Atalanta welcome the struggling Sampdoria on their home field and have a very good opportunity to continue their streak of invincibility that has lasted for 5 games. After two spectacular matches and victories over Spezia 5-2 and Salernitana 8-2, there followed a draw with Juventus, which was also rich in goals and the match ended with a score of 3-3. For years, Atalanta has been known for its huge attacking potential, and what is particularly impressive at the moment is that they are scoring so many goals despite the absence of their two best players, Zapata and Muriel. Instead of them, Boga and the great Lookman, who scored 6 goals in the last three games, came to the fore. Along with the two of them, Atalanta can also rely on the young Danish attacker Hojlund, who, although he is only 19 years old, dominates with his strength in the opponent's penalty area. The match against Juventus was the first after 4 games without scoring and Sampdoria really seems like the ideal opponent to get back to scoring goals. The middle of the field will be even stronger in this match because Koopmeiners served his suspension. I honestly think that the chances of Sampdoria in this match are very small with the huge support of the fans that Atalanta will have and with this form in the last games, they can only hope that they will not experience a result disaster.

Sampdoria, on the other hand, went into the break on a five-game losing streak in Serie A and seem to have carried that form into the new year. Not only have the visitors lost their last four games, but they haven't scored a single goal in that time. The only conditionally speaking more difficult game was the one against Napoli, where it was really not expected that they could win points. But in the matches against Empoli, Udinese and Fiorentina they really had to win at least a point. They are by far the most ineffective team in the entire league with only 8 goals scored in 19 games so far, while they are not much better in defense either. Sampdoria need points, but this is certainly not a game where they can hope for that. In the last 5 matches between them, Atalanta won with an Asian handicap of 1.5 and according to everything shown recently, I think that can happen in today's match as well. I expect total dominance of Atalanta from the beginning of the match and I believe that we will see more than 2.5 goals in this match.