{"id":16670,"date":"2025-12-09T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=669129"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:09:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:39:00","slug":"atalanta-v-chelsea-ucl-2025-26-lineups-match-prediction-and-other-details-ahead-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/atalanta-v-chelsea-ucl-2025-26-lineups-match-prediction-and-other-details-ahead-of-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Atalanta v Chelsea, UCL 2025\/26: Lineups, Match Prediction and other details ahead of the game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2025\u201326 UEFA Champions League group stage nears its conclusion, Chelsea travel to Italy to face Atalanta at the New Balance Arena in Bergamo, a match that could prove decisive for both sides\u2019 hopes of advancing. Neither team has particularly impressed domestically, Atalanta enter on the back of poor form in Serie A despite flashes in Europe, while Chelsea, under Enzo Maresca, have shown both brilliance and inconsistency over recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Atalanta\u2019s European record at home offers hope: they\u2019ve kept eight clean sheets in their last 15 UCL games, and although they often struggle domestically, their recent European form has been more solid.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Predicted Lineups:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Atalanta (3-4-2-1):<\/strong> Carnesecchi; Kossounou, Hien, Djimsiti; Bellanova, De Roon, Ederson, Zappacosta; De Ketelaere, Lookman; Scamacca.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chelsea (4-2-3-1):<\/strong> Sanchez; Gusto, Acheampong, Chalobah, Cucurella; Caicedo, Santos; Est\u00eav\u00e3o, Fern\u00e1ndez, Gittens; Pedro.<\/p>\n<p>Most pundits and statistical models suggest a narrow Chelsea win, a predicted 1\u20132 final scoreline, but as always with European nights, Atalanta\u2019s home advantage and unpredictable flair mean nothing is guaranteed. Expect a tight, tactical battle with potential for late drama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2025\u201326 UEFA Champions League group stage nears its conclusion, Chelsea travel to Italy to face Atalanta at the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":37504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[448,3187,4045,312,3815,3796,671,4349,490,48],"class_list":["post-16670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-atalanta","tag-blues","tag-champions-league-2025-26","tag-chelsea","tag-enzo-maresca","tag-football","tag-serie-a","tag-serie-za","tag-ucl","tag-uefa-champions-league"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}