Atalanta resumed their journey in the league by winning at home against Spezia 5-2. A comeback success for Gasperini’s team, which went behind with Nzola’s goal (double in the final) and good at overturning everything with Pasalic’s brace and the seals of Zapata, Muriel and Malinovskyi. The Nerazzurri climb to 25 points, temporarily grabbing Inter in third place.
The game is released after about a dozen minutes from the starting whistle, but the Ligurians take the lead unexpectedly: Green kicks in the goal, Musso puts his big hand on it making the ball bounce off the crossbar and ends up on Nzola’s feet, good to check and electrocute the goalkeeper from Bergamo. The reaction of the Goddess was not long in coming and at 18 ‘immediately led to the 1-1 goal, made in front of goal by Pasalic after the usual great play by Zappacosta in the right lane. At 34 ‘comes the episode that allows Atalanta to overturn the discussion: Maehle kicks in the door finding the deviation of Sala’s arm, punished by the referee and Var after the on field review. Zapata first makes a mistake, then scores on the repetition of the penalty for invasion in the area of a defender. Before the break, the Nerazzurri’s trio also arrived with a brace from Pasalic, served to perfection by Zapata after a lightning fast counterattack.
In the second half, Spezia proudly tries to stay in the game, trying to reopen it with Nzola and Maggiore, but in the end the newcomers Muriel and Malinovskyi think about increasing the advantage by closing the match early. In the recovery comes the useless brace from Nzola who fixes the result at 5-2.