Fiorentina played a good first half: Roberto Piccoli came close to scoring, but Marco Carnesecchi denied him with a great save. David De Gea too did a great job, saving one shot taken by Charles De Ketelaere and two by Davide Zappacosta, keeping the score at 0-0. In the 41^st minute came the wild goal by Odilon Kossonou. His cross-turned-shot found the top corner of the goal, leaving the Fiorentina keeper with no chance.

At the start of the second half, the hosts doubled their lead with Ademola Lookman, stunning the visitors. Fiorentina kept pushing until the very end, but failed change the score. A very unlucky Fiorentina lost the match 2-0.

Fiorentina got off to a good start: in the 5^th minute, Piccoli found himself alone in front of the Atalanta keeper, after a shot by Moise Kean had been deflected, and took a right-footed shot, but only to be denied by Carnesecchi. In the 13^th minute Atalanta responded with a diagonal shot from the edge of the box by De Ketelaere, but De Gea skilfully pushed the shot wide. In the 28^th minute, Lookman fed Zappacosta on the left flank of the pitch: the Italian full-back took a shot, but the Spanish goalkeeper made yet another save. In the 36^th minute, Fiorentina built a very good play with Simon Sohm serving Piccoli, but the forward’s left-footed shot was also saved by the Atalanta goalkeeper. One minute later, De Ketelaere produced an individual effort, taking a shot to the top left corner, but De Gea denied him too. The goalkeepers played a huge role in this first half of the game.

Atalanta took the lead in the 41^st minute thanks to Kossonou, who scored his very first Serie A goal: De Ketelaere played the ball to the defender who crossed it from the edge of the box: the trajectory was deceiving, and the ball ended up nestling in the top corner past De Gea. At the end of a well-played first half for Fiorentina, Atalanta was in front thanks to a lucky goal from Kossonou right at the end of the first 45 minutes of the game.

Then the second half began and in the 51^st minute Atalanta doubled their lead thanks to Lookman: Ederson took the corner kick and De Ketelaere headed it towards the goal, but was denied by De Gea; the ball reached the Nigerian player who, with a side-foot finish, made it 2-0 for Atalanta. At that point Fiorentina started to lose control of the game: Lookman crossed it into the box for Marten De Roon, whose header was denied by De Gea.

Fiorentina first made an effort with a shot by Dodo from inside the box that was deflected and then with a header by Kean, on the following corner kick, but it was denied by Gianluca Scamacca who cleared it off the line. In the 76^th minute, Fiorentina had a huge chance: Rolando Mandragora took a free kick from the edge of the box on the right, Kean flicked the ball on but hit the post past the goalkeeper. Fiorentina kept trying until the end of the match, but failed to score. Paolo Vanoli’s team didn’t give up; bad luck was a major factor and they failed to get back into the game.

ATALANTA 2-0 FIORENTINA (HT: 1-0)

ATALANTA (3-4-1-2): Carnesecchi; Kossonou, Hien (Kolasinac 86), Djimsiti; Bellanova, De Roon, Ederson (Pasalic 67), Zappacosta (Zalwesky 67); De Ketelaere; Lookman (Sulemana 77), Scamacca (Krstovic 77). 
Coach: Raffaele Palladino.

Subs not used: Rossi, Sportiello, Aahnor, Bernasconi, Musah, Brescianini, Samardzic, Maldini.

FIORENTINA (3-5-2): De Gea; Pongracic, Mari (Comuzzo 75), Ranieri; Dodo (Fortini 64), Mandragora, Fagioli (Gudmundsson 64), Sohm (Ndour 79), Parisi; Piccoli (Richardson 79), Kean. 
Coach: Paolo Vanoli.

Subs not used: Lezzerini, Martinelli, Viti, Kouadio, Nicolussi Caviglia, Kouame, Dzeko.

BOOKED: Pongracic (F), Pablo Mari (F), Mandragora (F), Hien (A)