Santiago Castro emerged from the bench to ship Bologna via to the Coppa Italia semi-finals, together with his late objective incomes his aspect a 1-0 win over Atalanta on Tuesday.

Vincenzo Italiano’s dominated for a lot of the match and had been rewarded for his or her efforts 10 minutes from time, and can face both Juventus or Empoli within the last 4.

Atalanta had been the primary to register a shot on the right track, with Charles De Ketelaere testing visiting goalkeeper Lukasz Skorupski early on earlier than Davide Zappacosta fired over.

However Bologna grew into the sport and virtually went forward earlier than the break, however Jhon Lucumi’s strike was comfortably gathered by Rui Patricio.

Gian Piero Gasperini’s aspect had been aiming to bounce again from consecutive attracts to Barcelona and Torino, however had been unable to create any clear-cut probabilities after half-time.

And with each side going in quest of a winner, Italiano turned to his bench and launched Castro, who made an prompt impression on the Gewiss Stadium.

Simply two minutes after his arrival into the sport, the Argentine headed Charalampos Lykogiannis’s inviting supply past Patricio on the again publish to seal the victory.

Information Debrief: A very long time coming

After being knocked out of the Champions League final week, Bologna responded in model to return to a stage of the Coppa Italia they haven’t seen for a while.

Certainly, Bologna will participate within the semi-finals of the competitors for the primary time since 1999 beneath Carlo Mazzone. The Rossoblu had been eradicated of their earlier two quarter-finals, however made positive there was no three-peat this time round.

And the guests had been worthy of their win, registering an anticipated objectives (xG) whole of 1.43 from their 13 efforts to Atalanta’s 0.87 from the identical variety of makes an attempt.