Lazar Samardzic scored a late winner as Atalanta boosted its Champions League qualification bid with a 2-1 win over top four Serie A rivals Napoli on Sunday.
Raffaele Palladino’s side extended their unbeaten run in the league to nine games with an impressive second-half battle.
Atalanta remain seventh in the table but just two points behind fourth-place Roma, who host Cremonese later on Sunday in the race for next season’s Champions League.
Injury-hit reigning champions Napoli are third, but only five points above Atalanta and now fourteen points behind runaway leaders Inter Milan.
Atalanta will turn its attention to next week’s Champions League knockout play-off second leg against Borussia Dortmund, when it will attempt to overturn a 2-0 deficit in Bergamo.
The visitors took an early lead when Sam Beukema, one of three Napoli players who went completely unnoticed, headed in Miguel Gutierrez’s free kick.
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Conte’s men were awarded a penalty shortly before half-time when Rasmus Hojlund went down in the penalty area, but the decision was overturned after a VAR review.
Hojlund was again in the thick of the action in the first minute after the restart when his cutback was turned in by Gutierrez, but the goal was disallowed due to a foul by the Danish striker in the build-up.
Atalanta leveled just after the hour mark when Mario Pasalic headed a header from Nicola Zalewski’s corner into a corner.
The home side completed the turnaround with nine minutes remaining when Samardzic headed a header into the far corner after Lorenzo Bernasconi’s cross.
Published on February 22, 2026
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