Bologna with broken brakes! His team Thiago Motta continues to fly high and… pulls the Champions League sheet. This time, he managed to bend her Atalanta 1-0 and celebrated its third straight victory and fourth in the last five games, climbing to the top four of Serie A.
At the same time, the “Bergamaski” lost the opportunity to get closer to the 4th place in the standings and remained in the 7th place with 26.
The match was quite balanced with few phases on either side, with both teams putting in a lot of planning and tactics, showing that their first concern is not to concede a goal and then look for it. The home team had possession and supremacy, Atalanta were searching and more dangerous on the counter and thus had the best moment of the first half, but the Luqman made a bad finish on a lateral tête-à-tête that was found.
One of the same in the second part, with the Atalanta to touch the lead after Luqman’s turn but o Fryer with terrific projection he took the bite from De Ketelar who was ready in an empty net to score. Thiago Motta started to freshen up his team’s midfield and in the 75th minute threw Orsolini. With the high-quality Italian winger serving from a corner in the 86th minute the winning goal in Fergusonwho headed home Carnesecchi to make it 1-0, amid wild celebrations at the Renato Dal Ara.
In the Olympic Stadium of Turin, “granata” got stuck at 1-1 with Udinese and missed the chance to get close to the top six in the standings. The home team were overall superior but also… careless, since although they seemed to be taking the match where they wanted, they managed to fall behind in the score in the 81st minute with Ferreira making it 1-0 for the visitors with Saraga. However, the response from Ivan Juric’s team came immediately, with the Ilyich in the 88th minute to save Torino from home defeat!
Detailed schedule of the 17th matchday:
Friday, December 22
Empoli-Lazio 0-2
(9′ Gedouzi, 67′ Tzakani)
Sassuolo-Genoa 1-2
(28′ Pinamonti – 64′ Gudmundsson, 87′ Ekuban)
Salernitana-Milan 2-2
(42′ Faccio, 63′ Candreva – 17′ Tomori, 90′ Jovic)
Monza-Fiorentina 0-1
(7′ Beltran)
Saturday, December 23
Frosinone-Juventus 1-2
(51′ Baes – 12′ Yildiz, 81′ Vlahovic)
Bologna-Atalanta 1-0
(85′ Ferguson)
Torino-Udinese 1-1
(88′ Ilic – 81′ Saraga)
Inter-Lecce (19:00)
Verona-Cagliari (19:00)
Roma-Napoli (21:45)
The next (18th) matchday:
Friday, December 29
Napoli-Monza (19:30)
Fiorentina-Torino (19:30)
Genoa-Inter (21:45)
Lazio-Frosinone (21:45)
Saturday, December 30
Atalanta-Lecce (13:30)
Udinese-Bologna (16:00)
Cagliari-Emboli (16:00)
Milan-Sassuolo (19:00)
Verona-Salernitana (19:00)
Juventus-Roma (21:45)
Source: Sport Fm
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