A Felipe Caicedo penalty for Lazio just before half-time in Thursday night’s lone Serie A encounter got the weekend off to an encouraging start for Joey Saputo’s Bologna. That’s because the visitors to Rome’s Stadio Olimpico were relegation rivals, Empoli.
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It was the only score of the game, and meant that even a draw, Sunday, at home to Genoa would lift the Rossoblu out of the bottom three, on goal difference.