Lazio take on Atalanta in an intriguing Serie A fixture, looking to revive their European quest, at Stadio Olimpico on Saturday night with kickoff at 22:45.
Both sides have been among the most entertaining sides in Serie A this season with their scoring abilities and are in the top five scoring teams in the division. Lazio have netted 46 while Atalanta have scored 44 with the sides only going into their third league fixture of the second half of the season.
Both sides are fighting for European places with Lazio now sitting in the eighth, but level on points with both Fiorentina and Roma who occupy the sixth and seventh places respectively and just seven points keeping them out of the Champions League places, while Atalanta currently sit in the last Champion League place, but they are being highly pressure by the fifth placed Juventus with only a point separating the two sides, although Atalanta have played one match less.
Lazio and Atalanta head into the match with confidence after both positing impressive and hard fought results in their previous encounters as hosts overcame a relegation fighting Salernitana with a 3-0 win at away, while Atalanta did well to hold the league leaders Inter to a goalless draw at home.
Therefore, both will be looking for the three points as they will want to keep their European ambitions on track and keep their momentum going and since they drew 2-2 in the reverse fixture its logic for both to gun for a victory in this game.
Lazio vs Atalanta head to head
The two have met in 48 encounters since 1993 with Lazio claiming 22 victories and 12 draws while Atalanta have claimed 14 victories. However, in their last six Atalanta have won in three encounters, while Lazio have won in one and they have drawn in two.
- Atalanta 2-2 Lazio 30/10/21
- Atalanta 1-3 Lazio 31/01/21
- Atalanta 3-2 Lazio 27/01/21
- Lazio 1-4 Atalanta 30/09/20
- Atalanta 3-2 Lazio 224/06/20
Home
- Lazio 1-0 Udinese
- Salernitana 0-3 Lazio
- Inter 2-1 Lazio
- Lazio 3-3 Empoli
- Venezia 1-3 Lazio
Away
- Atalanta 0-0 Inter
- Atalanta 2-0 Venezia
- Udinese 2-6 Atalanta
- Genoa 0-0 Atalanta
- Atalanta 1-4 Roma
Lazio team news
Lazio will be without Francesco Acerbi, Pedro, Toma Basic and Stefan Radu through injuries, while Danilo Cataldi will miss due to suspension and Jean Akpa is on international duty and thus unavailable.
Atalanta team news
Atalanta will be without Robin Gosens, Duvan Zapata, Hans hateboer, Josip Ilicic and Ruslan Malinovskyi through injuries and Joakim Maehle and Rafael Toloi are doubts.
Prediction and odds
- Atalanta win
- Goals over 2.5
- Both sides to score
