Atalanta v Real Madrid: the stats of the game
Nerazzurri on 11 points in the general standing
Despite the setback, MD6 of the 2024/25 UCL League Phase saw Atalanta go toe-to-toe against Real Madrid as the breathtaking scenery of the Gewiss Stadium led the black-and-blue charge.
As pointed out by Stats Perform's Opta Facts, Atalanta are currently one in three teams, together with Manchester City (56) and Bayern Monaco (53) to have fired the most shots (50, on par with Bayer Leverkusen) in the first fraction of the game.
On target for the Nerazzurri went Charles De Ketelaere and Ademola Lookman, the two Serie A players with the highest-scoring overall contribution (standing at 42 and 40 respectively) in all competitions since the onset of the previous season. Out of all Serie A players, the Belgian is the only one to have registered 20+ goals and 20+ assists in all competitions since the beginning of the previous campaign. Widening the scope to Europe's Big-5 leagues, only Mohamed Salah, Cole Palmer, Florian Wirtz, Bukayo Saka and Bruno Fernandes have done better than Atalanta's number 17. As for the Champions League games alone, De Ketelaere is the Atalanta player to have favoured more goals (7, 3 nets and 4 assists) in a single UCL campaign.