The Atalanta Courier
Match12 Sep 2026
Atalanta leave it late against Lazio
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 85th, and Lazio spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Giacomo Raspadori
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market14 Sep 2026
Davide Zappacosta raises the bar for Atalanta
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Atalanta heard it as anything else.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Charles De Ketelaere falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match12 Sep 2026
Atalanta see off Lazio
Three points for Atalanta, 2‑1 the final word against Lazio in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
One of those days for Mario Pašalić
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.29, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Roberto Soriano
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Mario Pašalić is off the mark for Atalanta
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Gianluca Gaetano dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
- Player ratings Nikola Krstović changes it off the bench
- Market Atalanta put Stuart Findlay up for sale
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Charles De Ketelaere