This very interesting game will be played at the insolite time of Sunday, 1 p.m. One player who will certainly not play this game is Bobo Vieri whose contract has been dissolved yesterday after continuos contestations from the Atalanta tifosi, even in the friendly game at Bellinzona this week. It has to be said that the relations between Vieri and the fans have been very bad from the beginning, as the hardcoore supporters have never forgotten the way he had left the club before.
Also other important players will miss the game, as for instance Garics. But the situation is the same for Fiorentina, who are especially worried by the injury of their most important forward player, Adrian Mutu. He has been injured on his knee before the game of his national team Romania against Austria and the romanian staff has announced that he will have to undergo a medical surgery. Still Fiorentina's medical staff don't quite believe in what their romanian collegues tell them and want to examine Mutu themselves before taking a final decision about his treatment.
The absence of Mutu certainly is something hard to compensate for the team of Cesare Prandelli who can not afford the third defeat in a row (after the ones at San Siro and at home against Palermo).
Fiorentina has to win if they still want to save their small chance to play in Champions League next season, while Atalanta could stay in touch with the UEFA Cup zone if they manage to beat the violet side. Fiorentina has won the first game 2-1 but in Bergamo the black-and-blue have already defeated teams like Inter, Udinese or Roma.
It will be a tough fight but in the end Atalanta will win.
My tip therefore is
1, victory for the home side, the best odd is offered by Expekt with
2,70
