Match story
- Bologna fired more attempts (10 vs 6 shots).
- Crotone was more accurate in front of goal (83% on target vs 10%).
- Bologna held more of the ball (59% possession).
Crotone defeated Bologna 1-0 in Serie A. The fixture is part of the Regular Season - 31 stage in the 2017 season. The match was played at Stadio Ezio Scida in Crotone. Gianpaolo Calvarese, Italy officiated the match. The full-time result capped a Crotone vs Bologna meeting in Serie A with detailed post-match statistics available on Sportra. This match centre covers lineups, live events, player ratings, team statistics, xG, head-to-head history, and related news for Crotone and Bologna. On Sportra you can view xG, lineups, match statistics, events, player ratings, predictions, head-to-head history, and related news for this fixture.
Serie ARecorded meetings: 0 (available previous meetings, not necessarily all-time).
Crotone defeated Bologna 1-0 in Serie A. The fixture is part of the Regular Season - 31 stage in the 2017 season. The match was played at Stadio Ezio Scida in Crotone. Gianpaolo Calvarese, Italy officiated the match. The full-time result capped a Crotone vs Bologna meeting in Serie A with detailed post-match statistics available on Sportra. This match centre covers lineups, live events, player ratings, team statistics, xG, head-to-head history, and related news for Crotone and Bologna. On Sportra you can view xG, lineups, match statistics, events, player ratings, predictions, head-to-head history, and related news for this fixture.
Serie ARecorded meetings: 0 (available previous meetings, not necessarily all-time).
Ever since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement 13 years ago, Manchester United have been stuck in football’s equivalent of purgatory and a chastening experience in Hull suggests they could be there a while longer. Michael Carrick’s permanent appointment was supposed to hail a new era at Old Trafford but very little has changed based on this defeat.United were sluggish from start to finish and rightly punished for failing to defend set pieces with any degree of competence. Centre-backs Semi Ajayi and Nobel Mendy earned Hull the prized scalp upon their return to the Premier League while United are left to ponder if the squad requires more invasive surgery before the transfer window closes. Continue reading...
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Joshua Zirkzee has been linked with a move away from Manchester United this summer. Napoli are interested in signing the Dutch attacker, and they will face competition from Juventus, according to Corriere dello Sport. Joshua Zirkzee could return to Italy Juventus have been working on signing the player, and the attacker is keen on a […] The post Manchester United face transfer decision as Euro giants target 13-G/A first-team ace appeared first on CaughtOffside.
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AFA president Claudio Tapia issued a strong statement addressing the conspiracy theories surrounding the 2026 World Cup final between Argentina and Spain. A month after Argentina fell 1-0 to Spain in overtime at the 2026 World Cup final, Argentine Football Association (AFA) president Claudio Tapia broke his silence with a lengthy, pointed statement on social media, taking direct aim at what he called a “miserable campaign” to paint the national team as having thrown the match. The backlash stems from a wave of conspiracy theories that spread in Argentina in the weeks following the loss, some of them tied to a leaked video showing Lionel Messi delivering an unusually calm pre-match speech in the locker room, in which he told his teammates to “forget about everything”. That clip was seized on by some to suggest the players had mentally checked out before kickoff, and it wasn’t long before speculation grew into open accusations, with some in Argentina even floating the idea that the squad had deliberately “given away” the final. Tapia didn’t hold back in responding to those claims, noting that a month had passed without a single apology from anyone who spread the theories. “None of them apologized. None of them came out and said, ‘We were wrong’,” he wrote, adding that while making a mistake is human, lying and fueling a false narrative for days before quietly disappearing once it’s debunked is not. pic.twitter.com/5oHuoFF6AF— Chiqui Tapia (@tapiachiqui) August 19, 2026 He was especially forceful in defending the players themselves, arguing that once someone accuses the national team of being traitors, there’s no walking it back. Claudio Tapia’s full statement “A month has passed. A month since that final. A month since the lie, the operation, and a miserable campaign to paint this national team as having given up. And the most striking thing is that, after a month, none of them apologized. None of them came out and said, ‘We were wrong.’ None of them had the honesty, the dignity, or simply the guts to take responsibility. Because making a mistake can happen. What can’t happen is lying, building a false story, feeding a suspicion for days, and then, when time proves it was all smoke, hiding and acting like nothing ever happened. While our players left everything on the field, some outside were doing exactly the opposite: sowing hatred, dividing, tarnishing, and trying to destroy the image of a national team that earned the respect of millions. To all of them: take responsibility. Staying quiet isn’t enough. Waiting for time to pass isn’t enough. Changing the subject and acting like you never said anything isn’t enough.And even if you now want to avoid the comments, the complaints, or the criticism from people over all the lies you told, you won’t be able to erase what you did. Because words have consequences, and accusations leave marks. You don’t come back from calling the national team’s players traitors. You don’t come back from putting those who defended this jersey under suspicion. You don’t come back from accusing them of giving up. And you certainly don’t come back from doing it without a single piece of proof, only to choose silence once the lie is exposed. You demanded explanations when you didn’t have a shred of proof. You pointed fingers at players who were giving their lives for this. You fed a lie and passed it off as truth. Now it’s your turn to explain yourselves. Because greatness also means owning up to a mistake. And when you accuse, lie, and publicly hurt people who gave everything for this jersey, apologizing isn’t a favor. It’s an obligation. And there’s something else: how do you go back home after doing all this? How do you look your kids in the eye and talk to them about honesty, respect, dignity? How do you teach them that there are values worth defending, when you had the chance to do exactly that and chose to lie, point fingers, and hide instead? Values aren’t negotiable. A month has passed and we still
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Ever since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement 13 years ago, Manchester United have been stuck in football’s equivalent of purgatory and a chastening experience in Hull suggests they could be there a while longer. Michael Carrick’s permanent appointment was supposed to hail a new era at Old Trafford but very little has changed based on this defeat.United were sluggish from start to finish and rightly punished for failing to defend set pieces with any degree of competence. Centre-backs Semi Ajayi and Nobel Mendy earned Hull the prized scalp upon their return to the Premier League while United are left to ponder if the squad requires more invasive surgery before the transfer window closes. Continue reading...
