Atalanta, after Shakhtar Gian Piero Gasperini is already thinking about the championship
Atalanta, after Shakhtar Gian Piero Gasperini already thinks about the championship
Soì Gian Piero Gasperini, after the 3-0 win at Shakhtar, assesses Atalanta s chances of placing even among the top eight in the Champions League Phase, to directly earn the round of 16: "Tonight we put three good bricks for the first phase. Next è Celtic, then two tough away games in Stuttgart and Graz, then Real at home and Barcelona. Never get too caught up in enthusiasm and presumption, although the fans in the choreography in the North Curve against Arsenal wrote 'free to dream”.
"È it was a good test and we are growing, even with the new ones, like Kossounou and Samardzic. But the comparison with the team that won the Europa League è ungenerous, we have ten new movement players. We are no longer the same, those who è arrived must be inserted, we are only at the fifth game since the closing of the market", remarks the Nerazzurri coach from the press room in Gelsenkirchen.
"The league è another competition and in some respects some matches are even more difficult than cup matches. È important to return to victory in A with Genoa already on Saturday,” Gasperini continued. “We have to recover well, playing on Saturday è an anomaly for those who play in the Champions League on Wednesday. We have to recover the best energy, becauseé in Serie A to win you have to be very well".
Again, on individuals: "Bellanova made a nice goal in closing on the second post, not è one that makes many. The goal è tightness in the ninety minutes. I am pleased with the goal in the Champions League that Djimsiti missed: useful and very important, he materialized the supremacy".
Finally, the amarcord remembering the 3-0 in Kharkiv just with Shakhtar on December 11, 2019: "A decisive step in our path in European competitions, because ité allowed us to pass the first round of Champions after starting it badly. We are on our fourth appearance in six years, Atalanta has learned a lot and has to guard only against presumption".
