The Premier League has ended but there is still a lot at stake in Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, Turkey and Italy By Martin Laurence for WhoScoredThe Premier League has come to its conclusion, but there is plenty to play for across Europe. Here are …
Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Joaquin Correa settled a scrappy Coppa Italia final after a crucial first-half refereeing decisionBy the time Joaquin Correa’s shot hit the net, Lazio’s bench was already spilling on to the pitch. Team-mates charged 70 yards…
Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Joaquin Correa settled a scrappy Coppa Italia final after a crucial first-half refereeing decisionBy the time Joaquin Correa’s shot hit the net, Lazio’s bench was already spilling on to the pitch. Team-mates charged 70 yards…
Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Joaquin Correa settled a scrappy Coppa Italia final after a crucial first-half refereeing decisionBy the time Joaquin Correa’s shot hit the net, Lazio’s bench was already spilling on to the pitch. Team-mates charged 70 yards…
Gian Piero Gasperini’s Serie A top scorers have been likened by Fabio Capello to the thrilling Dutch side in the way they commit to one-on-one battles all over the pitchA lesser team would have broken. On 15 April, Atalanta played out one of the most i…
Other matches featured seven goals, two penalties and red cards but Atalanta’s comeback against Roma beat the lotIt was one of those days in Serie A. Oh, you know the sort: when the lunchtime kick-off features seven goals, two penalties, and a red card…
Cristiano Ronaldo saved Juventus’s unbeaten Serie A record this season when he came off the bench to score the equaliser in a dramatic 2-2 draw at Atalanta.Juve, who dropped their first away points of the season, were down to 10 men at one of Serie A’s…
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Gian Piero Gasperini’s in-game tweaks are one reason his Atalanta side keep recovering from losing positions – and they did it again to draw with Juventus
It should have been all over. Within 25 minutes of Serie A’s Sunday night fixture, Juventus were two goals to the good. What opponent could overcome such a disastrous start against the champs: winners of six consecutive Serie A titles, as well as six consecutive games to begin this season? Who would even dare to fight back against the Old Lady of Turin?
Only the Goddess of Bergamo. Atalanta share their name with Greek mythology’s virgin huntress, and over the past 12 months they have embodied her combative spirit just as well.
Everton produced another hugely disappointing display as they were soundly beaten for the third successive game, this time Atalanta inflicting the damage in their Europa League Group E opener in Reggio Emilia.
Ronald Koeman’s misfiring team went into the match having endured a 2-0 defeat at Chelsea and lost 3-0 at home against Tottenham Hotspur. Koeman, the Everton manager, had warned they would “need to react” in Italy after that last performance.
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Atalanta make a relativaly understated four changes to the team that beat Sassuolo 2-1 on Sunday.
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The teams!
These are the people who will be contesting today’s tie. Everton make no fewer than six changes, bringing in Maarten Stekelenburg, Mason Holgate, Phil Jagielka, Mo Besic, Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Nikola Vlasic.
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From another Scudetto triumph for Juventus to Crotone’s miraculous escape, we revisit Papu Gómez’s armbands, Joe Hart’s gaffes and the grace of Totti
This might have been another year of European heartbreak for Juventus, but domestically it was the same old story. The Bianconeri won Serie A for the sixth consecutive season, and collected their third straight Coppa Italia as well. No team had ever won either trophy so many times in succession. They have made the unprecedented look routine.
And yet, this season was not lacking in drama. To the contrary, there was something wild about this campaign right from the start. There were 32 goals scored (not to mention three red cards) on the opening weekend alone. The final tally of 2.96 per game was highest among Europe’s top five leagues.
• Argentinean pair each notch trebles as Inter move into fourth place
• Napoli bounce back with 3-0 win over Crotone; Chievo thump Empoli 4-0
Internazionale captain Mauro Icardi scored a perfect hat-trick in 10 first-half minutes and Ever Banega also helped himself to three goals in a 7-1 rout of hapless Atalanta in Serie A on Sunday.
Atalanta, whose coach Gian Piero Gasperini was infamously sacked by Inter after only five games in 2011, started the day above Inter and had been expected to provide a stern test to their opponents.
• Champions go down 2-1; Roma beat Udinese despite Dzeko penalty miss
• Gap at top down to one point after Roma’s sixth win in last seven games
The Serie A leaders, Juventus, suffered a 2-1 defeat at mid-table Fiorentina as the title race came alive following a bad-tempered but pulsating match.
Juve’s fourth league reverse of the season, all away from home, meant the champions’ lead at the top was cut to one point after second-placed Roma beat Udinese 1-0 away despite a penalty miss from their leading scorer, Edin Dzeko.
• Stand-in for rested Gonzalo Higuaín scores one goal and sets up another
• Federico Bernardeschi penalty earns Fiorentina victory over Chievo Verona
Paulo Dybala proved a more than able deputy for the rested Gonzalo Higuaín by scoring one goal and creating another in Juventus’s 3-2 win over Atalanta in the Italian Cup on Wednesday. It booked a quarter-final place against Milan or Torino who play on Thursday.
Mario Mandzukic struck a post early for Juventus before, midway through the first half, Dybala scored with a volley from outside the area following a touch from the Croatia international. Before half-time Dybala threaded a pass through to Mandzukic, who made it 2-0 with an angled shot.
• Italian side determined not to sell Ivory Coast midfielder in January
• Chelsea remain favourites to sign Kessié in the summer
Atalanta have rejected a £15m bid from Everton for Franck Kessié, with the Italian side determined to hold on to the 20-year-old until the end of the season despite continued interest from Chelsea.
Related: Transfer window January 2017: every deal in Europe’s top five leagues
