Saturday’s match ended as expected in Bergamo. A flurry of offensive chances fueled Atalanta to a two -nil victory against a Sampdoria team kept on life support on a device run on dying AA batteries. Now six consecutive matches scoring… Continue Reading
Date: January 28, 2022Time: 20:45 CET | 14:45 EST A Quick Tale of the Tape Atalanta: 6th | 35 points | +14 GD | +10.2 xGD | Top Scorer: Ademola Lookman (11 goals)Sampdoria: 19th | 9 points | -24 GD… Continue Reading
Trying to rate and compare goalkeepers with data is a double-edged sword. First and foremost goalkeeping data is one of the few collections of data available in football that strips away a lot of the noise normally occurring on the… Continue Reading
Here’s a fun fact. Of the eight Atalanta players who scored at least two goals last season, only two have been able to repeat that feat at the halfway point in this season. Teun Koopmeiners of course continues to be… Continue Reading
There’s only a week left until the transfer window ends, and opposite of year’s past it has been a quiet window for Atalanta. The last several years have seen Atalanta very active in the January window. Whether it was bringing… Continue Reading
Its not too often that a squad scores three goals against Juventus; but with the offensive freight train that Atalanta recently has been, La Dea can now count itself as the second Italian team this year to put more than… Continue Reading
Date: January 22, 2023Time: 20:45 CET | 14:45 EST A Quick Tale of the Tape Juventus: 3rd | 37 points | +15 GD | +5.6 xGD | Top Scorer: Dusan Vlahovic – 6 goalsAtalanta: 6th | 34 points | +14… Continue Reading
I’ve never seen “How Stella Got Her Groove Back,” but if someone asked me to explain the movie in football terms, I could still easily point the curious mind to this roll of Atalanta (of course without any cougar relationship… Continue Reading
Date: January 19, 2023Time: 15:00 CET | 9:00 EST After Atalanta pulled off an improbable comeback to draw against Spezia in early January, its a little disingenuous to say that La Dea will be out looking for revenge against Thiago… Continue Reading
Dare we say it? Is fun Atalanta back. An 8-2 drubbing of poor Salernitana should have Atalanta fans and Serie A on watch, as this was an unthinkable score line for any team, save a vintage Atalanta squad of three… Continue Reading