Gian Piero Gasperini hints Atalanta ‘laid the foundations’ for future success in 2024 and is searching for January reinforcements, as retains them high of the desk.
La Dea noticed their run of 11 consecutive Serie A victories come to an finish, however they continue to be unbeaten in 13 rounds, because of substitute Marco Brescianini snatching a late equaliser on the Stadio Olimpico.
That they had been trailing to Lazio for over an hour when Fisayo Dele-Bashiru out-sprinted Marten de Roon on a Nicolò Rovella ball excessive.
“We anticipated Lazio to be troublesome, we’ve seen them put this type of efficiency in earlier than. The primary was definitely higher for them, we struggled to include their tempo, energy and high quality,”
“Within the second half, I believe we got here out very effectively with the correct perspective. We scored the purpose a little bit late, in any other case we had the momentum to win the sport. Each groups deserve reward, as a result of it was an excellent sport of soccer.”
The outcome implies that Atalanta are nonetheless high of the desk on the finish of 2024, however they’re now just one level away from Inter, who’ve a sport in hand.
If Napoli beat Venezia on Sunday, they’ll additionally equal the Bergamo boys in first place.
Gasperini sees 2024 as solely the start for Atalanta
“This 2024 has been marvellous, extraordinary, we’re a little bit unhappy it’s over. We closed it by coming again to seize a outcome when it gave the impression to be an off night time, however the solidity of this crew exhibits we completed it taking management.”
It was put to Gasperini that 2024 is just not unrepeatable for Atalanta, who gained the Europa League and performed within the Coppa Italia Remaining too.
“I didn’t say it wasn’t repeatable… Yearly is totally different, we definitely can’t win the Europa League once more this season, as a result of we’re not in it! We’ve been high of the desk for a lot of the season and have definitely laid some foundations, however my ambition is at all times to maintain enhancing, to not take steps backwards.”
Regardless of shedding Teun Koopmeiners in the summertime and seeing Gianluca Scamacca dominated out for six months by a knee damage, Atalanta nonetheless have in Serie A, the Champions League, Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana.
“Juan Cuadrado has been doing effectively in coaching for a couple of weeks now, he’s been unfortunate with accidents after which a protracted ban within the Coppa Italia too,” continued Gasperini.
“I’ve seen this progress for some time and if he’s in good condition, he is usually a huge assist. He had an excellent probability to attain at this time too.
“We wouldn’t have that many choices in assault, it isn’t true to check us to a few of the different groups, except you need to depend Brescianini as a striker. We’ve to create our forwards.”
So does that imply Gasperini desires them to signal a brand new striker in January?
“The membership is aware of full effectively that we had each intention in June to be very aggressive this season, however we didn’t full the squad in August. We’ll see what occurs and are having fun with this case.”