Frosinone travel to Bergamo looking to keep dreaming

Atalanta and Frosinone meet in Matchday 8 of Serie A. Maurizio Sarri's side need all three points to put last week's defeat to AC Milan behind them and push their way into the race for European qualification. Alvini's team, meanwhile, will be keen to remain in contention. They have four more points than their opponents and head into the game after Friday's fine win over Sassuolo.

HEAD TO HEAD

There have been 4 previous competitive meetings between the two sides in Bergamo: 3 wins for Atalanta (most recently 5-0 in Serie A 2023/24) and 1 draw (0-0 in Serie B 2010/11).

Frosinone have never scored in their 360 minutes played away to Atalanta.

DID YOU KNOW?

This match brings together the two teams with the most penalties awarded against them: Atalanta have conceded 3, while Frosinone are on 2, level with Venezia.

Atalanta have received fewer yellow cards than any other team (6, level with Napoli and Torino).

Atalanta and Frosinone are 2 of the 4 teams with the most goals scored in the opening 15 minutes of matches (3, level with Inter and Lecce).

Frosinone are one of 4 teams whose goals have all been scored by starters (alongside Cagliari, Como and Genoa).

Frosinone have scored more goals than any other team in the opening 15 minutes of the second half (5).

COACHES and PLAYERS

This will be the 2nd official meeting between Maurizio Sarri and Massimiliano Alvini: the current Atalanta coach won their only previous encounter, on 18 September 2022 (Cremonese-Lazio 0-4, Serie A 2022/23).

Marco Carnesecchi and Lorenzo Palmisani are the only Atalanta and Frosinone players to have played all 630 minutes, including stoppage time.

Nikola Krstović scored against Milan: it was the Montenegrin forward’s 4th Serie A goal of the season and his 3rd in a row, following his brace at home against Venezia on 12 October.

Antonio Raimondo scored against Sassuolo: with his hat-trick, he became the 1st player in Frosinone’s history to score 3 goals in a single Serie A match.

At 22 years and 212 days, Antonio Raimondo is the youngest Italian player to score a Serie A hat-trick in the last 10 years. In the previous decade, the record belonged to Domenico Berardi, who scored a hat-trick in Sassuolo-Milan 3-2 on 17 May 2015, in Serie A 2014/15.

DISCIPLINE 

Suspended: none

Cautioned: none

REFEREE

MARINELLI (BACCINI – ROSSI L.) IV: PAIRETTO, VAR: DIONISI, AVAR: GARIGLIO

UPCOMING MATCHES

Fiorentina-Atalanta (29/10, 20.45)

Frosinone-Lecce (29/10, 18.30)

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