Bologna host Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League on Tuesday, with the home team still seeking their first win in the competition this season.

The visitors come into this fixture just outside the automatic qualification spots for the knockout stages, so they will have plenty of incentive to win in Italy.

Rossoblu qualified for the top-level of European football for the first time since 1964-65 with a fifth-place finish in Serie A last season, and they entered the competition full of optimism under new head coach Vincenzo Italiano.

Italiano replaced outgoing boss Thiago Motta in the summer, with the former Paris-Saint Germain midfielder departing for Juventus last June.

Under their new head coach, their inexperience at this level has shown, with the club struggling to perform at both ends of the pitch in Europe.

Bologna have scored just once in the Champions League this season, while conceding seven times, making them the competition's lowest-scoring side.

With eight points the maximum total that they can achieve, the hosts are on the brink of elimination from the competition – with only three teams in the playoff positions mathematically possible to catch for the Italian side, their chances of reaching the knockout stages are very slim.

Overall, this campaign has also not reached the same heights as last year just yet, with a slow start to the season seeing Italiano's team begin his reign with just one win in their first 11 matches.

Seven wins from their next 12 games in all competitions saw a big improvement in form in Serie A, before ending 2024 with a 3-2 defeat to Hellas Verona in December.