Comments and predictions for Fiorentina vs Bologna: A fatal blow from a saboteur

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Fiorentina could be without all three of their key strikers. Moise Kean and Albert Gudmundsson are injured, while Lucas Beltran is suspended.

Kean has scored 17 goals in Serie A this season – the second highest in the league – so his absence will be a big blow. Nicolo Zaniolo and Cher Ndour will have to carry the load. Zaniolo has just served a suspension, Michael Folorunsho is absent through yellow cards, and Danilo Cataldi has a hamstring injury.

Bologna are almost at full strength after Martin Erlic, Emil Holm and Dan Ndoye all returned to the squad for the Coppa Italia final. Ndoye – who scored the winning goal – is likely to continue to start in the attacking trio.

Coach Italiano left many key players in the previous round to focus on the final, but now he will bring back his strongest squad to aim for the top 4.

Latest predicted lineup Fiorentina vs Bologna

Fiorentina:
De Gea; Pongracic, Pablo Mari, Ranieri; Dodo, Mandragora, Adli, Fagioli, Gosens; Zaniolo, Ndour

Bologna:
Skorupski; De Silvestri, Beukema, Lucumi, Juan Miranda; Ferguson, Freuler, Fabbian; Orsolini, Dallinga, Ndoye

Latest football commentary Fiorentina vs Bologna

It was a historic night for Bologna on Wednesday as Vincenzo Italiano's men beat AC Milan 1-0 to win the Coppa Italia, ending the Emilia-Romagna club's 51-year trophy drought.

Dan Ndoye's only goal gave Bologna revenge on Milan – who beat them in Serie A last weekend – and turned this season into an unprecedented success, regardless of the league results in the final two rounds.

This victory came at the right time for Bologna, because before that they only won 2 points in the last 3 matches in Serie A (draws with Udinese and Juventus).

The Rossoblu have not gone four games without a win since the opening month of the season, and this is the perfect time to end it as the top-four race is heating up.

Currently, Bologna is only 2 points behind Juventus - the team in 4th place - and with a ticket to the Europa League already secured thanks to the Coppa Italia championship, coach and players of Italiano can focus all their efforts on the top 4 goal.

Bologna have also won four of their last five Serie A meetings with Fiorentina, including the last two in a row. If they win this one, they will have won three consecutive games against La Viola for the first time since the mid-1960s.

Meanwhile, Fiorentina are the team that has won the most times against Bologna in Serie A history (57 times), and they are unbeaten in 12 of their last 13 times hosting this opponent at Artemio Franchi - including 9 wins.

However, coach Raffaele Palladino's team is in crisis at a crucial stage when they lost 4 consecutive matches in all competitions, almost putting an end to their competitive ambitions.

After being knocked out of the Conference League semi-finals by Real Betis, they lost to AS Roma and most recently suffered a surprise defeat to Venezia on Monday, leaving them ninth in the table.

Their hopes of qualifying for Europe are now slim unless they win their final two games and hope the teams above them stumble. A win over Bologna would put them level on points with their opponents and ahead in the head-to-head record, while Milan would be just one point behind. However, the prospect of only the top six qualifying for Europe through the tournament places means Fiorentina are all but out of the running.

Latest Fiorentina vs Bologna score prediction

Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Fiorentina vs Bolognaas follows:

• Sportsmole:Fiorentina 0-1 Bologna

• WhoScore:Fiorentina 0-2 Bologna
• Our newspaper predicts:Fiorentina 0-1 Bologna

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