Gian Piero Gasperini concedes Atalanta aren’t declaring their Scudetto problem, however ‘aren’t going to carry again both’ after a seventh consecutive victory and their finest ever begin to a season.
They picked up the place they left off earlier than the break for worldwide responsibility by due to objectives from Mateo Retegui, Ederson and Ademola Lookman.
Matteo Cancellieri had managed to get Parma again into it on the daybreak of the second half, however La Dea are quickly prime of the desk.
“It’s undoubtedly a constructive run and the efficiency within the first half was wonderful too, we may maybe have scored extra objectives. The second half began with their objective, that gave Parma a push, however it didn’t final lengthy and we took management once more earlier than scoring the third objective,”
“You can’t convert each likelihood, however a crew that creates this a lot could have higher odds of successful.”
It wasn’t completely a joyful night for Gasperini, as a result of he was despatched off from the touchline for 2 yellow playing cards in fast succession and needed to watch the final half-hour from the stands.
“Parma had simply acquired again right into a recreation that was completely closed and had a lift of vitality, I noticed a foul and was booked for my protest, that’s fantastic. Then the fourth official spent 5 minutes looking at me, I informed him to concentrate to the match and to not me, he wished to be the protagonist and the referee gave him that.”
Gasperini can’t disguise from Atalanta momentum
That is now formally the very best begin to a season in Atalanta’s historical past with 28 factors and 34 objectives scored within the first 13 rounds.
Having been on the membership for nearly a decade, inevitably there will probably be comparisons between his numerous iterations of Atalanta.
“I don’t really feel able to make these comparisons proper now, perhaps in direction of the top of my profession. If we’re speaking about Gomez, Ilicic, Zapata and Muriel, a aspect that was near the Champions League semi-final, one other that received the Europa League.
“It’s the identical as you asking me concerning the Scudetto, we now have to deal with successful each recreation we will and the remainder just isn’t actually in our minds. That was the case within the Europa League too, we didn’t begin out pondering we’d win it, however as time wore on and we discovered ourselves in that place, we weren’t going to carry again both.”
Additionally they have Retegui as Capocannoniere and are but to concede a single objective within the Champions League after 4 video games, the place they go to Swiss aspect Younger Boys on Tuesday.
“Now we’ll attempt to flip our focus in direction of the Champions League. It may be decisive, as a victory may get us into the highest 16. Nonetheless, enjoying on an artificial pitch, the one one in Europe, is definitely totally different. They brought about Inter plenty of issues, so we’ll must be cautious of that.”
Ederson was on course at present and has attracted an excessive amount of consideration from prime golf equipment in current weeks, , however he’s not the standard Gasperini midfielder.
“He has totally different traits, definitely. Remo Freuler was implausible for Atalanta. I’ve had plenty of midfielders over time, however he arrived as a extra attacking participant after which grew to become an entire participant to shut areas in a rare manner. If I needed to create a combination of all my earlier midfielders, it’d be him.
“I’ll all the time be grateful to all my gamers, they gave me a lot over time and I actually battle to place them in any type of hierarchy. Since I arrived the primary day with Atalanta, the one participant nonetheless right here is Rafael Toloi.”
In his 9 years on the helm, Atalanta have had been prime scorers of Serie A for 3 seasons and are on monitor for a fourth, protecting that Gasperini type.
“This has all the time been my manner of approaching soccer, I used to be the identical at Genoa and Crotone. Typically I watch video games and suppose perhaps I too ought to accept performances that aren’t nice, attempting to gradual issues down and simply defend, however actually I can’t conceive of soccer with out attempting to attain objectives,” concluded the coach.
“I do know I’ll by no means win the award for finest defensive file, however I would win the very best assault.”