📏 Form Guide

Udinese

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Udinese will play in this fixture following on from a 0-0 Serie A draw against Hellas Verona.

In that match, Udinese managed 63% possession and 15 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Hellas Verona got 13 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target.

It has been all too rare in recent games that Udinese have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Udinese have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 9 goals on the way. Putting that to one side, we must now wait to see if such a trend might be replicated in this next match or not.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Udinese:

• have not won against Atalanta in their previous 14 matches in the league. That has got to hurt.
• are without a home win in the past 4 league games. Their supporters are understandably frustrated.

Atalanta

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Following on from being defeated in their last game at the hands of Inter Milan in Supercoppa action, Atalanta will be hoping to turn things around here.

Denzel Dumfries (49', 61') was the scorer for Inter Milan.

The stats don’t lie, and Atalanta have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 9 goals in total. In defence, Atalanta have clearly had some problems.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Atalanta:

• have not won against Udinese in away games against them for the last 2 league matches.
• are undefeated by Udinese in games played away from home for the previous 6 league matches. Away fans have certainly had plenty to cheer about.
• have not been beaten in their last 7 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 09/01/2022 tells us that Udinese have won 0 of these games and Atalanta 3, with the number of draws being 3.

An aggregate of 19 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 6 of them for Bianconeri Friuliani and 13 netted by La Dea. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.17.

The previous league encounter between these clubs was Serie A match day 12 on 10/11/2024 when the final score was Atalanta 2-1 Udinese.

That time, Atalanta had 54% possession and 10 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Mario Pašalić (56').

Udinese had 11 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Hassane Kamara (45') and Isaak Touré (60' Own goal) scored.

The referee was Marco Di Bello.

ℹ️ Team News: Udinese

Gerard Deulofeu (Knee surgery), Keinan Davis (Muscle injury), Oier Zarraga (Adductor injury), Lautaro Giannetti (Muscle fatigue) and Maduka Okoye (Wrist injury) won’t be able to feature for Udinese manager Kosta Runjaić.

In our view, Bianconeri Friuliani could go for a 3-5-2 formation for this game with Razvan Sava, Oumar Solet, Jaka Bijol, Thomas Kristensen, Kingsley Ehizibue, Sandi Lovric, Jesper Karlstroem, Martin Payero, Jordan Zemura, Florian Thauvin and Alexis Sanchez.

📋 Team News: Atalanta

Atalanta boss Gian Gasperini has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Mateo Retegui (Hamstring injury), Juan Cuadrado (Hamstring muscle injury) and Gianluca Scamacca (Cruciate ligament tear) will miss out on this game.

We believe La Dea could decide to elect for a 3-4-3 system, giving starts to Marco Carnesecchi, Odilon Kossounou, Berat Djimsiti, Sead Kolasinac, Raoul Bellanova, Ederson, Marten de Roon, Matteo Ruggeri, Lazar Samardzic, Charles De Ketelaere and Ademola Lookman.

💡 Prediction

Our feeling is that Udinese might need a bit of good fortune to be putting a goal past this Atalanta lineup who will likely get the win and a maybe even keep a clean sheet as well.

That’s why we have predicted a good battle with a 0-1 winning score for Atalanta at the end of the match.

Let’s see how this one goes.

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Peter Guest, 13:04 11/01/2025