Bologna Fc Extends 264-Minute Serie A Drought in Sunday Match

bologna fc was playing inside a Serie A scoring drought that had reached 264 minutes by halftime on Sunday. The stretch had run from the 51st minute of Udinese-Torino through two full matches and into Bologna-Cagliari, leaving the league without a goal across a long slice of the day.

Bologna-Cagliari and the 264 minutes

The scoreless run included Como-Napoli and Atalanta-Genoa, both completed without ending the drought. By the break in Bologna-Cagliari, the sequence had reached 264 minutes, a number built across separate matches rather than one stalled contest.

That made the Sunday meeting feel less like an isolated first half and more like the middle of a league-wide dry spell. The last goal in the turn had come in the 51st minute of Udinese-Torino, and nothing after that had broken the pattern before Bologna-Cagliari reached halftime.

Deiola leaves before halftime

Alessandro Deiola added a second problem for Cagliari before the interval. The midfielder had to come off with a quadriceps issue in his right thigh, and Sulemana replaced him before halftime.

For Cagliari, that substitution changed the shape of the midfield in the same half that the match remained scoreless. Deiola was the only named player forced out, and the switch came while the broader Serie A drought was still stretching on.

Serie A Sunday pressure

The match sat inside a rich Sunday of Serie A football, with the day also carrying the possibility of delivering Inter the 21st Scudetto. That wider context meant Bologna-Cagliari was part of a crowded league slate, but the key numbers belonged to the goal drought and the injury.

What followed from here was simple for anyone tracking the round: the next goal would end a 264-minute wait, and Bologna-Cagliari had already helped carry that wait through halftime. Until then, the league’s Sunday had offered the same hard fact at every turn — no one had scored since the 51st minute of Udinese-Torino.