Rome, Dec 19 (AP) Atalanta recovered from conceding an early goal to score four times in the second half and hammer Salernitana 4-1 in Serie A.

The result lifted the team from Bergamo into seventh place, a point behind Fiorentina and Napoli. Salernitana remained on the bottom.

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Salernitana came into the game with the worst away record in the league, having collected just two points from seven games and scoring a meager four goals.

But it threatened to end that appalling record with an early goal. After 10 minutes, Lorenzo Pirola snuck in between two defenders to head home a deep cross from the right.

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However, the home side moved up a gear in a tremendous second half.

Luis Muriel equalized with a spectacular volley after 47 minutes and five minutes later Atalanta was ahead when Mario Pasalic cheekily slotted the ball between a defender's legs and past the unsighted keeper.

Belgian midfielder Charles De Ketelaere made it 3-1 eight minutes from time and Aleksei Miranchuk scored the last in the last minute. (AP)

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