Atalanta v Fiorentina: the stats of the game
Figures from the Nerazzurri's 56th and last game of 23/24
As the season finale against Fiorentina culminated with a 2-3 on the scoresheet, Gasperini's men closed the league in 4th. It was Atalanta's 56th seasonal game: in summation, by reaching all the final stages in all the competitions the Nerazzurri have been embroiled in this season, the team has filled its "playing reservoir" to the brim. As pointed out by Stats Perform's Opta Facts, Atalanta have seen the Serie A off in a Top-4 spot for the 5th time in their history after 2016/17 (4th place), 2018/19 (3rd), 2019/20 (3rd) and 2020/21 (another bronze medal).
Back on the scoresheet with the temporary 1-1 equalizer, Ademola Lookman has scored his 5th consecutive goal in his last 3 appearances. As a further trivia within the trivia, thanks to his bounty of 10 nets at the Gewiss Stadium, Mola is the only player to have reached domestic double-digit figures in the 2023/24 Serie A season. Additionally, the Nigerian winger is the Big-5 leagues with the highest ratio of nets favoured from April onward (namely 14, with 8 nets and six key-passes).
Having found his seasonal scoring debut before leaving the pitch due to injury with a ranged daisy-cutter to ink in the provisional 2-2, Giorgio Scalvini has both become the youngest Italian player (aged 20 years and 174 days) to have scored from outside the box this season and the 16th different Nerazzurro marksman in the league alone.
The game also marked Aleksey Miranchuk's Serie A centenary (of which, 71 matches were played donning Atalanta's crest): Lesha has thus become the first Russian footballer to have garnered 100 league caps ever since the advent of the 3-points-per-win era (back in the 1994/95 season).
Closing on with the customary individual stats provided by the official Serie A Match Report, while Gianluca Scamacca was the on-field benchmark for both goal chances (3) and key passes (3), Matteo Ruggeri leads the chart for successful passes on the offensive third (14, on par with Nico Gonzalez). Éderson and Mario Pašalić were instead the two Nerazzurri flaunting the most successful passes overall (49 each), with the Brazilian midfielder also sweeping the board for ball retrievals (11).