AC Milan 2-4 Bologna: Mbangula’s hat-trick ends the hosts’ unbeaten run

Serie A

AC Milan

2 – 4
FULL-TIME

Bologna

Wednesday 28 October 2026 · 18:30

Our score 2-1Missed·Hot tip AC Milan to win✗ Lost

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Bologna ended AC Milan's unbeaten start to the Serie A season with a 4-2 win, Samuel Mbangula scoring three times to give the visitors all three points. AC Milan went into the match having won all three of their home league games this season, conceding just two across those three fixtures.

AC Milan were without seven players through injury before kick-off, among them Adrien Rabiot, Samuel Chukwueze, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Diego Moreira, while Bologna were missing Roberto Piccoli, Riccardo Orsolini and Emil Holm.

How the game unfolded

Bologna struck first when Samuel Mbangula finished from Nadir Zortea's assist in the eighth minute to make it 1-0. AC Milan levelled in the 14th minute through Alphadjo Cissè, and the hosts went ahead when Cissè scored again in the 27th minute, assisted by Fikayo Tomori, to make it 2-1.

Bologna made a double change in the 59th minute, bringing on Juan Miranda among others. A minute later, a Davide Bartesaghi own goal brought Bologna level at 2-2, and in the 62nd minute Mbangula put Bologna ahead, collecting Miranda's assist to make it 3-2. Bartesaghi was replaced by Francesco Camarda in the 63rd minute.

Tommaso Pobega was booked in the 76th minute. Both coaches made further changes in the closing stages. Torbjørn Heggem was booked in the 84th minute, and Mbangula completed his hat-trick two minutes later, assisted by Jens Odgaard, to settle the match at 4-2.

The numbers

AC Milan held 66% of the ball and completed 591 accurate passes to Bologna's 270, yet it was the visitors who were more clinical. Bologna had five shots on target to AC Milan's three. The match expected goals figures — 1.84 for AC Milan and 2.11 for Bologna — reflected a game that the events of the second half ultimately decided.

AC Milan have now won one and lost two in their last three matches, conceding seven across them. In the one home game among their last three, they lost and conceded four. In their three Serie A games among their last five, AC Milan won two and lost one, with both home league games producing goals at both ends.

Bologna have won three of their last five matches and scored ten, losing just once across that run. Their away record has been particularly strong: in the three away games among their last five, they won all three, scoring eight and conceding three. In the five previous meetings between these sides, AC Milan had won three and Bologna two, with both teams scoring in two of those games and 12 goals shared across them.

Conclusion

Bologna's efficiency — scoring four from nine shots — made the difference in a match that AC Milan's possession figures did not reflect on the scoreboard.