During the streak of nine consecutive league title-winning seasons, Juventus were unbeaten against Bologna in Serie A (16 meetings: 13W D3) - in this period, Bologna were the side that scored the fewest goals against the Bianconeri (seven goals), among the teams they faced more than 10 times.
Under Andrea Pirlo, Juventus have kept just three clean sheets in Serie A: among Bianconeri coaches with at least 17 games, only Alberto Zaccheroni managed fewer after as many matches (two).
Bologna have conceded 31 Serie A goals so far this season, the same number they’d conceded at this stage in 2019-20, only three previous occasions have the Rossoblù shipped more goals in the first half of a Serie A season - in 1949/50 (36 goals conceded), in 1955/56 and in 2013/14 (33 each).
Juventus’s Federico Chiesa has scored more Serie A goals against Bologna than any other opponent in the compstition: five, including his only hat-trick.
Each of Bologna’s five wins in Serie A this term have come with Riccardo Orsolini on the pitch, while in the four games without him the Rossoblù have collected just two draws: the points average drops from 1.3 to 0.5 when he hasn’t played In 2020-21.