Atalanta and Frosinone shared eight goals at the Gewiss Stadium on Sunday, the hosts twice building leads only to be pegged back, with Frosinone midfielder Aleksa Terzić's 82nd-minute strike completing the visitors' second equaliser of the afternoon and condemning Maurizio Sarri's side to a draw they will regard as two points dropped.
The match's shape was determined in a frantic corridor of play between the 45th and 50th minutes. Atalanta striker Nikola Krstović, who had already levelled at 14' — assisted by Charles De Ketelaere — after Romano Schmid's opener for Frosinone, struck again in first-half stoppage time — assisted by Atalanta defender Davide Zappacosta — to give the hosts a 3-2 lead at the break. Three minutes into the second half, Frosinone midfielder Giacomo Calò, assisted by Farès Ghedjemis, made it 3-3. Then, at 50', Atalanta midfielder Eljif Elmas — assisted by Krstović — restored the lead to make it 4-3.
Krstović was the axis around which Atalanta's attacking play turned. The striker scored at 14' and again at 45', and then provided the assist for Elmas's 50th-minute goal — a contribution that gave him a direct hand in three of Atalanta's four. His withdrawal at 77' was notable: he departed with Atalanta still leading 4-3, replaced by Gianluca Scamacca, and the team did not score again. The sequence of events does not require embellishment. Krstović's involvement was the clearest thread running through everything Atalanta created.
Frosinone's persistence is the more complicated story. Schmid scored twice — the opener at 1' and again at 17', the second assisted by Ghedjemis — and the visitors absorbed a penalty converted by Atalanta midfielder Éderson at 33' without losing their composure. Terzić, introduced as a substitute at half-time for the yellow-carded Gabriele Bracaglia, then collected a yellow card himself at 85' after scoring the 82nd-minute equaliser. Ghedjemis assisted three of Frosinone's four goals, a thread of creativity that Massimiliano Alvini's side will draw genuine encouragement from. The regret, if there is one, is that a team which came in having won three of their last five found themselves level rather than ahead in a match they twice trailed.
The draw lands differently for each side given their recent trajectories. Atalanta came into this fixture having won just one of their last five matches, collecting three points across that run. The draw moves them to one win, one draw and three defeats across the same extended window — marginal progress, but the defensive fragility that allowed four goals at home to a side ranked sixth before kick-off will concern Sarri. Frosinone, by contrast, had been the more consistent side across the preceding weeks, and the draw nudges their last-five record to two wins, two draws and one defeat. For Alvini's team, a point from Bergamo against a side that led 4-3 with eight minutes remaining is not nothing — but the manner of their earlier capitulation, conceding three goals in a 31-minute window, means the satisfaction is qualified.
Eight goals, two leads surrendered, and a final score that satisfied nobody: this match will be remembered as the afternoon Atalanta could not hold what they had built.