ACF Fiorentina 2-2 Atalanta BC: Serie A Match Report, 29 October 2026

Three away games, three defeats: that was Atalanta's record on the road before they came to Florence. ACF Fiorentina 2-2 Atalanta BC ended it, though at half-time Atalanta were 1-0 up and on course for all three points. The second half went 2-1 to Fiorentina. The order of those three goals is unknown, so whether Fiorentina ever led cannot be said.

The table had them seven places and six points apart. Fiorentina were 19th on 4 points from eight games, goal difference -10, with one win, 4-2 at Venezia, and three straight defeats behind them: 2-1 at Genoa, 3-1 at home to Como and 2-1 at Inter. At home they had taken a single point from four games and scored three goals. Two in one half made this their highest-scoring home game of the season.

Atalanta, seventh on 59 last season, were 12th on 10 points with a goal difference of -1. All three of their wins had come at home, and their previous game was a 4-4 at home to Frosinone. This made it two draws four days apart, with twelve goals between them.

Their two most recent league meetings in Florence had gone 1-0 to Fiorentina and 1-1 in May, so the hosts stay unbeaten at home against Atalanta across the three. Last season no club drew more often than Fiorentina, with 15, and only Fiorentina drew more often than Atalanta, with 14.

There is no pick of ours to settle here: the fixture fell in the midweek round at the end of October, when the site had stopped updating, and what follows is about the table alone.

Fiorentina go to 5 points from nine games, and the goal difference stays at -10. The losing run ends at three, and the two goals break a sequence in which they had scored exactly once in each of their previous four league games. They are still without a home win. Measured against the 38 points that kept Lecce up in 17th last season, Fiorentina would need 33 more from the 29 games left, a little over a point a game. That is roughly the rate at which they finished 15th on 42, and well above their 0.56 a game to date.

Atalanta move to 11 points from nine, goal difference still -1, and the six-point gap between the clubs is unchanged. The first away point of the season is the gain. What has changed from last season is at the back: 17 conceded in nine games is almost half the 36 they let in across the whole of it. Nine games is not enough to say a defence has gone, but it is enough to say this one has not yet looked like last season's.