Match preview Serie A: Udinese - Atalanta at Dacia Arena

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Wed 20.January
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Dacia Arena (25000 seats)

The visiting Atalanta side should be favourites in this visit to Udinese, as the away team holds a 16 point advantage from their 17 league games this season.

Insights:
  • Atalanta is in the best form (4-2-0)

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Udinese and Atalanta.

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Udinese form and stats

Udinese's struggle is real here at Dacia Arena with only 7 points collected from 8 Serie A games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-1-5. The Udinese manager L. Gotti might feel some added pressure to get something from this game after two straight home defeats.

Ahead of that match, Udinese lost 1-2 at home to Napoli.

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

Udinese aren't scoring a lot here at Dacia Arena in the league, with only 6 goals from 8 games. On the other hand, Udinese have conceded 11 goals.

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Atalanta form and stats

The visitors are W4-D3-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Serie A.

That result followed a home victory 3-1 versus Cagliari in the Coppa Italia.

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Serie A trip to Milan.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Atalanta are regular goalscorers on their travels. As for defending, Atalanta rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 12 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Last ten meetings between the teams: Udinese won three, Atalanta won five and two draws. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

AtalantaL. Muriel Fruto
L. Muriel Fruto
10 goals
AtalantaD. Zapata Banguera
D. Zapata Banguera
7 goals
AtalantaR. Gosens
R. Gosens
5 goals

Udinese missing players

Atalanta missing players

Udinese Atalanta
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
17 8 3 Played P 2 8 17
4 2 0 Won W 2 4 9
4 1 0 Drew D 0 3 5
9 5 3 Lost L 0 1 3
19 6 2 Scored S 6 18 40
27 11 5 Conceded C 3 12 22
88% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 88%
71% 62% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 88% 88%
53% 38% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 75% 71%
35% 12% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 62% 53%
24% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 50% 41%
59% 38% 67% BTTS BTTS 100% 88% 71%
18% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 12% 24%
35% 50% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 12% 18%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.8 1.6 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.4 1.9
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
13.1 13.1 13.7 Shots (avg) S ( 17.5 15.5 16.9
4.2 4.6 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.5 6.1 6.1
26% 16% 11% Goal Efficiency G E 55% 37% 38%
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Atalanta have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Atalanta have scored more than double the goals of Udinese.
  • Atalanta is in the best form (4-2-0)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Inter 18 12 4 2 45 23 9 7 1 1 25 13 9 5 3 1 20 10 22 40
2 Milan 17 12 4 1 37 19 9 5 3 1 20 12 8 7 1 0 17 7 18 40
3 Napoli 17 11 1 5 40 16 9 5 1 3 25 10 8 6 0 2 15 6 24 34
4 Roma 18 10 4 4 37 29 9 6 3 0 21 9 9 4 1 4 16 20 8 34
5 Juventus 17 9 6 2 35 18 8 5 2 1 16 8 9 4 4 1 19 10 17 33
6 Atalanta 17 9 5 3 40 22 9 5 2 2 22 10 8 4 3 1 18 12 18 32
7 Lazio 18 9 4 5 30 25 9 4 2 3 14 13 9 5 2 2 16 12 5 31
8 Sassuolo 18 8 6 4 31 27 9 3 4 2 13 12 9 5 2 2 18 15 4 30
9 Hellas Verona 18 7 6 5 22 17 9 4 2 3 12 9 9 3 4 2 10 8 5 27
10 Sampdoria 18 7 2 9 28 29 9 4 1 4 17 14 9 3 1 5 11 15 -1 23
11 Benevento 18 6 3 9 21 34 9 2 2 5 9 18 9 4 1 4 12 16 -13 21
12 Bologna 18 5 5 8 24 31 9 4 2 3 17 17 9 1 3 5 7 14 -7 20
13 Spezia 18 4 6 8 23 32 9 1 3 5 10 18 9 3 3 3 13 14 -9 18
14 Fiorentina 18 4 6 8 18 29 9 3 4 2 9 8 9 1 2 6 9 21 -11 18
15 Udinese 17 4 4 9 19 27 8 2 1 5 6 11 9 2 3 4 13 16 -8 16
16 Genoa 18 3 6 9 18 30 9 2 2 5 13 16 9 1 4 4 5 14 -12 15
17 Cagliari 17 3 5 9 23 34 8 2 2 4 12 16 9 1 3 5 11 18 -11 14
18 Torino 18 2 7 9 26 35 9 0 5 4 13 18 9 2 2 5 13 17 -9 13
19 Parma 18 2 7 9 14 34 9 1 4 4 3 13 9 1 3 5 11 21 -20 13
20 Crotone 18 3 3 12 21 41 9 3 1 5 13 17 9 0 2 7 8 24 -20 12

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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.