Atalanta vs. Juventus Betting Tips: Two bets for top-four Serie A clash

Sunday offers up a Serie A top-four clash as 4th placed Atalanta host 3rd placed Juventus in Bergamo at 5pm BST.

This pair's midweek league fixtures were far from straightforward. Hosts Atalanta navigated a 1-0 away win over Verona, while Juventus themselves came out as 1-0 winners against 10-man Lecce in Turin.

Just one point separates these two after six matches in Serie A, with Atalanta three points from leaders Inter and Juventus two points off the top spot in Italy.

There isn't much between them in the betting, with bookmakers generally going around 8/5 for the home side to win, 9/5 for a Juventus victory and 5/2 for the draw.

Powerhouse centre forward Dusan Vlahovic and winger Federico Chiesa have both notched four goals from their opening six games, so with the former priced as short as 6/4 and the latter available at 17/5 to notch anytime, preference sits with the Italian.

He started only six league games last season, yet managed two goals which came in two of his final three 2022/23 Serie A outings.

Compare that to this term and the 25-year-old has already accrued over half of last season's Serie A game time in this season's opening six fixtures.

Chiesa has only let off four shots fewer than his teammate Vlahovic, proving a clinical edge by netting four goals from five shots on target.

With him now being deployed as a striker alongside one of Dusan Vlahovic or Arkadiusz Milik, he's primed to continue his hot goalscoring streak against an Atalanta team who've failed to keep a clean sheet in four of their last five vs Juventus.

This is likely to be a hotly-contested game on Sunday evening, but we're sticking our neck on the line and declaring that Atalanta will take all three points.

I Nerazzurri have only lost one of their last four meetings with Juve, winning two and drawing two of the last six head-to-heads played at the Gewiss Stadium.

The game before last saw Juventus slip to a 4-2 away loss against mid-table Sassuolo, who scored almost a third of their goals for the season that day.

Away fixtures were a problem for Juventus last season who suffered seven of their 10 league losses on the road.

Coupling Atalanta to win with them also to score the first goal of the game juices up our bet to 4/1.

Logic dictates that usually if a team wins a game they also open the scoring, and that's exactly what Atalanta have done in six out of seven games so far this season.