The Greeks take the lead in Bergamo with a goal from Soares after a quarter of an hour, then the defender overturns the match in the second half: it will be a battle in Athens
“Who needs Ronaldo?” Read on a banner at the Bernabeu after Cristiano’s farewell to Real. “Who needs Zapata?” Could say Gian Piero Gasperini, victorious in the Europa League despite the heavy absence of the Colombian forward. Against Manolas’ Olympiacos, Atalanta won the first leg thanks to a brace from Berat Djimsiti: after the advantage of the guests with Soares, the defender needed three minutes to score two very heavy goals on the development of a corner. An early birthday present for the former Benevento who will turn 29 on Saturday. “Everything is decided in Athens”, said the coach of the Goddess in the pre-match conference, but the 2-1 at Gewiss Stadium will help Toloi and his team-mates to face the second leg with the right serenity.
The match
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Gasperini renounces Koopmeiners from 1 ‘, deploying Pessina alongside De Roon and Malinovskyi-Pasalic in support of Muriel. The Colombian is immediately the most dangerous man: after 8 ‘, a counterattack by the Nerazzurri starts from his splendid heel strike, concluded by Muriel himself who does not hit the goal on an assist from Pezzella. Atalanta play the game for the first quarter of an hour of play, but in the 16 ‘, the guests take the lead: Masouras serves Tiquinho Soares in the trocar, the former Porto kicks from the edge of the area and finds the corner to the left of Musso. Gasp tries to shuffle the cards on the table, moving Pessina to the trocar and Pasalic in the middle of the field. The intuition is right: in the second half of the first half, the Croatian goes to the shot twice with a header, taking advantage of the flashes of Muriel and Malinovskyi. The conclusions of the hosts are, however, inaccurate. At 44 ‘comes the equalizer, which bears the signature of Pessina: the blue makes him a ball badly controlled by Muriel, he breaks free and kicks between Vaclik’s legs. However, the flag is raised for an offside of the number 9: nothing to do, Atalanta is growing but back in the locker room at 0-1.
Remuntada
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Upon returning to the field, Pasalic acts as a false nueve: out of Pessina and Muriel, in Boga and Koopmeiners, who returns to midfield after the last outings as an attacking midfielder. At 50 ‘there is the first flash of the former Sassuolo who, starting from the left, concentrates and tries to shoot at the far post, but finding Vaclik’s deviation. Three minutes later, Malinovskyi shoots directly on goal from a tight free-kick from a tight angle, but the Olympiacos goalkeeper is not caught unprepared. The Ukrainian is growing minute by minute, from his cross from a corner kick (the eleventh for the Nerazzurri, with the Greeks still dry), Djimsiti makes it 1-1 in the 61st minute, with a gore that sends the ball on the second post. Two minutes pass and the comeback is complete: again on the development of a corner, again with Djimsiti. The defender manages to kick after a series of rebounds, his right is powerful and angled, impregnable for Vaclik. In the final, Atalanta defended the precious advantage, preparing for the return match with the awareness that, to reach the qualification, a draw in the Athens match would be enough.
February 17, 2022 (change February 17, 2022 | 23:48)
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