Atalanta, Luca Percassi puts a point on the calendar issue

Atalanta, close games don’t worry Luca Percassi

There has been no shortage of controversy in recent days over the filled schedule that is forcing Atalanta in particular to a major tour de force, with the Orobic club playing practically every three days, often away, from Sunday evening (1-1 draw at home to AC Milan) until the weekend of March 16-17: a concentration of events that has irritated Gian Piero Gasperini not a little, who had spoken in recent days of "mess".

Trying to put an end to the controversy was Luca Percassi, Nerazzurri CEO, who on the sidelines of Monday's Lega Serie A assembly, told 'RadioTV Serie A with RDS': "The coach è always been very good at managing resources, we have a wide roster to try to manage the upcoming engagements in the best way. We will do this while always maintaining what è our identity ".

Luca Percassi: "Atalanta ready for the decisive stage"

So far the season has confirmed La Dea in the first places of the Italian league: "We are very happy – said Percassi -, the championship is giving us great satisfaction, we know, however, that now we enter the decisive phase, from here on we will have important matches for what will be the final ranking. Good games that we will play with enthusiasm and desire to do well".

Atalanta’s tour de force è began with a loss of victory at home to Milan: "The team played a great game – explained the orobici’s CEO -, Milan have extraordinary players and we held on despite the initial disadvantage. Maybe è it was a less spectacular match than the others, but to have scored in such a stadium è è is a source of great pride. Now we will go back there to face the first in the class and we all know how strong è Inter is. The strongest and healthiest team in the league, in its stadium that gives it so much".

The dream è going ahead in the Europa League

The next engagements are the rematch with Inter and the high-stakes match against Bologna, then it will be the turn of the round of 16 of the Europa League: "We have to deal with Sporting, a very strong team that we have already had the opportunity to cross in the past. If thatì occurs it will mean that we will have moved on and that would be great, but let’s take one step at a time" said Percassi.