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Only Lazio lost. Juventus and Roma, the League Champions, won against Atalanta and Parma. The Bianconeri confirm a second place that gives them direct qualification to the Champions League. Against Atalanta it was Trezeguet who broke the deadlock after just five minutes. Tacchinardi scored a second eighteen minutes into the second half, while Nappi closed the gap after a pitch invasion from the home fans.

How can a player that wears the number 17 on his shirt be unlucky? Last Sunday at Vicenza, Trezeguet didn’t seem particularly interested in the ironic questions that came his way regarding the effect of being on thirteen league goals for the season, and indeed just five minutes into the match Trezegol found the net.

Juventus had started in command with efforts from Tacchinardi and Zidane close to breaking the deadlock. Trezegol opened the scoring heading home a cross from Tudor.

Atalanta played with many absences and could do little to compete with Juventus, not at their best but certainly determined to win the match.

With victory seemingly secure, Juventus were happy to try from long range. On sixteen minutes Tacchinardo shot from distance, and from the goalkeeper’s block, Del Piero’s header was saved.

Zidane, was forced to leave the pitch, his place being taken by Inzaghi. The first half saw little more action. Ferrari headed just wide and a shot from Bellini was saved by Van der Sar.

In the second half Trezeguet and Del Piero tried to finish the game off, while Nappi’s header showed that Atalanta were still in the game.

Eighteen minutes into the second half came the second goal. From a Del Piero corner, Tacchinardi controlled and hit a great shot home from outside the area.The midfielder first went to celebrate with Alex Del Piero, then hugged Ancelotti with his team-mates.

After seventy minutes Athirson came on in place of Paramatti, with Pessotto moving to a more defensive role to leave space for the Brazilian. Pippo Inzaghi tried to gain some personal satisfaction from what could possibly be his last game with Juventus with a left shot saved by Pelizzoli.

Then with a quarter of an hour still to play, Juventus fans from both ends of the ground invaded the pitch and the game was suspended. After some time, and thanks to the intervention of the vice president Roberto Bettega ("If you are Juventus fans like me, let them finish the match"), the fans finally retreated to the edge of the pitch.

The game restarted and Nappi went clear, unmarked, to score and close the gap. After that there was no more significant action and at the end of the match there was another pitch invasion.

JUVENTUS–ATALANTA 2-1 (1- 0)
Scorers: 5’ Trezeguet, 63’ Tacchinardi, 80’Nappi
JUVENTUS (4-3-1-2): Van der Sar; Tudor, Ferrara, Iuliano, Paramatti (70’ Athirson); Zambrotta, Tacchinardi, Pessotto; Zidane (27’ Inzaghi); Del Piero, Trezeguet (78’ Kovacevic). Coach: Ancelotti
Substitutes: Carini, Birindelli, Athirson, Brighi, Gasbarroni, Kovacevic, Inzaghi
ATALANTA (4-4-2): Pelizzoli; C. Zenoni, Carrera, Siviglia, Bellini; Dundjerski, D. Zenoni, Berretta, Zauri (77’ Pagano); Morfeo (81’ Bianchi), Nappi (81’ Espinal).Coach: Vavassori
Substitutes: Pinato, Paganin, Minelli, Pagano, Previtali, J. Espinal, Bianchi
Referee:Bolognino
Booked:
Sent off:
Attendance: 42.847