Lazio vs Atalanta prediction: ITALY: Serie A betting tips on match 2024-12-27 19:45.
[p]While a quick glance at the Serie A table would suggest everything is going well for Lazio, two defeats from their last four league games (W2) suggests they’re a little hit and miss. Firmly in the European race, and arguably the title race if they can beat Atalanta, Lazio will have to shape up better than they did in their last home league game, a 6-0 defeat against Inter Milan.[/p]
[p]They’d won their last five such games before that, so a response against Atalanta wouldn’t be a total surprise. The capital club does have a dismal recent home record against the visitors to overcome after winning just one of the last seven (D3, L3), although they will be quick to point out that came in the most recent encounter. [/p]
[p]Atalanta must be confident they can heap more H2H misery on Lazio as their Serie A campaign continues to go from strength-to-strength. The Bergamo club have now won a club-record 11 straight league games, five of which came on the road, and with four of those seeing them keep a clean sheet too, Atalanta have been nearly imperious on their travels. [/p]
[p]A 3-2 home win against Empoli last weekend handed them a 13th win of the Serie A campaign – the most league wins any side in any of Europe’s traditional big-five leagues has to their name this term. It’s hard to look past title-chasing Atalanta securing victory number 14 here either, as they’ve impressively won nine of their last ten Saturday-held Serie A games (D1). [/p]
[p]Players to watch: Lazio’s Mattia Zaccagni has been their good luck charm this term, with all six of his goals coming in victories. Nicolò Zaniolo has scored in each of Atalanta’s last two away league games, but don’t expect entertainment if he nets again, as his last six scoring club appearances all came in games containing under 2.5 goals. [/p]
[p]Hot stat: Five of Lazio’s last six home league games saw exactly three total match goals scored.[/p]
[p][i]Written by Chris Wilson[/i][/p]