New Atalanta signings Marco Brescianini and Mateo Retegui were the best Italian players in Serie A Matchday 1: find out the best-performing Azzurri in the opening round.
Brescianini and Retegui scored two goals apiece in Atalanta’s 4-0 win over Lecce on Monday, sending La Dea to the top of the Serie A table with the best goal difference.
They were also the Italian players with the highest average match rating from sports papers (7.5/10 each).
The best full-backs were Juventus‘ Andrea Cambiaso, Atalanta’s Matteo Ruggeri and Torino‘s Raoul Bellanova, who had an average rating of 7 out of 10.
Cambiaso scored once in Juventus’ 3-0 win over Como, while Ruggeri provided an assist in Atalanta’s away game at Lecce. The best wingers were Riccardo Orsolini (Bologna) and Mattia Zaccagni (Lazio), scorers of one goal each.
The highest-rated centre-back was Alessandro Vogliacco, scorer of his first Serie A goal in Genoa‘s draw against Inter at Marassi.
Five other centre-backs averaged a 6.5/10 rating: Federico Gatti (Juventus), Nicolò Casale (Lazio), Armando Izzo, Giacomo Magnani and Diego Coppola of Hellas Verona.
None stood out among the goalkeepers but five received the same ratings, 6.5: Pietro Terracciano (Fiorentina), Pierluigi Gollini (Genoa), Ivan Provedel (Lazio), Semuel Pizzignacco (Monza) and Lorenzo Montipò (Verona).
Below are the highest-rated Italian players from the Serie A round 1.
Best Italian players Serie A Round XI
Brescianini 7.5
Retegui 7.5
Ruggeri 7
Orsolini 7
Vogliacco 7
Cambiaso 7
Zaccagni 7
Bellanova 7
Zappacosta 6.5
Scuffet 6.5
Zappa 6.5
Terracciano 6.5
Biraghi 6.5
Gollini 6.5
Barella 6.5
Frattesi 6.5
Gatti 6.5
Locatelli 6.5
Provedel 6.5
Lazzari 6.5
Casale 6.5
Pizzignacco 6.5
Izzo 6.5
Ricci 6.5
Montipò 6.5
Magnani 6.5
Coppola 6.5
This is great I hope too see a report like this every March day . It’s hard trying to do it on your own. Also hard enough trying to find Italian talent in the Italian top flight. Who would have thought that?
Thank you Fabri.
Lorenzo… You are a genius for doing this report. Keep it up!
Lorenzo… Thank you for this! You are a genius for making this report… Keep it up!
This is a great feature, would love to see it weekly if possible. Grazie!!
At the minimum, people will start reading and talking about the italian youth (not only) players. This is a good start and who knows, maybe in 5 years they’ll be giving out sort of an award, you never know.
@ Lorenzo Bettoni
Fantastic Lorenzo. This is very much needed for us fans who feel this level of information on home grown is sorely lacking.
On another note, it’s refreshing to have the authors of posted articles engage in conversation with the fans. It will certainly keep us coming us coming back here time and again.
I sincerely hope to see some of your colleagues contribute as well!
Keep up the great work 👍
I bet only a few of them are on Spaletti’s list.
Thank you very much Dan.