Serie A | Atalanta 2-2 Verona: Post-Liverpool hangover | OneFootball

Atalanta were given a rude awakening by Verona’s comeback from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 in Bergamo, just days after demolishing Liverpool.

La Dea were still buzzing after Thursday’s Europa League quarter-final victory at Anfield, crushing Liverpool 3-0, and wanted to bring that enthusiasm and form to Serie A. It was also a big opportunity to close on Bologna and Roma, who had stalled, but Verona knew a point here would take them out of the relegation zone.

Giorgio Scalvini was still injured, with Marten de Roon and Davide Zappacosta suspended. Hellas had Suat Serdar sitting out a ban with Ondrej Duda and Juan Manuel Cruz sidelined.

It took just 13 minutes for Gianluca Scamacca to continue his extraordinary form with a third Serie A game on target. Teun Koopmeiners won it back in midfield and immediately found the striker with a slide-rule pass, Scamacca flicked it up with his left foot and then thumped the right-foot shot on the volley under the bar.

Suslov wasted a promising opportunity by scuffing the finish when found by Tijjani Noslin and Atalanta immediately countered to score a second, Scamacca’s first-time through ball releasing Ederson into acres of space to beat Lorenzo Montipò one-on-one.

Koopmeiners fired over from six yards after Charles De Ketelaere flicked on a long throw-in, then Mario Pasalic couldn’t keep his finish down from a promising team move.

Montipò got down to palm the Pasalic glancing header off the line and Koopmeiners saw his angled drive flash inches wide of the far post.

It was one-way traffic, Montipò with one strong hand denying the De Ketelaere strike from distance, though Suslov did sting Marco Carnesecchi’s gloves from distance.

After the restart, Juan Cabal stung Carnesecchi’s gloves with a powerful effort, then Verona got the ball in the net when Noslin found Darko Lazovic on the counter-attack, the finish going through Rafael Toloi’s legs to wrong-foot Carnesecchi.

Incredibly, Verona completed the comeback four minutes later when Fabien Centonze whipped in a low cross from the right and nobody reacted except Noslin to flick it in from six yards.

Aleksei Miranchuk forced a tough save at the near post after combining with Ademola Lookman, while Emil Holm fired over following a well-worked move.

Miranchuk stung Montipò’s gloves from distance and on the resulting corner, Isak Hien was fortunate the offside flag went up after he missed a free header.

In stoppages, the goalkeeper also smothered a Miranchuk tap-in from the Koopmeiners roll across.

Starting lineups

29

Marco Carnesecchi

Goalkeeper

19

Berat Djimsiti

Defender

3

Emil Holm

Defender

81'

4

Isak Hien

Defender

22

Matteo Ruggeri

Defender

2

Rafael Tolói

Defender

63'

13

Éderson

Midfielder

8

Mario Pasalic

Midfielder

7

Teun Koopmeiners

Midfielder

17

Charles De Ketelaere

Attacker

63'

90

Gianluca Scamacca

Attacker

63'

1

Lorenzo Montipò

Goalkeeper

Fabien Centonze

Defender

90'

23

Giangiacomo Magnani

Defender

32

Juan Cabal

Defender

27

Pawel Dawidowicz

Defender

21

Dani Silva

Midfielder

8

Darko Lazovic

Midfielder

77'

90

Michael Folorunsho

Midfielder

90'

31

Tomas Suslov

Midfielder

77'

99

Federico Bonazzoli

Attacker

58'

17

Tijjani Noslin

Attacker

Substitutes

1

Juan Musso

Goalkeeper

31

Francesco Rossi

Goalkeeper

20

Mitchel Bakker

Defender

25

Michel Adopo

Midfielder

10

El Bilal Touré

Attacker

43

Giovanni Bonfanti

Defender

59

Aleksey Miranchuk

Midfielder

63'

11

Ademola Lookman

Attacker

63'

23

Sead Kolasinac

Defender

63'

33

Hans Hateboer

Defender

81'

16

Mattia Chiesa

Goalkeeper

9

Thomas Henry

Attacker

34

Simone Perilli

Goalkeeper

6

Reda Belahyane

Midfielder

80

Alphadjo Cissè

Attacker

37

Charlys

Midfielder

7

Elayis Tavsan

Attacker

Karol Swiderski

Attacker

58'

19

Rúben Vinagre

Defender

77'

Stefan Mitrovic

Attacker

77'

42

Diego Coppola

Defender

90'

38

Jackson Tchatchoua

Attacker

90'