Marseille Atalanta, Gasperini: ‘Great opportunity in Bergamo, we want the final’

A great play at the start the Goddess had deluded that it could be simple: unfortunately for Atalanta it remained “isolated”, and after the goal by Scamacca the team of Gasperini Marseille suffered, leaving the Velodrome with what remains a good draw, ahead of the return leg. “The good play on the occasion of the goal? Yes, but to be honest I was expecting a few more”, comments the Atalanta coach at the end of the match. “Apart from this play, only towards the end did we create some dangerous situations and we had to suffer especially in attack. In Bergamo it will be essential to propose more situations of this kind, the conditions exist to be able to do so. It remains a important result because on this pitch Marseille had only lost to PSG this year, and at home they give their best. Then it remains to be seen whether it’s a completely different team away from home, I don’t trust it very much…”.

“Playing defense we would get 3 or 4”

Already heading towards the return leg, therefore, with only one imperative: “We will have to play a great match, we have an incredible opportunitythe 1-1 is still an excellent result, but now we have to win: in the 90′, in the 180′, on penalties… It’s clear that we want to go to the final at this point. In Bergamo we must try to score more than one goal, because I almost never see 0-0s in Europe. The goal is to win, not to draw.” And to confirm his mentality, Gasperini explains why he is happy with his performance in defence: “Kolasinac’s injury it represented a big loss because we had to fit De Roon in the back. We’ll see how long he has to stay out. But the three behind were very good at limiting their outbursts which at certain moments were valuable. Their counterattacks? If we only played defense tonight we would have come out with 3 or 4 goals under our belt, as often happens to Italian teams. It’s clear that by playing on the attack he allows a couple of situations on the counterattack, but overall we prevented him from building many scoring opportunities.”