Europa League betting and spectator preview: Sporting CP and Atalanta meet at Estádio José Alvalade to measure strength and learn who makes it to the next stage.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 2100 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
The visiting Atalanta played their last game only four days ago, a Serie A match.
Sporting CP form and stats
Sporting CP was eliminated in the quarter-finals last season in the Europa League. Juventus was too strong.The story so far in the Liga Portugal for Sporting CP at their home stadium (Estádio José Alvalade) is 4 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats.
Happy days for Sporting CP in their previous game, a fixture away at Farense that ended with a 3-2 victory. The attacker Gyökeres was announced as "man of the match" for Sporting CP with the rating of 9.24/10. Gyökeres scored two goals, served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 4 of 7 times.
Previous to that game, a Liga Portugal home match hosting Rio Ave in a game that was won 2-0.This is expected to be a close game, with Sporting CP perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Sporting CP as a small favourite), we find 5 games. Sporting CP has won 0 of these, drawn 1 and lost 4.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Arouca are coming to town in three days.
Goals decide football matches and Sporting CP are scoring many of them at home; 9 on target from 4 league matches. From these home matches, Sporting CP have conceded only 2 goals.
Atalanta form and stats
Playing away, Atalanta have won 2 games, drawn 0 and suffered 2 defeats in the Serie A this season.
The Atalanta goalkeeper Juan Agustin Musso is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 284 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Atalanta's last game was the home draw against Juventus (0-0). Scalvini was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.4. The defender Scalvini won 6 of 8 duels.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Hellas Verona at their stadium, the result 1-0.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 6 similar matches played by Atalanta in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Atalanta, 3 draws and 1 defeat.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Atalanta manager Gasperini as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Lazio.
Atalanta has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 6 goals from 4 games. Atalanta have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  J. Dias Fernandes 5 goals |  V. Gyökeres 5 goals |  P. Pereira Gonçalves 2 goals |
Sporting CP missing players
Atalanta missing players
| Sporting CP | Atalanta | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 8 | Won | W | 5 | 13 | ||
| 7 | 5 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 6 | 8 | ||
| 47 | 25 | Scored | S | 18 | 41 | ||
| 22 | 10 | Conceded | C | 19 | 30 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 88% | ||
| 84% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 80% | ||
| 56% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 52% | ||
| 20% | 15% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 38% | 36% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 20% | ||
| 60% | 62% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 38% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 32% | ||
| 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 28% | ||
| 6.1 | 5.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 5.8 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 3.8 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.6 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 14.1 | 14.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.6 | 14 | ||
| 5.6 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 4.8 | ||
| 34% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 34% | ||
| 7.6 | 7.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.2 | 10.9 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.2 | 4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Atalanta | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | Sporting CP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Sturm Graz | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 4 | Raków Częstochowa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Sporting CP | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 19 |
| 2 | Benfica | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 18 |
| 3 | Porto | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | Boavista | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 14 |
| 5 | Sporting Braga | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 13 |
| 6 | Famalicao | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 12 |
| 7 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -1 | 10 |
| 8 | Casa Pia | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 9 | Portimonense | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | -8 | 8 |
| 10 | Moreirense | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -3 | 7 |
| 11 | Gil Vicente | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 6 |
| 12 | Farense | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 13 | Arouca | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 6 |
| 14 | Rio Ave | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -3 | 5 |
| 15 | Vizela | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -4 | 5 |
| 16 | Estrela Amadora | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -5 | 5 |
| 17 | Estoril | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -3 | 4 |
| 18 | Chaves | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 11 | -13 | 1 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Inter | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 16 | 18 |
| 2 | Milan | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 18 |
| 3 | Napoli | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 14 |
| 4 | Juventus | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | Atalanta | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 12 |
| 6 | Fiorentina | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 11 |
| 7 | Lecce | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 11 |
| 8 | Frosinone | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| 9 | Sassuolo | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -1 | 9 |
| 10 | Torino | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -1 | 8 |
| 11 | Genoa | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 7 |
| 12 | Bologna | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 7 |
| 13 | Hellas Verona | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 7 |
| 14 | Lazio | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -3 | 7 |
| 15 | Monza | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -3 | 6 |
| 16 | Roma | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| 17 | Udinese | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -8 | 3 |
| 18 | Salernitana | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -10 | 3 |
| 19 | Empoli | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | -12 | 3 |
| 20 | Cagliari | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -7 | 2 |
