Match highlights
Atalanta vs Genoa highlights
How the goals came
24' Mateo Retegui opens the scoring for Atalanta → 50' Mateo Retegui extends Atalanta's lead (the winner) → 60' Éderson extends Atalanta's lead → 74' Mateo Retegui extends Atalanta's lead → 80' Marten de Roon extends Atalanta's lead → 83' Jeff Ekhator pulls one back for Genoa. Full time: 5-1, Atalanta win.
The match, goal by goal
5 of the 6 goals came after half-time.
24' Mateo Retegui (Atalanta) 1-0
Atalanta hosted Genoa at the Gewiss Stadium on matchday 7 of Serie A, and the deadlock lasted until the 24th minute, when Mateo Retegui put the home side ahead. The opener set the tone for a match that ended 5-1. Atalanta never surrendered the lead from that point, making it the winning goal.
50' Mateo Retegui (Atalanta) 2-0
Leading 1-0 at the break, Atalanta doubled their advantage early in the second half. In the 50th minute, Retegui struck again for his second of the match, making it 2-0. The goal gave the home side a firmer grip on the contest.
60' Éderson (Atalanta) 3-0
Éderson made it 3-0 in the 60th minute, Atalanta's second goal within ten minutes of the second half. The lead over Genoa now stood at three. It was also the first goal of the afternoon not scored by Retegui.
74' Mateo Retegui (Atalanta) 4-0
In the 74th minute, Mateo Retegui completed his hat-trick, adding to his goals in the 24th and 50th minutes. The strike made it 4-0. Each step of Atalanta's growing lead had run through his name.
80' Marten de Roon (Atalanta) 5-0
Six minutes after the fourth, Marten de Roon added a fifth for Atalanta in the 80th minute. At 5-0, he became the home side's third different scorer of the day. The goal underlined that Atalanta kept pressing well into the closing stages.
83' Jeff Ekhator (Genoa) 5-1
Trailing by five, Genoa pulled one back in the 83rd minute through Jeff Ekhator. It was the visitors' only goal of the match, bringing the score to 5-1. It denied Atalanta a clean sheet, but the match finished 5-1.
