Key statistics for the Coppa Italia fixture between Atalanta and Spezia

This arena uses the playing surface grass, unlike Spezia's home ground. The latest 39 games by the away side on grass have produced 7 wins, 6 draws and 26 losses.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

Atalanta form and stats

Last season, Atalanta's Coppa Italia journey ended in the quarter-finals.

The story so far in the Serie A for Atalanta at their home stadium (Gewiss Stadium) is 4 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.

Atalanta's previous game was also played at home, ending 8-2 versus Salernitana. The home side are looking to build on that result. As mentioned above, Atalanta "killed" Salernitana in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency. The home team have an in-form goalscorer in Højlund, having bagged a goal in three consecutive matches. The striker Lookman won the honour of being "man of the match" for Atalanta with the rating of 9.14/10. Lookman scored two goals, served one assist, hit two key passes and had 29 successful passes (of 32 total).

In the game before, an away victory in the Serie A match versus Bologna with a 2-1 scoreline.

Atalanta are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 10 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 6, drew 4 and lost 0.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Atalanta as they are travelling to their away game against Juventus in the Serie A. That match is three days after this one.

The Atalanta manager Gasperini has got the team scoring with 19 from 9 home games in the league. Atalanta's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 13 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

Spezia form and stats

Spezia was sent out of Coppa Italia in the 2nd round last season.

There's been little loot from Spezia's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 9 away games in the Serie A. Spezia only have 2 wins to counter their 7 defeats and 0 draws.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Spezia goalkeeper Jeroen Zoet is eager to challenge this, with his 180 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Spezia play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Torino. Drągowski (goalkeeper) was the best performer with a rating of 7.65. Drągowski topped it up with a clean sheet.

Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Lecce.

You'll want to know how Spezia managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found 10 similar matches resulting in 2 away wins, 0 draws and 8 home wins.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Roma in just three days.

Spezia are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed {4 goals} from 9 away games. Spezia struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 16 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Atalanta have pulled off a sequence of 5 consecutive matches without defeat (3-2-0) when facing Spezia.

One of the profiles has been Pasalic with 6 goals scored against Spezia in these 5 games.

Top Goalscorers

A. Lookman 9 goals

M. N'Zola 9 goals

T. Koopmeiners 6 goals

Atalanta missing players

Spezia missing players