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After the Turin pair theAtalanta back to victory on the thirteenth day of A league and bring back the fourth place that means Champions League. At the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, the Nerazzurri are immediately Rome punished with the goal at the start of Dzeko, but then they are good to overcome the match in the second half thanks to the goals of Zapata, Gosens, Muriel and the stamp of Ilicic, once again a true pilot. The Giallorossi, after playing on Thursday, fall away, give up and are overtaken in the standings by Juventus.
THE MATCH
In Atalanta, without Gomez, Gasperini resigns to Ilicic and Muriel from 1 ‘and confirms Pessina with Malinovskyi and Zapata as the first forward. In goal is Gollini, a rearguard formed by Djimsiti, Toloi and Romero. Like at home in Rome Fonseca find again Point of view and is presented with the three-man defense, with Pellegrini retiring in the median along with Veretout to make room for re-entry Peter behind Dzeko with Mkhitaryan. Ready, the Goddess starts off on the wrong foot and the Armenian is immediately decisive in fleeing to the left and helping the kiss to Dzeko, which only in the center of the area overtakes the Giallorossi at 3 minutes and reaches Motel by number of goals in Serie A with the Roma shirt.
The Nerazzurri defense continues to falter and Espinazzola puts the lob of the possible double on the outside post (8 ‘), then as the minutes go by, Atalanta takes up the measures and begins to take possession, but the Giallorossi keep the lines tight, lighten the dribbling well and never get into trouble . Malinovski and De Roon try from a distance without worrying Mirante, Fonseca’s three centrals always move well and Zapata during the first half never finds the space to do damage. The last emotion of the first fraction is a punishment from the front of Pellegrini rejected by Gollini, we go to rest with the Giallorossi deservedly ahead.
The second part opens with Palomino instead of the bruised Romero and especially with Ilicic for Pessina forward on the Diosa, who immediately comes close on par with Malinovski’s volley going to the side. At the beginning of the second half it is a completely different Atalanta, Gasperini’s team presses high and Roma often fouls in the disconnection, but in the first restart Veretout from the force limit Gollini to a great intervention to save the result (55 ‘). An intervention that acquires even more value a few minutes later, when Ilicic invents a delicious aid to Shoe, which ends on the edge of the offside and at the first opportunity unleashes all its power, signs the 1-1, and scores again after six dry league games.
Fonseca sees his team suffer too much for the Nerazzurri game and tries to change something by inserting Bruno Peres instead of Spinazzola, but the fall of Giallorossi perhaps tired of playing on Thursday and Ilicic is really inspired: the Slovenian packs the second assist of afternoon for the head shot of Gosens, who takes advantage of the uncertain departure of Mirante and overturns the game. Once the advantage was reached, Gasperini took out Zapata to insert Muriel, who in the first ball touched rivets on the counter attack launched by Veretout’s error, jumps to Mirante and closes the game scoring the 13th goal as a substitute since he is in Bergamo. In the finale, the Goddess even drops the poker with a splendid personal action of Ilicic, which certifies his final return (and that of Atalanta) with a great goal and two assists. The Nerazzurri rise to 19 and are close to Europe, Rome remains at 24 points and is overtaken by Juve.
THE REPORT CARDS
Shoe 6.5 – A ghost throughout the first half, when Ibáñez and Mancini never show it to him, but at the first good opportunity it is lethal and the Nerazzurri comeback begins. He missed a lot the goal, as well as the assists of Ilicic.
Ilicic 8 – Enter at the beginning of the second half and completely change the face of the game inventing two assists to kiss to overturn the game and putting the icing on the cake with the great goal that closes the accounts. Welcome back.
Muriel 7 – Enters the field immediately after the goal of the Nerazzurri advantage and the first ball touched closes the game. Lethal as always.
Ibanez 6 – Play a perfect first half canceling Zapata from the field, in the second half he falls and overflows with the rest of the team.
Mkhitaryan 6.5 – The advantage goal is born from one of his inventions, it is always the most dangerous and ‘clean’ in the restart and at least in the first half also gives a great help to Pellegrini and Veretout.
Viewpoint 5 – He resumes his starting position between the positions but makes Pau López regret it. Obvious the error that comes out of the goal of Gosens that overtakes the Nerazzurri.
TABLE
ATALANTA-ROME 4-1
ATALANTA (3-4-2-1): Gollini 6.5; Djimsiti 6, Toloi 5.5, Romero 5.5 (1st Palomino 6); Hateboer 6.5, De Roon 6, Freuler 5.5, Gosens 7 (44’st Mojica sv); Malinovskyi 5.5 (36’st Miranchuk sv), Pessina 5.5 (1’st Ilicic 8); Zapata 7 (26’st Muriel 7). Available: Sportiello, Rossi, Palomino, Sutalo, Mojica, Depaoli, Miranchuk, Muriel, Lammers, Diallo, Ilicic, Gyabuaa. All: Gasperini 6.5
ROME (3-4-2-1): Objective 5; Mancini 6, Smalling 5, Ibáñez 6; Karsdorp 5.5, Veretout 5 (35 ‘Carles Pérez sv), Pellegrini 5.5 (35’ Villar sv), Spinazzola 6 (20 ‘Bruno Peres 5.5); Pedro 5.5 (29’st Cristante 6), Mkhitaryan 6.5; Dzeko 6.5. Available: Pau Lopez, Santon, Fazio, Cristante, Kumbulla, Juan Jesus, Bruno Peres, Villar, Calafiori, Diawara, Carles Perez, Mayoral. All: Fonseca 5.5
Markers: 3’pt Dzeko, 14’st Zapata, 25’st Gosens, 27 ‘Muriel, 40’st Ilicic
Referee: Beautiful
Ammonites: Pellegrini, Mirante, Mancini (R), Malinovski, Romero (A),
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THE STATISTICS
Roma have conceded four goals in two of their last five league games, as many times as in the last 56 Serie A games.
For the first time in this league, Atalanta have won two games in a row at home.
Edin Dzeko (83) equaled Vincenzo Montella (83) as the fourth top scorer in Roma history in Serie A.
Only five players in the history of Roma have scored at least 5 goals in Serie A in at least 6 different leagues: Totti, Pruzzo, Di Bartolomei, Montella and Dzeko.
Dzeko’s is the fastest goal scored by Roma in Serie A since Dzeko’s against Atalanta in January 2019 (3 minutes in that case too).
Only Bruno Fernandes (14) has been involved in more Henrikh Mkhitaryan goals among midfielders this season in the five European leagues: 13 (seven goals and six assists).
Since the 2015/16 season (15 with Borussia Dortmund) Henrikh Mkhitaryan had not provided at least 6 assists within the same league with the same team.
Josip Ilicic found a goal or an assist in a Serie A match for the first time in 294 days – a goal and two assists in that case as well, against Lecce, in March 2020.
Duvan Zapata’s 3 goals in this league have come at home. For him, the third goal in his last 4 appearances against Roma in Serie A.
Luis Muriel has scored 7 goals in 12 Serie A games against Roma, his favorite victim in the top flight.
During the last two tournaments (from 2019/20 to the present) Luis Muriel has scored 12 goals as a substitute, at least three more than any other substitute in the top 5 of the European leagues.
Among defenders, only Sergio Ramos (19) has scored more goals than Robin Gosens (15) in the top 5 European leagues from 2018/19 to the present.
