Champions, Atalanta defeated in Dortmund: orobici called to'feat in the return leg

The very bad Tuesday of the Italians in the Champions League, which began with Juventus&#8217s 5-2 defeat at home to Galatasaray, was completed with Atalanta&#8217s knockout on the field of Borussia Dortmund, with the Yellow and Black team winning 2-0. Borussia Dortmund immediately imposed its mark on the match, striking after just two minutes with Guirassy, who took advantage of Reyerson’s assist and signed the 1-0. For Palladino’s Atalanta, immediately forced to chase, the evening became immediately complicated.

The Nerazzurri’s reaction is more in the volume of play than in the chances created, but just when Dea seems to be getting closer and closer to the opponent’s goal comes the Giallonera’s sting, at the end of the first half. In fact, at 42′, Guirassy starts in the open field, burns Djimsiti and runs thirty meters on the ball at the foot before serving Beier, who anticipates Bernasconi and inserts an empty goal for 2-0, a result on which the two teams return to the locker room for the interval.

Francesco Lucivero

In the second half, the match becomes a tactical battle, made up of individual duels with high intensity. Palladino tries them all: in the second half there are Krstovic, Hien, Sulemana, Bellanova and Samardzic in place of Djimsiti, Scamacca, De Roon, Zappacosta and Zalewski but the substance does not change, because Atalanta struggles to find clean passing lines and the only shot in the mirror, in fact, comes in the final with Samardzic, a conclusion that however the yellow and black goalkeeper Kobel blocks without any particular difficulty.

The game is a great success.

So it ends 2-0 for Borussia Dortmund: in eight days’ time, in Bergamo, a feat will be needed in a return match that will see Dea forced to overturn a two-goal deficit against a solid and confident team. The return match will come, among other things, after the league match against Napoli, a game that is anything but simple scheduled for Sunday at 3 p.m.

Thus closes a black Tuesday for the Italian teams in the Champions League. Wednesday, however, will be the turn of Inter, engaged in the Norwegian cold against Bodo/Glimt. Played at 9 p.m., the Nerazzurri are aiming for their seventh success in a row in all competitions, their second in Champions after their own success at home to Borussia Dortmund in the last round of the League Phase.