Parma 1-2 Bologna: a ninth-minute red card leaves the hosts chasing the game for 80 minutes
Abdoulaye Ndiaye's red card after only nine minutes put Parma a man down for almost the entire match, and Arthur Theate's header and a Riccardo Orsolini penalty punished them before Vincent Sierro's late spot kick made it 1-2.
Parma's afternoon was all but decided before it had properly begun. Abdoulaye Ndiaye was sent off in the ninth minute, leaving the hosts to play almost the entire match with ten men, and Bologna made them pay in the second half: Arthur Theate headed in a Nicolò Cambiaghi cross on 53 minutes, and Riccardo Orsolini, on as a substitute, converted a penalty on 72 to put the visitors two clear. Vincent Sierro's own penalty, with nine minutes left, gave Parma a consolation goal but nothing more.
The numbers tell the story of a game played mostly in one direction. Bologna finished with 68.5% of the possession, ten shots on target to Parma's two, and 15 corners to Parma's one. Even with an extra man for over an hour, they needed a set piece and a penalty to turn that dominance into goals, rather than carving the hosts open from open play.
A game-changing red card
Ndiaye's dismissal so early changed the entire shape of the contest. Parma still had chances to make a fight of it before Bologna's goals arrived — José Romero and Mariano Troilo were both booked either side of half-time trying to contain the extra man — but a team down to ten after nine minutes was always going to run out of legs eventually, and it did in the second half.
Bologna's good run continues
This was Bologna's third straight league win, following victories over AC Milan and Monza, and their fourth in five. Parma, by contrast, had arrived on the back of a 3-0 win at Atalanta that had ended a three-match losing run — a result this defeat undoes, even with the late penalty to show for the effort.
| Stat | Parma | Bologna |
|---|---|---|
| Possession | 31.5% | 68.5% |
| Shots on target | 2 | 10 |
| Passes completed | 157/219 | 431/475 |
| Corners | 1 | 15 |
| Fouls committed | 11 | 13 |
| Offsides | 0 | 1 |
| Yellow cards | 3 | 2 |
| Red cards | 1 | 0 |
Match facts
- 9' — Abdoulaye Ndiaye (Parma) sent off
- 14' — José Romero (Parma) booked
- 20' — Nicoló Casale (Bologna) booked
- 42' — Mariano Troilo (Parma) booked
- 53' — Arthur Theate (Bologna, header), assisted by Nicolò Cambiaghi
- 72' — Riccardo Orsolini (Bologna, penalty)
- 72' — Enrico Del Prato (Parma) booked
- 80' — Martin Vitík (Bologna) booked
- 81' — Vincent Sierro (Parma, penalty)
What's next
Parma stay 16th with 8 points and host Roma on 21 November. Bologna move up to 8th on 17 points and host Udinese the following day.
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