The Atalanta Courier
Match4 Nov 2026
Atalanta through in the cup
A 4‑1 win over AlbinoLeffe, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A brace, and Jonathan Rowe takes the afternoon — 8.21
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jonathan Rowe provided it, and the 8.21 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Facundo Pumpido, 38, rolls back the years — 7.95
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.95 at 38, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match7 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten Atalanta
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Atalanta
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Charles De Ketelaere was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Atalanta
Davide Zappacosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Gabriel Bravo was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
One of their own: Jonathan Rowe
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Gianluca Scamacca was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.24. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Franck Kessié
- Match Parma end the Atalanta run at 4
- Match Gianluca Scamacca rescues a point for Atalanta