Atalanta avalanche in Verona dragged by an unstoppable Retegui

Verona, 8 February 2025 –  Avalanche Atalanta. Five goals in 55 minutes at Bentegodi against Verona already overwhelmed in October in the first leg by 6-1.

Little hand which certifies the good state of health of the Nerazzurri, despite the many absences (Carnesecchi, Kolasinac, Kossounou, Scalvini, Lookman, Scamacca and Maldini) which on the eve forced us to fear this away match in Verona, easy only with hindsight, easy thanks to the Nerazzurri's offensive supremacy.

Easy because Atalanta made it easy, thanks to a Retegui with twenty goals in twenty-two league games, which is travelling in Serie A at an average of one goal every 66 games.

The Argentine naturalized Italian he is relentless, but next to him there is a De Ketelaere who has been scoring less in the last month and a half but was involved in the actions of the first three goals.

Gasperini, after the 4-0 at half-time and the 5-0 at the start of the second half, made a turnover in view of Wednesday's trip to Bruges, for the first leg of the Champions League play-offs, giving the Belgian (sore from a blow to his calf but it's just a bruise) a rest for a half and then Djimsiti, De Roon and Ederson for half an hour.

Goddess rises to 50 points and one less than Inter and four points behind Napoli, awaiting their respective matches, and once again extends its lead over its pursuers, sealing its third place.

And now Atalanta can string together a comfortable streak: next Saturday at Gewiss there will be Cagliari, then the away match at Empoli, then Venezia will arrive in Bergamo.

And these last two consecutive away matches won in Como and Verona have confirmed that Gasperini's team rarely makes mistakes in these games.

IMeanwhile, Retegui has now reached 22 goals for the season with these four, also considering the Champions League.

The recent goalscoring records of Zapata, 28 goals in 2018-19, and Muriel, 26 goals in 2020-21, are within reach for the Azzurri.