Roma 0-1 Atalanta: Jose Mourinho sent off as visitors go top of Serie A courtesy of Giorgio Scalvini strike

Jose Mourinho was shown a straight red card as AS Roma’s frustrations boiled over during a 1-0 home defeat to high-flying Atalanta. The visitors struck the only goal of the game when teenager Giorgio Scalvini fired in a composed finish on 35 minutes. Ad Roma missed a handful of good chances but also toiled for long spells, leading to Mourinho being given his marching orders for venting his irritation at the referee when he refused to award the hosts a second-half spot kick.

Serie AAbraham fires Roma to victory over 10-man Empoli12/09/2022 AT 18:05 I Giallorossi had suffered a blow ahead of kick off when the in-form Paulo Dybala was replaced by Nemanja Matic after pulling up injured in the warm-up. The home side seemed to miss the Argentine’s invention as they struggled to create much of note, even when the visitors were forced to substitute goalkeeper Juan Musso following a collision with his own teammate on eight minutes. The visitors grew stronger as the half wore on and stole in front when the 18-year-old Scalvini guided a superb 20-yard shot into the bottom corner following neat build up down the right.

Roma eventually responded but were thwarted by substitute keeper Marco Sportiello who produced brilliant saves to keep out Tammy Abraham and Roger Ibanez. Roma upped the tempo in the second half but Abraham, Niclo Zaniolo and Ibanez all saw chances go begging before substitute Eldor Shomurodov headed their best opportunity wide right at the end. The result sees Atalanta move one point clear of Udinese at the Serie A summit with only Napoli and AC Milan still to play this weekend.