Serie A: Atalanta climb back into Champions League contention with 7-0 rout of Torino
Atalanta revived their chances of earning another Champions League campaign with a 7-0 rout at Torino in Serie A on Saturday.
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Josip Ilicic scored a hat trick, including one goal from near the halfway line, and Luis Muriel added a brace as Atalanta moved level on points with fourth-place Roma
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The top four finishers qualify for the Champions League - a feat that Atalanta accomplished with a record third-place finish last season
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Torino ended with nine men
Rome: Atalanta revived their chances of earning another Champions League campaign with a 7-0 rout at Torino in Serie A on Saturday.
Josip Ilicic scored a hat-trick against Torino. AP File photo
Josip Ilicic scored a hat trick, including one goal from near the halfway line, and Luis Muriel added a brace as the Bergamo squad moved level on points with fourth-place Roma ahead of Sunday's Rome derby between Roma and third-place Lazio.
The top four finishers qualify for the Champions League - a feat that Atalanta accomplished with a record third-place finish last season.
Robin Gosens and Duván Zapata also scored for Atalanta, which drew with Inter Milan and lost at home to relegation-threatened Spal in its previous two matches.
Torino ended with nine men.
Earlier, midtable Bologna came from a goal down to win 3-1 at Spal in an Emilia-Romagna derby. Bologna got an own-goal from Francesco Vicari and goals from Musa Barrow and Andrea Poli.
Fiorentina and struggling Genoa drew 0-0 as Fiorentina goalkeeper Bartłomiej Drągowski saved a penalty from Domenico Criscito.
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