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Serie A | Fiorentina 3-2 Atalanta: Viola turnaround

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Serie A | Fiorentina 3-2 Atalanta: Viola turnaround

Fiorentina got here again from a poor begin to push previous Atalanta in a 3-2 thriller, together with nice objectives from Giacomo Bonaventura and Lucas Martinez-Quarta.

The Viola have been shaken earlier than the break for worldwide responsibility by a 4-0 defeat to Inter, whereas Maxime Lopez was nonetheless suspended, plus Yerry Mina, Jonathan Ikone and Gaetano Castrovilli injured. Gian Piero Gasperini’s facet had a combined begin to the season, beating Sassuolo and Monza just for a shock loss to Frosinone. El Bilal Toure and Mitchel Bakker have been out of motion, with Gianluca Scamacca not absolutely match as a consequence of tendonitis, however Rafael Toloi made his season debut.

Davide Zappacosta was making his 100^th aggressive look within the Atalanta jersey and virtually marked it with a objective, denied by a flying Pietro Terracciano fingertip save.

The robust begin from the guests paid off when Marten de Roon rolled throughout for Teun Koopmeiners to scuff left-footed from the sting of the realm into the far backside nook, with the help of a deflection off Fabiano Parisi.

The Viola made little impression till the equaliser out of nowhere, as Nico Gonzalez nodded down a ball into the field, in a single motion Jack Bonaventura managed along with his proper boot, turned and volleyed in from 14 yards. Atalanta gave him far an excessive amount of time and area to make the talent work.

That objective appeared to wake Fiorentina up, as Lucas Martinez-Quarta stung Marco Carnesecchi’s gloves, then the defender turned the sport round utterly in first half stoppages with a robust header from the Alfred Duncan cross.

After the restart, Ademola Lookman hesitated too lengthy on the counter-attack, whereas Nico Gonzalez’s left-foot roller was simply vast of the far publish.

Lookman did equalise ultimately, bursting into the field after a fast one-two for De Roon’s second help of the sport and drilling into the close to backside nook.

Nico Gonzalez sprung the offside lure and tried to dink Carnesecchi, solely to hit the side-netting when one-on-one, whereas Mario Pasalic made a decisive block to cease Martinez-Quarta tapping in from six yards.

Fiorentina began to pile on the stress, Carnesecchi at full stretch to palm a Josip Brekalo strike out of the far backside nook.

The Viola restored their lead in a messy objective, as Lucas Beltran dribbled ahead, unfold it to the left, the Brekalo cross was deflected off Michael Adopo and several other Atalanta gamers have been hesitant to clear, permitting Christian Kouame to pounce.

Fiorentina 3-2 Atalanta

Koopmeiners 20 (A), Bonaventura 35 (F), Martinez-Quarta 45 (F), Lookman 53 (A), Kouame 76 (F)

17-09-2023 17:00

MatchDay 4

Artemio Franchi Stadium

Fiorentina

Atalanta

3 – 2

Participant statistic

1st half

	20′	Teun Koopmeiners (Help: Marten de Roon)
	34′	Marten de Roon
Giacomo Bonaventura (Help: Nicólas González)	35′
Lucas Martínez Quarta (Help: Alfred Duncan)	45′