Atalanta are considered as probable winners of this home fixture vs Spezia, if the league table is thought to provide some clues. Or are we looking at a possible?
- Spezia have the most conceded goals (18) away in Serie A
Both teams have had a decent time to rest since their previous competitive action. Let's agree to expect an in-your-face match!
15-11-22 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Spezia when playing away games on grass, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has artifical turf). Their goal statistics from those 48 matches are 62-85 (scored/conceded).
Atalanta form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Serie A this season. Atalanta have only managed 1 win, 3 draws and 2 losses from their games here at Gewiss Stadium. Atalanta have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.
Atalanta enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Cagliari's place. The match ended 2-1 with Mario Pašalić and Duván Zapata scoring. Midfielder Teun Koopmeiners was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.8 (out of ten) in that game. Koopmeiners served one assist, hit four key passes and had 38 successful passes (of 42 total).
Preceding that game was the home draw versus Manchester United that ended 2-2.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 eight matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won five, drew two and lost one.
The manager G. Gasperini will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Young Boys in only three days.
Atalanta has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 9 goals have been conceded.
Spezia form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Spezia so far with only 4 points returning home. The records show 1-1-4 (win-draw-lose). Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Spezia's last three away games as they have all been lost.
The supporters enjoyed Spezia's previous game versus Torino (placed 12th), a Serie A 1-0 win played at home. Midfielder Jacopo Sala was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.43. Sala scored one goal and had 26 successful passes (of 31 total).
A 0-3 defeat away at Fiorentina before that.You'll want to know how Spezia managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found five similar matches resulting in one away win, zero draws and four home wins.
Spezia find the net regularly in their away games. 6 goals from 6 away fixtures in the league. There are big problems for the Spezia defense as they have conceded 18 goals in 6 away games.
Head 2 Head
Head to head numbers (for the former two meetings): Atalanta won one game, one match ended with a draw and Spezia have zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: one / oneTop Goalscorers
  D. Zapata Banguera 7 goals |  J. Iličić 3 goals |   D. Verde 3 goals |
Atalanta missing players
Spezia missing players
| Atalanta | Spezia | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| 6 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 22 | 8 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 15 | 9 | 1 | Conceded | C | 6 | 18 | 26 |
| 92% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 83% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 75% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 75% |
| 42% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| 17% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 17% | 17% |
| 83% | 83% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 17% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 8% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 25% |
| 5.9 | 6.8 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 5.5 | 4.9 |
| 4 | 3.8 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4.3 | 4.8 |
| 2.4 | 2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.8 | 1.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 15.3 | 15 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 3 | 10.2 | 11.3 |
| 4.8 | 4.2 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| 39% | 32% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 29% | 31% |
| 10.3 | 7.7 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 19 | 16 | 15.2 |
| 3.3 | 3 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 10 | 6.8 | 5.6 |
- All of Spezia's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Spezia have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Spezia have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Spezia have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Spezia have the most conceded goals (18) away in Serie A
- Spezia have the the worst goal difference (-12) away in Serie A
- Spezia haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 20 | 32 |
| 2 | Milan | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 15 | 32 |
| 3 | Inter | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 29 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 16 | 25 |
| 4 | Atalanta | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 22 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 22 |
| 5 | Lazio | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 21 |
| 6 | Roma | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 19 |
| 7 | Fiorentina | 12 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 18 |
| 8 | Juventus | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 18 |
| 9 | Bologna | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 23 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 15 | -4 | 18 |
| 10 | Hellas Verona | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 25 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 16 |
| 11 | Empoli | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | -5 | 16 |
| 12 | Torino | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 14 |
| 13 | Sassuolo | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 12 | -1 | 14 |
| 14 | Udinese | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -3 | 14 |
| 15 | Venezia | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | -8 | 12 |
| 16 | Spezia | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 26 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 18 | -13 | 11 |
| 17 | Genoa | 12 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 15 | -7 | 9 |
| 18 | Sampdoria | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -10 | 9 |
| 19 | Salernitana | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 26 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 14 | -16 | 7 |
| 20 | Cagliari | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 13 | -13 | 6 |