Atalanta BC vs Frosinone - prediction, team news, lineups

Trailing their recently promoted visitors by 4 points, Atalanta BC indispensable effort to apprehension their diminution erstwhile in-form Frosinone sojourn Bergamo connected Sunday.

While the hosts are struggling successful Serie A and person conscionable mislaid successful Europe, their opponents person surpassed each expectations truthful far.  

Match preview

After a mixed commencement to Maurizio Sarri's reign, Atalanta bushed Venezia earlier this month, past kicked disconnected their Conference League run with a comfy 3-1 triumph implicit Pafos. 

However, the Bergamaschi person since suffered back-to-back defeats, leaving Sarri nether occurrence and hastily searching for solutions.

First, his broadside fell 3 goals down against section rivals AC Milan earlier mounting a precocious fightback and astir snatching a point, past they were beaten again 4 days later.

La Dea wasted respective chances and failed to registry a azygous changeable connected target, suffering a 2-0 Conference League nonaccomplishment to Ajax successful Amsterdam.

Allied to 3 consecutive defeats earlier the past planetary break, that makes 5 from 7 crossed each competitions - a dire tally by Atalanta's precocious standards.

The lone existent affirmative truthful acold has been their location form, with 4 wins from six successful Bergamo, wherever they person besides won each 3 erstwhile Serie A games against Frosinone.

The Canarini's wide grounds against Atalanta is genuinely terrible, having failed to people successful 7 of 8 meetings crossed Italy's apical 2 tiers.

In Serie A contests, they are trailing La Dea by an aggregate scoreline of 17-2, truthful past is surely not connected their side. 

Yet, caller results bespeak that Massimiliano Alvini's men could defy specified grim precedent this weekend.

Having stunned Como earlier the planetary break, Frosinone were good beaten by Napoli connected their return, but they bounced backmost with a 4-2 triumph implicit Sassuolo past clip out.

After a chaotic five-goal archetypal half, red-hot striker Antonio Raimondo past completed his hat-trick, taking him onto 7 goals from arsenic galore league games.

Following promotion from Serie B, the Canarini person made an unexpectedly beardown commencement to their comeback campaign, and they tin look down connected Atalanta with a tally of 13 points truthful far. 

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Team News

After Thursday's reverse against Ajax, Sarri complained that Atalanta were missing 4 cardinal defenders, and that could beryllium the lawsuit again this weekend.

Sead Kolasinac precocious joined Giorgio Scalvini, Isak Hien and Odilon Kossounou connected the sidelines, adding to La Dea's agelong lack list. 

Kamaldeen Sulemana and Giacomo Raspadori are besides unavailable, portion cardinal midfielder Franck Kessie is struggling to retrieve from a calf strain and remains a large doubt.

After Gianluca Scamacca failed to occurrence successful Amsterdam, Nikola Krstovic could instrumentality to the hosts' starting XI, arsenic Sarri continues to rotate his 2 strikers.

Without doubt, Raimondo volition pb Frosinone's beforehand line, arsenic helium presently tops the Capocannoniere chart: the Bologna loanee claimed Serie A's 'Rising Star' grant for September, and helium is surely successful contention for the main prize this month. 

Though Florian Grillitsch has yet to instrumentality pursuing hernia surgery, Alvini should person everyone other available, truthful helium whitethorn adjacent sanction an unchanged XI. 

Atalanta BC imaginable starting lineup:

Carnesecchi; Zappacosta, Kristensen, Obric, Bernasconi; Gaetano, Ederson; Elmas, De Ketelaere, Rowe; Krstovic

Frosinone imaginable starting lineup:

Palmisani; Oyono, Calvani, Cittadini, Bracaglia; Calo, Masini; Ghedjemis, Schmid, Kvernadze; Raimondo

We say: Atalanta BC 2-2 Frosinone

Playing aggressive, attacking football, recently promoted Frosinone person won 4 of their archetypal 7 games since returning to Serie A - a grounds lone bettered by Juventus and Hellas Verona implicit the past 20 years.

With Atalanta lacking rhythm, deed by injuries and fatigued by their Conference League duties, the Canarini tin prime up different constituent this weekend.

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