Atalanta vs Sturm Graz

Atalanta have won their first home match in the UEFA Champions League since September 2021 (1-0 vs Young Boys, ending their longest winless run on home soil in the competition (run of five – D3 L2).

Sturm Graz have suffered their joint-heaviest defeat in their UEFA Champions League history, while it’s their joint-second biggest margin of defeat across all European competition, after only their 0-6 loss to Feyenoord in September 2022 in the UEFA Europa League.

Charles De Ketelaere has been directly involved in nine goals for Atalanta in the UEFA Champions League this season (four goals, five assists) - the highest such tally for a Belgian player in a single edition of the competition.

The only previous two meetings between Atalanta and Sturm Graz came last season, with the Italian side going unbeaten in two group stage games of the 2023-24 UEFA Europea League (2-2 away and 1-0 at home).

No Austrian side has ever won against Italian opposition in the UEFA Champions League, while this will be the 15th such fixture in the competition (P14 W0 D3 L11).

Atalanta are winless in their last five home games in the UEFA Champions League (D3 L2), most recently losing 3-2 to Real Madrid on MD6. Their only win in their last 10 games on home turf in the competition came in September 2021 when beating Young Boys 1-0 (D5 L4).

Sturm Graz have won only one of their 15 away games in the UEFA Champions League (6.7% - D2 L12) and the only teams to have played as many games on the road with a worse win rate in the competition are AEK Athens (0%) and Celtic (4.8%).

Only three teams have yielded a higher expected goals figure (excluding penalties) than Atalanta in the UEFA Champions League this season (12.7), while the Italians are one of just three sides to rank in the top five for both expected goals and expected goals against (5.2) in the competition this term (also Liverpool & Bayern Munich).