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Atalanta made the most important game in its history a party for its fans and an exhibition for the world of football. Here is a team - and a club - creative, bold, courageous to the core. He put four to Valencia and could be more in the majestic setting of San Siro. Little could the team of Celades, in addition to fighting with little effect to stretch the tie. At this rate, Mestalla will witness a ritual sacrifice.
Tie
4
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one
VAL
Atalanta
Pierluigi Gollini, Mattia Caldara (Duván Zapata, min. 74), Rafael Tolói, Palomino, Robin Gosens, Remo Freuler, Marten de Roon, Hans Hateboer, Alejandro Gómez (Malinovsky, min. 80), Josip Ilicic and Pasalic (Adrien Tameze, min. 91).
Valencia
Jaume, Wass, Gayá, Mouctar Diakhaby, Mangala, Kondogbia, Carlos Soler, Ferrán Torres, Parejo, Maxi Gómez (Gameiro, min. 72) and Gonçalo Guedes (Cheryshev, min. 63).
Goals
1-0 min. 15: Hans Hateboer. 2-0 min. 41: Josip Ilicic. 3-0 min. 56: Rowing Freuler. 4-0 min. 61: Hans Hateboer. 4-1 min. 65: Cheryshev.
Referee
Michael Oliver
Hans Hateboer (min. 78).
Stadium: Giuseppe Meazza
Not everything went well for Atalanta. Djimsiti's injury during the warming forced Gasperini to introduce Caldara in the line of three plants. The movement opened a period of reorganization that Atalanta had to manage under the worst conditions. With the game launched and in your most sensitive area, exactly where you need order to compensate for the lack of standing of your players. Valencia stuck the knife in the nerve pressing up and Caldara, Toloi and Palomino had serious difficulties to get out as usual, staggering passes with their interiors.
Only the handling of Papu Gómez's time allowed his team to get out of the way to begin to adjust. There was the game. When Atalanta is comfortable, he usually does things that for most teams are strenuous. The exchanges exchange positions with each other, or act as sides, so that the sides act as ends, or interiors; while the interiors end up acting of ends, or even of ends. The swirl of the termomix is a show that everyone seems to enjoy. Those who suffer are rivals, who do not know where the shots come from.
This triggered the misfortune of Valencia. After a quarter of an hour, Pasalic enabled Gomez, the captain drove the ball close to the left line, and when Valencia's defense swung, Palomino, the supposed local left center, appeared at the penalty spot to alarm Mangala and Diakhaby While Gomez threatened to center his compatriot, and while Palomino pretended to go to the first post, the defenders turned their backs on danger. Over there, through the blind angle, he entered like a Hateboer shot, to put the first of the night.
Bold to the recklessness to disarm his lag of five and reduce it to three or two men in the deployments, the Atalanta did not flinch before the launching of Parejo in the back, in a desperate attempt because Guedes and Maxi took advantage of the hand to hand in open field . The Atalanta only suffered when Valencia pressed its heterodox defenses forcing them to go out long, something they do not accustom. Against appearances, Ilicic, who measures 1.90, was so skilled to mark the times of the game with the ball at his feet as inoperative to fight on his back for those aerial balls. Even Gayà beat this false extreme above, which, in other needs, behaved like a first class player.
The second goal was his moment of glory. It happened on the edge of the second half when Pasalic focused from the far left so that Ilicic received seemingly controlled at the edge of the area. The Slovenian was surrounded by Gayá, Kondogbia, Soler and Diakhaby. He did not worry. He simply slept the ball with his left and shook it with his right. To Doménech's right squad, which almost doubles the feat. The goalkeeper, who had just stopped Pasalic from hand to hand, touched his shot with his fingers. But it was too strong.
A stick of Gayá taking advantage of the surprise in a lateral foul was all that took Valencia from a game that was complicated at times. Gomez and Freuler were made 3-0 based on walls just around the break. Tireless in pressure, exemplary in the effort, the little captain fought with Kondogbia when he came out to lock him and was able to leave Freuler's ball before throwing the uncheck. Again the Valencian centrals bit the decoy. The ball was not for Gomez. Freuler stayed that, with half a meter won, shot Doménech. Atalanta players celebrated him running towards the side stand in a monumental pineapple in the din of San Siro. Only Gomez, exhausted by the effort, remained alone in the middle of the field clenching his fists.
Hateboer topped Valencia to kickback, in the fourth. Only the desperate thrust kept the visitors standing and only Palomino's mistake in a delivery allowed Cheryshev's goal. The night closed with a drop of hope for Valencia, sentenced to try a vertical comeback against the worst customer imaginable.
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