Five facts about Atalanta v Fiorentina

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How many goals have we scored in Serie A against Fiorentina?

>100

Atalanta have scored more than 100, precisely 109, goals against Fiorentina in Serie A in a total of 118 matches. The match with the most goals was in the 1954/55 season, 5-1, with Poul Rasmussen‘s hat-trick and Luigi Brugola‘s brace, while there were three in the 2020/21 season (Gosens, Malinovskyi and Toloi).

Atalanta 3-1 Fiorentina, 3/3/2019. Who DID NOT score?

Zapata

Atalanta found themselves in a trailing situation as the Viola had taken the lead through Luis Muriel, who was playing for Fiorentina back then. The black-and-blue squad turned the game around already in the first half, thanks to goals from Josip Iličić and Gomez, while it was Robin Gosens who finished it off in the second half.

Who has the most former players in their squad?

Equal

Both teams have two former players on their roster. Pierluigi Gollini – Atalanta’s former goalkeeper with 112 appearances and 38 clean sheets registered from 2017 to 2021 – is currently at Fiorentina; also playing for the Viola is Giacomo Bonaventura, a product of Atalanta’s youth academy with 135 appearances and 24 goals for Atalanta. Marco Sportiello, who made 39 appearances in two seasons in Florence, and Luis Muriel, who scored nine goals in his spell at Fiorentina in 2019, play for Atalanta.

Atalanta 2-2 Fiorentina, 22/9/2019. In what minute did Castagne score?

90’+5′

It was an incredible comeback from Atalanta on matchday 4 of the 2019/20 season. The black-and-blue’s were trailing by two goals at the Tardini in the 84th minute (the game took place in Parma due to the reconstruction of the Curva Nord Pisani of the Gewiss Stadium) when Iličić reopened the game by pulling one back. And it was at death that Castagne levelled up the match for Atalanta with a volley from outside the box.

For which team did Emiliano Mondonico oversee the most matches?

Atalanta

Atalanta, of course. The coach from Cremona could boast 259 appearances on the Atalanta bench, amassed during two different spells: between 1987 and 1990 and from 1994 to 1998. Mondonico was in charge of Fiorentina for 34 games, between the 2003/04 and the 2004/05 seasons.

  • 01/10/2022
  • Atalanta-Fiorentina
  • Men's First Team