<p>ROME — Atalanta and Lazio warmed up for Champions League games with victories in Serie A on Friday.</p>
<p>Atalanta defeated visiting Spezia 3-1 with two goals from Mario Pašalić, while substitute Felipe Caicedo scored a late winner for Lazio to beat last-placed Crotone 3-2.</p>
<p>Atalanta moved into fourth place and the final Champions League spot while Lazio remained seventh.</p>
<p>Atalanta will try to overturn a 1-0 first-leg deficit when it visits Real Madrid in the round of 16 on Tuesday. Then Lazio needs to make up for a 4-1 first-leg loss when it plays at Bayern Munich on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Luis Muriel also scored for Atalanta, which got all of its goals in the second half.</p>
<p>Roberto Piccoli, who is on loan from Atalanta, pulled one back for Spezia nine minutes from time.</p>
<p>Sergej Milinković-Savić and Luis Alberto also scored for Lazio, while Simy Nwankwo had a brace for Crotone.</p>
<p>“This victory gives us motivation,” Lazio coach Simone Inzaghi said. “We have a game in hand and if we can keep winning we can get back into the top four. There are a lot of points still up for grabs in terms of achieving our goal — getting back into the Champions League.”</p>
<p>With his 10th and 11th goals of the season, Simy matched Obafemi Martins for most goals by a Nigerian in a single Serie A campaign. Martins also scored 11 for Inter Milan in 2004-05.</p>
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