Italy legend Alessandro Costacurta admits he ‘didn’t consider’ in Atalanta’s comeback towards Borussia Dortmund and attracts a parallel between Mario Pasalic and Franco Baresi.
Atalanta shocked Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday night time,
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Costacurta compares Pasalic to Baresi
Alessandro Costacurta Commissioner of FIGC seems to be on earlier than the Worldwide Pleasant match between Italy U21 and Belgium U21 at Friuli Stadium on October 11, 2018 in Udine, Italy. (Photograph by Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Photographs)
It was an epic night time in Bergamo as La Dea scored the winner with a penalty kick at minute 98.
“It’s a unprecedented feat. I admit I didn’t consider in it, however they put in a unbelievable efficiency, a feat,” ex-Italy and Milan defender Costacurta informed
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BERGAMO, ITALY – FEBRUARY 25: Lazar Samardzic of Atalanta scores his workforce’s fourth aim from the penalty spot in the course of the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 League Knockout Play-off Second Leg match between Atalanta BC and Borussia Dortmund at Stadio di Bergamo on February 25, 2026 in Bergamo, Italy. (Photograph by Marco Luzzani/Getty Photographs)
“It’s not one thing each workforce can do. They’ve entered an elite, particularly after such a efficiency,” the ex-defender continued.
“Pasalic must be highlighted. It had been because the days of Franco Baresi in 1994 that I hadn’t seen a participant take a workforce by the hand the best way he did.”