SPAL v Atalanta – Probable Formations and Key Statistics

Date: 24th August 2019 at 4:59pm
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After a spectacular season in 2018/29, Atalanta head to Ferrara a Champions League team and take on SPAL in their campaign opener at 20:45 local time.

Probable Formations

SPAL (3-5-2): Berisha; Cionek, Vicari, Felipe; D’Alessandro, Murgia, Missiroli, Kurtic, Di Francesco; Petagna, Floccari
Unavailable: Fares

Atalanta (3-4-1-2): Gollini; Toloi, Palomino, Masiello; Hateboer, de Roon, Freuler, Gosens; Malinovskyj; Gomez; Zapata.
Unavailable: Castagne
Suspended: Ilicic

Key Statistics

– Atalanta won their last Serie A meeting against SPAL – only once previously have they won consecutive top flight games against them, way back in the 1962/63 campaign.

– Atalanta have won only two of their 17 Serie A away games against SPAL (D6 L9), with both victories coming back in the 1960s.

– SPAL have won only four of their 18 season opening games in Serie A (D9 L5).?- Atalanta have won seven of their last nine Serie A away games against sides from Emilia-Romagna (D1 L1), scoring an average of 2.6 goals per game.

– Atalanta have lost the most season opening games of any team in Serie A history (27).

– SPAL and Atalanta have faced each other in a season opener in Serie A on only one previous occasion, drawing 0-0 in 1954.

– Atalanta went unbeaten in their last 13 games of the 2018/19 Serie A campaign (W9 D3) and only once previously have they gone 14 consecutive games without defeat in the top flight (in 1989).

– SPAL striker Andrea Petagna scored 16 goals in Serie A last season, his most in a single top flight campaign. He only scored nine times in 63 appearances for former club Atlanta.

– Alongside Sampdoria, SPAL are one of just two teams that Papu Gomez hasn’t scored or assisted against for Atalanta in the previous two Serie A campaigns (four appearances versus both).

– Atalanta strikers Duvan Zapata (63 goals) and Luis Muriel (49) are the two highest- scoring Colombian players in Serie A history.

 

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