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:

March 17, 2024
Atalanta 19:00 Fiorentina
April 25, 2024
Udinese 19:00 Roma
April 26, 2024
Frosinone 19:45 Salernitana
April 27, 2024
Lecce 14:00 Monza
Juventus 17:00 AC Milan
Lazio 19:45 Verona
April 28, 2024
Inter Milan 11:30 Torino
Bologna 14:00 Udinese
Atalanta 17:00 Empoli
SSC Napoli 17:00 Roma
Fiorentina 19:45 Sassuolo
April 29, 2024
Genoa 19:45 Cagliari
May 3, 2024
Torino 19:45 Bologna
May 4, 2024
Monza 17:00 Lazio
Sassuolo 19:45 Inter Milan
May 5, 2024
Cagliari 11:30 Lecce
Empoli 14:00 Frosinone
Verona 14:00 Fiorentina
AC Milan 17:00 Genoa
Roma 19:45 Juventus

Serie A Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Inter Milan 33 27 5 1 79 18 +61 86
2 AC Milan 33 21 6 6 64 39 +25 69
3 Juventus 33 18 10 5 47 26 +21 64
4 Bologna 33 17 11 5 48 26 +22 62
5 Roma 32 16 7 9 57 38 +19 55
6 Atalanta 32 16 6 10 59 37 +22 54
7 Lazio 33 16 4 13 42 35 +7 52
8 SSC Napoli 33 13 10 10 50 41 +9 49
9 Fiorentina 32 13 8 11 45 36 +9 47
10 Torino 33 11 13 9 31 29 +2 46
11 Monza 33 11 10 12 35 43 -8 43
12 Genoa 33 9 12 12 35 40 -5 39
13 Lecce 33 8 11 14 30 48 -18 35
14 Cagliari 33 7 11 15 36 56 -20 32
15 Verona 33 7 10 16 31 44 -13 31
16 Empoli 33 8 7 18 26 48 -22 31
17 Udinese 32 4 16 12 30 48 -18 28
18 Frosinone 33 6 10 17 40 63 -23 28
19 Sassuolo 33 6 8 19 39 65 -26 26
20 Salernitana 33 2 9 22 26 70 -44 15

Serie A Results

April 22, 2024
AC Milan 1 - 2 Inter Milan
Roma 1 - 3 Bologna
April 21, 2024
Monza 1 - 2 Atalanta
Salernitana 0 - 2 Fiorentina
Torino 0 - 0 Frosinone
Sassuolo 0 - 3 Lecce
April 20, 2024
Verona 1 - 0 Udinese
Empoli 1 - 0 SSC Napoli
April 19, 2024
Cagliari 2 - 2 Juventus
Genoa 0 - 1 Lazio
April 15, 2024
Atalanta 2 - 2 Verona
Fiorentina 1 - 1 Genoa
April 14, 2024
Inter Milan 2 - 2 Cagliari
Sassuolo 3 - 3 AC Milan
SSC Napoli 2 - 2 Frosinone
April 13, 2024
Bologna 0 - 0 Monza
Torino 0 - 0 Juventus
Lecce 1 - 0 Empoli
April 12, 2024
Lazio 4 - 1 Salernitana
April 8, 2024
Udinese 1 - 2 Inter Milan

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