Lazio's performance is exactly convincing. We know that Atalanta is a pretty strong and dominating club over the years. But in a fairly tight match this time, they had to surrender to Lazio. Lazio really is improving its performance over the last few games. With the same points, Lazio is now in 3rd place. It's really tough competition.
The result of this match is beyond the predictions of many people, Atalanta's performance is far more convincing than Lazio, if you look at the results of their matches in Serie A this season, even Atalanta's consistency is much better than Lazio.
Maurizio Sarri's strategy worked perfectly, they were able to keep the Atalanta midfield from developing, so there were no measured passes that the Atalanta strikers could take advantage of. The victory was quite important for Lazio, thus bringing them to the third position of the standings.
If we reflect on history last season's season we certainly understand that it was too soon for us to favor a team in Serie A as a candidate for the scudetto squad, when Milan, Napoli and inter were at the top at the beginning of the season many said that they could win the scudetto but in reality In fact when in the middle of the season they seemed to experience a decline in performance and eventually dropped out of the Scudetto path, I think the half time, is right time to predict who deserves to winner scudetto.
The match has only lasted 11 matches, the difference in points from first place to the top five in the standings is still quite close, so there is no one definite reason who will win the Serie A League.
At least we have to wait for the middle of the season, to find out which club will win this season.
And in my opinion Napoli, AC Milan, Lazio, Atalanta and AS Roma are in the category of strong candidates, if I want to be reduced to three, I prefer Napoli, AS Roma and Lazio.