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Naples. “San Paolo”
Naples – Atalanta 4: 1
Goals: Losano 23, 27, Politano 30, Osimhen 43 – Lammers 69
“Naples“: Ospina, Di Lorenzo, Manolas, Coulibaly, Husay, Ruiz (Demme 83), Bakayoko (Lobotka 75), Politano (Gulyam 64), Losano, Mertens (Malcuy 75), Osimhen (Petania 83)
“Atalanta“: Sportiello, Palomino (Jimcity 46), Romero, Toloi, Depaoli, De Roon, Pasalic, Gozens (Muriel 81), Ilicic (Malinowski 63), A. Gomez (Lammers 56), D. Zapata (Mohica 46)
Warnings: Losano 79 – Toloy 38, Gosens 45 + 1, Jimcity 81
This match was able to outshine even the Milan derby. “Atalanta” and “Napoli”, the brightest teams in Italy in recent years, were the first to score. Vesuviani had seven wins and a draw in his last eight home games, started the season 8-0 in two games, worked even harder in isolation and was angry at the technical loss to Juventus. Well, “Orobichi” became the first in Serie A history with at least four balls in each of the three rounds, going back to talking about the Scudetto. It is true that Gian Piero Gasperini only wanted to continue surprising and winning. His team amazed him today for sure …
The “Atalanta” players were much more tired after long flights, Gasperini clearly made a mistake, refusing to play with two forwards, throwing into battle Ilicic, who has not played since July 11, Depaoli’s substitute full-back , slightly injured Toloi. His defense was alarming in previous games. But that doesn’t justify the worst first half of his cadence. The Bergamanos seemed simply helpless, mostly running aimlessly behind their rivals with no chance to steal the ball from them. And they did what they wanted. Even the statistics of 16 shots, of which nine on goal, are not able to convey the situation on the field.
Di Lorenzo shot Osimhen, Sportiello intervened, but only corrected Lozano. Chuki and Mertens played a counterattack with an excellent corner kick just like the latter. Politano moved from right to center and got into the corner from 18 meters, Osimhen won the horse duel and shot low from 20, scoring his first goal for the club. And at other times, Sportiello was lucky with weak blows from his opponents after excellent combinations.
“Atalanta” started the second part actively. Ospin parried Gomez’s strike with his foot, De Roon nearly hitting the ground from a distance. However, Gasperini quickly gave up. Or he realized that the flying South Americans wouldn’t help him today. Because of this, Zapata and even Captain Gómez were replaced early. And Luis Muriel came out late. Ruslan Malinovsky also left late, due to disqualification from the national team, which returned to Bergamo earlier in the week. The “Napoli” defended themselves calmly and “killed” the rhythm. He failed only because of the unexpected advance of defender Romero and Lammers. Malinovsky missed a bit from a distance.
Before the game, the Atalanta mentor stated bluntly that the Champions League at this stage is more important to him than the League. But not so much!