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Joshua Zirkzee has been linked with a move away from Manchester United this summer. Napoli are interested in signing the Dutch attacker, and they will face competition from Juventus, according to Corriere dello Sport. Joshua Zirkzee could return to Italy Juventus have been working on signing the player, and the attacker is keen on a […] The post Manchester United face transfer decision as Euro giants target 13-G/A first-team ace appeared first on CaughtOffside.
Former Aston Villa winger Steve Froggatt says "teams have to evolve" and people "have got to trust Unai Emery" when what has been happening during this transfer window. If you look at what Sir Alex Ferguson did three or four times at Manchester United, this Villa team has done great for three years and won something. Teams have to evolve - it is happening all at once at Villa.
AFA president Claudio Tapia issued a strong statement addressing the conspiracy theories surrounding the 2026 World Cup final between Argentina and Spain. A month after Argentina fell 1-0 to Spain in overtime at the 2026 World Cup final, Argentine Football Association (AFA) president Claudio Tapia broke his silence with a lengthy, pointed statement on social media, taking direct aim at what he called a “miserable campaign” to paint the national team as having thrown the match. The backlash stems from a wave of conspiracy theories that spread in Argentina in the weeks following the loss, some of them tied to a leaked video showing Lionel Messi delivering an unusually calm pre-match speech in the locker room, in which he told his teammates to “forget about everything”. That clip was seized on by some to suggest the players had mentally checked out before kickoff, and it wasn’t long before speculation grew into open accusations, with some in Argentina even floating the idea that the squad had deliberately “given away” the final. Tapia didn’t hold back in responding to those claims, noting that a month had passed without a single apology from anyone who spread the theories. “None of them apologized. None of them came out and said, ‘We were wrong’,” he wrote, adding that while making a mistake is human, lying and fueling a false narrative for days before quietly disappearing once it’s debunked is not. pic.twitter.com/5oHuoFF6AF— Chiqui Tapia (@tapiachiqui) August 19, 2026 He was especially forceful in defending the players themselves, arguing that once someone accuses the national team of being traitors, there’s no walking it back. Claudio Tapia’s full statement “A month has passed. A month since that final. A month since the lie, the operation, and a miserable campaign to paint this national team as having given up. And the most striking thing is that, after a month, none of them apologized. None of them came out and said, ‘We were wrong.’ None of them had the honesty, the dignity, or simply the guts to take responsibility. Because making a mistake can happen. What can’t happen is lying, building a false story, feeding a suspicion for days, and then, when time proves it was all smoke, hiding and acting like nothing ever happened. While our players left everything on the field, some outside were doing exactly the opposite: sowing hatred, dividing, tarnishing, and trying to destroy the image of a national team that earned the respect of millions. To all of them: take responsibility. Staying quiet isn’t enough. Waiting for time to pass isn’t enough. Changing the subject and acting like you never said anything isn’t enough.And even if you now want to avoid the comments, the complaints, or the criticism from people over all the lies you told, you won’t be able to erase what you did. Because words have consequences, and accusations leave marks. You don’t come back from calling the national team’s players traitors. You don’t come back from putting those who defended this jersey under suspicion. You don’t come back from accusing them of giving up. And you certainly don’t come back from doing it without a single piece of proof, only to choose silence once the lie is exposed. You demanded explanations when you didn’t have a shred of proof. You pointed fingers at players who were giving their lives for this. You fed a lie and passed it off as truth. Now it’s your turn to explain yourselves. Because greatness also means owning up to a mistake. And when you accuse, lie, and publicly hurt people who gave everything for this jersey, apologizing isn’t a favor. It’s an obligation. And there’s something else: how do you go back home after doing all this? How do you look your kids in the eye and talk to them about honesty, respect, dignity? How do you teach them that there are values worth defending, when you had the chance to do exactly that and chose to lie, point fingers, and hide instead? Values aren’t negotiable. A month has passed and we still
Carrick's strong start to life in the United dugout has led to a groundswell of optimisim among fans that he can oversee the club's first league title since Sir Alex Ferguson's departure.
The 2026-27 Serie A season is almost upon us, and here is how the Opta supercomputer predicts the campaign will unfold. The post Serie A predictions: Inter backed to retain their crown ahead of Roma, Como and Juventus appeared first on SoccerNews.
Tap a headline to view metadata and excerpt fields in Sportra, then use the article website button to continue on the original publisher page.
