Atalanta are joint top of the table with Napoli and it is thanks to a complete transformation from the side that won new fans with its all-attack approach in Serie A and the Champions League.
La Dea are leaders after their 1-0 win away to Roma, amassing five wins and two draws.
The most remarkable statistic is that they have kept four clean sheets, conceding only three goals in seven rounds.
It’s a total turnaround from the style of football that fans had become accustomed to under Gian Piero Gasperini, where no lead seemed to be safe.
Throughout all of last season, Atalanta kept just 10 clean sheets, with 11 in 2020-21 and 10 in 2019-20.
Last season they conceded 48 goals in 38 Serie A rounds, 47 in the 2020-21 campaign and 48 in 2019-20.
That’s not to say Atalanta aren’t still prolific, finding the net 11 times so far in seven rounds.
Throughout last season, they scored 65, the year before that 90 and in the 2019-20 campaign reached 98 goals in 38 rounds.
They gave away a plethora of chances to both Milan and Roma. That’s not rock solid defending, that’s luck and poor finishing from opponents. They will slid down the table soon.
Agree with Milan fan.
No. Atalanta will finish top two because 1. They have significantly strengthened the squad. 2. They have zero European contests to drain energy and focua and 3. The players who were there last season e.g, Scalvini, Koopmeiners, Musso et al have improved significantly. Get used to Atalnata being truw Title contenders. They can Win it this season no doubt.
But they didn’t concede, surely that is top defending no matter how many chances their opponent had? If a big team had done the same, you would be lauding it over them. Big team fan crying again.
Can’t agree with Watson’s comment above move, top of the league, not playing great but with a much stronger team growing in confidence and few commitments outside of the league.