Trailing until the 88th minute, the Bergamasques gleaned a valuable point on the pitch at the Olympic Stadium in Rome this Saturday.
Atalanta stopped at eleven consecutive victories in the Italian Championship, but retained its first place by snatching a draw against Lazio (1-1), Saturday during the 18th day.
Atalanta almost ended its historic year 2024 with a defeat: while it has not lost since September 24, the “Dea”, winner of the Europa League last May, the second title in its long history , has long suffered the law of Lazio at the Olympic Stadium in Rome.
Perfectly launched in the axis by the Argentinian Taty Castellanos, the Nigerian Fisayo Dele-Bashiru opened the scoring in the 27th minute. But Atalanta woke up in the second half and logically equalized in the 88th minute thanks to Marco Brescianini, who entered shortly before.
2024, Atalanta’s “best year in history”
«We suffered in the first half, we played much better after the break to finish the year 2024 well, the best in our history. It will be difficult to do better in 2025“, underlined Gian Piero Gasperini. Atalanta remains in the lead with its 41 points, one more than Inter who dislodged it from the leader's chair for three hours.
Inter and Atalanta, neck and neck in the league, will face each other in less than a week, on January 2, in Saudi Arabia in the semi-final of the Italian Super Cup.
In their absence, Naples, 3rd three points behind Atalanta, can take control of the championship and even take off, provided they beat Venice on Sunday at home and win on Fiorentina at the weekend. following.
