The Olimpico game culminated with the rather proverbial sting in the tail as a positive outcome slipped out of Atalanta’s hands in the closing minutes. The Nerazzurri scorers of the afternoon were Éderson and Sead Kolašinac.
As registered by Stats Perform, the Carioca midfielder has already equalled his scoring best in a single Serie A season (namely, the 2 goals scored in 15 appearances for Salernitana back in the 2021/22 campaign). Moreover, if we widen our scope and put his UEFA Europa League goal into the picture, he has already set a personal best since his move to Italy. As a further trivia, out of the five goals scored during his stints at Salernitana and Atalanta, Éderson found his scoring ways with a header for the first time in the Olimpico match.
Moving on to the other scorer of the afternoon, not only did Sead Kolašinac score his first-ever goal as a Nerazzurro, but he also became the second-ever Bosnian player to feature the Serie A scoreboard for Atalanta after Zlatan Muslimović (who scored a brace against Fiorentina on the 9th of February 2008). As a further sidenote, with his goal against Lazio, Atalanta’s number 23 found his scoring ways in four out of the so-called Top 5 European leagues – namely, after having found the target in the Bundesliga, in the Premier League and in Ligue 1 before signing for Atalanta.
The last time Atalanta scored two headers in a single match dates back to the matchup played against Napoli on the 21st of February 2021.
Lastly, the Olimpico match saw Matteo Ruggeri dish out his third assist in the league: thus far, no other Serie A defender can flaunt a better record – with Matteo waylaying the likes of Dimarco, Marchizza and Toljan on top of this peculiar chart.
