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The Colombian Duván Zapata
He started the second Champions League of his career like a shot and, after scoring a goal in the Danish Mitjylland field, he endorsed a resounding double against Ajax on Tuesday at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo to overcome a 2-0 adverse and give a draw 2-2 to his team.
After dreaming for ten years of his career of reaching the showcase of the Champions League
Duván made his debut last year and made it to a historic quarter-final, before surrendering against Paris Saint Germain, and became a real lion in this year’s European Cup.
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The Cauca forward, 29, celebrated his first double in the Champions League on Tuesday
and he did it on a difficult night for his Atalanta, who went into halftime with a 2-0 defeat against Ajax.
Serbian Dusan Tadic, with an authoritative penalty, and Burkina Faso player Lassina Traore gave the Dutch side an important advantage, but not enough to contain the momentum of Duván Zapata in a devastating initial quarter of an hour after the resumption.
In 54, Duván Zapata appeared with a peremptory header
the center of Argentine Alejandro Papu Gómez to sign the 1-2 and six minutes later he was the protagonist with a great career culminating with a crossed right hand that struck down the Cameroonian goalkeeper André Onana.
He has already three goals in two European games played this year, after the goal endorsed by Mitjylland and is momentarily the top gunner of this edition.
Total, Duván Zapata has played seven games in the European Cup and, after signing a single goal in the first edition, he has already three in the present.
Last season was particularly difficult for him as he could only play two games in the group stage, at suffer a serious injury with the Colombian national team
which left him in dry dock for almost three months.
They could not meet Manchester City in the first or second round, and also against Dinamo Zagreb and Shakhtar Donetsk. He returned in the double duel of the round of 16 against Valencia and in August he played the quarter-final match against Paris Saint Germain, which ended his team’s European path.
At an absolute level, in this campaign the ‘cafetero’ striker has already scored five goals in seven games, giving a fundamental contribution both technical and personality to the team of coach Giampiero Gasperini.
He has already scored against Cagliari and Sampdoria in the Italian Serie A, in addition to both against Mitjylland and the double this Tuesday against Ajax. Added to these goals is the goal against Venezuela in Colombia’s 3-0 win in the 2022 World Cup qualification phase.
He is an essential leader for Atalanta
, in which he now shares the dressing room with his compatriot Luis Muriel and Johan Mojica, signed last summer from Girona.
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