Comments and predictions for Atalanta vs AC Milan: Putting pressure on the home team

Both teams are on impressive unbeaten runs, with Atalanta BC and AC Milan facing off under the lights on Friday night in Bergamo.

With eight consecutive wins in Serie A, Atalanta have moved into contention for the Scudetto title, while Milan are now nine points behind the hosts, albeit with a game in hand.

Latest Atalanta vs AC Milan squad information

Gian Piero Gasperini, who is serving a second touchline ban, will be absent from the dugout on Friday night, but most of his players are available for selection.

Gianluca Scamacca is still recovering from a serious knee injury, while full-back Davide Zappacosta is close to returning from a muscle injury.

Atalanta's top scorer Mateo Retegui – who leads the Serie A scoring charts with three more goals than his nearest rival – will continue to form an attacking trio alongside Ademola Lookman and Charles De Ketelaere (former Milan players).

In fact, this match brings together the four Serie A players with the most goal contributions in all competitions in 2024: De Ketelaere (30), Lookman (30), along with Milan duo Rafael Leao (28) and Christian Pulisic (27).

All three of Leao's Serie A goals this season have come away from home, and he will continue to partner Pulisic and Samu Chukwueze (who scored twice on Tuesday) to support the Rossoneri's lone striker. Tammy Abraham started against Sassuolo, but Alvaro Morata could be brought into the starting line-up against Atalanta.

After making a number of changes during the week, Paulo Fonseca will return to his strongest squad: only Ismael Bennacer, Alessandro Florenzi and Luka Jovic are unavailable, while two French internationals, Mike Maignan and Theo Hernandez, have returned to training.

Latest predicted lineup Atalanta vs AC Milan

Atalanta BC:

Carnesecchi; Djimsiti, Hien, Kolasinac; Bellanova, Ederson, De Roon, Ruggeri; De Ketelaere, Lookman; Retegui

AC Milan:

Maignan; Emerson, Gabbia, Thiaw, Hernandez; Fofana, Reijnders; Chukwueze, Pulisic, Leao; Morata

Latest football commentary Atalanta vs AC Milan

Not only did the recent win over Roma keep Atalanta firmly in the Scudetto race, just one point behind the Serie A leaders, but securing an eighth consecutive win also took Bergamaschi closer to a club record of nine consecutive wins set in 2020.

Captain Marten De Roon and former Roma star Nicolo Zaniolo scored at the Stadio Olimpico in a 2-0 win that continued their impressive start to the 2024-25 season.

Atalanta now have more than 30 points after 14 Serie A games for the first time in the club's history, and they have been scoring consistently - they currently lead the scoring charts by five goals.

Gian Piero Gasperini's side have scored at least two goals in each of their last 11 games at the Gewiss, and head into a crucial home clash against Milan.

Charles De Ketelaere, who Atalanta signed from rivals Milan, was involved in five goals in last week's 6-1 Champions League win over Young Boys; after winning the Europa League last season, the Nerazzurri remain unbeaten in Europe this season.

Atalanta currently occupy one of the eight automatic places in the Champions League round of 16, and two points ahead of Milan, they are flying high on all fronts.

Milan, meanwhile, despite losing to Atalanta in their most recent meeting in Bergamo - a 3-2 win almost a year ago - and losing again in the Coppa Italia at the San Siro, have won four of their last eight Serie A meetings.

However, the Rossoneri go into this match lower down in the table than their opponents, sitting in seventh place after a shaky start to the season.

Milan have seemed to pick up the pace recently under Paulo Fonseca - morale was boosted by their win over Real Madrid at the Bernabeu - and a third successive Champions League win has seen them move five points clear of the relegation zone.

Meanwhile, in Serie A, Tijjani Reijnders' double helped Milan beat Empoli 3-0 last weekend, taking their tally to six clean sheets in their last 10 matches.

On Tuesday night, Milan produced an impressive first-half display in their Coppa Italia tie with Serie B leaders Sassuolo, with Reijnders' superb strike the highlight of four goals in the opening 23 minutes - as they ran out 6-1 winners and booked their place in the quarter-finals.

Away from home, however, Milan have won just two of their six Serie A games this season, so extending that run of success against Atalanta on Friday could be a big test.

Score prediction Atalanta vs AC Milan

Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the following results for the match Atalanta vs AC Milan :

• Sportsmole: Atalanta 2-2 AC Milan

• WhoScore: Atalanta 1-2 AC Milan
• Our prediction: Atalanta 1-1 AC Milan

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