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Italian Soccer Serie A
47% Ball Possession ATALANTA and 53% Ball Possession NAPOLI
Atalanta 4 – 2 Napoli 
64′ Robin Gosens 75′ Robin Gosens (own goal)
71′ Luis Muriel
70′ Cristian Romero
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
Atalanta, 7th position with 40 points and a positive goal difference of +20
Napoli, 6th position with 40 points and a positive goal difference of +24
Atalanta win the Serie A Week 23 game defeating Napoli at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy. Atalanta reaching 43 points climbing to the 4th position. Pressure is for Napoli because now they are down to the 7th position.
- Stats before the game: Napoli have only won 1 of their last 6 matches against Atalanta in all competitions (2N, 3P); Napoli had obtained 3 successes in the previous 4 matches with Atalanta (1P). The last draw between Atalanta and Napoli at the home of the Bergamo players in Serie A dates back to 2014: since then two home wins and three away wins in five matches. In the last four Serie A matches in which both Atalanta and Napoli occupied the top six positions in the standings at the beginning of the day, Atalanta remained unbeaten (3W, 1N). Atalanta (11) and Napoli (9) are the two teams that have scored the most goals with substitutes in this Serie A: together they have totaled 26% of the overall goals of players entered from the bench in the current tournament (20/76). Victor Osimhen of Napoli scored his first Serie A goal in the first leg match against Atalanta, in October 2020: since then, however, he has only played six of the 18 matches available in the league, scoring only one goal (against Bologna ).
✅ Here is ATALANTA official starting lineup – formation by Coach Gian Piero Gasperini:
Atalanta (3-4-1-2): Gollini; Toloi, Romero, Djimsiti; Maehle, de Roon, Freuler, Gosens; Pessina; Muriel, D. Zapata.
✅ Here is NAPOLI official starting lineup – formation by Coach Gian Piero Gasperini:
Napoli (4-2-3-1): Meret; Di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Maksimovic, Mario Rui; Zielinski, Bakayoko, Ruiz; Politano, Osimhen, Elmas.
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Di nuovo in casa con il Napoli! 💪⚽️ Napoli at home again!
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🏠 #GewissStadium – #BergAMO
⌚️ 21.02.2021 – 18.00 CET
📲 #AtalantaNapoli #GoAtalantaGo ⚫️🔵 #ForzaAtalanta pic.twitter.com/3ChEY4SDcG— Atalanta B.C. (@Atalanta_BC) February 20, 2021
Bentornati al Gewiss Stadium ragazzi! 👋
Welcome back home guys! 😉
⠀#AtalantaNapoli #GoAtalantaGo ⚫️🔵 pic.twitter.com/gLuXacqmAT— Atalanta B.C. (@Atalanta_BC) February 21, 2021
Tutto pronto al #GewissStadium! 💪
Dressing room ready! 👕
#AtalantaNapoli #GoAtalantaGo ⚫️🔵 pic.twitter.com/Ey47k6JnV2— Atalanta B.C. (@Atalanta_BC) February 21, 2021
👥 In campo così contro il Napoli!
🔥 Our #StartingXI to face Napoli!Presented by @Plus500#AtalantaNapoli #GoAtalantaGo ⚫️🔵 pic.twitter.com/sKqTWn6XXH
— Atalanta B.C. (@Atalanta_BC) February 21, 2021
📃 | Starting XI: Meret, Di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Maksimovic, Mario Rui, Fabian, Bakayoko, Zielinski, Politano, Osimhen, Elmas.#AtalantaNapoli
💙 #ForzaNapoliSempre pic.twitter.com/XHFGS3tmJ3
— Official SSC Napoli (@en_sscnapoli) February 21, 2021
2020 – 2021 Italian Serie A Week 23
Atalanta – Napoli
Sunday 21 February 2021
San Paolo Stadium
Napoli, Italy
18:00
Referee: DI BELLO
Assistants: MELI – CECCONI
Fourth Official: PASQUA
VAR: FABBRI
AVAR: TOLFO
Goals:
Official lineups – formations – tabellino:
Atalanta (3-4-1-2): Gollini; Toloi, Romero, Djimsiti; Maehle, de Roon, Freuler, Gosens; Pessina; Muriel, D. Zapata.
Subs: Sportiello, Rossi, Sutalo, Palomino, Ruggeri, Caldara, Miranchuk, Pasalic, Malinovskyi, Kovalenko, Lammers, Ilicic.
Coach: Gian Piero Gasperini
Napoli (4-2-3-1): Meret; Di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Maksimovic, Mario Rui; Zielinski, Bakayoko, Ruiz; Politano, Osimhen, Elmas.
Subs.: Contini, Lobotka, L. Insigne, Demme, Cioffi.
Coach: Gennaro Gattuso