Two signature goals: Charles De Ketelaere And Gianluca Scamacca. The center forward also scored a spectacular assist which allowed the Belgian to score. They are the mirror of this Atalanta than with the victory over Lecce after three years he regains the right to register for the Champions League which, next season, will have a new format.
The goal desired by Gasperini was achieved two days early, thanks also to the great performance last week which put the team offside Rome.
The game of Lecce it was quite strange. The first half lineup was absolutely new with the debut of the youngster Bonfanti and with a midfield made up of Pasalic-Scalvini.
TO Miranchuk the task of inspiring the two attackers Scamacca-El Bilal Touré. As was to be expected, the Nerazzurri had a bit of difficulty because the maneuver was not always smooth with many technical errors. Even if in the 6th minute Pasalic he had a great opportunity, stopped by Falcon. As well as Zappacosta in the 39th minute he shoots very strongly, but the ball goes over the crossbar. Even with a game supremacy the Lecce he had some opportunity to frighten the Goddess. At 9′ Little ones calls twice to the parade Musso.
Then Gasperini (who watched the match from the stands because he was disqualified) suggested two changes: inside De Ketelaere And Ederson. And the improvement was immediately seen. In five minutes at the start of the second half between the 48th and 53rd minutes CDK And Scamacca they created the networks that allowed theAtalanta to win the race.
The first goal starts from a beautiful assist by Scamacca who from the sideline first opens deep for his teammate. De Ketelaere resists the tackle and gets over with a dig Falcon.
The second goal comes from a corner kick Scamacca which hits the header and surpasses Falcon output.
Then theAtalanta he controls the match more or less easily and can celebrate a very important objective that was not obvious.
The bitterness of the final lost in the Italian Cup against Juventus has been partly mitigated and now the focus must be on Wednesday’s match where, a DublinL’Atalanta will be able to write a page of history in case of victory against Bayer Leverkusen.
LECCE-ATALANTA 0-2
Networks: 48′ De Ketelaere, 53′ Scamacca.
Lecce: Falcone 7.1, Gendrey 6.4 (29′ Venuti 6.2), Baschirotto 6.2, Pongracic 7.3, Gallo 6-3, Gonzalez 6.2 (55′ Oudin 6.3), Berisha 6.1 (55′ Blin 6.1), Ramadani 6.1 (83′ Rafia 6.4) , Dorgu 5.8 (55′ Pierotti 6.8), Krstovic 6.6, Piccoli 6.3. Available: Brancolini, Samooja, Borbei, Almqvist, Esposito, Burnete, Touba, Samek. Coach: Luca Gotti 6.39.
Atalanta: Musso 6.9, Toloi 6.7, Hien 7.6, Bonfanti 7.4 (75 ′ Bakker 6.2), Hateboer 6.9, Scalvini 7.1, Pašalić 7 (68 ′ Adopo 6.3), Zappacosta 6.6 (46 ′ Éderson 6.3), Miranchuk MVP 9.3, Scamacca 8.3 ( 62′ Djimsiti 6.6), El Bilal 6.4 (46′ De Ketelaere 7.1). Available: Carnesecchi, Rossi, Lookman, Ruggeri, Mendicino. Coach: Tullio Gritti 7.04 (Gian Piero Gasperini disqualified).
Referee: Antonio Rapuano of the Rimini section; IV officer Antonio Giua; VAR Daniele Chiffi.
