Beat Frosinone Five Goals, Atalanta Reach Top Five

Atalanta's players celebrated the game against Frosinone. Atalanta won 5-0 in the Italian Serie A match, (X/@Atalanta_BC)

Atalanta appeared strong and beat Frosinone 5-0 in the Italian Serie A match at Gewiss Stadium, Tuesday, January 16 in the morning WIB. A big win that brought Atalanta to the top five of the standings.

The battle for one ticket to the Champions League is no less hot and tight compared to the struggle for league power. Likewise, competition at the bottom remains fierce because the teams in the red zone are still struggling so they don't go down caste.

Salernitana, which occupies the bottom of the standings, is halfway to Serie B, aka relegated. However, their chances of getting out of the red zone have not been closed. The reason is, they are only four points adrift of the teams above the relegation zone.

In the middle-up zone there is Atalanta who competes with Fiorentina to penetrate the Champions League zone. The zone is fighting for the fourth position or the lowest level for Europe's highest caste competition. If you fail to rank fourth, there is still a position below it to get a ticket to the Europa League.

A big win over Frosinone made La Dea successfully move up to fifth with 33 points. The same as Lazio, but Atalanta won the goal difference.

This advantage made them able to shift Biancocelesti and forced competitors to take sixth place after winning 1-0 over Lecce in the previous match.

But Atalanta is clearly aiming for the top four to get a ticket to the Champions League next season. Currently, Atalanta and Lazio are only one point adrift with Fiorentina in fourth place.

The fourth position is very tight. Not only the three teams are competing, there are still Bologna (32), defending champions Napoli (31) and AS Roma (29).

AC Milan's position is relatively safer. Taking third place, Milan already has 42 points. Stefano Pioli's team only needed consistency to stay in that position as well as try to approach the summit zone leaving Inter Milan and Juventus.

If Atalanta manages to improve the ranking, on the other hand, Frosinone is still struggling at the bottom. They are ranked 15th with 19.

Frosinone showed a downward trend so that their position continued to decline. Frosinone's goal is also very easy to concede. From the last two matches, they have conceded nine goals. Previously, Juve also slaughtered Frosinone 4-0.

Canarini's I Record or The Canaries was really bad in the last five matches. They always lose and concede 17 goals!

Until the 20th week, Frosinone had 39 goals conceded. This makes Frosinone the team that conceded the most after Salernitana conceded 40 goals.

In that duel, Atalanta fully controlled the game. Their attack immediately gave results in the early minutes of the match.

In less than 15 minutes, the hosts broke into the Frosinone goal three times. Winger Teun Koopmeiners started the team's winning party after scoring from the penalty spot when the game had only been running for seven minutes.

The penalty was given after midfielder Emil Holm was brought down by Mateus Lusuardi in the restricted area. Referee Alessandro Prontera immediately pointed to the spot and Koopmeiners successfully completed the execution. Koopmeiners also showed their sharpness by scoring goals in Atalanta's last three matches.

Winning 1-0 made Atalanta even more aggressive in suppressing the defense of Eusebio Di Francesco's team which helped Roma win the 2001 Scudetto. Frosinone really did not move against Atalanta's attack.

The hosts didn't take long to increase their lead. Ederson's second goal came in the 13th minute. Starting from Matteo Rugeni's action working with one or two with Charles De Ketelaere. He then released a cross that Ederson greeted.

The morale of the Frosinone players collapsed quickly after the second goal. Only one minute later, Atalanta had changed the score to 3-0.

This time, De Ketelaere, who listed his name on the scoreboard after welcoming Asist Marten De Roon. The score lasted until halftime.

In the second half, Atalanta continued to play aggressively. Superior in possession, Gian Piero Gasperini's team did not give the opponent a chance to develop the game.

Although they are still having difficulties in facing Atalanta's attack, the game of Frozenone is getting better. The squad reshuffle immediately included three players giving positive results.

Their defense is getting better. However, the Frosinone goal guarded by Stefano Turati still conceded. But Atalanta had to wait until the end of the match to add goals.

The host's fourth goal was produced by Davide Zappacosta in the 84th minute. Zappacosta, who came in to replace Rugri, successfully completed the assist from Mario Pasalic.

Next, in the 90th minute, Zappacosta's corner was met with Holm's header that broke into the Frosinone goal. The score changed to 5-0 for Atalanta. Holm's goal ended the hosts' victory party.