“We showed great depth against Milan. We can count on a historic group with solid, confident and morally strong elements.” Gian Piero Gasperini exalts the character qualities of his Atalanta: “It’s important to find strong motivations in the championship too, because I have the feeling that mentally we gave priority to the Europa League – continues the coach of the Bergamo players -. It was essential to recover the spirit and the strength we need. It’s not easy: we happened to lose players in defense on an unprecedented scale.”
The two changes in attack were the turning point: “Miranchuk is a boy of incredible seriousness, the whistles on Muriel as soon as he came in were really bad – remarked Gasperini -. He scored an extraordinary goal, one of those you see in training. He said that it was random but he’s a liar, we just need to see the top goals from five-a-side football. He doesn’t deserve any objections: he’s out of contract, in January he could be happy to settle elsewhere.”
Gasperini excluded two players not due to injuries: “Bakker and Hateboer were a bit distracted, they can prepare better for Thursday at Rakow to close the Europa League group. It will be an opportunity for those who have played little to demonstrate that they can stay in a very solid and very strong group, as Kolasinac and De Ketelaere did.” The coach praises the Belgian: “I asked Charles not to lower his head when he loses the ball or makes some mistakes. In the first half on Hernandez’s side we weren’t able to exchange and he adapted so as not to be cut off: tactically and From a footballing point of view he is very prepared.”
Finally, on Musah’s tackle on Lookman at the end of the first half: “The very clear foul at the origin of the 1-1 corner kick with time expired made us angry. It made everyone nervous but it also gave us the energy to the second half”, concluded Gasperini.
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