Bologna win again on the road but home form drags them to 13
A 2-0 win at Cagliari was Bologna's 9th away victory of the campaign against 5 defeats, yet the side sits 13th on 8 points.
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Bologna did the away thing again. At Cagliari on Saturday 24 October they won 2-0, their 9th victory on the road this season in 15 away matches, against just 5 losses and 1 draw. That is a record most of Serie A would take without argument.
The problem is the other column. At home Bologna have 2 wins, 4 draws and 9 defeats from 15 games. Read those two sets of numbers side by side and the shape of the season becomes obvious: this is a team that travels well and stalls in front of its own crowd.
The league table agrees. 8 points from 8 matches, 8 scored and 10 conceded, a goal difference of -2, and 13th place. The last five read L, D, W, L, W — two wins, a draw, two defeats. The current run is 1W.
So what happens on Wednesday 28 October? Bologna go to Milan for matchday 9. On the away figures, that is the fixture you would pick for them. On the table, it is a meeting with a side sitting 4th on 18 points and a goal difference of +9.
Two points separate Inter at the top on 22 and Lazio in second on 22, with Roma and Milan both on 18 behind them. Bologna are eleven points off the leaders. That gap was not built on the road.
Which raises the question worth asking: how good is an away record when the home form keeps pulling you back to 13th? The wins at Cagliari and elsewhere are real. The table is real too, and it does not care where the points came from.