Atalanta 5-1 Sassuolo: result and report

Serie A · Sunday 3 January 2021

Result

Atalanta 5-1 Sassuolo

Serie A · Sunday 3 January 2021, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Atalanta · Sassuolo · Serie A predictions

Atalanta 5-1 Sassuolo: match report

Atalanta won against Sassuolo 5-1 in Serie A on Sunday 3 January 2021. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Duván Zapata opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Atalanta's goals came from Duván Zapata (11'), Matteo Pessina (45'), Duván Zapata (49'), Robin Gosens (57') and Luis Muriel (67'). Sassuolo scored through Vlad Chiriches (75').

Discipline: Atalanta received 3 yellow cards; Sassuolo received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Atalanta were 7th on 22 points from 13 and Sassuolo 4th on 26 points from 14. Atalanta went on to finish that season 3rd with 78 points, and Sassuolo 8th with 62.

Atalanta lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Sassuolo in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Duván Zapata of Atalanta (9.4), ahead of Remo Freuler (8.9).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 7 Atalanta wins, 3 draws and 0 for Sassuolo.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Goal · Duván ZapataAtalanta · 1-0
  • 24'Yellow card · Hans HateboerAtalanta
  • 44'Yellow card · Cristian RomeroAtalanta
  • 45'Goal · Matteo PessinaAtalanta · 2-0
  • 49'Goal · Duván ZapataAtalanta · 3-0
  • 51'Yellow card · Vlad ChirichesSassuolo
  • 57'Goal · Robin GosensAtalanta · 4-0
  • 67'Goal · Luis MurielAtalanta · 5-0
  • 75'Goal · Vlad ChirichesSassuolo · 5-1
  • 80'Yellow card · Marten de RoonAtalanta

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Atalanta 7, draws 3, Sassuolo 0.

Team news

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Atalanta line-up (3-4-1-2)

Pierluigi Gollini, Berat Djimsiti, Cristian Romero, José Luis Palomino, Hans Hateboer, Remo Freuler, Marten de Roon, Robin Gosens, Matteo Pessina, Josip Ilicic, Duván Zapata

Sassuolo line-up (4-2-3-1)

Andrea Consigli, Mert Müldür, Vlad Chiricheș, Gianmarco Ferrari, Georgios Kyriakopoulos, Maxime Lopez, Manuel Locatelli, Domenico Berardi, Hamed Traoré, Jérémie Boga, Francesco Caputo