We have insulted the Portuguese so often in our living rooms. Lobotka is the Vitruvian man. Zanoli has a nice head. Lozano explains the counterattack
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Bergamo 03/04/2022 – Serie A football championship / Atalanta-Naples / photo Image Sport in the photo: Lorenzo Insigne
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The report cards of Atalanta-Napoli 1-3 by Fabrizio d’Esposito and Ilaria Puglia.
OSPINE. Ospinik felines decisively twice: on the little head of Malinovskyi (by the way: force Ukraine) in the 7 ‘and on the tiraccio of Boga in the 76’. The rest are raises and foot raises. Welcome back Ilaria, on this Orobic Sunday. The black rain clouds have gone away and the sun is returning – 7
And to think that it had started really badly, both for Ospina and for us. Apart from the gloomy Sunday, Spalletti started screaming from the first minutes of the game to let go of the construction from below, Ospina instead insisted and risked, then, to free, he tried a long pass giving the ball to Atalanta. I saw the green mice, dear Fabrizio (welcome to you), luckily something has changed – 6.5
ZANOLI. In Italy, football is a sport for old people and so the first-minute debut of an over twenty-one year old is experienced as a supernatural and even palingenetic event after the Macedonian (northern) catastrophe. Having said that Zanoli plays and plays well. And when he steps forward for the first time, he provides the “assist” for the penalty on Ciro the father. Let us give the judgment on him in competitive terms, without charging him with excessive symbolic meanings for everything written above – 7
A debut that could not have gone better. She hit my head, his character: she didn’t have a moment of hesitation or trembling. Excellent way of moving and thinking to make the right choice. His assist for Mertens, in the episode of the penalty, a great personality – 7
JUAN JESUS. The Orobic pressure takes your breath away and Muriel is a sort of darting munaciello that drives both Giovanni Gesù and the Commander crazy. The defense was a one-off apprehensive embankment but ultimately helped bring the game home – 6.5
There is to defend and close and he does it. Without too many frills, as is to be done in important situations like this one – 6.5
KOULIBALY. Here, in fact, the apprehension. His, the Commander’s, and ours. Like those two turnovers in the beginning. Then, he jumps on the evil cross of the Nerazzurri one by two. So far the bad things. Because then Kappa Kappa often manages to extricate himself successfully in the forest of the tight game of Atalanta, sweeping or starting the action of the blues, as in the perfect one to three of the North Macedonian – 6.5
He starts badly too, like Ospina. Uncertain and afraid, he makes a couple of trivial but dangerous mistakes, then he too redeems himself and returns to himself, both in defense and in the construction phase, the action of the third goal starts with him – 6.5
MARIO RUI. In the notebook, Ilaria, I noted an impressive amount of decisive defense interventions. And when the team “comes out” it has the air of a reflective leader who files the instinctive and irascible Marittiello. A master match, hat off – 7.5
For me the best in the field, with Zanoli and Lobotka. But we have insulted him so often, in our living rooms, that today he almost moved me, Fabrizio, so I give him half a vote more. Perfect – 8
ANGUISSA. In the first twenty minutes Zambo looks like a clumsy little robot in a trance, who does everything to favor his opponents by giving away not a few balls. The re-entry itself is slow, but just in time to participate in the center fight against the Orobic attackers – 6
The photograph of his game, certainly far below his standards, is in the touch from behind the center of the area that at one point made me tremble – 5.5
LOBOTKA. Lobo is a measure of all things, like Leonardo’s Vitruvian man enclosed in the perfect circle. He shows the repertoire of the ideal play: he administers, builds and defends. His foray ball and chain causes the punishment that gives rise to zero to two – 7.5
Dominates and directs. He wins the free kick of the goal. He does not miss almost anything, in the setting and in carrying the ball – 7.5
ZIELINSKI. Tampled relentlessly by de Roon, he almost never manages to find the right touch. Not a great game, let’s face it Ilaria – 5.5
I wondered all the time how badly Fabian was to convince Spalletti to field a non-existent Piotr – 5
FABIAN RUIZ from 69 ‘. He enters and immediately tries to play up, even back there in defense, making a mistake – 5.5
Here – without a vote
POLITANO. On the right he combines almost nothing, but when fate or history calls him he cuts in the center first of all and turns the marvelous pelota of the Captain to the left – 7
A goal that he too struggled to believe he had scored – 7
DIAMOND from 59 ‘. A liberating goal, against fear. Elmas was the ideal anxiolytic – 7
Like a honey chamomile – 7
MERTENS. Fatherhood imposes new responsibilities. And he does not shirk, struggling and accumulating kicks from his opponents. On the penalty, his forward touch was providential – 6.5
He does and gives his best and that’s enough. He constantly immolates himself in going back to lend a hand to advance his teammates, he fights and is smart on the occasion of the penalty. He doesn’t stand still for a moment. One note: that heel for the unsuccessful veil, at 52 ‘. Because there is nothing more irritating than falling in love with oneself and one’s qualities – 6.5
MALCUIT from 88 ‘. Without vote
Without vote
BADGE. A penalty scored, a winning serve for Na-Politano and many and effective defensive retreats. The away games are good for the Captain, better than home games – 7.5
Finally a penalty shot with will and strength and then the idea of the punishment, finally successful. And many, many recoveries of balls, behind. Generous – 7.5
LOZANO from 69 ‘. What is a counterattack, Ilaria? The Mexican returns El Tav and goes on the run inspired by Kappa Kappa, then he reflects within a nanosecond and fishes the Macedonian anxiety, where the game ends in our favor – 7
His assist for Elmas, he returned as fast as before. And then you have to reward him: I think it is the first time that he returns from the national team not only not battered, but also in shape – 6.5
SPALLETTI. How beautiful is this Napule who undergoes, starts again and scores – 8
He wins without a few big pieces and with Zanoli making his debut as a starter. Yet Napoli seemed like a very Napolissimo. Three very heavy and very, very sweet points – 8
REFEREE OF BELLO. Disturbing that he resorted to the Var to see the penalty on Mertens – 4
If only that, Fabrizio … gives Atalanta a corner kick and at least a couple of cards are missing for the Bergamo players …
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