In this week 36 match on the 8th of May, Spezia and Atalanta will play a match in La Spezia in a clash of the Serie A. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 18 degrees, a perfect day for football. 16th placed Spezia is fresh off their 3-4 loss against Lazio. Kelvin Amian struck first for Spezia in the 9th minute on a feed from Petko Hristov, then Ciro Immobile tied it up for Lazio in the 33rd minute But luckily in the 90th minute, they were able to complete the comback with a goal by Francesco Acerbi. Spezia looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 7 of their last 10, while 7th placed Atalanta is fresh off their 1-1 draw against Salernitana. Éderson scored the first goal for Salernitana in the 27th minute, but Mario Pašalić got the equalizer for Atalanta in the 88th minute squeezing out at least the one point for Atalanta. Atalanta is looking for direction having 3 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches.
In their last match on Nov 20th, Atalanta was victorious by a score of 5 to 2. M’Bala Nzola struck first for Spezia in the 11th minute, then in the 18th minute, Davide Zappacosta sent in a beautiful pass which was converted by Mario Pašalić Finally they completed the comback in the 38th minute on a penalty goal by Duván Zapata to cap off a wild match.
Both Luis Muriel and Mario Pašalić have been the hottest scorers for Atalanta in the last 5 each having scored 3 goals. Spezia hasn’t been successful in netting any goals lately. Their top scorers in the last 5 matches are Gyasi and Giulio Maggiore, and they each have 1 goal.