Roma vs Atalanta BC - prediction, team news, lineups

Two teams with cleanable records volition clash successful Serie A connected Saturday night, erstwhile Roma invited Atalanta BC to Stadio Olimpico.

The Giallorossi person made a blistering commencement to the caller season, but their rivals from Bergamo person besides enactment six points connected the board.

Match preview

Set to rejoin Europe's elite adjacent week, Champions League-bound Roma are presently afloat of confidence, having won doubly this word without conceding a goal.

Back-to-back 4-0 victories person near them apical of the precise aboriginal Serie A standings, portion continuing the good enactment done during Gian Piero Gasperini's archetypal twelvemonth successful charge.

The erstwhile Atalanta manager - who spent astir a decennary with La Dea and memorably won the Europa League - saw his broadside cruise past Fiorentina, earlier beating Lecce past weekend.

Against the latter, Roma virtually wrapped up each 3 points wrong 25 minutes, arsenic goal-machine Donyell Malen bagged a brace and Matias Soule added a third; summertime signing Rodrigo Mora aboriginal netted the fourth.

Having forged a fluent concern with Paulo Dybala, Malen has present notched 19 goals successful his archetypal 20 Serie A appearances - comfortably a caller nine grounds - and helium volition soon purpose to support that complaint successful the Champions League.

Before facing down erstwhile managers Jose Mourinho and Luis Enrique - presently coaching Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain respectively - Roma indispensable effort to widen their beardown home form. 

However, the Giallorossi person won conscionable 1 of their past 12 top-flight location games against Atalanta, including a 1-1 gully astatine the Olimpico successful April.

Either location oregon away, Atalanta are really unbeaten successful the past 8 league meetings - but Gasperini was successful complaint of La Dea for astir of that period.

Since his departure conscionable implicit a twelvemonth ago, the Bergamaschi person already disposed of 2 successors, but the existent incumbent has made rather a promising start.

Veteran manager Maurizio Sarri was hired aft an acrimonious exit from Lazio, who are, of course, Roma's arch-rivals.

Sarri has already steered Atalanta done the Conference League playoffs and won some of his archetypal 2 Serie A fixtures, conceding conscionable 1 extremity successful 4 matches.

Having seen disconnected Sassuolo connected the opening matchday, it took a last-gasp onslaught from Lazar Samardzic to snatch maximum points from Bologna connected Monday.

Now, they volition caput retired connected the road, having won their archetypal top-flight distant crippled successful six of the past 7 seasons.

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Team News

Roma person whitethorn person loaned retired Robinio Vaz and Neil El Aynaoui, but Manu Kone stayed enactment contempt beardown involvement from Chelsea.

At the extremity of a engaged transportation window, they acquired long-serving Atalanta skipper Marten de Roon, who has made 270 of his 340 Serie A appearances nether Gasperini.

Another caller arrival, Leonardo Balerdi could measurement into the hosts' defence, perchance making his debut successful spot of Evan Ndicka, who has a insignificant genu injury.

Up front, Malen and Dybala are acceptable to beryllium paired erstwhile again, truthful summertime signing Santiago Castro should enactment connected the bench.

Atalanta's astir eye-catching precocious arrivals were Franck Kessie and English winger Jonathan Rowe - who whitethorn some marque their debut - portion teenage prima Honest Ahanor has moved to the Premier League.

If picked to start, Rowe would enactment either Nikola Krstovic oregon Gianluca Scamacca successful the last third, with the 2 strikers sharing playing clip this term.

Thomas Kristensen is inactive struggling with an ankle wounded sustained successful the archetypal limb of the Conference League playoff, truthful helium could articulation Isak Hien and Kamaldeen Sulemana connected the sidelines.

Roma imaginable starting lineup:

Svilar; Mancini, Balerdi, Hermoso; Molina, Kone, Cristante, Wesley; Dybala, Mora; Malen

Atalanta BC imaginable starting lineup:

Carnesecchi; Zappacosta, Kossounou, Scalvini, Bernasconi; Ederson, Gaetano, Samardzic; De Ketelaere, Scamacca, Rowe

We say: Roma 2-1 Atalanta BC

Roma tin reverse the caller inclination successful this match-up, aft Atalanta's beardown tally of 5 wins from the past six encounters.

Formidable connected location turf, the hosts are already purring successful and astir the absorption box, portion their visitors are inactive adapting to the precise demands of 'Sarri-ball'.

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