Live Atalanta – Parma, in the last stage of Serie A »Man on the bench and Chivu in the stands at the decisive match for” Crusiaţi “

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Article by Dragoș Petrescu – published on Sunday, May 25, 2025, 21:47 / Updated Sunday, May 25, 2025 21:47

Atalanta and Parmathe bands prepared by Gian Piero Gasperini and Cristi Chivu, now meet on Gewiss Stadium, in a round number #38 of the series A. The match started at 9:45 pm, can be watched in LiveText format on GSP.ro website and live on TV on Primasport 1 and Digisport 1.

Dennis Man is only on the reserve bank;
Valentin Mihăilă is still injured and is not part of Chivu's lot today;
The Romanian coach was eliminated in the duel from the last stage, 0-0 on his own ground with Naples, and sees the match in the stands

The full program of stage #38 of the series A

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Atalanta – Parma »Start teams:

Atalanta (3-4-2-1): Carsecchi – Kossounou, Djimsiti, Ruggeri – Bellanova, Sulemana, Brescianini, Palestra – de Ketelaere, Maldini – Retegui
reserves: Patricio, Rossi – Cuadrado, de Roon, Ederson, Hien, Lookman, Pasalic, Posch, Samardzic, Toloi, Zappacosta
Coach: Gian Piero Gasperini

Parma (3-5-2): Suzuki – Circulations, Valenti, Balogh – del Prato, Hernani, Keita, Sohm, Valeri – Pellegrino, Bonny
reserves: Corvi, Marcone – Almqvist, Benedyczak, Bernabe, Camara, Cancellari, Djuric, Estez, Hainaut, Haj, Lovik, ManOndrejka, Vogliacco,
Coach: Cristi Chivu

Stadium: Gewiss Stadium (Bergamo)
Referee: Livio Marinelli

Parma trembles seriously for the place in series A »All calculations for” Crusadi “

When he seemed to have escaped the emotions of retrgation, Chivu's team recorded four consecutive matches without victory in the championship and came to play a decisive match, even in the last stage.

The parma comes after two defeats (0-1 with Como and 1-2 with Empoli), respectively two equality results (2-2 with Lazio and 0-0 with the new Napoli champion) in the previous four rounds of Serie A, which made it on the “Gialoblu” band remains in the hot area of the standings, more precisely on the 16th place.

Moreover, the gap towards Empoli, the first club below the red line, reduced to only two lengths. Between the two there are Lecce, who is on equal points with Roberto d'a Aversa.

Therefore, the situation is not a pink one for Cristi Chivu, who if he loses today, and Lecce and Empoli will win, then his team will retrgada. Of course, this is the most unfavorable scenario for the Romanian technician.

There is also the situation in which Parma can be saved, even if it will be defeated by Atalanta. The condition is that one of the two direct opponents in the struggle to avoid retrogation does not win in this last stage.

We now go to the positive scenario, in which the “crusaders” will impose on Gewiss Stadium. In this case, Chivu will be able to breathe easy, regardless of the results recorded by Lecce and Empoli.

There is still a variant. Unlikely to take place, but not impossible. Currently, even those from Hellas Verona are sure of staying in the first step. Paolo Zanetti's students have a minimum advance compared to Parma and will play with Empoli.

Thus, if Lecce and Empoli will be imposed, and Parma will make equal, all four teams will be on equal points.

If this will happen, a mini-class consisting of the four clubs will be built, and the two who have recorded the weakest results in the direct matches, will play a playoff (tour-rede) to stay in the first league. In this case, it would be about Parma and Verona.

Atalanta has already obtained qualification in the Champions League

On the other hand, Gasperini's band is extremely quiet before this stage of the Italian championship.

The Bergamo band has secured the last step of the Podium in Serie A, a performance that comes with participation in the UEFA Champions League in the next season.

As a result, journalists in the peninsula announce that the Italian technician will give today to players who have evolved less this season, which Chivu could take advantage of.

However, the goalscorer of Atalanta and also of the championship, Mateo Retegui, is announced the holder. He has scored 25 times so far in the current Serie A edition, being a leader in this ranking.

The “Crusaders” did not cope with Gasperini's students in the championship round

The first direct meeting between the two teams in the current season took place in the autumn of last year, more precisely on November 23, and then Atalanta imposed Stadio Ennio Tradini, score 3-1.

Mateo Retegui (4 '), Ederson (39') and Ademola Lookman (75 ') scored the goals of the “Nerazzurra” band, while the only success of Parma, prepared at the time by Fabio Pecchia, was signed by Matteo Cancellari (49').

Dennis Man was an integralist in that match, and Valentin Mihăilă entered the field immediately after the break, being the man with decisive pass from the goal of the “GialBlu” group.