Atalanta saved alive faint hopes of qualifying for the Champions League by rallying to beat relegation-threatened Hellas Verona 3-1 in Serie A on Saturday.

Atalanta moved stage with fifth-placed AC Milan, which was enjoying already-relegated Sampdoria later. The duo have been 4 factors beneath the highest 4.

Verona remained stage on factors with Seventeenth-placed Spezia.

Atalanta misplaced its previous two league matches with out scoring and it discovered itself behind once more within the eleventh minute when Darko Lazović ran onto a Filippo Terracciano throughball and fired an angled drive into the underside left nook.

But Davide Zappacosta levelled 11 minutes later with a strong strike from exterior the realm.

Verona gifted the lead early within the second half. Goalkeeper Lorenzo Montipò tried to dribble previous Mario Pašalić inside his personal penalty space and the Atalanta midfielder stole the ball off him and positioned it into an empty web.

PHOTOS: Atalanta fights again to beat Verona and enhance European hopes

Rasmus Højlund all however sealed the match within the 62nd minute with one other ferocious strike from exterior the realm, though Verona hit the woodwork twice late on.

ALL BUT DOWN

Cremonese was all however mathematically relegated after it was humiliated at house by Bologna 5-1.

That left it six factors from security. Some extent for Spezia at fellow struggler Lecce on Sunday could be sufficient to sentence Cremonese to Serie B, alongside backside membership Sampdoria.

Marko Arnautović, Lewis Ferguson and Stefan Posch netted within the first half for Bologna and Riccardo Orsolini and Nicola Sansone accomplished the rout. Orsolini was despatched off within the 73rd following a second yellow card.

Daniel Ciofani scored a stoppage-time comfort.

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