With Marten de Roon being the latest addition to Atalanta’s goalscorers’ club, the number of players on target has consequently moved up a notch, comprising now 18 footballers to have found their scoring ways in the league so far this season.

The tally of 18 different players to have quenched their thirst for goal (in 27 matchdays, nonetheless) marks a seasonal first, not solely limited to Italy’s first division: out of the Top-5 European Leagues, no other team, save for Olympique Marseille with 18 different scorers (now waylayed thanks to Marten’s very same goal), has managed to show such goalscoring diversity.

All records aside, Marten scored a goal of capital importance, as it kick-started the black-and-blue comeback and played a key role in turning the tide of the match in Atalanta’s favour for the seizure of three vital points.

With his latest goal being the seal of approval on de Roon’s application for the Black-and-blue goalscorers’ club, the Dutchman will now join his teammates Boga, Demiral, Éderson, Hateboer, Højlund, Koopmeiners, Lookman, Mæhle, Malinovskyi, Muriel, Palomino, Pašalić, Scalvini, Toloi, Zapata, Zappacosta and Zortea and will be given the card number #18.