Atalanta vs Lazio Preview

Atalanta vs Lazio

Competition – Serie A

Stadium – Atleti Azzurri d’Italia

Date: 17th December 2018

Kick-off time – 19:30 GMT

Lazio are currently in a really bad place form wise and they would be desperate to end their winless run when they face Atalanta in this game.

On Thursday, the visitors recorded yet another disappointing result when they were beaten by Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League however they still qualified for the knockout round of the competition.

Lazio are now winless in 6 games.

During that period of time Lazio have drawn their last 4 consecutive Serie A games and lost their last two Europa League games, so they need to turn things around here with a victory.

Atalanta have also had a very unpredictable season and are only behind Lazio by 4 points after their recent 3-1 win at Udinese helped them close the gap on the out-of-form visitors.

Prior to that win, they were beaten 2-1 here by Napoli and also lost 3-1 at Empoli.

Atalanta have been scoring goals and their manager has refused to change his attacking approach no matter the opponent.   That approach could see them net here again, but their defence will need to do better to shut out Lazio.

The last three meetings between these sides have ended in 2 draws and a Lazio win.

Bookmakers have priced Atalanta up as steady favourites to come out on top at home.

Goal markets point to an exciting game as over 2.5 goals is trading odds-on at present.

Ciro Immobile is favourite with bookies to score the first goal followed by Alejandro Gomez and Duvan Zapata.

Other fixtures taking place this week in Serie A:

October 26, 2024
Bologna 16:00 AC Milan
December 1, 2024
Fiorentina 18:00 Inter Milan
December 22, 2024
Atalanta 18:00 Empoli
Monza 20:45 Juventus
December 23, 2024
Fiorentina 18:30 Udinese
Inter Milan 20:45 Como
December 28, 2024
Empoli 15:00 Genoa
Parma 15:00 Monza
Cagliari 18:00 Inter Milan
Lazio 20:45 Atalanta
December 29, 2024
Udinese 12:30 Torino
SSC Napoli 15:00 Venezia
Juventus 18:00 Fiorentina
AC Milan 20:45 Roma
December 30, 2024
Como 18:30 Lecce
Bologna 20:45 Verona
January 4, 2025
Venezia 15:00 Empoli
Fiorentina 18:00 SSC Napoli
Verona 20:45 Udinese

Serie A Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 SSC Napoli 17 12 2 3 26 12 +14 38
2 Atalanta 16 12 1 3 39 17 +22 37
3 Inter Milan 15 10 4 1 40 15 +25 34
4 Lazio 17 11 1 5 32 24 +8 34
5 Fiorentina 15 9 4 2 28 11 +17 31
6 Juventus 16 6 10 0 26 12 +14 28
7 Bologna 16 7 7 2 23 18 +5 28
8 AC Milan 16 7 5 4 25 16 +9 26
9 Udinese 16 6 2 8 19 25 -6 20
10 Empoli 16 4 7 5 14 16 -2 19
11 Roma 17 5 4 8 23 23 +0 19
12 Torino 17 5 4 8 17 22 -5 19
13 Genoa 17 3 7 7 14 26 -12 16
14 Lecce 17 4 4 9 11 29 -18 16
15 Como 16 3 6 7 18 28 -10 15
16 Parma 17 3 6 8 23 33 -10 15
17 Verona 17 5 0 12 21 40 -19 15
18 Cagliari 17 3 5 9 16 28 -12 14
19 Venezia 17 3 4 10 17 30 -13 13
20 Monza 16 1 7 8 14 21 -7 10

Serie A Results

December 22, 2024
Venezia 2 - 1 Cagliari
Roma 5 - 0 Parma
December 21, 2024
Lecce 1 - 2 Lazio
Genoa 1 - 2 SSC Napoli
Torino 0 - 2 Bologna
December 20, 2024
Verona 0 - 1 AC Milan
December 16, 2024
Lazio 0 - 6 Inter Milan
December 15, 2024
AC Milan 0 - 0 Genoa
Como 2 - 0 Roma
Parma 2 - 3 Verona
Bologna 1 - 0 Fiorentina
Lecce 2 - 1 Monza
December 14, 2024
Juventus 2 - 2 Venezia
Udinese 1 - 3 SSC Napoli
Cagliari 0 - 1 Atalanta
December 13, 2024
Empoli 0 - 1 Torino
December 9, 2024
Monza 1 - 2 Udinese

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