Lazio-Atalantamatch valid for the 18th day of Serie Aended with a score of 1-1 thanks to goals from Dele-Bashiru and Brescianini. With this result, Atalanta rises to 41 points and knows that they can at most be reached by Napoli at the top of the table; for Lazio however 35 points which continue to mean fourth place. Below are the votes for all the protagonists of the match.
Lazio's report cards
Ivan PROVEDEL 6 – Not guilty of the goal conceded, he was ready in the remaining Atalanta attempts.
Adam Marusic 6.5 – He closes the lane on the right, forcing first Zappacosta and then Cuadrado to limit himself to crosses.
Mario CRAZY 6.5 – Cancels De Ketelaere and is the protagonist of an almost perfect first half. What remains of his game is above all this.
Alessio ROMAGNOLI 6 – The concept is above all the one already written above. Quality match even if compared to Gila there are a few more flaws.
Nuno TAVARES 6.5 – He puts up a splendid duel with Bellanova for the entire first half, with a truly remarkable forward/backward move to the left. A shot of true quality scored by Lazio. From 63' Luca PELLEGRINI 7 – Saves a goal on the goal line. Which, for a defender, is equivalent to making one. Providential.
Matteo GUENDOUZI 7 – He comes close to scoring by hitting the top corner in the first half, but beyond the play he imposes a pace and a ferocity in the crucial area that Atalanta cannot find a solution to for a long time. Together with Rovella the real man of the match.
Nicolò ROVELLA 7.5 – Dominates in the middle of the pitch, even in tight spaces. The growth in personality of this boy who dictates the law tonight in an area of the pitch usually the territory of two like De Roon and Ederson is also incredible. On his high level game there is also the added seal of the assist.
Loom TCHAOUNA 5 – The only truly insufficient one in an hour of top-level Lazio. A couple of serious distractions, leading to two dangerous conclusions from the Goddess. Baroni understands and finally takes it away. Dal 63' Gustav ISAKSEN 5.5 – So-so entry into the game. He doesn't have an impact and struggles to find the inspiration that Lazio would need in the final.
Analyze DELE-CHAPTER 7 – A well-timed insertion on the great play of the Castellanos-Rovella pair. After the goal, however, paradoxically, he dropped a little too much, playing a decidedly less tough second half.
Mattia ZACCAGNI 6.5 – Positive. He teases Carnesecchi's hands and reflexes over and over again at the start. He leaves, tested by a generous game, after just over an hour. Dal 69' Boulaye DIA 5 – A goal practically already scored in front of goal is missed. A goal that would have ended the Biancocelesti's match well before.
Valentin CASTELLANOS 6,5 – It puts Hien in great difficulty, who finds a more complicated situation with Castellanos than he did with Lukaku or Dovbyk, just to mention two performances where the Atalanta player had canceled out the centre-forwards of the others. A really good match: tough, maybe even under the radar at times, but of great substance. From 86' Gaetano CASTROVILLI – sv.
All. Marco BARONI 6.5 – For a while he puts Atalanta under as we have seen few times in Italy – and in Europe – in the last year. But then he was forced to pay the penalty at a distance, with a Lazio team that drastically dropped from a physical point of view in the final and dropped too low, indulging in an attitude that was probably a little too defeatist. In any case, the performance remains and the match is positive.
Atalanta's report cards
CARNESECCHI frame 6.5 – Two-three important saves, especially in the first part of the match.
Weight DJIMSITI 5,5 – One time as right-hander and the other as centre-back. He doesn't make very serious mistakes in both cases, confirming himself as a flexible player, but we have seen better evenings from him.
Isak HIEN 5 – Really in difficulty for the first time this season. He had held his own and at times dominated against great forwards in the league. Tonight, however, he has a clear crisis against Castellanos' play. Lazio's first goal also came from his exit 'mocked' by Taty. Dal 46' Odilon KOSSOUNOU 6 – A time without particular errors or sensational things proposed to the offensive game of the Goddess.
Set KOLASINAC 5.5 – Less precise than usual in his outings, he struggles to present himself and duet with his teammates in the rush hour style traffic that forced Lazio into the middle of the pitch. From 86' Marco BRESCIANINI 7 – He finds himself in the right place at the right time. Super impact.
Raoul BELLANOVA 6,5 – Struggles to find the right tone and play from an offensive point of view throughout the first half, but changes pace in the second half. A remarkable ball for Cuadrado, which the Colombian does not exploit.
Marten DE ROON 5.5 – You don't often see De Roon in such difficulty in the middle of the pitch, but the Dutchman was overwhelmed by the pace of a Lazio team that was unleashed in the first half. It turns out to be a difficult match for him, even at a distance.
EDERSON 6 – Even in the difficulties of a difficult evening for many teammates, the Brazilian still manages to show two/three things that earned him a pass. Of course, as with all his teammates, there have been more brilliant evenings of his.
Davide ZAPPACOSTA 6 – One of the few to survive in the first half of the Dea. Gasperini, however, from the second half goes for broke and decides to do without it anyway. Dal 46' Juan CUADRADO 6 – He starts off strong, but that missed header goal, all alone, in the small area, at the start of the second half, weighs too heavily on his judgment. Perhaps for the Goddess that draw could have written a different ending. In short, the impact was certainly positive on the race, but the episode cannot take it beyond '6'.
Mario PASALIC 5 – He practically never sees it, killed by a pace – that of Lazio – and a clogging of spaces which effectively cuts him completely out of the game. And so, the Croatian becomes a 'nothing' pawn on the Gasp chessboard. Dal 56′ Lazar SAMARDZIC 6,5 – He tries some of his own plays, looking for one-on-ones or the ball for his teammate to insert. His entry is positive because it gives a shock to the Goddess who was 'stunned' by Lazio's jeers in the first half.
Charles DE KETELAERE 5 – That the Goddess' match was complicated can be understood not only from De Roon's performance but also from that of the Belgian. Gila and Romagnoli take him over physically and with the help of their midfield teammates, in fact, completely obscure every single play attempt. The worst performance of the championship for CDK. Little else to add. From the 65th minute Nicolò ZANIOLO 6.5 – Another successful substitution by Gasperini. He starts off strong with a good play and is decisive in the action that leads to Brescianini's equalizer with a truly remarkable invention.
Ademola LOOKMAN 7 – A first half whose judgment is the same as narrated for all the companions. But then the Goddess rises and the African Ballon d'Or of 2024, in the end, is the one that puts Provedel's goal in difficulty the most and also provides the decisive assist to Brescianini.
Coach Gian Piero GASPERINI 6 – For the first time his Goddess is put down with the coin she usually gives to others. However, the coach did well in reading the problems once again and remedying them with the arrivals of Samardzic, Zaniolo and Brescianini. In short, the streak of 11 consecutive victories comes to an end, but given how the evening was going, it's not even that bad for him.
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