Fiorentina and Atalanta opened the last weekend of the Italian league season on Friday night, with the first game of matchday 38 kicking off the final stretch of Serie A.
Serie A released the official lineups for Fiorentina and Atalanta at 19:55, giving the opening fixture of the weekend its full shape just as attention spread across a crowded live update page that was carrying other football news from Italy and England. The same page also reported that Semih Kilicsoy did not travel with Cagliari to Milan for family reasons and was left out of the squad for the match against Milan. Cagliari accepted his request to return home, a development that mattered because the loan agreement from Besiktas includes a purchase option worth twelve million euros.
That mix of team news and late-week uncertainty made the Fiorentina - Atalanta lineups the first concrete marker of a decisive weekend. The match was framed as the opening game of the final round in Italy, so every selection landed with a little more weight than usual, especially with the rest of the division still waiting to learn its own fate over the next hours.
The page also carried official lineups for the Serie B return playout between Südtirol and Bari, underlining how much was moving at once across the domestic schedule. Even the Premier League was part of the same running feed: on Friday, Pep Guardiola announced in a social media video that he will leave Manchester City after 10 years in charge, with the club facing Aston Villa in its final league match.
For Fiorentina and Atalanta, though, the focus stayed on the opening whistle and the lineups that set it in motion. In a weekend built around closing numbers and final decisions, the first match of day 38 was the one that started the clock.
