Bologna vs Inter Prediction & Preview - Serie A
Whether Bologna can score enough to stay with Inter is the question worth asking at the Stadio Renato Dall'Ara on Saturday, and it is a harder question for Raffaele Palladino than it was in May, when these two drew 3-3 in this same stadium. Bologna have five goals in their last six matches. Inter have 16. Both of those numbers point the same way, and the two Bologna forwards you would expect to shorten the gap are injured.
Full details and the prediction game for this one are on the Bologna vs Inter match page.
What time is kick-off for Bologna vs Inter?
Bologna vs Inter kicks off at 17:00 BST on Saturday, 17 October 2026 at the Stadio Renato Dall'Ara in Bologna. It is a Serie A fixture, with Raffaele Palladino in charge of Bologna and Cristian Chivu managing Inter.
- Fixture: Bologna vs Inter
- Competition: Serie A
- Date: Saturday, 17 October 2026
- Kick-off: 17:00 BST
- Venue: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, Bologna
Bologna's form is thinner than one good away day suggests
Bologna's last six matches read won 1, drew 2, lost 3, worth 5 points, with 5 scored and 7 conceded. The single win in that run is the most recent one: 2-1 away at Lecce, 6 days before this match.
Everything before it was flat. A 1-1 draw at home with Torino 28 days out, a 0-1 defeat away at SSC Napoli, a 2-2 draw at home with Sassuolo, then 0-1 away at Atalanta and 0-1 at home to Lazio 54 days before this one.
All three of those defeats were 0-1. That is the pattern that matters here - Bologna have been within a goal of the better sides and have not found the goal.
Inter are scoring heavily and conceding anyway
Inter's last six matches: won 4, drew 1, lost 1, 13 points, 16 scored and 9 conceded. Chivu's side beat Parma 3-0 at home 7 days before this fixture, and before that there was a 5-3 win over Udinese at the San Siro and a 3-2 win over SSC Napoli.
The defeat was 1-2 away to Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League, 39 days before this match. The draw was 2-2 away at AS Roma. A 2-0 win over Lumezzane in between was a friendly.
Nine goals conceded in six is not a back line anyone should trust completely, and Bologna's 3-3 in May came against this defence. The difference is that Inter keep answering.
Team news for Bologna and Inter
Bologna will be without Riccardo Orsolini, who scored at Lecce and then pulled up with a flexor problem in the 83rd minute, and has been ruled out of this match according to FC Inter 1908. Jens Odgaard is also out, with a lesion to the flexor in his right thigh and a recovery estimate of around four weeks, and Bologna named the Inter fixture among the games he misses, per LiveScore.
Inter's problem is in midfield. The club confirmed Curtis Jones has a myofascial strain in the adductor muscles of his right thigh in their own statement, and Get Italian Football News reported an absence of roughly 20 days, covering the Parma game and the derby with Milan at the end of the month. Petar Sucic has been the man in line to take the place.
Bologna vs Inter prediction
Our prediction is an Inter win at Bologna in Serie A on Saturday, 17 October 2026, with Bologna getting on the scoresheet but not keeping pace. Inter have scored 16 in their last six and taken 13 points against Bologna's 5, and Palladino goes into this one without two forwards.
The 3-3 in May is the reason for the Bologna goal rather than a blank. Inter have conceded 9 in six and shipped three at this ground five months ago. But Bologna's three recent defeats all finished 0-1, and a side that keeps losing by one goal against good opposition does not usually fix it by facing the division's heaviest scorers.
Our prediction: Bologna 1-3 Inter
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