Juventus 0-4 Atalanta, Serie A: La Dea Can Dream Of Scudetto After Rout, Says Gasperini

Atalanta can dream of Scudetto glory after thrashing Juventus 4-0 to move within three points of Serie A leaders Inter, believes coach Gian Piero Gasperini. (More Football News)

Atalanta produced an outs♕tanding performance to claim victory 🐼at the Allianz Stadium and move up to 58 points, with a huge home clash with Inter in the diary for Sunday.

Mateo Retegui, Marten de Roon, Davide Zappacosta and Ademola Lookman all scored as La Dea i🎉nflicted Juventus' heaviest home defeat since October 1967 – a 4-0 derby loss to Torino.

It was the firsꦚt time in their history that Atalanta had scored four goals in a league game against the Bianconeri, or beaten them by at least two goals on the road.

Gasperini told reporters after the game that the result ﷽could be the catalyst for something special.

&𝕴quot;We must never stop dreaming. We may say it's impossible, but if you believe enou♏gh, things can become possible," Gasperini said.

"We know Inter and Napoli are two excelle🍸nt teams, we have lost our last seven in a row against Inter, but that too might be a signal.

"﷽We had never reached this stage of the season in the running for the top spot, so you never know." 

Despite Sunday's victory, the Opta supercomputer gives Atalanta just a 6.3%🌺 chance of becoming Italian champions for the first time in their history.

Napoli have a 26.5% probability of winning🐟 their fourth Scudetto, with Inter retaining the trophy in 66.9% of season simulations. 

Juventus had won five straight league games before facing Gasperini's men, while they were unbeaten in 21 home Serie A match♌es since February 2024 (10 wins, 11 draws).

"The result speak💞s for itself, for us it's a seꦰnsational result. It's difficult to imagine such a victory on the eve of the game, given Juventus' winning streak," Gasperini said.

"It was an almost perfect performance, ღbecause we missed a few too many goals. Today we played a great game."

Gasperini also praised striker Lookman for scoring his 13th Serie A goal of the campaign, weeks after the duo 🧜became 🐈embroiled in a public spat.

Gasperini called Lookman "one of the worst penalty takers I have ever seen" following Atalanta's Champions League exit at the hands of Club Brugge, in comments the Nigerian described as disrespectful, prompting talk🌄 of a potential traꩵnsfer. 

"People may have different views. Lookman beca༺me a fantastic player when he thought more about the team," Gasperini said.

"He made Atalanta great and Atal🤡anta made him great. I'm convinced that in the en𝓰d he'll wear the captain's armband, so he'll have Atalanta on his skin."