Cagliari vs Bologna Prediction & Preview - Serie A
Whether Cagliari's 0-4 defeat away to Monza was a one-off or the start of a slide is the thing worth settling at the Unipol Domus on Saturday, and Bologna are not obviously the side to settle it. Cagliari vs Bologna kicks off at 14:00 BST on Saturday, 24 October 2026 in Serie A. Cagliari took 10 points from their last six matches. Bologna took 5.
Cagliari vs Bologna kick-off time, date and venue
Cagliari vs Bologna kicks off at 14:00 BST on Saturday, 24 October 2026 at the Unipol Domus in Cagliari, Sardinia, in Serie A.
- Fixture: Cagliari v Bologna
- Competition: Serie A
- Date: Saturday, 24 October 2026
- Kick-off: 14:00 BST
- Venue: Unipol Domus, Cagliari
You can make your call on the result at the Cagliari vs Bologna match page.
Three wins for Cagliari, five points for Bologna
Before Monza, Cagliari had been the better story of the two. Three wins in a row through September, two of them away from home, two of them 1-0, and then a 1-1 draw at home with Juventus 13 days before this match. Over the six, Fabio Pisacane's side won 3, drew 1 and lost 2, scoring 6 and conceding 8. Two clean sheets in there as well.
Then 0-4 at Monza, 5 days before this match. That is not a result you explain away, and it accounts for half the goals Cagliari have conceded across the whole run.
The oddity is where the points came from. Cagliari won 2 of 3 on the road in that stretch and only 1 of 3 at home, which makes the Unipol Domus a stranger place to pick them than the away grounds. They have also scored 2 or more in only 1 of those 6 matches. This is a side that wins narrowly or not at all.
Bologna have been harder to pin down since Raffaele Palladino replaced Domenico Tedesco in September, with the club 16th and on a single point from four games at the time of the change, according to Yahoo Sports. The six-match record reads 1 win, 2 draws and 3 defeats for 5 points, with 6 scored and 9 conceded. No clean sheets in any of them. Both sides scored in 4 of the 6, and Bologna themselves failed to score in 2.
Their one win in that run was a 2-1 at Lecce, 13 days before this match. A week before Saturday, they lost 1-3 at home to Inter. Away from home they have won 1 of 3; at home, 0 of 3.
The last meeting between the two gives you a hint of how this can go. On 3 May 2026 at Bologna, the game finished 0-0.
Team news for Cagliari vs Bologna
Cagliari remain without Riyad Idrissi, Mattia Felici and Yael Trepy, as reported by The Stats Zone. Bologna have lost Roberto Piccoli to a right hamstring injury picked up against Inter, with tests indicating roughly three weeks out, while Riccardo Orsolini has been doing individual gym work after discomfort, per Bologna FC; The Stats Zone also lists Orsolini and Emil Holm as sidelined. Palladino's squad trained at Casteldebole on Tuesday 20 October.
Cagliari vs Bologna prediction
Our prediction is a narrow Cagliari win, 1-0 against Bologna in Serie A at the Unipol Domus on Saturday, 24 October 2026. Cagliari have twice won by exactly that scoreline in their last six and kept 2 clean sheets in the run, while Bologna have kept none and failed to score in 2 of 6. The Monza result is the obvious objection, and a Bologna side that has conceded 9 in six is unlikely to be the one that exposes it twice. The goalless draw between them in May suggests neither attack should be trusted with much.
Our prediction: Cagliari 1-0 Bologna
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