Bologna FC 1909 1-1 Torino FC: Serie A Match Report, 19 September 2026

A lead at the break and a single point at the end: Bologna FC 1909 1-1 Torino FC was a fifth match without a win for Bologna, and the first time this season they had been ahead at half-time and had nothing to show for it. The interval score was 1-0 to the home side. Torino scored after it, and the match finished level.

The table both sides brought into the afternoon explains why the draw felt like a loss for one of them and a rescue for the other. Bologna were 17th with a single point from four games and a goal difference of minus three. Torino were 15th on three points with the same minus three. These were two clubs from the middle of last season's table — Bologna eighth on 56 points, Torino 13th on 45 — opening the new one among the sides nobody expected to see down there.

Bologna's four games had produced that one point: 0-1 at home to Lazio, 0-1 at Atalanta, 2-2 with Sassuolo and 0-1 at Napoli. Two goals scored in four. Scoring first, at home, against a side that had lost three of its own four, was the position they had been waiting a month for.

Torino's season had been similarly thin — 1-2 at home to Milan, 1-2 at Sassuolo, then a 2-1 win at Fiorentina and 0-2 at home to Roma — but that one win had come out of a goalless first half at Fiorentina, so a second-half swing was within their range. No goal times are published for this fixture, so when Torino drew level, and how long Bologna had to hold on, is not something the record can tell you.

The result also extended an unbeaten run Bologna will take little comfort from: five meetings with Torino without defeat, two of them drawn.

Bologna's point took them to two from five games and dropped them two places, to 19th. That is the arithmetic of a congested bottom half rather than a collapse — the goal difference stayed at minus three, and 19th on two points in September is a position three or four clubs can vacate in a single weekend. But it was their fifth match without a win, and the first of those five in which they had led.

Torino went to four points from five, holding 15th. A point away from home, taken from a losing position, is a better afternoon than the one they had at home to Roma the week before, and it was the start of a better stretch: they beat Udinese 2-1 next time out.

This fixture came during the stretch when the site was dark, so there is no preview to read alongside it and no call of ours riding on the outcome. What is above is simply the account of a match that neither side could afford to draw and both did.