Roberto De Zerbi turns on Marseille-Atalanta: "It’s like a derby"

Roberto De Zerbi spoke in a press conference on the eve of Olympique Marseille-Atalanta. “Now the matches start to become important, we want to score points and win– he began -. Also because three points in three games is few, we deserved more, both in Madrid and Lisbon. And we are playing at home, so we will try to win”.

“Playing against Italian teams is always a different emotion– added the OM coach’OM -, it happened to me already when I faced Inter and Roma. For me Atalanta is different from the others, I am from Brescia and a Brescia fan. Atalanta arouses different things for me, for me it is a derby, very heartfelt. But it remains a Champions League game, and if we don&#8221t play well, we have no personality. We want to move on”.

“The rivalry with Atalanta? I was born a hundred meters from the stadium, when there was the match with Atalanta we thought all Sunday about this match, a story of my family, it is in my DNA – the Brescia coach then explained -Atalanta has had important clubs and presidents, we in Brescia have been unlucky. There is a lot of difference in results”.

“Atalanta has always been a strong team, even this year it is difficult to play against them. I don&#8217t fall for the trap of Atalanta in crisis, it&#8217s not true. It lost only two games, in Paris and against Udinese. With Milan it deserved to win. It has a strong coach” De Zerbi concluded.