Atalanta have mathematically assured Champions League soccer with Ademola Lookman and Ibrahim Sulemana targets, ending Roma’s 19-match unbeaten Serie A run.
This was an enormous combat between third and joint-fourth, because the Giallorossi had the chance to . La Dea had Isak Hien suspended, Juan Cuadrado, Sead Kolasinac, Marco Palestra, Giorgio Scalvini and Gianluca Scamacca injured, whereas Ademola Lookman and Odilon Kossounou began regardless of not being at 100 per cent. Roma have been unbeaten in 19 Serie A rounds, however the season was over for Lorenzo Pellegrini and Paulo Dybala, so that they with Matias Soulé in a extra superior position.
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Charles De Ketelaere simply didn’t get on the tip of a flicked on cross on the again submit, whereas Bryan Cristante stung Marco Carnesecchi’s gloves from distance.
Lookman was unsure to function with an Achilles tendon irritation, however he opened the scoring when gathering together with his again to aim from De Ketelaere, turning Devyn Rensch and firing in from 13 yards.
epa12094854 Atalanta’s Ademola Lookman scores the 1-0 aim in the course of the Italian Serie A soccer match between Atalanta BC and AS Roma, in Bergamo, Italy, 12 Might 2025. EPA-EFE/MICHELE MARAVIGLIA
Ederson nearly made it 2-0 after nutmegging a defender, however fired over the bar, with Manu Kone’s strike deflected over after Kossounou was caught napping and De Ketelaere prodding vast from six yards on an Ederson lay-off.
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Atalanta wasted an enormous double alternative, as first Mile Svilar bought right down to parry the De Ketelaere end from 10 yards, then Mateo Retegui fired the rebound over.
epa12094906 Atalanta’s Jose Ederson (R) in motion in the course of the Italian Serie A soccer match between Atalanta BC and AS Roma, in Bergamo, Italy, 12 Might 2025. EPA-EFE/MICHELE MARAVIGLIA
These probabilities have been expensive, as a result of a nook was cleared with problem and Soulé put the cross onto the pinnacle of Bryan Cristante, who together with his again to aim flicked it into the far prime nook from eight yards.
Roma ought to’ve turned it round on the stroke of half-time when Eldor Shomurodov skinned a defender, however Manu Kone’s first contact on the help was terrible and the possibility went begging.
Shomurodov examined Carnesecchi after the restart and the referee pointed to the spot on 63 minutes when Manu Kone win it again in midfield, mixed with Angelino and went down underneath a Mario Pasalic problem. Nonetheless, the penalty was revoked following a VAR On-Subject Evaluate, as Kone bumped into Pasalic.
BERGAMO, ITALY – MAY 12: Referee Simone Sozza checks the pitch facet VAR monitor in the course of the Serie A match between Atalanta and AS Roma at Gewiss Stadium on Might 12, 2025 in Bergamo, Italy. (Photograph by Marco Luzzani/Getty Pictures)
Ibrahim Sulemana’s management and half-volley from the sting of the realm was deflected by a determined Rensch sliding block and on the ensuing nook Berat Djimsiti nodded over.
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Lookman additionally bent his end simply vast of the far submit and Atalanta lastly made the strain depend when Lookman ran down the left, rolled throughout for Lazar Samardzic to put it off, permitting Sulemana to drill via a sea of legs from the sting of the realm.
There was a weird second in the course of the celebration, as an Atalanta supporter ran onto the pitch and ‘scored’ by kicking the ball previous Svilar.
Roma pushed arduous with a Soulé free kick crusing simply vast of the far prime nook and Alexis Saelemaekers pulling again from the by-line to drive a determined clearance.
In stoppages Svilar went up for a nook and Carnesecchi fingertipped it off his head, the Pisilli overhead kick charged down by Berat Djimsiti’s face. They suffered their first Serie A defeat since 2-0 away to Como on December 15 and slipped right down to sixth place.
Atalanta 2-1 Roma
Lookman 9 (A), Cristante 32 (R), Sulemana 76 (A)
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