Atalanta vs Sassuolo

3 January 2021 · Serie A · 2020/21 · Referee Fabio Maresca

Full time 5 – 1

Half-time: 2–0

Duván Zapata 11’, 49’
Matteo Pessina 45’
Robin Gosens 57’
Luis Muriel 67’

Vlad Chiriches 75’

Match summary

Atalanta won comfortably, 5-1 at home to Sassuolo. Atalanta led 2-0 at half-time.

In the first half, Duván Zapata put Atalanta ahead in the 11th minute and Matteo Pessina made it 2-0 in the 45th minute, set up by Josip Ilicic. In the second half, Zapata made it 3-0 in the 49th minute, set up by Remo Freuler, Robin Gosens made it 4-0 in the 57th minute, set up by Duván Zapata, Luis Muriel made it 5-0 in the 67th minute, set up by Remo Freuler, and Vlad Chiriches pulled one back to make it 5-1 from a corner in the 75th minute, set up by Gregoire Defrel.

The chances backed that up: Atalanta created 3.50 expected goals (xG) from 23 shots to Sassuolo's 0.53 from 10.

Match stats

20 Shots 7

8 Shots on Target 4

8 Corners 3

3 Yellow Cards 1

0 Red Cards 0

3.50 xG 0.50

3.50 Non-penalty xG 0.50

22 Deep Completions 5

Key events

Atalanta Sassuolo

Kick-off

Duván Zapata

1-0

11’

Matteo Pessina
Assist: Josip Ilicic

2-0

45’

Half-time2-0

Duván Zapata
Assist: Remo Freuler

3-0

49’

Robin Gosens
Assist: Duván Zapata

4-0

57’

Luis Muriel
Assist: Remo Freuler

5-0

67’

75’

Vlad Chiriches
Assist: Gregoire Defrel

5-1

Full-time5-1

Bookings

Card times are not on file for this game, so they are listed without a minute.

Atalanta

Cristian Romero
Hans Hateboer
Marten de Roon

Sassuolo

Vlad Chiriches

How the chances added up

Running total of expected goals (xG) for each side through the match. xG rates each chance by how often similar shots are scored. A goal is marked where it was scored.

Atalanta 3.50 xGSassuolo 0.53 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Sassuolo attacking Atalanta attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Pierluigi Gollini	GK	90			0	0.00	0.04	1
José Luis Palomino	DEF	90			1	0.05	0.29	1
Cristian Romero	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.03	1
Berat Gjimshiti	DEF	77			1	0.03	0.12	2
Hans Hateboer	MID	90			3	0.18	0.09	2
Marten de Roon	MID	90			1	0.01	0.06	1
Remo Freuler	MID	90		2	0	0.00	1.12	3
Robin Gosens	MID	77	1		2	0.09	0.05	1
Matteo Pessina	MID	63	1		1	0.60	0.06	2
Duván Zapata	FWD	84	2	1	6	1.67	0.06	1
Josip Ilicic	FWD	63		1	6	0.25	1.01	4
Luis Muriel	Sub	27	1		2	0.63	0.00	0
Ruslan Malinovskiy	Sub	27			0	0.00	0.06	1
Matteo Ruggeri	Sub	13			0	0.00	0.00	0
Fabio Depaoli	Sub	13			0	0.00	0.00	0
Aleksey Miranchuk	Sub	6			0	0.00	0.11	1

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Andrea Consigli	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Mert Müldür	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Gianmarco Ferrari	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Vlad Chiriches	DEF	90	1		2	0.14	0.00	0
Georgios Kyriakopoulos	DEF	90			2	0.07	0.00	0
Manuel Locatelli	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Maxime Lopez	MID	56			0	0.00	0.00	0
Domenico Berardi	MID	83			2	0.10	0.08	2
Hamed Junior Traore	MID	84			1	0.02	0.05	1
Jeremie Boga	MID	68			2	0.06	0.04	1
Francesco Caputo	FWD	56			0	0.00	0.00	0
Gregoire Defrel	Sub	34		1	1	0.13	0.12	2
Pedro Obiang	Sub	34			0	0.00	0.00	0
Mehdi Bourabia	Sub	22			0	0.00	0.00	0
Giacomo Raspadori	Sub	7			0	0.00	0.00	0
Lukas Haraslin	Sub	6			0	0.00	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Atalanta win 62% Avg odds 1.53

Draw 21% Avg odds 4.62

Sassuolo win 17% Avg odds 5.62

Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.

Form going into the game

Atalanta L W D W D

Sassuolo D W D L W

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Atalanta 4-1 Sassuolo, 21 Jun 20 Next meeting: Sassuolo 1-1 Atalanta, 02 May 21 All Atalanta vs Sassuolo meetings

Shots, expected goals and player data from Understat. Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.