Atalanta vs. Roma, the final matchday 36 fixture

A huge showdown will bring matchday 36 in Serie A Enilive to an end. Atalanta, who have won three of their last four matches, are playing to mathematically secure their spot in next season’s Champions League. Meanwhile, Ranieri’s Roma, who beat Fiorentina last week, could go 20 unbeaten and want three points to enter the top four.

HEAD-TO-HEAD

Atalanta have won 13 points (W4 D1) in their last five Serie A games against Roma. In this period (last three seasons), only against Hellas Verona (16), Empoli and Monza (both 18) have the Bergamo team earned more points in the competition. Atalanta kept a clean sheet in the reverse fixture against Roma in December (2-0); the Nerazzurri last kept consecutive clean sheets in the competition against the Giallorossi in the same season in 1964-65, under Ferruccio Valcareggi. Roma have lost four of their last five away games (W1) against Atalanta in Serie A: as many defeats as the Giallorossi suffered in their previous 13 away games (W6 D3) against the Bergamo side in the competition – a period in which the Nerazzurri have never repeated the same result for two games in a row.

CURIOSITA'

Atalanta have won just eight points from their nine home league games in 2025 (0.9 on average per game), recording one win and five draws (L3); the last time the Bergamo side won fewer points after their first nine Serie A home games in a calendar year was in 2013 (7). Roma are the side that have won the most games by a 1-0 scoreline in the big five European Leagues this season: nine times - eight of which have come under Claudio Ranieri - including all of the last three matches; they have never won four games in a row with this scoreline in Serie A. Roma are unbeaten in their 16 games so far in the second half of the season (W12 D4); the last team not to have lost any of their first 17 games in the second half of the season in Serie A was Antonio Conte's Inter in 2020-21: the last match of that unbeaten run for the Nerazzurri came against Roma (they were then defeated in the 18th game of that streak v Juventus). Atalanta have scored 99 goals this season in all competitions and they could reach triple figures for goals for the fifth time in their history, after 2023-24 (106), 2020-21 (111), 2019-20 (116) and 2018-19 (103).

PLAYERS

Mateo Retegui has been directly involved in 31 goals (24 goals, 7 assists) in Serie A this season – fewer than only Mohamed Salah (46) in the big five European Leagues (Harry Kane, also 31). Retegui could become the first player of the Bergamo team with more than 31 contributions across the last 20 Serie A seasons (since 2005-06) - Luis Muriel, also 31 in 2020-21. One of the four braces that Charles De Keteleare has scored in Serie A came against Roma last season; from January 2024, only Mateo Retegui and Dusan Vlahovic have more (5 each) such goals than the Belgian (4, level with Marcus Thuram) in the competition across that period. Among goalkeepers with at least 20 games played in the big five European Leagues this season, Mile Svilar has the highest save percentage (77.5%). Furthermore, he has kept 15 clean sheets this season, the last Roma goalkeeper to record more in a Serie A season was Alisson Becker, with 17 in 2017-18.

DISCIPLINE

Suspended: Hien (Atalanta) Cautioned: Djimsiti, Lookman (Atalanta); Paredes, Pellegrini (Roma)

REFEREE

SOZZA (BINDONI – IMPERIALE) IV: COLLU, VAR: ABISSO, AVAR: MERAVIGLIA

UPCOMING MATCHES IN SERIE A

Genoa-Atalanta Roma-Milan (Photo Getty Images)