Even with a strongly overhauled team, Atalanta Bergamo was ruthless for Brescia: with 6 goals scored and three more points on the clock, Timothy Castagne’s team temporarily takes second place in Serie A , 6 points behind Juventus, pending the continuation of this 33rd day.
Atalanta Bergamo continues its march forward, in no way hampered by sharing conceded to Juventus this weekend (2-2 with two penalties converted by Cristiano Ronaldo for Juve). Against Brescia, a team almost doomed to relegation, the men of Gian Piero Gasperini fielded a thirteenth unbeaten match in Serie A (and even a fifteenth in all competitions). They added the way, while the Italian coach had decided to turn his team, still engaged on two fronts at the end of this particular season: Serie A and the Champions League (with a quarter-final against PSG expected in a month during the famous “Final 8” implemented this year).
So Gasperini upset his team and let players blow in all lines, from the goalkeeper (Gollini giving way to Sportiello) to the attack. Only 4 starting players against Juventus remained against Brescia, including Timothy Chestnuts. But those who expected a lack of automation were disappointed: the “reservists” of Atalanta quickly made their collective sense speak for themselves, with a first goal signed Mario Pasalic after just two minutes, this is Atalanta’s fastest goal in the league this season! Short-lived joy, as a mistake by Caldara in the center of the defense offered the equalizer to Torregrossa, who had just lost a face-off with Sportiello in a previous action. Three chances and two goals after 8 minutes, the game was started (1-1). But he continued in one direction only: the attack on Atalanta.
Offensive festival
Timothy Castagne and his teammates monopolized the balloon before performing the show for 5 minutes of madness: Marten De Roon first restored the advantage to his team with a clever outside of the right foot (2-1, 25th) before Ruslan Malinovskyi once again make its power and precision speak beyond the large rectangle (3-1, 29th). Well served by Timothy Castagne, the Ukrainian went with an unstoppable shot close to the post of Andrenacci, the poor goalkeeper of Brescia. A minute later and in a different style, Tobacco Zapata added Bergamasque fourth goal in the first half by placing his head between three defenders (4-1, 30th).
The Atalanta demonstration continued in the second period, with two new Pasalic goals: 6-1 before the hour, Brescia running straight for Serie B and Atalanta for second place in Serie A ( awaiting the Lazio match at Udinese on Wednesday and Inter at SPAL on Thursday, while Juventus, first with 6 points ahead of Bergamo, plays at Sassuolo on Wednesday). Gasperoni was even able to continue his changes, and thus offered their first official minutes in the jersey of Atalanta to some young players. Timothy Castagne, for example, has given way to Raoul Bellanova (20) twenty minutes from the end of the game.
Brescia reduced the gap late in the game (6-2, Spalek, 83rd) but, for Atalanta, most of it is elsewhere. And the points lost against Juve (and against smaller teams at the start of the championship …) could well come to haunt the minds of Castagne and his teammates in the coming weeks …
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