45' +8' | It's the final whistle at the stadium Franchi: the spoils are shared. | |
45' +6' | Atalanta go on the counter but the home defence manages to defuse the threat. | |
45' +3' | Amazing Sportiello save on Bonaventura's header. | |
45' +2' | Substitution for Fiorentina: Bianco on, Castrovilli off. | |
45' | There are seven minutes of extra-time. | |
39' | Substitution for Atalanta: on Boga, off Zapata. | |
31' | Substitution for Atalanta: on Palomino, off Scalvini. | |
30' | Yellow card for Quarta. | |
28' | Biraghi's free kick hits the post. | |
26' | Substitution for Fiorentina: on Biraghi, off Terzic. | |
25' | Substitution for Atalanta: on Muriel, off Højlund. | |
25' | Hojlund's header sent the ball into the back. | |
20' | Double substitution for Fiorentina: on Bonaventura and Sottil, off Brekalo and Barak. | |
16' | Yellow card for Éderson. | |
11' | Cabral converts a penalty for Fiorentina, all square. | |
10' | Penalty for Fiorentina. | |
1' | Substitution for Fiorentina: on Brekalo, off Ikonè. | |
1' | 2nd half, keep it up! C'MON GUYS!!! #ForzaAtalanta |
45' +1' | We lead at the break after one minute of injury time. | |
38' | Yellow card for Mæhle. | |
37' | GOOOOOOOOAAAALLLLLL!!!! JOAKIIIIIIM MÆHLEEEEEEE!!! Mæhle skips past Dodo and dinks over Terracciano! We lead! 0-1!!! C'MON GUYS!!! | |
30' | Zapata's finish from outside the box is over the bar. | |
24' | Sportiello denies Nico Gonzalez. | |
22' | Gonzalez tries the crossbar to Sportiello's right: ball on the bottom. | |
16' | Sportiello pulls off a great save on Cabral's long-range strike. | |
12' | Sportiello manages to smother Barak's left-foot strike at the second attempt. | |
10' | Højlund pulls back from the by-line but his pass doesn't find Zapata. | |
2' | Quarta tried, ball on the bottom left of Sportiello. | |
1' | Match's underway in Florence: C'MON LADS!!! #ForzaAtalanta |
The spoils were shared in the 30th round of the 2022-2023 Serie A TIM at the Stadio Franchi in Florence, as it ended 1-1 against Fiorentina at the end of a hard-fought match.
The Viola threatened in the opening minutes of the game with a Quarta header that skimmed the post on two minutes and a Cabral finish that was beaten away by Sportiello in the 16th minute. A Gonzalez curler skimmed the top corner in the 20th minute and four minutes later, Sportiello had to make a huge save to parry Cabral’s header amid a melee. Gasperini’s men tried to break the deadlock through a quick Højlund effort and a Zapata finish from the edge of the box, but it was Mæhle who actually opened the scoring on 37 minutes with a solo effort, as he ran through a gap in the centre of the defence and dinked it over Terracciano, giving Atalanta the lead before half-time.
Fiorentina had a go in the opening minutes of the second half through Barak and Castrovilli, but the incident that proved decisive came in the 56th minute after a VAR review, when referee Guida awarded the hosts a penalty – amid protests from the Nerazzurri – which Cabral converted to level the score. The final minutes of the game were lively and intense: Biraghi hit the base of the post directly from a free kick in the 73rd minute and Sportiello made a sensational one-hand save to block Bonaventura’s close-range header on the line on 93 minutes. The last chance of the game, however, came off the Nerazzurri on 96 minutes when Boga intercepted a back-pass and sparked the Atalanta counter-attack, but then failed to find Muriel with his pass, freezing the scoreline at 1-1 at the Stadio Franchi.