The club from Ferrara not only came back from an early Josip Ilicic goal to get their first Serie A win away to Atalanta since 1966, they also clawed themselves off the foot of the table.

Now SPAL have 15 points, alongside Brescia, leaving Genoa bottom on 14.

“We certainly needed a game like this against a great team like Atalanta,” the coach told Sky Sport Italia.

“We’d already done well last week in Florence and absolutely did not deserve to lose then, so we feel as if we’ve recovered something tonight. The first half of the season had a lot of mistakes, we knew it was going to be tough and we didn’t give the fans what they were looking for, but we hope to turn it around".