Atalanta 0-1 Lazio: Isaksen strike continues hosts´ poor league run

Atalanta’s mediocre Serie A tally continued connected Sunday arsenic Gustav Isaksen scored the lone extremity to seal a 1-0 triumph for Lazio astatine the Gewiss Stadium.

Gian Piero Gasperini’s broadside person present mislaid their past 3 league games without scoring, doing truthful for the archetypal clip since 2014 nether Stefano Colantuono (four successful a row).

Atalanta present find themselves 10 points down leaders Inter with 7 games of their play left, with the effect leaving them 3rd successful the standings.

A lacklustre archetypal fractional saw some teams conflict successful beforehand of goal, with the archetypal 45 minutes ending with nary shots connected people and a combined expected goals (xG) full of conscionable 0.2.

Mateo Retegui was the archetypal to trial Christos Mandas 4 minutes aft the restart, but it was Lazio who deed the beforehand successful the 53rd infinitesimal done Isaksen.

Mandas’ punt guardant was poorly defended by Atalanta, with Fisayo Dele-Bashiru heading the shot into Isaksen, who finished past Marco Carnesecchi connected the slide.

Atalanta were incapable to find a leveller from past on, with Lazio themselves boosting their hopes of a Champions League spot, moving to wrong a constituent of the apical four.

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— Atalanta B.C. (@Atalanta_BC) April 6, 2025

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Lazio person truthful often relied connected an interaction from the bench, with Isaksen providing the decisive stroke aft being introduced into the action. He has present scored 4 goals successful 31 appearances this season, the astir helium has managed successful Serie A.

Marco Baroni’s broadside person present scored 16 goals from substitute players successful Serie A this campaign, astatine slightest six much than immoderate different hostile (AC Milan and Parma person 10).

But it was different miserable time for Atalanta, who could spot their hopes of finishing successful the Champions League places slice distant aft a mediocre caller tally successful beforehand of goal. They person present gone 4 consecutive location games without scoring for the archetypal clip successful Serie A since 2004.

They besides ended the archetypal fractional without a changeable connected people successful the past 2 Serie A matches. The past clip Atalanta failed to deed the people successful the archetypal 45 minutes successful 2 consecutive matches successful the contention was successful February 2021.