On matchday 30 of the 2021-2022 Serie A TIM, Atalanta claim an extremely important victory away to Bologna thanks to a goal from Cisse, on his Serie A debut: the Nerazzurri win 1-0 at the stadium Dall’Ara.

Pessina had an attempt on 17 minutes assisted by Muriel, but Theate denied him. The best chance came off Scalvini in the 31st minute, as he smashed the post after a corner was flicked on by Djimsiti. Just before half-time, Musso had to pull off a fantastic save on Orsolini’s sitter (43’).

The second half opened up with a chance for Arnautovic, who sprang the offside trap but drilled wide one-on-one with the goalkeeper. Then Musso had to fingertip over a snapshot from Orsolini in the 67th minute. Gasperini threw on Cisse: the Guinean striker born in 2003 made his Serie A debut and scored the decisive goal in the 82nd minute with a left-foot shot into the bottom corner. In the final minutes, Bologna had the chance to equalise, as Medel threatened on 90 minutes with a shot inches wide and Pašalić’s goal from Koopmeiners’ shot to double the Atalanta lead was disallowed as Cisse was offside in the build-up.

BOLOGNA 0-1 ATALANTA

Scorers: Cisse 82 (A)

Bologna: Skorupski, Soumaoro, Medel (Falcinelli 95), Theate, De Silvestri (Kasius 87), Svanberg (Barrow 87), Schouten,  Hickey (Vignato 87), Orsolini, Soriano (Dijks 95), Arnautovic. Unused bench: Bardi, Molla, Binks, Viola, Aebischer. Coach: Sinisa Mihajlovic.

Atalanta: Musso, Scalvini (Palomino 46), Demiral, Djimsiti, Hateboer, de Roon, Freuler (Pašalić 70), Pezzella (Mæhle 80) , Koopmeiners, Pessina (Mihaila 46), Muriel (Cisse 65). Unused bench: Rossi, Sportiello, De Nipoti. Coach: Gian Piero Gasperini.

Referee: Fabio Maresca from Naples.
Assistants: Luca Mondin from Treviso and Matteo Bottegoni from Terni.
Fourth official: Francesco Cosso from Reggio Calabria.
V.A.R.: Marco Piccinini from Forlì.
A.V.A.R.: Alberto Tegoni from Milan.

Notes: Demiral (A) booked.