Atalanta v Genoa: the stats report

After the Champions League win over Shakhtar, Atalanta have extended their winning streak and claimed three more curcial points, in the 2024-2025 Serie A Enilive this time, after imposing themselves 5-1 over Genoa at the Gewiss Stadium. With Atalanta finding their scoring ways in the last 19 Serie A home games, a new Club record since the advent of the three-wins-per-points era was established last night.

Thanks to his first-ever Serie A hattrick, Mateo Retegui has added his name to the list of players, together with Bonazzoli (Sampdoria), Hübner (Piacenza), Balotelli (Milan) and Baggio (Bologna), to have scored 7 goals in the opening 7 league games with the same shirt. As further pointed out by Opta Facts' Stats Perform, only Muriel (8) has scored more goals than Retegui in his first 7 appearances with the black-and-blue shirt. If we extend our scope the Europe's Top-5 leagues, only Haaland (3) has netted more multiple scoring-hauls thus far this season.

Thanks to last night's win, coach Gian Piero Gasperini has now reached the 900-Serie A-points tally as a coach. The Grugliasco trainer has now entered the league's top-4, only behind the likes of: Carlo Ancelotti (948), Luciano Spalletti (996) and Massimiliano Allegri (1012). The Genoa game was a night to remeber also for ÉdersonB, who celebrated his 100th Atalanta appearance in all competitions scoring the Nerazzurri's third of the night. Moving on to Sead Kolašinac, the black-and-blue number 23 has instead reached the milestone of the 50 overall matches as an Atalanta player across all competitions.

Closing off with individual figures provided by the Serie A's official Match Report, Mario Pašalić is the leading player in terms of successful passes on the offensive third (28), balls played (105) and successful passes overall (90). Ademola Lookman was instead the on-field benchmark for both chances created (6) and key-passes (5).