Serie A | Atalanta 3-0 Torino: Unstoppable Dea delight

Originally posted on Football Italia | By Susy Campanale | Last updated 5/26/24

Atalanta celebrated the Europa League triumph by flattening Torino 3-0, so will finish at least fourth in Serie A and deny Roma a Champions League spot.

La Dea showed off the Europa League trophy to their fans after the midweek triumph in Dublin, beating Bayer Leverkusen 3-0. Hans Hateboer was suspended, with Marten de Roon and Sead Kolasinac injured, but otherwise it was practically a first-choice XI. Vanja Milinkovic-Savic and Ricardo Rodriguez were carrying knocks. Toro could still hope ninth place qualifies for the Conference League, but only if Fiorentina beat Olympiacos next week.

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The Granata welcomed Atalanta onto the pitch with a Guard of Honour before kick-off, while Duvan Zapata was gifted a bottle of local wine by home fans, as he returned to face his former club.

The Colombian nodded a Raoul Bellanova cross over the bar and Charles De Ketelaere saw his angled drive flash just wide of the far post.

Atalanta took the lead when Gianluca Scamacca gathered with his back to goal on the very edge of the area, turned on a sixpence and smashed right-footed into the far bottom corner.

Fresh from his hat-trick in the Europa League Final, Lookman turned Samuele Ricci inside out to then fire over from a tricky angle.

Atalanta doubled their lead on the stroke of half-time, as De Ketelaere got away from defenders and pulled back from the right for Mario Pasalic, whose shot was parried by Luca Gemello into the path of Lookman.

Pietro Pellegri nodded a Ricci free kick off target and Scamacca had another goal chalked off because De Ketelaere had dribbled it over the by-line before pulling back.

Bellanova’s daisy-cutter skimmed the far post from outside the area, while Lookman’s goal was disallowed for a rather soft Scamacca foul in the build-up.

Davide Zappacosta fired over after selling a defender a dummy, then Adam Masina made a decisive tackle in the penalty area on De Ketelaere.

Adrien Tameze trod on Lookman’s foot for a penalty, which was calmly converted by Pasalic for 3-0.

Lookman had the ball in the back of the net again on 76 minutes, but was marginally offside.

Rossi came on for his first appearance of the season and immediately had to make a tough reaction save as Ilic came sliding in from six yards.

Atalanta 3-0 Torino

Scamacca 26 (A), Lookman 43 (A), Pasalic pen 71 (A)

26-05-2024 17:00 MatchDay 38 Gewiss Stadium (Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia)

Atalanta

Torino 3 - 0

Player statistic

1st half

Gianluca Scamacca (Assist: Charles De Ketelaere)		26'
Ademola Lookman

43' 2nd half

		58'		Karol Linetty
Mario Pasalic

71' Isak Hien

77'

Match statistic

39 Possession % 61 18 Total shots 8 7 Shots on target 1 8 Shots off target 5 3 Blocked shots 2 2 Corners 5 1 Offsides 3 18 Fouls 10 Atalanta Torino

Starting lineups

Marco Carnesecchi Goalkeeper 86' 19

Berat Djimsiti Defender 63' 77

Davide Zappacosta Defender 3 Emil Holm Defender 63' 42 Giorgio Scalvini Defender 2

Rafael Tolói Defender 8

Mario Pasalic Midfielder 7

Teun Koopmeiners Midfielder 11

Ademola Lookman Attacker 17

Charles De Ketelaere Attacker 73' 90

Gianluca Scamacca Attacker 73' 1

Luca Gemello Goalkeeper 5

Adam Masina Defender 4

Alessandro Buongiorno Defender 27

Mërgim Vojvoda Defender 19

Raoul Bellanova Defender 71' 61

Adrien Tameze Midfielder 72' 8

Ivan Ilić Midfielder 77

Karol Linetty Midfielder 85' 28

Samuele Ricci Midfielder 91

Duván Zapata Attacker 85' 11

Pietro Pellegri Attacker

63'

Substitutes

Juan Musso Goalkeeper 13

Éderson Midfielder 20

Mitchel Bakker Defender 25

Michel Adopo Midfielder 44 Leonardo Mendicino Midfielder 43 Giovanni Bonfanti Defender 22 Matteo Ruggeri Defender 63' 4 Isak Hien Defender 63' 59

Aleksey Miranchuk Midfielder 73' 10

El Bilal Touré Attacker 73' 31

Francesco Rossi Goalkeeper 86' 26

Koffi Djidji Defender 13

Ricardo Rodríguez Defender 65 Pietro Passador Goalkeeper 81 Aaron Ciammaglichella Midfielder 15 Saba Sazonov Defender 71 Mihai Popa Goalkeeper 17 Uros Kabic Attacker 80 Côme Bianay Balcot Defender 30 Jonathan Silva Midfielder 9

Antonio Sanabria Attacker 63' 20

Valentino Lazaro Defender 71' 6 Matteo Lovato Defender 72' 21

David Okereke Attacker 85' 79

Zanos Savva Attacker

85'

This article first appeared on Football Italia and was syndicated with permission.

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