Atalanta v Everton background
Back in Europe after a 27-year absence, Atalanta are confronting an sparkling start to their UEFA Europa League Group E campaign, with Everton seeking a initial win in Italy.
Previous meetings
• The sides are assembly for a initial time and it is Atalanta’s initial confront with English opponents.
• Everton’s record in 6 games opposite Serie A sides is W1 D2 L3, with defeats entrance in all 3 of their past matches in Italy.
• The Toffees unsuccessful to measure in a initial 5 of those games, finally creation a breakthrough in a many new one – a 2-0 feat over Fiorentina in a 2007/08 UEFA Cup turn of 16 second leg.
Form guide
• Atalanta are dominant in 5 European home matches (two wins, 3 0-0 draws) given a 2-1 detriment to Mechelen in a 1987/88 European Cup Winners’ Cup semi-finals.
• Undefeated in 4 European games this deteriorate (W3 D1), Everton have mislaid usually one of their final 7 on a highway in UEFA competition: W3 D3 L1.
• Fourth in Serie A final term, Atalanta are returning to Europe for a initial time given 1990/91, when they were separated by Internazionale in a UEFA Cup quarter-finals.
• Seventh in a 2016/17 Premier League, Everton have done it by all 3 of their prior UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League organisation theatre campaigns, many recently in 2014/15.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Liverpool to Bergamo is around 1,250km.
• Everton’s Wayne Rooney was a UEFA Europa League leader with Manchester United final season. He could nonetheless obey Radamel Falcao (Porto 2011, Atlético 2012) by lifting a prize in unbroken seasons with opposite clubs.
• Everton goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg played in Serie A with Roma from 2011–13.
• Atalanta midfielder Marten de Roon was in England final term, personification in a Premier League with Middlesbrough: he featured in a 3-1 divided better and a 0-0 home pull opposite Everton
• On-loan Atalanta goalkeeper Pierluigi Gollini was also in England final season, personification with Aston Villa in a second tier. He was before a trainee during Manchester United, on a books during Old Trafford during a same time as Wayne Rooney.
The coaches
• A one-time Juventus girl player, Atalanta trainer Gian Piero Gasperini mostly played in Italy’s reduce divisions, though worked his approach adult to a tip tier as a coach, heading Inter, Genoa and Palermo before holding a pursuit in Bergamo in 2016.
• Everton manager given 2016, Ronald Koeman won European Cups as a defender with PSV Eindhoven and Barcelona, and a 1988 UEFA European Championship with a Netherlands. He subsequently landed 3 Dutch titles coaching Ajax and PSV.