The match started in very exciting fashion as within the third minute, Giuseppe Iachini’s men had broken the deadlock. A brilliant inswinging cross from Marco Zambelli on the right hand side found an on-rushing Perparim Hetemaj unmarked in the box, and he freely headed in for 1-0.
Just six minutes later, Brescia doubled their lead through another headed goal. This time it was defender Davide Zoboli who got his name on the score sheet with an impressively executed floating header, impressive in Zoboli’s heading technique which allowed him to divert the ball so accurately the opposite way of the corner’s outswinging direction.
Emiliano Viviano lived up to his reputation on 27 minutes as one of Europe’s most promising young goalkeepers when he pulled off a pair of top-draw saves to ensure his side didn’t fall any further behind. Firstly, a cross-cum-shot from Eder was well parried away, but his second save to deny Zoboli showed great agility to stop his stinging drive from the edge of the box.
Marco Di Vaio’s renaissance in the twilight of his career continues to inspire many followers of calcio, and he proved his goal-scoring touch once again on 30 minutes where, against the run of play, he clinically took down Diego Perez’s pinpoint chip through ball into his path and delicately touched the ball past Matteo Sereni to pull one back for his team after great close control to overcome Francesco Bega and intelligent movement to beat the Brescia defence at first.
Brescia should really have made it 3-1 on 32 minutes after more delightful link-up play between Eder and Andrea Caracciolo, with Eder playing in his strike partner in bundles of space, but his side-footed finish one-on-one with Viviano was far too tame to ever truly threaten the Italy number two despite pulling off another decent stop.
The Rondinelle was involved in two more goal-scoring opportunities at the end of the half, as Hetemaj’s low rasping effort from distance went just wide of the post with the Bologna keeper seemingly covering his goal, but secondly, Eder broke into the box from the left hand side and Viviano did extremely well to keep out his close range attempt at feeding Caracciolo.
Rossoblu coach Alberto Malesani threw on Riccardo Meggiorini for the yellow-carded and ineffective Gaston Ramirez and he almost made an instant impact 10 minutes later after Sereni made a complete hash of a simple ball into the box, almost gifting the visitors with a ludicrous goal, but his rebounded overhead kick was eventually easily saved.
However, Bologna failed to improve on their poor first half performance and ended up conceding a penalty on 64 minutes through Miguel Britos’ ill-timed slide tackle on full-back Pietro Accardi. Caracciolo, who arguably was the best player on the pitch, dispatched the penalty in confident fashion, blasting the ball into the middle of the goal and earned himself a well-deserved goal and sealed an invaluable three points for his Brescia side that now jump out of the bottom three for at least another 24 hours.
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Brescia 3-1 Bologna