AS Roma vs Atalanta — Serie A result and pre-match forecast, Saturday, 5 September 2026

Serie A·Saturday, 5 September 2026

2 – 1

Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · 10.8 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

AS Roma

57%

pick · result

Draw

24%

Atalanta

19%

Final score

2–1

Top pick landed

Metis gave an AS Roma win 57.0% before kick-off, and its most likely result was an AS Roma win. Expected goals 1.71–1.00 against 2–1 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals51%3 scored
Both teams score53%yes
AS Roma clean sheet37%no
Atalanta clean sheet17%no
AS Roma score 2+52%yes
Atalanta score 2+26%no

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.1107
1X2 Brier score0.2778
Probability on the result57.0%

Both scores are losses: lower is better, 0 is a forecast that put all of its probability on what happened. A single fixture says nothing on its own — the league's running record is on its league page, and the model is measured against the Pinnacle opening price in the methodology.

Most likely scores before kick-off: 1–0 (12.3%), 2–1 (11.8%), 1–1 (11.3%). It finished 2–1 — one of them.

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AS Roma

24 AugHvs Fiorentina4–0W
31 AugAvs Lecce4–0W
5 SeptHvs Atalanta2–1W
14 SeptAvs Torino2–0W
19 SeptHvs Inter2–2D

Atalanta

23 AugHvs Sassuolo2–1W
31 AugHvs Bologna1–0W
5 SeptAvs AS Roma1–2L
12 SeptHvs Cagliari1–2L
20 SeptAvs Juventus0–2L

Head to head

No previous meetings in the Metis results archive for this competition.

Model context

StatAS Roma
(Home · 3 matches)
Atalanta
(Away · 2 matches)
BTTS rate66.7%50.0%
Over 2.5 rate100.0%50.0%
Clean sheet33.3%0.0%
Avg goals3.672.50

Home stats use AS Roma's home record; away stats use Atalanta's away record this season. These are completed-match rates over the samples shown above, not model probabilities — early in a season a handful of matches produces 0% and 100% readings.