After four back-to-back road games, Atalanta will make their homecoming to welcome Hellas Verona to the Gewiss Stadium. The Scaligiers will be off to Bergamo after the home loss to Genoa.
Scalvini scored his first Serie A goal against Verona: can you name his other victims?
On the 18th of April 2022, Giorgio Scalvini scored his first professional goal against Hellas Verona. That fated header earned him the 8th place in Atalanta’s all-time standing of youngest Serie A scorers aged 18 years, 4 months and 7 days. As a further trivia in the trivia, the black-and-blue recordman is Amad Diallo, who found his scoring ways in his very same debut in the Italian top flight, namely in Atalanta’s 7-1 walkover against Udinese, aged 17 years, 3 months and 16 days. Circling back to Scalvini, last season he featured on the Serie A scoreboard twice: namely, with the decider in the road 1-0 win against Roma back in September 2022 and with the goal scored in the home 8-2 goal galore v Salernitana of January 2023. While the goal has resisted Scalvini thus far this season in the Serie A, Giorgio has bagged one net in the UEFA Europa League Group Stage game played against Sporting CP at the José Alvalade stadium.
How many games did Hien play at Hellas Verona?
On Monday night Isak Hien will play his former team for the first time, having landed in Italy from Djurgården in the summer of 2022 “at the hands of” Hellas Verona. In his one-and-a-half-season stint for the Scaligiers, Hien accrued 44 caps in all competitions: in addition to the 33 appearances collected in the 2022/23 campaign – namely, 32 Serie A games and the relegation play-off played against Spezia-, he also played 11 matches (of which, 10 features in the league and one Coppa Italia match) in his first half of the current season as a Gialloblù before completing his move to Atalanta in the winter transfer window.
Hellas Verona are Koopmeiners’ favourite victims.
Having scored in all his three previous outings played against Hellas Verona at the Bentegodi stadium, Teun Koopmeiners can flaunt an immaculate scoring run near the “Arena”, which makes the Dutchman quite the bugbear for the Scaligiers. Nonetheless, Verona are not Teun’s one and only favourite target: the long list of teams against which the Oranje marksman has scored 3 or more goals is quite vast, with as many as 11 names. As for the Italian side of TK7’s hitlist, the index comprises, in addition to the aforementioned Hellas Verona: Milan, against whom Teun has scored all his three goals within the current season, Torino and Monza, with a hat-trick each. Seven are instead his homeland targets, here listed in alphabetical order: ADO Den Haag, Emmen, Fortuna Sittard, PSV, Twente, Utrecht, Willem II Tilburg.
