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Italian Soccer Serie A
Atalanta – Fiorentina 
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
Fiorentina, 10th position with 3 points and a negative goal difference of -1
Atalanta, 9th position with 4 points and a positive goal difference of +1
✅ Here is Atalanta vs Fiorentina Preview for the Serie A Week 3 game on Saturday 11 September 2021 at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy at 20:45.
Atalanta obtaining their first goalless draw in 23 Serie A games before the international break. After finishing in third place for three consecutive seasons. Atalanta have not reached the 2nd position in 60 previous Serie A season. Atalanta have now failed to score in consecutive Serie A home matches for the first time since September – October 2018 (three).
Fiorentina are looking for a better season with coach Vincenzo Italiano brings with him the experience of having held Atalanta to a goalless draw with Spezia in 2020/21. Fiorentina started the season with a 3-1 loss at Roma. Dušan Vlahović scored a brace in that game, and is one of only six players in the top-six European leagues to score 18+ goals in 2021.
Atalanta have won 30 of the 116 games played against Fiorentina in Serie A (37 draws 49 lost): only against Lazio and Bologna (36), the Bergamo players have won more successes.
Atalanta have won their last three Serie A games against Fiorentina; Atalanta have never reached four wins in a row against Fiorentina (three also in 1942).
Atalanta have won two of their last three home games against Fiorentina (1N), achieving as many successes as in the previous 11 home games with the Viola (4N, 5P). This could only become the third Serie A game in which Gian Piero Gasperini has not lost any of his first three games of the season, after last season with Atalanta and 2009/10 with Genoa (three wins in both cases). Also considering the last matchday of last season, Atalanta have failed to score in two consecutive Serie A home matches for the first time since October 2018 (three on that occasion).
Fiorentina won their last Serie A match against Torino and could squeeze two consecutive wins in a single Serie A championship, for the first time since August 2020. Atalanta have made five shots on target in the first two games of this championship: more conclusions only from Salernitana (four). In the first two games of the last championship the Bergamo players counted 13.
As for players, Josip Ilicic’s last goal in Serie A came against Fiorentina in April 2021; the Atalanta playmaker has scored five goals in 10 matches against his former team in the top flight, averaging one goal every 135 minutes against the Viola. Giacomo Bonaventura has played 99 games with Atalanta in Serie A, scoring 14 goals in the period – against Atalanta he has scored three goals, including a brace, but no goals in the last four matches.
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✅ Here are Atalanta vs Fiorentina Match Officials
Referee Valerio Marini from the section of Roma 1 will be assisted by Damiano Di Iorio from the section of Vco and Mattia Scarpa from the section of Reggio Emilia. The Fourth Official will be Matteo Mercenaro from the section of Genoa. The VAR will be Aleandro Di Paolo from the section of Avezzano and the AVAR will be Daniele Bindoni from the section of Venice.
✅ Here are Atalanta vs Fiorentina probable lineups.
ATALANTA (3-4-1-2): Sportiello; Toloi, Palomino, Djimsiti; Zappacosta, Pasalic, Freuler, Gosens; Pessina; Ilicic, Piccoli.
Subs: Musso, Rossi, Demiral, Scalvini, Lovato, Maehle, Gius. Pezzella, Malinovskyi, Koopmeiners, Miranchuk, D. Zapata.
Unavailable: Muriel, Hateboer.
Suspended players: De Roon.
Coach: Gian Piero Gasperini.
FIORENTINA (4-3-3): Dragowski; Venuti, Milenkovic, Igor, Biraghi; Bonaventura, Torreira, Castrovilli; Callejon, Vlahovic, Sottil.
Subs: Terracciano, Odriozola, Nastasic, Martinez Quarta, Duncan, Amrabat, Benassi, Pulgar, Maleh, Saponara, Gonzalez, Kokorin.
Coach: Vincenzo Italiano.
🇮🇹 👉Serie A Week 3, Atalanta vs Fiorentina, Match Officials
🗓️ Saturday 11 September 2021
🏟️Artemio Franchi Stadium
⏲️20:45🙍♂️Referee: MARINI
🚩Assistants: DI IORIO – SCARPA
4⃣ Fourth Official: MARCENARO
🥅 VAR: DI PAOLO✅ https://t.co/XQxFv3ZJ15@SerieA_EN @SerieA pic.twitter.com/K0O7hsyNOH
— Anna Italia (@ItalianSerieA) September 10, 2021
2021 – 2022 Italian Serie A Week 3
Atalanta – Fiorentina
Saturday 11 September 2021
Gewiss Stadium
Bergamo, Italy
20:45
Referee: MARINI
Assistants: DI IORIO – SCARPA
Fourth Official: MARCENARO
VAR: DI PAOLO
AVAR: BINDONI
