Michael Olise was the star of the present as within the first leg of their spherical of 16 first leg on Tuesday night.
La Dea have been completely outclassed by their Bundesliga opponents in Bergamo on Tuesday evening and a late comfort purpose from Mario Pasalic won’t rely for a lot following the sooner strikes from Josip Stanisic, Olise (x2), Serge Gnabry, Nicolas Jackson and Jamal Musiala.
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Atalanta 1-6 Bayern Munich: Participant rankings!
Atalanta: Carnesecchi 5; Zappacosta 6 (Bellanova 6), Hien 4, Kolasinac 4 (Ahanor 5), Bernasconi 4; Sulemana 5.5 (Samardzic 5), De Roon 5, Pasalic 5.5 (Musah 5), Krstovic 5, Scamacca 5 (Djimsiti 5.5).
Finest Atalanta participant: Zappacosta 6 – Regardless of the scoreline and regardless of being a part of a again 4 that had conceded thrice throughout the first 25 minutes, it was a reasonably strong exhibiting from Zappacosta on a person stage. The skilled Dea wing-back was a handful on the correct flank, supplied a few first rate balls into the world and in addition helped out defensively, together with header to clear an ungainly cross behind for a nook within the first half.
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Worst Atalanta participant: Bernasconi 4 – That’s an evening the younger Atalanta wing-back will need to overlook in a rush. Completely outclassed and sometimes fully helpless up in opposition to Olise and the Italian shall be relieved that the Bayern winger is now suspended for the return leg subsequent week.
BERGAMO, ITALY – MARCH 10: Raffaele Palladino, Head Coach of Atalanta, appears on previous to the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 Spherical of 16 First Leg match between Atalanta BC and FC Bayern München at Stadio di Bergamo on March 10, 2026 in Bergamo, Italy. (Picture by Marco Luzzani/Getty Photos)
Atalanta coach: Raffaele Palladino 3 – The Dea tactician bought all of it fully incorrect along with his crew and tactical alternatives. Not helped by the absences of Ederson, Charles De Ketelaere and Giacomo Raspadori, however nonetheless, the choice to change to a again 4 so as to ‘match’ Bayern was a call that didn’t work, and was one which the coach had to make use of two substitutes to repair at half-time. It appeared like Atalanta have been so targeted on their defence, which collapsed thrice throughout the first 25 minutes, that they didn’t actually have a lot of a plan any time they did discover themselves on the ball.
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Bayern: Urbig 6; Stanisic 6, Upamecano 6.5, Tah 6.5, Laimer 6 (Davies 6, Bischof 6), Kimmich 6.5, Pavlovic 6.5 (Goretzka 6); Olise 9, Gnabry 8 (Musiala 7), Diaz 7; Jackson 7.5.
Finest Bayern participant: Olise 9 – Vincent Kompany has a particular, particular participant on his fingers with the French winger, who struck full concern into the Atalanta defence any time he bought on the ball on Tuesday evening. It felt like La Dea have been fully powerless to cease the France worldwide at instances, particularly coming in off the correct flank and onto that magical left foot of his.
BERGAMO, ITALY – MARCH 10: Michael Olise of FC Bayern Munich is challenged by Lorenzo Bernasconi and Mario Pasalic of Atalanta in the course of the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 Spherical of 16 First Leg match between Atalanta BC and FC Bayern München at Stadio di Bergamo on March 10, 2026 in Bergamo, Italy. (Picture by Marco Luzzani/Getty Photos)
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Worst Bayern participant: Bischof 6 – It feels incorrect to criticise any of the Bayern gamers after such a convincing efficiency, individually and collectively. However the German teen missed a problem after which failed to trace again for Atalanta’s late comfort purpose, which shouldn’t have been the case simply 20 minutes after his introduction. In equity to him, he can’t have been anticipating to play after Alphonso Davies was introduced on at half-time.
Bayern coach: Vincent Kompany 8 – A superb, dominant and ruthless show from the Bavarian giants. Fielding Gnabry over Musiala introduced a component of unpredictability to the Bayern assault, and Atalanta’s man-to-man system gave the impression to be of little issue to Kompany’s facet. If something, it appeared to assist them. They usually did all of it with out talisman Harry Kane as effectively. A formidable show, even when Atalanta have been nowhere close to the degrees they wanted to be to compete.