Nicolò Casale to injury for several weeks. Emil Holm also missed out, but Jonathan Rowe joined from Olympique Marseille this week. Cesc Fabregas stunned Lazio 2-0 in his opener, but Assane Diao joined Alberto Dossena on the treatment table.
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Santiago Castro tested Jean Butez at the near post with an early cross-shot and Giovanni Fabbian’s header whistled over on the resulting corner.
Como were forced into a change when Ignace Van der Brempt limped off with a muscular problem, replaced by Ivan Smolcic.
Riccardo Orsolini cut inside and saw his trademark left-foot curler palmed out from under the bar by Jean Butez.
The deadlock was finally broken with a bit of luck, as Santiago Castro controlled a long ball and held it up against two defenders, rolling across with his back to goal for Orsolini to sweep first time from the edge of the box, aided by a significant deflection off Alex Valle.
Como saw a fair amount of the ball, but were unable to truly threaten Lukasz Skorupski, a late Jacobo Ramon header straight at the goalkeeper.
Bologna 1-0 Como
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