Atalanta maintains advantage in Serie A
The team from Bergamo, already secured in their spot in the next Champions League, currently has a two-point advantage over Inter Milan, in third place, who will play against Fiorentina on Wednesday, and is six points away from Juventus Turin, who is one step away from being crowned Italian champions for the ninth consecutive time.
After a first half marked by controversy and insults, perfectly captured by the microphones located on the field, between coaches Gianpiero Gasperini, from Atalanta, and Serbian Sinisa Mihajlovic, from Bologna, which ended with the expulsion of the former, the game was decided in the second half.
The team from Bergamo replaced Malinovskyi with Muriel and the forward from Santo Tomas, who had a bandage on his head after a domestic accident suffered last week, broke the tie with a great goal in the 63rd minute.
He received an assist from Duvan and unleashed a powerful right-footed shot that beat the goalkeeper. He proves to be unstoppable when he comes off the bench: of the 18 goals scored in this Serie A, 11 came in matches where he started as a substitute.
Atalanta is increasingly Colombian, with Muriel (18) and Duvan (17), who already have 35 goals in this championship.
Their Atalanta is the highest-scoring team in Italy and their 95 goals allowed them to surpass a record held by Fiorentina since the 1958-1959 season.
Gasperini's team approaches these final Serie A matches, in which they have already secured their spot in the group stage of the next Champions League, as preparation for the quarter-finals of the Champions League against Paris Saint Germain.
In Bologna, Paraguayan forward Federico Santander made an appearance in the 78th minute.