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GdS: ‘Solely the cup stays’ – how Atalanta ended Milan’s European hopes with deserved win

Atalanta wanted only one purpose from Ederson to beat Milan and put an finish to the ambitions of a comeback for a European spot.

La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen under) recall how on Easter Sunday night, Gian Piero Gasperini confirmed that his aspect are relentless away from residence. They racked up their eleventh win away from Bergamo, two greater than Inter and Napoli preventing for the Scudetto. Atalanta have earned 36 factors away from the Gewiss Stadium.

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Milan, who had been hoping for a unique efficiency three days earlier than the return leg of the Coppa Italia semi-final in opposition to Inter, have and are virtually sure that they will be unable to qualify for Europe by way of Serie A.

Different route wanted

The ‘different’ route of the Coppa Italia stays (profitable it might assure a spot within the Europa League), however, after the clear sheet in Udine, Conceiçao’s defensive division failed once more.

In the course of the former Porto supervisor’s reign, the Rossoneri stored clear sheets in simply 4 out of 24 matches. It’s approach too few to dream of something large.

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The paper believes there is no such thing as a doubt in regards to the legitimacy of the Nerazzurri’s victory: the away crew by which, due to a transparent superiority in possession (62%), they pinned their opponents of their half of the pitch with out creating too many large probabilities.

The Diavolo, lined up with the identical formation that had led to the victory in Friuli, had been unable to play aggressively, moved themselves deeper and restricted themselves to attempting counter-attacks with just a few vertical passes.

The poor type of Christian Pulisic and Rafael Leao – effectively contained by Bellanova, who Gasperini moved to the road of three with Cuadrado and Zappacosta at wing-back – difficult Milan’s plans and allowed Carnesecchi to be a spectator (or virtually) for 90 minutes.

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Ederson wins it

If Milan can have a criticism, it’s that they conceded the decisive purpose at one of the best second of their recreation, once they had returned from the dressing room exhibiting extra braveness and extra tempo.

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For 10 minutes they overturned the inertia of the match and La Dea retreated to the final 30 metres, with out Reijnders, Fofana and Leao managing to search out the goal.

Atalanta, revitalised by the recent forces of Kossounou, Toloi and Ruggeri, discovered a greater set-up to decelerate the opponent by shifting Bellanova as much as the wing-back and putting Ruggeri on the other flank.

And it was exactly the 2 full-backs who took half within the motion of the 1-0 that additionally noticed Retegui, Pasalic and Lookman give an essential contribution earlier than the help from the previous Torino winger for Ederson’s header.

The Brazilian thus scored the fourth purpose of his season and confirmed the development that when he beats the opposing goalkeeper, the Bergamo membership win. Having gone behind, Milan had been unable to react and, regardless of having half an hour and 5 substitutions at their disposal, they didn’t create any hazard.

Conceiçao threw into the fray Joao Felix, Abraham and Sottil first, then Chukwueze and Gimenez with out acquiring optimistic responses from any of them. Atalanta thus managed and celebrated: the Champions League for Gasperini is shut, whereas the Rossoneri followers left San Siro disenchanted. Once more.