It took awhile but Atalanta finally put away more than two goals in a game, even if it required a bit of help from Empoli’s defense. The gifted own goal aside, La Dea still came up with the goods, netted… Continue Reading
Date: October 17, 2021Time: 15:00 CET, 9:00 EST The second international break of the young season is finally coming to a close with a trip to Empoli in store for La Dea. Empoli has been the strongest of the newly… Continue Reading
Duván Zapata has gotten off to a nice start with Atalanta this year, finding the net three times and also assisting teammates on three other goals. In the beginning of a year that has been a struggle for La Dea… Continue Reading
While Atalanta looked to get on track offensively, it at least had a sturdy defense to fall back on to remain competitive. However, on Sunday Atalanta brought neither a potent offensive attack nor a strong defense, suffering defeat at the… Continue Reading
Date: October 3, 2021Time: 20:45 CET Atalanta’s brutal stretch before the international break is close, but a huge break still looms large for the boys in black and blue. AC Milan has picked up where it left off last year,… Continue Reading
Young Boys dared Atalanta to score on them, and David Wagner’s plan nearly worked out. In a match that was thoroughly one way traffic in favor of Atalanta, it took a piece of hustle and exuberance from Duván Zapata to… Continue Reading
Date: September 29, 2021Time: 18:45 CET (early kickoff!) The first ever Plus500 derby commences on Wednesday with Atalanta welcoming its neighbors to the north, BSC Young Boys from Switzerland. To everyone’s surprise Young Boys is the only team in group… Continue Reading
After cooling off from the drama that took place in Inter and Atalanta’s weekend match, I took a look at the highly controversial expected goal (xG) outcome of the match to see if our eyes deceived us at all during… Continue Reading
End to end football, missed chances, what could have beens – Atalanta’s travels to Milan to take on Inter had everything for both the diehard as well as the footballing neutral. A crazy game was sent into overdrive in the… Continue Reading
Date: September 25, 2021Time: 18:30 CET Midweek matchweek 5 has barely finished and the next round of matches is already kicking off this weekend. The challenge doesn’t get any easier for Atalanta, facing Scudetto favorites Inter Milan away at the… Continue Reading