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Lazio vs Atalanta Prediction & Betting tips
The Serie A opens immediately after the international break with a nice poster. Saturday afternoon, Lazio will face Atalanta in-house, which won the cup final last season. Then Sergey Milinkovic-Savic managed to ease the pain of a failed season by making the 1-0 ten minutes before the end of the game and thereby giving Lazio a ticket to the Europa League.
Lazio:
Lazio chairman Claudio Lautito spoke this week about the mentality within the club. In conversation with Corriere dello Sport, he blames the player group for the poor results of recent years. “Lazio is a model club with an excellent training complex and very future-oriented given the large number of players we have in the Italian youth teams. There is a lot of potential, but the players lack character. I have increased the salary budget to be able to be the best players they must now give something back this season. ”
The question is to what extent this Lazio can perform to Lautito’s standards. The team is in sixth place and is already eight points behind leader Juventus and five points at number three Atalanta. After defeats against SPAL, Cluj and Inter, the road seemed to be back on track with victories over Genoa and Stade Rennes, but in the weekend before the interland break the team of Simone Inzaghi suffered damage again. Out at Bologna, it had many great opportunities against it and the Biancocelesti were lucky that it was effective and therefore went to 2-2 halftime. After a second half containing seven yellow and two red cards, Joaquin Correa had the ultimate chance to give the Romans the win, but he missed the penalty in the 88th minute, leaving it at 2-2.
As Lazio is the one with the least summer changes and transfers of all top teams, there seems to be little stretch in the team. The only thing that could get them in the top four is a top season from Luis Alberto, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Ciro Immobile, as was the case two seasons ago.
Atalanta:
Many expected a relapse at the Bergamo team after a surprising season. To date, the team of Gian Piero Gasperini has proven the opposite and is neatly in third place. There were hardly any changes in the success formation in the summer. The hired defender Simon Kjaer effortlessly adapted and goalkeeper Pierluigi Gollini retained his good form and thus earned an election for the national team.
In the most recent game against Lecce, we saw last season’s opportunistic football in full glory. At the first goal, five men hunted Lecce’s defenders to take the ball. When Robin Gosens managed this, he quickly found the freestanding Duvan Zapata, who now made 35 goals in 57 official duels for Atalanta. Shortly thereafter, the Colombian gave an assist to Papu Gomez, who closed the game. Robin Gosens also scored a goal, after which Lecce made a point of honor only in the last minute. It was the third consecutive victory for La Dea in the league after it previously won 0-2 at AS Roma and the Sassuolo even won 1-4.
Gasperini will have to make one adjustment this weekend to its usual team. Duvan Zapata sustained a muscle injury during the international break and has been out of the running for at least three weeks. His countryman Luis Muriel has been fit again since the beginning of this month and played 120 minutes for Colombia. He is therefore the most logical replacement for Zapata.
Lazio vs Atalanta head to head matches
15.05.19 COP Atalanta Lazio 0 : 2
05.05.19 SA Lazio Atalanta 1 : 3
17.12.18 SA Atalanta Lazio 1 : 0
06.05.18 SA Lazio Atalanta 1 : 1
17.12.17 SA Atalanta Lazio 3 : 3