A striking goddess and lady who filled Germany with beauty. Bologna also impressed everyone before surrendering with dignity against Liverpool
A goddess and a lady to make your head spin. Atalanta made a great showing in Gelsenkirchen and beat Shakhtar Donetsk 3-0. Juve achieved something in Leipzig: 2-1 down, with ten men, with Bremer and Nico Gonzalez out early due to injury, and they overturned the result: 3-2. A wonderful brace from Vlahovic and a decisive goal from Conceição. Mr. Bean. Thiago Motta is perfect. We conquered Germany with camels. The big Wednesday that couldn’t be bigger. Let us also add the brave Bologna, who hit the post and the crossbar and impressed, before surrendering with dignity to Liverpool (2-0). In the conference held before Leverkusen, Paulo Fonseca explained: “Atalanta defend man-to-man all over the pitch. We will never do that. We always want to control the game and attack.” As if he recognized in the athletic and aggressive stance of the goddess something territorial that did not fit into the coat of arms of a team like Milan. Well, hopefully the Portuguese coach will one day be able to deliver the football that Gasperini expressed yesterday in Gelsenkirchen: an urban display of the highest level. Other than conservative…
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More than just a match, a guide to how to play in Europe and be happy: with character, courage, technique and intensity. Three goals (Demsetty, Lookman, Bellanova), that could have been a brace, 22 results, the goddess was in attack when the referee blew the whistle three times. He possesses the legitimate pride of a working people. One of the wingers (Bellanova) scored a goal from a cross from the other (Zappacosta), as was the case 10 years ago. Excellent game from Samardzic. This is the real secret of Atalanta and the magic of Gasp: continuity of ideas with heroes who change and adapt instantly. Shakhtar Donetsk, rich in tournament experience and Brazilian technology, is not as small as it seemed, as it was dwarfed by the gods who repeated the Dublin final with a score of (3-0) and a dominant performance. Atalanta, which had problems at the start of the tournament, is finding its best in Europe, where it feels at home, as if it were in Zingonia. Already 4 points on the farm and half of the qualification in your pocket, not to mention the penalty kick from Retegui…
A page to remember
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A goddess that makes your head spin, but not bad for the Lady of Torino either… In Leipzig, Juve wrote a page that will often be told. Facing all kinds of adversity, they lost 2-1 with ten men, turning the score around with two brilliant goals from Vlahovic and another pearl from Conceição. I entered the field with a strong personality. The first half hour of safe control, without risking anything, searching for the goal under the leadership of Mulham Fagioli and pressure from Koopmeiners. All that was missing was the creative spark from the timid Yildiz, who finished to spark the goal. First flight of fate: Bremer and Nico Gonzalez out due to injury. Then a double defensive amnesia (Gatti and Cambiasso) facilitated Cisco’s beautiful goal. Juve did not falter, drank tea, returned to the field and equalized the score with a direct shot from Dosan. The assist from Cambiasso, who cleared the foul: a sign of strength. Naivety from Di Gregorio who touches his hand outside the area and is sent off. On the free-kick, Douglas Luiz, who had just entered, touched it with his arm: penalty from Cisco. Only grasshoppers are missing. But with great patience, Juve endured this too, and with a heart as big as a mole, they made it 3-2: poems by Vlahovic and Conceição. Beren, Kalulu and Jati lead a heroic and collective resistance. They will be called the Leipzig Lions. The three points and the full points classification are less than meaningful tonight: in this suffering Juventus was born under the leadership of Thiago Motta, who, with ten men, showed courage by keeping McKennie at full-back, instead of inserting a defender and leading the company. To perfection. A narrow victory felt like a goal. Under Fagioli, Juventus was born, the best game of his career, the technical leader that was missing; Born under Vlahovic, Juventus has never been confident. Maybe one day we’ll talk about the turning point in Leipzig.
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