THE MOST FORMED RESTART TEAM IN EUROPE
One of the most enjoyable teams to watch, evolving over the last few weeks into a championship club, looking invulnerable, chasing all available targets in Italy and Europe and now finds before it the most open path one could expect to reach. her maiden run in the Champions League.
In this case it is Atalanta of 6x6 victories, of 15 goals in these six matches, of 7 different scorers, of Zapata, Gossens and Muriel of one goal every 47,5 minutes of the game. Of the great upheavals, such as the one against Lazio, which also meant the indirect end to the championship race of Laciali. Atalanta has achieved all this, without deviating even for a moment from the values that the allenatore has instilled in its game for three years and this is perhaps the top award and the first class proof that it does not hesitate to be itself and then of the top intercollegiate event.
It bears the stamp of "Cinderella" from the beginning of the European season and apart from the simple history in similar events, it does not even have the experienced players that it would theoretically need to carry it on their backs. The only player from the entire roster with experience from the quarterfinals of the Champions League is Luis Muriel, who played with Sevilla against Bayern Munich in the 2017/18 season.
Beyond that, only Ilisic has reached one step before the Europa League final, with the Fiorentina jersey in 2017, when they were eliminated in the semifinals by the Andalusians. The only thing that Golini, Caldara, Toloi, Palomino, Gossens, Hatembur, Castan, De Rooney, Freiler, Papu Gomes have to tell from European competitions in February, is the course of Atalanta in the 2017/18 season until the "32" Europa League against Dortmund. Until there. This, however, has not played the slightest role in the team's appearances so far, because every game is like being held in Bergamo, against the same team, without the slightest weight.
Atalanta is promoting its own, unique, seductive, football of dominance and enforcement, against any opponent it was called to face this season. No one can say that he will stop now, at the point of the year when he has gained the greatest possible confidence for the "jump".
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