Game preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Atalanta greet Salernitana

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Sun 15.January
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Gewiss Stadium (26393 seats)

Atalanta are probable winners of this home match against Salernitana, if the league table is to be trusted. Or are we looking at a possible?

Insights:
  • Atalanta have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Salernitana have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

Salernitana have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 800 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

Atalanta and Salernitana should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Atalanta form and stats

Atalanta have played 8 Serie A games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-2-3 (wins-draws-losses). Game days at Gewiss Stadium have recently become somewhat of a nightmare for Atalanta as they have lost three home games in a row. It hurts.

Happy days for Atalanta in their previous game, a fixture away at Bologna (placed 12th) that ended with a 2-1 victory. Finally, a league victory after four matches without. The forward Højlund was named "man of the match" for Atalanta with the rating of 7.65/10. Højlund scored one goal and hit two key passes.

A 2-2 draw away before that, with Spezia the opponent.

Both teams to score: YES! That has been the case in 5 league matches in a row for this club. Could it happen again?

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Spezia are coming to town in four days.

The Atalanta fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 11 in 8 matches. On the other hand, Atalanta have conceded 11 goals. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Salernitana form and stats

There's been little loot from Salernitana's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 8 away games in the Serie A. Salernitana only have 1 win to counter their 4 defeats and 3 draws.

There were no winners in Salernitana's previous match, the home game that ended 1-1 vs Torino (placed 10th). Goalkeeper Ochoa made a total of seven saves, making him a hero against Torino. Heavily contributing to the draw after 90 minutes.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 1-2 defeat against Milan.

Goal-happy betting people should observe that 10 of this side's 13 most recent league matches have ended with three goals or more.

The attacking power of Salernitana when travelling is not overwhelming with 7 goals scored from 8 league matches away. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Salernitana has visited these top teams three times, and 2 of 3 has ended with 2 goals or more!

Head 2 Head

As for the last two games between these two teams, there's one Atalanta victory, one draw and zero Salernitana wins. Over/under statistics; zero of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

AtalantaA. Lookman
A. Lookman
7 goals
SalernitanaB. Dia
B. Dia
6 goals
AtalantaT. Koopmeiners
T. Koopmeiners
5 goals

Atalanta missing players

Salernitana missing players

Atalanta Salernitana
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
17 8 2 Played P 3 8 17
9 3 1 Won W 1 1 4
4 2 1 Drew D 1 3 6
4 3 0 Lost L 1 4 7
26 11 3 Scored S 5 7 21
18 11 2 Conceded C 5 16 27
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 94%
82% 88% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 88% 82%
47% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 62% 65%
24% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 38% 35%
6% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 6%
59% 75% 100% BTTS BTTS 67% 50% 59%
35% 12% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 12% 18%
6% 12% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 50% 29%
 
3.9 4.1 3 Corners for (avg) C F 3.7 3.9 4.1
4.4 4.1 3 Corners against (avg) C A 6 4.5 4.5
2.8 2.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 2.2 2.4
1 1 0 Red cards R C 1 2 3
 
12.8 13.8 16 Shots (avg) S ( 10.3 10.1 11.6
4.5 4.5 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 2.6 3.4
34% 31% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 42% 33% 37%
 
12.6 12.2 9 Shots against (avg) S A 17.7 17 16.4
3.6 4.5 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.3 6.1 6
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Atalanta have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Atalanta haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Salernitana have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Napoli 17 14 2 1 39 13 8 7 1 0 21 6 9 7 1 1 18 7 26 44
2 Juventus 17 11 4 2 26 7 9 7 2 0 21 3 8 4 2 2 5 4 19 37
3 Milan 17 11 4 2 33 18 9 7 1 1 22 11 8 4 3 1 11 7 15 37
4 Inter 17 11 1 5 37 24 8 7 0 1 20 4 9 4 1 4 17 20 13 34
5 Lazio 17 9 4 4 29 15 9 5 2 2 16 9 8 4 2 2 13 6 14 31
6 Atalanta 17 9 4 4 26 18 8 3 2 3 11 11 9 6 2 1 15 7 8 31
7 Roma 17 9 4 4 21 16 8 4 1 3 8 5 9 5 3 1 13 11 5 31
8 Udinese 17 6 7 4 25 19 8 3 4 1 13 7 9 3 3 3 12 12 6 25
9 Fiorentina 17 6 5 6 21 22 9 4 3 2 14 14 8 2 2 4 7 8 -1 23
10 Torino 17 6 5 6 18 19 8 3 3 2 7 5 9 3 2 4 11 14 -1 23
11 Lecce 17 4 7 6 16 18 8 2 4 2 9 9 9 2 3 4 7 9 -2 19
12 Bologna 17 5 4 8 21 28 9 4 3 2 13 8 8 1 1 6 8 20 -7 19
13 Empoli 17 4 7 6 15 22 8 3 2 3 7 8 9 1 5 3 8 14 -7 19
14 Salernitana 17 4 6 7 21 27 9 3 3 3 14 11 8 1 3 4 7 16 -6 18
15 Monza 17 5 3 9 19 25 9 4 1 4 13 10 8 1 2 5 6 15 -6 18
16 Sassuolo 17 4 4 9 17 26 8 3 2 3 12 9 9 1 2 6 5 17 -9 16
17 Spezia 17 3 6 8 16 28 9 2 6 1 13 12 8 1 0 7 3 16 -12 15
18 Hellas Verona 17 2 3 12 15 30 9 2 0 7 10 17 8 0 3 5 5 13 -15 9
19 Sampdoria 17 2 3 12 8 30 9 0 2 7 2 15 8 2 1 5 6 15 -22 9
20 Cremonese 17 0 7 10 11 29 8 0 3 5 2 12 9 0 4 5 9 17 -18 7

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Serie A is the division at the top of the Italian football league system and regarded as one of the top leagues of the world. 20 teams play each other home and away to create a final league table after 380 fixtures. The winners are titled “Campione d’Italia” (Champion of Italy), often referred to as the scudetto.