Sinisa Mihajlovic reveals Musa Barrow won’t take the next penalty kick: ‘He had already missed one.’

Bologna recovered from two goals down and managed a 2-2 draw away at Spezia but their striker Musa Barrow missed a penalty kick in the stoppage time in the second half.

“It’s a fair result even if we made the usual mistakes in the first half,” Mihajlovic told Sky Sport.

Sinisa Mihajlovic admits conceding five goals in the first half against Roma was a new experience, but he stands by his Bologna players in their next test with Spezia.

It kicks off on Wednesday at 19.45 GMT, click here for a match preview.

The squad went into a training retreat from Monday, partly due to Aaron Hickey’s COVID-19 diagnosis, but also as a response to their shocking 5-1 home defeat to Roma.

Bologna winger Emanuel Vignato says coach Sinisa Mihajlovic ‘motivates everyone’ at the Rossoblu, who aim to ‘score as many points as possible’.

The former Chievo Verona youngster moved to Bologna in August and has appeared eight times in Serie A this season.

The 20-year-old has contributed one goal in the process and has helped the club sit 10th in Serie A with 12 points from 10 games.

Vignato said his relationship with coach Mihajlovic is ‘very normal’ and revealed he was ‘struck by his desire to win’.

Sinisa Mihajlovic admits Bologna’s change of tactics ‘did not go to plan’ after a 3-1 defeat to Inter. ‘Maybe I wasn’t clear enough.’

The Rossoblu had hinted at a move to three at the back and enacted it at San Siro, but only began to create chances after returning to four.

Sinisa Mihajlovic believes it was useful to show videos of Diego Armando Maradona to his players before the game against Crotone: ‘Nobody speaks about his humility.’

Bologna beat Crotone 1-0 at the Dall’Ara.

Bologna coach Sinisa Mihajlovic has claimed he showed videos of Diego Armando Maradona to Musa Barrow: ‘Maradona was aggressive trying to regain ball possession. If he did it, Barrow can do it too.’

The Rossoblu face Crotone at home on Sunday and the Serbian coach revealed in a pre-match press conference he has showed videos of Diego Armando to his striker Musa Barrow in order to motivate him.

Sinisa Mihajlovic feels Bologna ‘played better than Sampdoria and deserved the victory,’ but if Riccardo Orsolini had missed another chance, ‘he wouldn’t be allowed on the team bus.’

The Rossoblu again failed to keep a clean sheet and conceded first through Morten Thorsby’s header, but managed to turn it around with a Vasco Regini own goal and an Orsolini header.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has claimed he would have joined Bologna for free for Sinisa Mihajlovic.

“I think Sinisa is a great man, I was lucky enough to know him as a person,” the Milan striker told La Gazzetta dello Sport during the unveiling of ‘La partita della vita’, Mihajlovic’s biography.

“We didn’t like each other at the beginning but when I knew him at Inter it was love from the very first day. I used to say: ‘If I’d go to war, Sini would be in first row, myself in the second.”

Italy CT Roberto Mancini has announced he has recovered from coronavirus. ‘This afternoon I tested negative’.

The Azzurri coach missed out on the international break, when Italy won three out of three games and secured a place in the UEFA Nations League Finals with Alberico Evani in the dugout.

But the coach has confirmed he tested negative for COVID-19 today.

“I received the result of the negative swab this afternoon,” Mancini told La Gazzetta dello Sport. “I’m done, I’m fine.”

Bologna coach Sinisa Mihajlovic insists he ‘never even considered’ the possibility he wouldn’t beat leukaemia. ‘I told myself I couldn’t lose.’

He was diagnosed in July 2019, during pre-season training, and after months of chemotherapy, he had a bone marrow transplant.

“I am not one of those who say it’s the taking part that counts. No, I want to win,” he said on television show Domenica In.