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Internazionale vs Atalanta

Competition – Serie A

Stadium – Stadio Giuseppe Meazza

Date: 30th August 2024

Kick-off time – 19:45 GMT

Inter Milan will welcome Atalanta to the San Siro this Friday for their second league game of the season.

After beginning their Serie A title defence with a disappointing 2-2 draw with Genoa, the hosts bounced back in their last game beating Lecce 2-0. That victory curiously marked the eighth time across their last eleven Serie A matches that the Nerazzurri have scored exactly twice.

Even more impressive is that the win was achieved without injured captain Lautaro Martínez. Coach Simone Inzaghi was quick to note the positives of not being “anchored” to a single player, especially with the Argentina striker a doubt for this match against Atalanta.

A strong head-to-head record should boost hopes that they can do the job without him, with Inter having won the last four league games against Atalanta, netting 12 goals in the process and helping make up their longest winning streak since December 2001 against their visitors.

Meanwhile, after opening their campaign with an impressive 4-0 win over Lecee, Atalanta fell to a 2-1 defeat in their second league game of the season. That loss was also Atalanta’s second defeat across three competitive matches (W1) this term. However, coach Gian Piero Gasperini still claimed to be “happy” with the improvements shown since the Super Cup final loss to Real Madrid.

That said, the setback at Torino ended what had been an impressive four-game away winning streak in the league. Getting that away run back on track will require Atalanta to improve another negative record here as they haven’t recorded a league win against Inter at the San Siro since March 2014 (D3, L7).

This game gets underway at 19:45 BST.

Other fixtures taking place this week in Serie A:

April 7, 2025
Bologna 19:45 SSC Napoli
April 11, 2025
Udinese 19:45 AC Milan
April 12, 2025
Venezia 14:00 Monza
Inter Milan 17:00 Cagliari
Juventus 19:45 Lecce
April 13, 2025
Atalanta 11:30 Bologna
Fiorentina 14:00 Parma
Verona 14:00 Genoa
Como 17:00 Torino
Lazio 19:45 Roma
April 14, 2025
SSC Napoli 19:45 Empoli
April 19, 2025
Lecce 14:00 Como
Monza 17:00 SSC Napoli
Roma 19:45 Verona
April 20, 2025
Empoli 14:00 Venezia
Bologna 17:00 Inter Milan
AC Milan 19:45 Atalanta

Serie A Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Inter Milan 31 20 8 3 69 30 +39 68
2 SSC Napoli 30 19 7 4 47 24 +23 64
3 Atalanta 31 17 7 7 63 30 +33 58
4 Bologna 30 15 11 4 50 34 +16 56
5 Juventus 31 14 14 3 47 29 +18 56
6 Lazio 31 16 7 8 52 42 +10 55
7 Roma 31 15 8 8 46 31 +15 53
8 Fiorentina 31 15 7 9 49 32 +17 52
9 AC Milan 31 13 9 9 47 37 +10 48
10 Torino 31 9 13 9 36 36 +0 40
11 Udinese 31 11 7 13 36 42 -6 40
12 Genoa 31 9 11 11 29 38 -9 38
13 Como 31 8 9 14 39 48 -9 33
14 Verona 31 9 4 18 30 59 -29 31
15 Cagliari 31 7 9 15 31 44 -13 30
16 Parma 31 5 12 14 37 51 -14 27
17 Lecce 31 6 8 17 22 50 -28 26
18 Empoli 31 4 12 15 24 47 -23 24
19 Venezia 31 3 12 16 24 44 -20 21
20 Monza 31 2 9 20 25 55 -30 15

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