Hosts Lazio go into Sunday’s encounter having scored 25 league goals from their first 12 league games of the season, averaging 2.08 goals per game. In addition to this, three of their four most recent and consecutive wins have seen more than 2.5 total goals recorded.

In addition to this, Sunday’s hosts also average 1.16 goals against per game, just 0.02 less than Bologna’s goal against average since the start of the season and with both teams highlighting an ability to concede, at least two goals seems a good starting point for this weekend’s bet builder.

This is a good starting point from which we can build, and we can do so by also backing both teams to score on Sunday. Lazio may have won five of their last six league outings, but they have also kept just two clean sheets across the same run of games.

As for Bologna, they currently average 1.36 goals per league game in Serie A with the total for and against goals equating to 2.55 and when looking at their current unbeaten run of nine league matches, Vincenzo Italiano’s men have kept just three clean sheets in the process.

Going into the recent international break, Lazio’s average corner count sat at 5.92 and with the Rome-based outfit also conceding an average of 4.33 per game since the start of the season, their total for and against count sits at 10.25.

Only slightly higher than that of opponents Bologna, who in their last away game only earned three corners and with the visitors averaging 5.64 corners for and 4.45 corners against this season, their total of 10.09 also sits under the benchmark that we have put in place for Sunday.

In terms of discipline, Sunday’s referee Antonio Rapuano may be in the mood to show his cards and this is due to an average of 6.00 yellows handed out across the four Serie A games that he has overseen since the start of the season.

However, neither Lazio nor Bologna have been collecting cards with too much regularity and with the hosts averaging 2.58 cards per league game and the visitors 1.55, even Rapuano’s desire to book players should not mean more than seven cards are shown at the Stadio Olimpico.

Not only has Valentin Castellanos shown a keen eye for goal this season but he has also shown moments of ill-discipline during this current Serie A campaign. The Lazio forward has scored five goals in his first 11 appearances of the season, with a goal every 180 minutes.

However, he has also managed to collect three yellow cards across the same run of league appearances. With the 26-year-old seemingly being a handful for opposition defenders and officials in equal measure, he is almost the ideal player for this dual market bet.

If Castellanos is to receive a booking or maybe even worse, it would not only tick off the first leg of this bet builder but also help our cause for the second as we predict Lazio to collect the most cards on Sunday.

Even without a contribution to the card count at the weekend, the numbers going into Sunday’s clash with Bologna look promising. The visitors currently average 1.55 cards shown per game, the hosts average 2.58 by comparison and for this reason, we are backing Lazio to collect more in this game.

Another attacking threat that Bologna may have to deal with on Sunday is Boulaye Dia and with the 28-year-old having scored four league goals this season, he is currently Lazio’s joint-second highest scorer in this season’s Serie A.

A bright start to Lazio’s season saw Dia score three goals in his first five appearances and although that streak has cooled down since, he has already scored in November’s home win over Cagliari. Add an average of 0.82 shots on target per game and we expect him to keep Bologna on their toes.

To finish this bet builder, we are now going to make things more interesting by lowering the corner threshold on Sunday and we will do so by backing under 10.5 total corners instead. Even by bringing the count down from a maximum of 11 to 10, the numbers still look largely in our favour.

Especially if we look at what Lazio and Bologna are earning on average themselves and dismissing what they are giving away. With the hosts average of 5.92 going up the visitor’s 5.64, we may be right on the line with this but the odds should offer the ideal balance between risk and reward.