Atalanta: Gasperini, no Champions? No drama

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(ANSA) – BERGAMO, APRIL 03 – “The ranking is what it is, today’s game told us that it is not the right season to qualify for the Champions League from the championship, even if it was excellent like the one against all the others big “. Gian Piero Gasperini, with the defeat against Napoli, sanctions Atalanta’s exit from the race for fourth place preparing for the quarter-finals of the Europa League. “Many great Italian teams don’t go so far in the Champions League, it’s not a drama if we don’t play it for a year – reflects the Nerazzurri coach -. CoN Leipzig is another competition: we start from an excellent condition for a match from undoubted difficulties, but ready to play our cards “.

On the infirmary front, some news: “I was hoping to give Zapata a few minutes to get him used to tackling again, but he has to go through clips because after so many months he misses the game and it wasn’t a recent injury. left shoulder – continues Gasperini -. Demiral returned from the national team with some ailments, but Scalvini would have played anyway: he is extraordinary against strong opponents, he had already done well as a starter in defense in Bologna and has an important career ahead of him “.

Finally, on today’s match, Gasperini explained that “we made a mistake in the climb on the penalty episode, with Musso coming out too quickly, and missed the mark on the 2-0 punishment. We had reopened it, keeping alive the hope of being able to straighten it. : in open spaces we could equalize it like catching the counterattack and in fact the 3-1 arrived “. (HANDLE).

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