Bologna 2-0 Cesena: result and report

Coppa Italia · Friday 11 August 2023

Result

Bologna 2-0 Cesena

Coppa Italia · Friday 11 August 2023, 19:15 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Bologna 2-0 Cesena: match report

Bologna beat Cesena 2-0 in the Coppa Italia on Friday 11 August 2023. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Tommaso Corazza opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Bologna's goals came from Tommaso Corazza (2') and Joshua Zirkzee (80'). Cesena did not score.

Discipline: Bologna received no yellow cards; Cesena received 1 yellow card.

This fixture belongs to an earlier Coppa Italia season and is kept for reference.

Bologna lined up in a 4-3-3 and Cesena in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Kevin Bonifazi of Bologna (8.4), ahead of Nicolás Domínguez (8.2).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Bologna wins, 3 draws and 2 for Cesena.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

2'Goal · Tommaso CorazzaBologna · 1-0
37'Yellow card · Emanuele AdamoCesena
80'Goal · Joshua ZirkzeeBologna · 2-0

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Bologna 3, draws 3, Cesena 2.

Cesena 0-0 BolognaSerie A · 7 Apr 2012
Bologna 0-1 CesenaSerie A · 20 Nov 2011
Bologna 0-2 CesenaSerie A · 23 Apr 2011
Cesena 0-2 BolognaSerie A · 5 Dec 2010
Bologna 2-1 CesenaSerie B · 1 Mar 2008
Cesena 0-0 BolognaSerie B · 29 Sep 2007

Team news

Unavailable

Luca CoccoloCesena · injury (Cruciate Ligament Rupture)
Riccardo OrsoliniBologna · injury (Tear in the abductor muscle)

Bologna line-up (4-3-3)

Lukasz Skorupski, Stefan Posch, Sam Beukema, Kevin Bonifazi, Tommaso Corazza, Lewis Ferguson, Nicolás Domínguez, Michel Aebischer, Niklas Pyyhtiä, Marko Arnautovic, Nikola Moro

Cesena line-up (3-4-1-2)

Matteo Pisseri, Andrea Ciofi, Giuseppe Prestia, Luigi Silvestri, Emanuele Adamo, Nicolò Bianchi, Matteo Francesconi, Daniele Donnarumma, Jonathan Bumbu, Cristian Shpendi, Alessandro Giovannini