Against Genoa, Atalanta claimed their 4th consecutive win in the league: as underscored by Stats Perform’s Opta Facts, for the first time since the 2004/05 season the Nerazzurri scored twice past the 90th minute in a Serie A game. Additionally, as El Bilal Touré took his first goal donning the black-and-blue shirt, on his very same debut nonetheless, the number of different Atalanta scorers has now reached the tally of 18 names on the scoresheet in all competitions and 14 limitedly to the Serie A alone – with only Fiorentina leading the “scoring diversity” chart with 15.
Atalanta opened the scoring with an undisputed banger courtesy of Charles De Ketelaere: among the youngsters capable of scoring 6+ goals and dishing out 6+ assists within the “Big-5” European leagues thus far this season, only Bukayo Saka (born in September 2001) bests the Belgian (born in March 2001) in terms of “precocity” as far as such peculiar pivot chart of scoring prowess is concerned. Moreover, limitedly to 2024, Atalanta’s number 17 has favoured 6 goals (namely, 4 nets scored and 2 assists provided) in the Serie A, featuring the league’s scoresheet in two consecutive matches for the first time ever since landing in Italy. Moving on to Mario Pašalić, the Croatian provided his third league assist.
The Nerazzurri’s second of the night came through Teun Koopmeiners: with his goal from a direct free-kick not only did the Oranje mid turn the match around, but he also halted a streak that started in December 2020 (namely, since Malinovskyi’s f-k goal in the Serie A match against Fiorentina). In addition to being the midfielder with the highest number of goals scored away from home in the current Serie A season with 5 nets (on par with Hakan Çalhanoglu), the Dutchman found his scoring ways in three consecutive league games, a personal first.
Atalanta’s third goal was scored by Davide Zappacosta, whose favourite target is Genoa, the team against whom the Italian wing-back has scored the most goals in Serie A (3). El Bilal Touré‘s goal at 102′ 23″ was the latest scored in Serie A since Daniel Ciofani’s goal in April 2019 (102’ 43″). Moreover, while the Mali striker was making his debut, the Genoa game marked the 50th appearance for Atalanta in all competitions for Matteo Ruggeri.
Finally – closing off with the individual insights provided by the Serie A match report – Koopmeiners was the Nerazzurro player with the most successful passes in the final third (11), while Aleksey Miranchuk was the Atalanta player with the most goal-scoring chances (4) and the most key passes (3). Pašalić, on the other hand, was the Nerazzurri player with the most balls played (65) and the most attempts (3, tied with Miranchuk), while Berat Djimsiti had the most successful passes (47).
